Steven Rybin

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Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

Rutgers University Press

Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made the greatest impact on film scholarship today, including everyone from Sergei Eisenstein to Michel Foucault, from Judith Butler to André Bazin. Each chapter is written by an expert who explains a different theorist’s key ideas, then gives concrete examples of how they might be applied to both a classic film and a contemporary one. Ideal for teachers and students of film as well as contemporary and modern philosophy, critical theory and semotics, also of interest to the general reader exploring such topics.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

Edited by Steven Rybin
Rutgers University Press

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s explores stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. Stellar Transformations looks at the roles stars played in the complex and turbulent decade of the 2010s, and in doing so will offer useful case studies for scholars and students engaged in the study of stardom, celebrity, and performance in cinema.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Playful Frames

Styles of Widescreen Cinema

Rutgers University Press

Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers – Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter – who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

Rutgers University Press

The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy’s work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

Rutgers University Press

Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made the greatest impact on film scholarship today, including everyone from Sergei Eisenstein to Michel Foucault, from Judith Butler to André Bazin. Each chapter is written by an expert who explains a different theorist’s key ideas, then gives concrete examples of how they might be applied to both a classic film and a contemporary one. Ideal for teachers and students of film as well as contemporary and modern philosophy, critical theory and semotics, also of interest to the general reader exploring such topics.

  • Copyright year: 2015
More info...

Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

Edited by Steven Rybin
Rutgers University Press

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s explores stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. Stellar Transformations looks at the roles stars played in the complex and turbulent decade of the 2010s, and in doing so will offer useful case studies for scholars and students engaged in the study of stardom, celebrity, and performance in cinema.

  • Copyright year: 2022
More info...

Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town

Rutgers University Press

The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy’s work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.

  • Copyright year: 2025
More info...
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