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American Revolutions in the Digital Age
Edited by Nora Slonimsky, Mark Boonshoft & BenWright
August 2024 336pp 10 b&w halftones, 4 maps, 16 charts
9781501771842 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501771835 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
These authors challenge long-held assumptions about the American past. In addition, this collection uniquely demonstrates how contemporary anxieties including media disinformation, can be better understood through careful considerations of early American history.
Anime's Knowledge Cultures
Geek, Otaku, Zhai
Jinying Li
March 2024 344pp 57 b&w illus.
9781517916282 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517916275 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Li analyzes anime culture beyond the national and subcultural frameworks of Japan or Japanese otaku, instead theorizing anime’s transnational, transmedial network as the epitome of the postindustrial knowledge culture of global geekdom. By investigating the the anime boom and global geekdom, Li reshapes how we understand anime culture in relation to changing social and technological environments.
Byzantine Media Subjects
Glenn A. Peers
Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
June 2024 320pp 41 b&w halftones, 38 color halftones
9781501776267 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781501775024 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Invites readers into a world replete with images— icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects.
American Twilight
The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
Edited by Kristopher Woofter & Will Dodson
July 2024 312pp
9781477329467 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder thanks to his 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, here the authors assert Tobe Hooper was an auteur whose works featured complex monsters and disrupted America’s sacrosanct perceptions of prosperity and domestic security.
Black Girl Autopoetics
Agency in Everyday Digital Practice
Ashleigh Greene Wade
February 2024 176pp 16 page color insert
9781478025603 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781478020851 £85.00/ $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture, showing how Black girls’ self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space to navigate contemporary reality.
Camera Geologica
An Elemental History of Photography
Siobhan Angus
March 2024 328pp 55 illus., including 32 in color
9781478030188 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025931 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the inextricable links between imagemaking and resource extraction, Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends.
Chris Marker
Early Film Writings
Chris Marker
Translated by Sally Shafto
Edited by Steven Ungar
August 2024 248pp 38 b&w illus.
9781517913199 £18.99/ $21.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
An indispensable resource, these texts document the emergence of French filmmaker Chris Marker’s critical voice and situate him alongside such contemporaries as André Bazin and Eric Rohmer, and future French New Wave figures Jean-Luc Godard. They show how his remarks on individual films open onto his engagement with films as social and cultural phenonemon.
Clicas
Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film
Frank García
Latinx: The Future Is Now
August 2024 256pp 7 b&w photos
9781477329436 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477329429 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Clicas examines Latina/o/x literature and film by and/or about gay and women gang members challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression. Through close readings of literature and film, Frank García reimagines the typical narratives describing gang membership and culture, amplifying and complicating critical gang studies in the social sciences and humanities.
Columbo
Make Me a Perfect Murder
Amelie Hastie
Spin-Offs
February 2024 256pp 68 illus.
9781478025450 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020677 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Amelie Hastie examines the television show Columbo as a way to understand both the show itself, but also the history of Hollywood in the 1970s and television as a media technology.
Cinema '62
The Greatest Year at the Movies
Stephen Farber
Michael McClellan
Foreword by Bill Condon
March 2024 274pp 40 b&w photos
9781978840720 £21.99/ $24.95 NIP RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man, and more.Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a pallid era, a downtime between the heights of the classic studio system and the rise of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese and Altman in the 1970s.
Closures
Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom
Grace Lavery
February 2024 128pp 30 illus.
9781478030140 £20.99/ $23.95 PB
9781478025894 £81.00/ $89.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Closures, Grace Lavery reconsiders the genre’s seven-decade history as an endless cycle of crisis and closure that formally and representationally frames heterosexuality as constantly on the verge of both collapse and reconstitution.
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier
Maura Jane Farrelly
July 2024 496pp 17 photos, 2 illus., 4 genealogies, 5 maps, index
9781496237057 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Explores the history of the nineteenth-century United States via the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to escape a host of humiliations—only to discover that by 1890 the West was no longer a place where anyone could go to be forgotten and start over.
Conflicted Making News from Global War
Isaac Blacksin
July 2024 312pp
9781503639447 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638242 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as Afghanistan and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be. Blacksin shows why news coverage of contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official rationales for war.
Creating the Viewer Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem
Justin Wyatt
April 2024 328pp
9781477329061 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477316511 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The first book on the intersection between market research and media, Creating the Viewer takes a critical look at media companies’ studies of television viewers. Both an analytical and practical work, the book includes sample questionnaires, paths for study moderators to follow and draws from over fifteen years of experience in research departments at various media companies.
Fandom Is Ugly
Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Mel Stanfill
August 2024 272pp
9781479824960 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479824953 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fandom Is Ugly argues that reactionary politics and media fandoms go hand in hand, and to understand one, we need to understand the other. Drawing on a corpus of angry social media posts, Stanfill finds that ugly moments happen when deep emotional attachments collide with social structures.
Constant Disconnection
The Weight of Everyday Digital Life
Kenzie Burchell
August 2024 296pp
9781503639799 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503632356 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Burchell examines how individuals try to manage connection as participation in everyday life and how the ever-expanding knowledge, communication, and data-driven economies depend on the very pressures that result from our disparate communication needs.
Enlightenment Links
Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Stanford Text Technologies
Collin Jennings
May 2024 256pp
9781503637979 £63.00/ $79.50 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear courses of reading they produce. He argues that emergent print genres combined language and links to bring forward the associative, circular, and multi-sequential ways in which literature makes language work.
Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting
Patrick Keating
Techniques of the Moving Image
July 2024 272pp 63 b&w images
9781978810259 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
9781978810266 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Richly illustrated, Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting features in-depth analyses of eleven classic movies: The Asphalt Jungle, Sorry, Wrong Number,Odds against Tomorrow,The Letter, I Wake Up Screaming, Phantom Lady, Strangers on a Train, Sweet Smell of Success, Gaslight, Secret beyond the Door, and Touch of Evil.
For Women and Girls Only
Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age
Jessica Road
March 2024 336pp
9781479809752 £36.00/ $40.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Roda examines modern performances on the stage and screen directed by and for ultra-Orthodox women. Their incredibly vibrant Jewish artistic scenes defy stereotypes that paint these women as repressed, reclusive to their shtetl (village), and devoid of creativity.
Gold Dust on the Air Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture
Molly A. Schneider
July 2024 280pp 5 b&w photos
9781477329276 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, anthology dramas presented “quality” television programming meant to provide cultural uplift to American society. In Gold Dust on the Air, Schneider traces a cultural history of the “Golden Age” anthology by drawing on archival research, deep textual examination, and scholarship on both television history and broader American culture.
In the Land of the Unreal
Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
Lisa Messeri
March 2024 312pp
9781478030232 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025979 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. With In The Land of the Unreal, Messeri navigates the intersection of place, technology, and social change to show that technology alone cannot upend systemic forces attached to gender and race.
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Edited by Sarah Street Joshua YumibeMay 2024 230pp 30 color and 10 b&w illus., and 1 table
9781978836808 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781978836815 £134.00/$150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book explores color filmmaking in a variety of regions including India, China, and Africa. The chapters explore themes such as transnational flows, knowledge exchange, the circulation of technology in a global context, as well as the accompanying transformation of color film aesthetics in the postwar decades.
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism
Forerunners: Ideas First
Lisa Diedrich
March 2024 150pp
9781517917340 £9.00/ $10.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Illness Politics and Hashtag
Activism explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. She argues that illness politics is central to both mainstream and radical politics, as she investigates the dynamic intersection of media and health and how it effects our understanding of illness.
Interactive Cinema
The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation
Marina Hassapopoulou
Electronic Mediations
June 2024 328pp 37 b&w illus.
9781517915223 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517915216 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive activity into a participatory, multimedia experience. Surveying a multitude of unorthodox approaches, Marina Hassapopoulou offers insight into a range of largely ephemeral and site-specific projects that consciously assimilate viewers into their production.
Livestreaming
An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter
EL Putnam
Forerunners: Ideas First
January 2024 98pp
9781517917098 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In this book, EL Putnam takes up the implications of livestreaming technology, arguing that livestreamed internet broadcasts invite distinctive means of relating to others. Treating humans and technologies as inherently relational, Putnam considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative.
Making History Move
Five Principles of the Historical Film
Kim Nelson
March 2024 234pp 6 b&w and 15 color images, 6 tables
9781978829770 £31.00/ $35.95 PB
9781978829787 £134.00/ $150.00
HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film consolidates decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture in the fields of film and media, cultural studies, and history. The book develops insights across these fields, including philosophical considerations of film and history, to clarify the form and function of history in moving images.
Millennial Jewish Stars
Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy
Jonathan Branfman
June 2024 320pp 21 b&w figures
9781479820795 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479820764 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Millennial Jewish Stars, Jonathan Branfman asks: what makes Jewish stars so unexpectedly appealing? And what can their surprising success tell us about race, gender, and antisemitism in America? To answer these questions, Branfman offers case studies on six top millennial Jewish stars: including Drake, Seth Rogen, and Zac Efron.
Made in Asia/ America
Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us
Editedby
Patterson
Christopher B. & TaraFickle Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
April 2024 384pp 29 illus.
9781478030263 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026037 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the key role video games play within the race-makings of Asia/America. Each of its fourteen critical essays, reveals the ways games offer new modes of imagining imperial violence, racial difference, and coalition.
Microbial Resolution
Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes
Gloria Chan-Sook Kim
Proximities
June 2024 pp 256
9781517911706 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517911690 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This book charts the U.S.-led war on the emerging microbe to show how their uncertain futures were transformed into objects of global science and security. Timely and thought provoking, Microbial Resolution opens up the rich paradoxes, irreconcilabilities, and failures inherent in this project and demonstrates how these tensions profoundly animate twenty-first-century ecologies.
Movies under the Influence
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
August 2024 248pp 31 b&w illus.
9781517916268 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517916251 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Movies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Recontextualizing a wide range of films, from Hollywood to the avant-garde, this book examines the implicit relationship and provides a new angle from which to understand cinema’s lasting role in evolving American culture.
Nonhuman Witnessing
War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World
Michael Richardson
Thought in the Act
February 2024 256pp 28 illus.
9781478025641 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020905 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building a framework for justice, suggesting that nonhuman witnessing is central to combat contemporary global crises.
Organizing Color Toward a Chromatics of the Social
Timon Beyes
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
March 2024 292pp
9781503638617 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638303 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. This book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"—that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.
Petroturfing
Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media
Jordan B. Kinder
June 2024 pp 288
9781517914332 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517914325 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Petroturfing presents an incisive look into how Canada’s pro-oil movement has leveraged social media to rebrand the extractive economy as a positive force. Jordan B. Kinder reveals the deep divide between Canada’s environmentally progressive reputation and the economic interests of its layers of government and private companies operating within its borders.
Oceaning
Governing Marine Life with Drones
Adam Fish Elements
February 2024 248pp 36 illus.
9781478030010 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478025801 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs.
Performing Parenthood
Non-Normative Fathers and Mothers in Spanish Narrative and Film
Heather Jerónimo
August 2024 256pp 9 b&w illus.,
9781487554217 £56.00 / $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on examples from literature and film, Performing Parenthood explores the multiplicity within non-normative familial constructions in Spain.
From 1st April 2024
Playing the Percentages
How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
Derek Long
April 2024 296pp 11 b&w photos
9781477328941 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Told not as a “golden age” narrative of films but as an economic history of the industry’s film distribution practices, Playing the Percentages is the story of how Hollywood’s studio system came to be. Through a combination of research and analysis, Long uncovers a complex and ever-shifting system of wrangling between distributors and exhibitors.
Pop Islam
Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media
Rosemary Pennington
April 2024 214pp 37 b&w illus., 1 b&w table
9780253069375 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253069368 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media traces narratives found in contemporary American comic books, scripted and reality television, fashion magazines, comedy routines, and movies to understand how they reveal nuanced Muslim identities to American audiences, even as their accessibility obscures their diversity.
Programming Language Cultures
Automating Automation
Brian Lennon
August 2024 240pp
9781503639874 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503633353 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. Focusing on specific programming languages, as well as on code comments, metasyntactic variables, the very early history of programming, and the concept of DevOps, Lennon views them as carriers and sometimes shapers of specific cultural histories.
Push the Button
Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan
Elizabeth Rodwell
February 2024 200pp 15 illus.
9781478025764 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478021025 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elizabeth Rodwell follows the conflict between mass media conglomerates and independent media creators as they worked to redefine what interactivity meant for Japan’s television industry.
Producing Sovereignty
The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada
Karrmen Crey
Indigenous Americas
March 2024 224pp 25 b&w illus.
9781517914509 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517914493 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In the early 1990s, Indigenous media experienced a boom across Canada, resulting in a vast landscape of digital media. Indigenous media highlighted issues around sovereignty and Indigenous rights to broader audiences in Canada. In Producing Sovereignty, Karrmen Crey considers the conditions that enabled this proliferation.
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies
Edited by Thomas J. Billard & Silvio WaisbordMarch 2024 288pp 2 b&w photos, 1 table
9780252087806 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045691 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Prometheus brought the gift of enlightenment to humanity and suffered for his benevolence. This collection takes on scholars’ Promethean view of themselves as selfless bringers of light and instead offers a new vision of public scholarship as service to society. Billard and Waisbord curate essays from a wide range of specialties within the study of communication.
Reading
Typographically
Immersed in Print in Early Modern France
Geoffrey Turnovsky
Stanford Text Technologies
June 2024 304pp
9781503637214 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring key evolutions in print in 17th- and 18thcentury France, from typeface, print runs, and format to editorial organization and punctuation, this book argues that typographic developments upholding the transparency of the printed medium were decisive for the ascendancy of immersive reading as a dominant paradigm that shaped modern perspectives on reading and literacy.
Red Tape
Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
Rosamund Johnston
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
March 2024 312pp
9781503638693 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503635166 £116.00/$130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. Johnston explores the dynamic between radio reporters and the listeners in Czechoslovakia who liked and trusted them while recognizing that they produced both propaganda and entertainment.
Seeking News, Making China
Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society
John Alekna
March 2024 352pp
9781503638570 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503636675 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Alekna traces the history of news in twentieth century China to demonstrate how large structural changes in technology and politics were heard and felt. Taking an innovative, holistic view of information practices, Alekna weaves together both rural and urban history to tell the story of rise of mass society through the lens of communication techniques and technology.
Stardust
Cinematic Archives at the End of the World
Hannah Goodwin
May 2024 200pp
9781517916503 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517916497 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Goodwin uses astronomy to posit new understandings of cinematic time and the role of light in generating archives for the future. Surveying a broad range of works, including films and blockbusters, she carves out a distinctive area of film analysis to explore films that reckon with a future in which humans are absent.
Rolling Blackness and Mediated Comedy
Edited by Alfred L. Martin Jr.Comedy & Culture
April 2024 220pp 25 b&w illus.
9780253068880 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253068873 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double consciousness, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often entirely different than for white viewers.
Stalin's Final Films
Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 19451953
Claire Knight
July 2024 264pp 24 b&w halftones
9781501776175 £47.00/ $51.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund as the pinnacle of Stalinism. Knight mines Soviet cinema as an invaluable resource for understanding the unique character of postwar Stalinism and the cinema of the most repressive era in Soviet history.
Tactical Inclusion
Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising
Jeremiah Favara
Feminist Media Studies
April 2024 272pp 43 b&w photos, 3 tables
9780252087820 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045721 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The revolution in military recruitment advertising to people of color and women played an essential role in making the US military one of the most diverse institutions in the United States. Favara illuminates the challenges at the heart of military inclusion by analyzing recruitment ads published in three commercial magazines.
Talking Back to the West
How Turkey Uses CounterHegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order
Bilge Yesil
Geopolitics of Information
June 2024 224pp 1 b&w photo, 4 tables
9780252087998 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045899 £99.00/ $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey. Yesil examines the AKP’s English-language apparatus and its objectives.
The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema
Bliss Cua Lim
a Camera Obscura book
February 2024 400pp 89 illus.
9781478025733 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478021001 £103.00/ $114.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss Cua Lim analyzes the crisisridden history of Philippine film archiving—a history of lost films, limited access, and collapsed archives.
The Digital and Its Discontents
Aden Evens & Alexander R.
Galloway
Electronic Mediations
February 2024 264pp 1 table
9781517916329 £24.99/ $29.00 PB
9781517916312 £104.00/ $116.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Digital and Its Discontents points us toward a more satisfying relationship between our digital lives and ourselves, one that requires we change how we incorporate technology into our lives. Aden Evens analyzes universal technological principles— in particular, the binary logic—to show that they encourage certain ways of thinking while making others more challenging or impossible.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life
Martin Woessner
Intellectual History of the Modern Age
March 2024 416pp 40 b&w illus.
9781512825602 £58.00/ $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Terrence Malick is one of American cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers, this book is the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker’s artistic development and its lasting contributions to American cinema. Utilizing newly available archival sources, Martin Woessner illuminates Malick’s early education in philosophy at Harvard and Oxford as well as his apprenticeship at the American Film Institute.
The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov
F. Booth Wilson
Global Film Directors
April 2024 250pp 25 b&w illus., and 1 table
9781978839144 £38.00/ $42.95 PB
9781978839151 £134.00/ $150.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offering fresh perspectives of Protazanov’s films, the book will give readers a new appreciation of his career. The book offers a uniquely valuable vantage point from which to explore how cinema reflected a society in transformation and a seminal moment in the development of cinematic art.
The Ethnographic Optic
Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema
Laure Astourian
New Directions in National Cinemas
June 2024 328pp 87 color illus., 50 b&w illus.
9780253069597 £34.00/ $38.00 PB
9780253069580 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s this book examines its place in several New Wave fictions and cinéma vérité documentaries during the final years of the French colonial empire.
The Flesh of Animation
Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media
Sandra Annett
April 2024 288pp 23 b&w illus.
9781517911591 £24.99/ $29.00 PB
9781517911584 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers. Leveraging an array of case studies through a new approach to film phenomenology, The Flesh of Animation offers an enlightening discussion of why animation provides a sensational experience for viewers not replicable through other media forms.
The Influencer Factory
A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
Grant Bollmer & Katherine
Guinness
April 2024 248pp
9781503638792 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637924 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene": a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life.
The Order and Disorder of Communication
Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Nir Shafir
Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
July 2024 416pp
9781503638952 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The 17th-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, Shafir investigates the political and cultural institutions used to circulate information when books were copied by hand.
The Fold
From Your Body to the Cosmos
Laura U. Marks
March 2024 336pp 49 illus.
9781478030119 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025856 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in and apprehending a cosmos in which every being and every thing is infinitely connected.
The Movies of Racial Childhoods
Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
January 2024 264pp 11 illus.
9781478025658 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020912 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children. Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification
The Paradox of Connection
How Digital Media Is Transforming Journalistic Labor
Diana Bossio, Valérie
Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E.
Holton & Logan Molyneux
February 2024 184pp
9780252087738 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9780252045615 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Examines how journalists’ practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. Merging case studies with analysis, the authors show how the tactics of online connection and disconnection interact with today’s media environments.
