Media Studies 2023 Catalog

THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAY

A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture

Aaron Trammell

The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming

In Postmillennial Pop

STREAMING VIDEO

Storytelling Across Borders

Edited by Amanda D. Lotz and Ramon Lobato

An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling

In Critical Cultural Communication

LIKE WATER

A Cultural History of Bruce Lee Daryl Joji Maeda

Highlights Bruce Lee’s influence beyond martial arts and film

“Provides lucid analysis of Lee’s lasting significance.”

—Kirkus Reviews

THE UNINTENDED

Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism

Monica Huerta

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression

CHINESE CREATOR ECONOMIES

Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers

Jian Lin

The paradoxical relationship between Chinese creative workers and the state

In Critical Cultural Communication

THE QUEER NUYORICAN

Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida

Karen Jaime

Honorable Mention for the Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, given by the International Latino Book Awards

In Performance and American Cultures

BROKEN

The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion

Evelyn Alsultany

“Deftly deconstructs the state of Muslim representation and inclusion in the media, universities and key US institutions.”

—Lorraine Ali, LA Times

SKIN THEORY

Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory

Cristina Mejia Visperas

Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America

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THE DIGITAL BORDER

Migration, Technology, Power

Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria

Georgiou

Explores the role of technologies and platforms in the transformation of the border

DIGITAL UNSETTLING

Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media

Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj

Gabriel Dattatreyan

How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality

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DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM

Catherine Knight Steele

Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought

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Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers

DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION

Portals, Platforms, Pipelines

Edited by Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy Havens

A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution

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LATINO TV A History

Mary Beltrán

“An essential contribution to the expanding scholarship on Latina/o/x media and is particularly important for the training of its future scholars.”

—Film Quarterly

DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS

African American Cybercultures

André Brock, Jr.

An explanation of the digital practices of the Black Internet

Winner, 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers

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BORDER OPTICS

Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier

Camilla Fojas

Examines how the USMexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance

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NETFLIX NATIONS

The Geography of Digital Distribution

Ramon Lobato

“An important and timely addition to the existing scholarly literature on the digital distribution of television and how it is changing the digital landscape.”

—The Washington Book Review

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THE REVOLUTION WILL BE HILARIOUS Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power

Caty Borum

An insider’s look at the power of comedy to effect social change

SONIC

SOVEREIGNTY

Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams

Liz Przybylski

What does sovereignty sound like?

HIP HOP HERESIES

Queer Aesthetics in New York City

Shanté Paradigm Smalls

Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop

UNBELONGING

Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics

Iván A. Ramos

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging

THE DARK FANTASTIC Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

“One of the most radiant and thought-provoking descriptions of the potentials of fantastic literature”.

—LA Review of Books

OPEN WORLD EMPIRE

Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games

Christopher B. Patterson

Finalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association

DIGITAL MASQUERADE

Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

Jia Tan

Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China

THE CONTENT OF OUR CARICATURE

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging

Rebecca Wanzo

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

RACE AND ETHNICITY

KEEPING IT UNREAL

Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics

Darieck Scott

Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books

In Sexual Cultures

BLACK EPHEMERA

The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive

Mark Anthony Neal

A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era

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MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED

Black Women’s Digital Resistance

Moya Bailey

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny

In Intersections

BLACK PATIENCE

Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Julius B. Fleming Jr.

A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater

In Performance and American Cultures

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RACE AND MEDIA

Critical Approaches

Edited by Lori Kido Lopez

A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media

In Critical Cultural Communication

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ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION

How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Umoja Noble

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms

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MINORITARIAN AESTHETICS

DEADPAN

The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression

Tina Post

Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production

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This series promotes scholarship that develops a minor position toward aesthetics and an aesthetic stance toward minoritarian experience.

An exploration of the relationship between disability, story, and perception, drawing on the author’s lived experience of disability and deafness

FALLING,

Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance Hershini Bhana Young

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality

DISABILITIES OF THE COLOR LINE

Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present Dennis Tyler

The role of disability and deafness in art

A History of Disability and Design

A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it

“Reading [this]can change lives.

Edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez

Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America

SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT

Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

Avgi Saketopoulou

Radical alternatives to consent and trauma

In Sexual Cultures

LGBT INCLUSION IN AMERICAN LIFE Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights

PAIN GENERATION

Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

L. Ayu Saraswati

Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism

QUEER FORMS

Ramzi Fawaz

Susan Burgess

A compelling explanation of the American public’s acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture

In LGBTQ Politics

BECOMING HUMAN

Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

Winner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

In Sexual Cultures

QUEER / TRANS / DIGITAL SERIES

THE TWO REVOLUTIONS

A History of the Transgender Internet

Avery Dame-Griff

The internet origins of the American transgender movement

THE OTHER SIDE OF TERROR

Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

Erica R. Edwards

WINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? 320

This series features scholarship that connects queer and transgender issues with digital media and digital technologies. It emphasizes intersectional lenses, foregrounding work that explores topics such as race, disability, and colonialism as co-constituted with gender and sexuality.

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TWITTER A Biography

Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym

The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture

THE NEW TRUE CRIME

How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence

Diana Rickard

How serialized crime shows became an American obsession

In Alternative Criminology 232

CONNECTING AFTER CHAOS

Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster

Stephen F. Ostertag

A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating natural disaster

MEDIA AND LAW

VIRTUAL SEARCHES

Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing

Christopher Slobogin

A close look at innovations in policing and the law that should govern them

TERRORISM IN AMERICAN MEMORY

Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era

Marita Sturken

“Revealing debates about how to memorialize the last two decades of enormous social disruption ... from 9/11 to Black Lives Matter.”

—Kirkus Reviews

THE PORNIFICATION OF AMERICA

How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society

Bernadette Barton

“This book persuasively argues that ‘equating hypersexualization with sex positivity is a form of Orwellian doublespeak.’”

—New York Times Book Review

STAY COOL

Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change

Aaron Sachs

“This book muses on how humor might be more effective. [It] encourages a fresh, creative approach to addressing one of the biggest challenges of the time—climate change.”

—Foreword Reviews

THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH

Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

Ian Rosenberg

“This book ought to be required reading for all political leaders...”

—Los Angeles Review of Books

KEYWORDS FOR GENDER AND SEXUALITY

STUDIES

Edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective

KEYWORDS FOR COMICS STUDIES

Edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Deborah Whaley, and Shelley Streeby

312 PP

Introduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexuality

KEYWORDS FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, SECOND EDITION

Edited by Philip Nel, Lissa Paul, and Nina Christensen

An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture

AVIDLY READS

Phillip Maciak

What happens when screen time is all the time? 176

AVIDLY

Alison Kinney

“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.”

KEYWORDS FOR MEDIA STUDIES

Edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies 272

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies

AVIDLY

PLEASURES

Arielle Zibrak

“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even femaleauthored fiction, it was being femme itself.”

AVIDLY READS BOARD GAMES

Eric Thurm

“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”

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GOOD FOR COURSES

HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION, SECOND EDITION

Edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present

In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

DISLIKE-MINDED

Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste

Jonathan Gray

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do

In Critical Cultural Communication

CRIME TV

Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture

Edited by Jonathan A. Grubb and Chad Posick

From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television

CREATOR

CULTURE

An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment

Edited by Stuart Cunningham and David Craig

Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment

HOW TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES

Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann

Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture

In User’s Guides to Popular Culture

VIDEO GAMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN QUEER

Bonnie Ruberg

“Calls for the reclaiming of the entirety of the games medium, identifying how LGBTQ players have always belonged in games.”  —Feminist Media Studies

In Postmillennial Pop

CRIMINOLOGY GOES

TO THE MOVIES

Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown

Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass

QUEER TIMES, BLACK FUTURES

Kara Keeling

A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism

Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies

In Sexual Cultures

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DEFINING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Power, Media, and #MeToo

Stacey Hannem and Christopher J. Schneider

Traces contemporary shifts in power in relation to the increased recognition and censure of sexual misconduct

A University of Regina Press title

ART IN A DEMOCRACY

Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989

Edited by Ben Fink

Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia’s Roadside Theater

RESISTANCE

Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo

Edited by Sue Goyette

Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology

A University of Regina Press title

176 PP

ART IN A DEMOCRACY

Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990–2020

Edited by Ben Fink

Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times

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A New Village Press title

¡BRIGADISTAS!

An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War Miguel Ferguson

A graphic history featuring the true story of three friends from Brooklyn who join in the global fight against fascism

A Monthly Review Press title

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TELL OUR STORY

Multiplying voices in the news media

Julie Reid and Dale T. McKinley

The authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media

University

A New Village Press title

FREE

SPEECH AND THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT DURING WORLD WAR I

Eric T. Chester

A riveting history of the fight for freedom of expression during US government crackdown on dissent during the First World War

A Monthly Review Press title

BABEL UNBOUND Rage,

reason and rethinking public life

Edited by Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton

Writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied

A Wits University Press title

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