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  • Gods and Monsters

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Noah Tsika ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Noah Tsika is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on film, television, and new media. He lives in New York. ... Read more

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  • I'm Not There

    by Noah Tsika ...
    Series series 21st Century Film Essentials
    An examination of director Todd Haynes and his Bob Dylan biopic.As the first and only Bob Dylan “biopic,” I’m Not There caused a stir when released in 2007. Offering a surreal retelling of moments from Dylan’s life and career, the film is perhaps best known for its distinctive approach to casting, including Cate Blanchett and Marcus Carl Franklin, a Black child actor, as versions of Dylan though ... Read more

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  • Breaking Point

    The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II

    Series series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
    WINNER, SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDS - FIRST BOOKThis book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II.Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author’s personal interviews and correspondence over ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Screening the Police

    Film and Law Enforcement in the United States

    by Noah Tsika ...
    American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century. Their influence is evident not only on the screen but also in the ways movies are made, promoted, and viewed in the United States. Screening the Police explores the history of film's entwinement with law enforcement, showing the role that state power has played in the creation ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Film Criticism in the Digital Age

    Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Traumatic Imprints

    Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War

    by Noah Tsika ...
    Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. Traumatic Imprints traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to ... Read more

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  • African Media in an Age of Extraction

    Nollywood Geographies

    by Noah Tsika ...
    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we “place” Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences. Such locations are not just spatial metaphors but also tangible geographies with material connections to extractive economies. Sites of ... Read more

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    For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.Scorsese has often described his films as sociology and he has a point: his storytelling condenses complex information into comprehensible ... Read more

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    During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation began to change in the 1950s and 1960s when performers such as Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier were ... Read more

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