Film, Media, & Journalism Studies 2019
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LUMBIA UNIVE R SI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
Letter from the editors: From the use of color in early cinema to the environmental costs of contemporary filmmaking to the impact of social media, we are proud to present a wide range of exciting new books from Columbia University Press in film, media, and journalism studies. In the Film and Culture series, three books provide new perspectives on the history of filmmaking and exhibition, including Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe’s Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media in the 1920s; On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926-1942 by Ariel Rogers; and Patrick Keating’s The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood. The machinations and impact of film production in the postwar era are explored in Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture by Jeff Menne, J. J. Murphy's Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay, and Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies by Hunter Vaughan. In a more theoretical vein, Nico Baumbach’s Cinema/Politics/Philosophy argues for a new philosophical approach that sees cinema as both a mode of thought and a form of politics, while Foucault’s most important writings on film are collected in Foucault at the Movies. Other books on film include Phillip Maciak’s The Disappearing Christ, a consideration of depictions of Christ in early film, and What Is Japanese Cinema?, a history of Japanese cinema by the famously rambunctious critic Inuhiko Yomota. We would also like to announce that acquisitions for Wallflower will now be handled by Ryan Groendyk. As an imprint of CUP, Wallflower will continue to publish peer-reviewed books that reflect and engage with the ways films are seen, studied, and discussed. Books in the Short Cuts series present concise but thorough treatments of concepts, methods, and genres and are ideal for classroom and research use. The Directors’ Cuts focus on the work of important filmmakers from around the globe, and the Nonfictions series takes up emerging trends in documentary cinema. New this year are Suburban Fantastic Cinema by Angus McFadzean, in the Short Cuts series, an innovative study of a genre comprised of some of Hollywood's most popular films of the eighties and nineties. The Cinema of Louis Malle, edited by Philippe Met, in the Directors' Cuts series, analyzes the French auteur's diverse body of work with contributions from noted scholars such as Tom Conley and filmmakers Wes Anderson and Volker SchlÖndorff. In media studies, Media U: How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education, by Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx, presents a history of the university as a media institution. Roberto Simanowski continues his philosophically informed investigation of social media with Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves to examine how identity is being shaped and reshaped online.
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The dominance of social media is also the subject of Philip Napoli’s Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age, which contends that Facebook and other platforms must be viewed as news media with a fundamental obligation to serve the public interest. Other titles in journalism studies include Worlds of Journalism, an ambitious analysis of journalistic culture throughout the world, edited by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer. We look forward to these books making their way out into the world. Thanks for your interest and support. Sincerely, Philip Leventhal, senior editor film, media, and journalism studies Ryan Groendyk, editor for Wallflower
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FILM HISTORY/FILM THEORY
Film History/Film Theory...........................4
Post-Fordist Cinema
Directors' Cuts (Wallflower)......................10
Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture
Short Cuts (Wallflower)...............................11 Cultographies (Wallflower)........................12 Devil’s Advocates (Auteur Publishing)....13
Jeff Menne
Constellations (Auteur Publishing)...........16 Studying Film (Auteur Publishing)...........18 Austrian Film Musum...............................20 Hitchcock Annual.......................................21 Journalism Studies....................................22 Media Studies.............................................24 Best of the Backlist..................................29 Ordering information................................31 Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the film, media and journalism studies editor, Philip Leventhal at pl2164@columbia.edu. Wallflower submissions can be sent to
Jeff Menne rewrites the history of the New Hollywood boom of the late 196s and 197s, arguing that auteur theory served to reconcile directors to Hollywood’s corporate project. Post-Fordist Cinema sheds new light on the cultural myth of the great director and the birth of the “creative economy.” $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18371-0 2019 272 pages
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Ryan Groendyk at rg3021@columbia.edu.
Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan
For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website, cup.columbia.edu. Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press. If no UK price appears for a title, it is most likely available from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada. Titles published by the Auteur Publishing, Transcript-Verlag, and ibidem Press are available from Columbia only in North America. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.
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Hunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences. He examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18241-6 2019 256 pages
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FILM HISTORY/FILM THEORY On the Screen
The Dynamic Frame
Ariel Rogers
Patrick Keating
Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood
Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942
Ariel Rogers rethinks the history of moving images by exploring how experiments with screen technologies in and around the 1930s changed the way films were produced, exhibited, and experienced. She challenges conventional narratives about the novelty of the twenty-first-century multiscreen environment.
Patrick Keating offers an innovative history of the aesthetics of the camera that examines how camera movement shaped the classical Hollywood style. In careful readings of dozens of films, he explores how major figures like F. W. Murnau, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock used camera movement to enrich their stories and deepen their themes.
$35.00/ £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18885-2
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19051-0
July 2019 288 pages
2019 368 pages
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Rewriting Indie Cinema
Chromatic Modernity
Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s
Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay
Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
J. J. Murphy
In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. Filmmakers discussed include John Cassavetes, Barbara Loden, William Greaves, Gus Van Sant, and Sean Baker. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19197-5
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19196-8
Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film led the way in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, Chromatic Modernity portrays the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-17983-6
April 2019 360 pages
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-17982-9
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April 2019 368 pages
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FILM HISTORY/FILM THEORY Cinema/Politics/ Philosophy
Foucault at the Movies Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan
Nico Baumbach
Translated by Clare O'Farrell
Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political? He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable.
Foucault at the Movies brings together all of Foucault’s commentary on film, some of it available for the first time in English, along with important contemporary analysis and further extensions of this work. It offers detailed, up-to-date commentary, inviting us to go to the movies with Foucault.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18423-6
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16707-9
2018 248 pages
$75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-16706-2
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2018 208 pages
The Disappearing Christ
What Is Japanese Cinema?
Phillip Maciak
Yomota Inuhiko
Secularism in the Silent Era
Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18709-1 July 2019 256 pages
A History
What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-191630 April 2019 248 pages
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FILM HISTORY/FILM THEORY Melodrama Unbound
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes
Edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams
Maggie Hennefeld
Across History, Media, and National Cultures
Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama speaks to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18067-2 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18066-5 2018 432 pages 61 illus.
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes offers close consideration of hundreds of silent films. Maggie Hennefeld argues that these films provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century and that slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language and experimentation with the visual and social potentials of cinema. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17947-8
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$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-17946-1 2018 384 pages 43 Illus.
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Show Trial
How Did Lubitsch Do It?
Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist
Joseph McBride
Thomas Doherty
Thomas Doherty tells the story of the 1947 hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. He explores the deep background to the hearings and details the theatrical elements of a proceeding that bridged the realms of entertainment and politics. Show Trial is a character-driven inquiry into how the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings ignited the Hollywood blacklist, providing a gripping new history of one of the most influential events of the postwar era.
Joseph McBride analyzes Lubitsch’s films in rich detail in the first in-depth critical study to consider the full scope of his work and its evolution in both Hollywood and Germany. McBride explains the “Lubitsch Touch” and shows how the director challenged American attitudes toward romance and sex. McBride’s analysis brings to life Lubitsch’s inventiveness and offers revealing insights into his working methods.
$29.95 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18778-7
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2018 424 pages 41 illus.
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$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18644-5 2018 544 pages 18 illus.
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FILM HISTORY/FILM THEORY The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction
Audio-Vision
Sound on Screen
Nora M. Alter
Second Edition
Michel Chion Edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman Foreword by Walter Murch
Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. The essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre’s origins and follows its transformations.
Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the contemporary media environment.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17821-1
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18589-9
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-17820-4
April 2019 296 pages 64 illus.
2018 416 pages
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Carceral Fantasies
A Biography
Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Antoine de Baecque, and Noël Herpe
Alison Griffiths
Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before 1935, Alison Griffiths explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-16107-7
$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16106-0
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This definitive biography vividly captures Rohmer’s life and achievements. Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe detail Rohmer’s close communication with his contemporaries and competitors as well as his voracious appetite for art, culture, and debate. $27.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-23-17559-3 $40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0231-17558-6 2018 608 pages
2019 472 pages / 120 illus.
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FILM HISTORY/FILM THEORY The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films
Screening Economies
Šárka Sladovníková
Edited by Daniel Cuonz, Scott Loren, and
Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation
Jörg Metelmann
Šárka Sladovníková analyzes the social and cultural framework in which these films were made and how this framework changed. She also focuses on the cinematic language, composition and narration (e.g., the depiction of the war and the Shoah as a narratively closed versus a narratively open event), genre (e.g., the use of comedy and humor), and convention and innovation in presenting motifs and characters (the division of gender roles, the character of the “good German”).
This volume explores the ethical, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions of economic representation, addressing essential questions: What are the roles of mass and new media? How do the arts contribute to critical discourse on the global techno-economic complex? It brings theoretical debate and artistic intervention into a rich exchange. $25.00 paper 978-3-8376-4527-9 2018 192 pages
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$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1196-1 2018 180 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
The Interactive Documentary Form
Topographies of “Borderland Schengen”
Aesthetics, Practice, and Research
Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands
Stefano Odorico
Jan Kühnemund
Stefano Odorico examines the aesthetic structures and dynamics of interactive documentary as a webbased film experience. His study considers theoretical issues such as critical complexity, reality effect, and polyphony, and assesses their respective media practices. Questions of distribution and preservation are addressed through the analysis of a number of film festivals, museums, and archives.
Analyzing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area’s fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the European refugee crisis, Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4231-5
TRANSCRIPT-VERLAG
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4208-7 2018 292 pages
2019 200 pages
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DIRECTORS' CUTS (Wallflower) The Cinema of Wes Anderson
The Cinema of Tom DiCillo
Bringing Nostalgia to Life
Include Me Out Wayne Byrne
Whitney Crothers Dilley
Foreword by Steve Buscemi
Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame. Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the filmic and literary influences that have helped make Anderson a major voice in 21st century “indie” culture.
This volume considers this acclaimed director's entire oeuvre, analyzing themes such as identity, family, and masculinity and DiCillo's distinctive and influential film style. Detailed chapters on each of DiCillo's films offer a candid look at both the American independent film industry and the Hollywood studio system.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18068-9
2017 208 pages 16 illus.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18535-6 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18534-9
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 78-0-231-18068-9 2017 224 pages 24 illus.
The Cinema of Louis Malle
The Cinema of Richard Linklater Walk, Don't Run Second edition
Transatlantic Auteur
Rob Stone
Foreword by Volker Schlöndorff
Edited by Philippe Met
Afterword by Wes Anderson
In this second edition of The Cinema of Richard Linklater, Rob Stone shows how Linklater’s latest films have redefined our understanding of his work, offering critical analysis of films including Before Midnight (2013) and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), as well as new interviews with Linklater and a chapter on Boyhood (2014). $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17921-8
Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and boldly subversive oeuvre and redress the surprising critical neglect it has suffered over the years.
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-17920-1
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18871-5
2018 272 pages 32 illus.
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18870-8 2018 272 pages 16 illus.
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SHORT CUTS (Wallflower) Twenty-First-Century Hollywood
Suburban Fantastic Cinema
Rebooting the System
Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century
Neil Archer
Angus McFadzean
Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage suburban boys are called upon to combat a disruptive force. Beginning in the 1980s, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings and industrial analysis, illustrating why these kinds of movies are favored by producers and audiences alike.
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18995-8
2019 144 pages 16 illus.
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-19159-3
2019 144 pages 12 illus.
Film Censorship
Film and the Natural Environment
Regulating America's Screen
Elements and Atmospheres
Sheri Chinen Biesen
Adam O'Brien
Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. Sheri Chinen Biesen unveils the behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explores how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing cultural and industrial landscape. $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18313-0 2018 144 pages 12 illus.
The relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. Adam O'Brien argues that the nonhuman world can be understood not just as a theme but as a creative resource available to all filmmakers. He invites readers to consider some of the particular strengths and weaknesses of cinema as communicator of environmental phenomena, and collates ideas and passages from a range of critics and theorists who have contributed to our understanding of moving images and the natural world. $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18265-2 2018 144 pages 16 illus.
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CULTOGRAPHIES (Wallflower) Stranger Than Paradise
The Shining
Kevin J. Donnelly
Jamie Sexton
Jamie Sexton examines the production history, initial reception, aesthetics, and legacy of Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise in order to understand its place in the cult film canon. Sexton explores early-1980s New York downtown culture and Jarmusch's involvement in music, as well as reflecting on the film's status alongside Jarmusch's subsequent output. $15.00 paper 978-0-231-18055-9
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) is both a successful mainstream horror film and an esoteric object for cult audiences who are convinced that the film means something totally different. This book investigates what has made The Shining a key cult film while also addressing the range of meanings and interpretations assigned to it. $15.00 paper 978-0-231-18723-7 2018 150 pages 12 illus.
2018 136 pages 12 illus.
I Spit on Your Grave
Danger: Diabolik
David Maguire
Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave (1978) is one of the most controversial films ever made—both condemned as misogynistic and praised for raising uncomfortable issues about sexual violence. David Maguire investigates the historical, social, and political landscape of the film's release and how it has become ground zero for the rape-revenge genre. $15.00 paper 978-0-231-18875-3
Leon Hunt
Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years. This study examines its status as a comic-book movie, traces its production and initial reception in Italy, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, as well as its cult afterlife as both a pop-art classic and campy "bad film." $15.00 paper 978-0-231-18281-2 2018 128 pages 12 illus.
2018 128 pages 12 illus.
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DEVIL'S ADVOCATES (Auteur Publishing) Blood and Black Lace
The Mummy
Roberto Curti
Doris V. Sutherland
Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (1964) is commonly considered the archetypal giallo. This book examines its main narrative and stylistic aspects, including the groundbreaking prominence of violence and sadism and its use of color and lighting, as well as Bava’s irreverent approach to genre and handling of the audience’s expectations.
Released in 1932, The Mummy moved Universal horror into a land of deserts, pyramids, and longlost tombs. This book examines the roots of The Mummy. It shows how the film shares many motifs with the work of writers such as H. Rider Haggard and discusses how The Mummy drew upon a contemporary vogue for all things ancient Egyptian.
$15.00 paper 978-1-911325-93-2
$15.00 paper 978-1-911325-95-6
May 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
May 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
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Shivers
Luke Aspell
Shivers (1975) was David Cronenberg’s first commercial feature and his first horror film. Luke Aspell’s analysis addresses shot composition, lighting, cinematographic texture, sound, the use of stock music, editing, costume, make-up, optical work, the screenplay, the casting, and the direction of the actors. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-97-0 July 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
Samm Deighan
Samm Deighan explores the way Fritz Lang uses horror and thriller tropes in M, particularly in terms of how it functions as a bridge between German Expressionism and Hollywood’s growing fixation on sympathetic killers in the ‘40s. Deighan also examines how Lang made use of developments within in forensic science and the criminal justice system to portray a somewhat realistic serial killer on screen for the first time. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-77-2 May 2019 120 pages 20 illus.
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DEVIL'S ADVOCATES (Auteur Publishing) The Devils
Creepshow
Darren Arnold
Darren Arnold examines the themes prevalent in the film—this is the only one of his films director Ken Russell viewed as political—and considers the representation of gender and sexuality, gender fluidity, and how sex and religion clash to interesting and controversial effect. Arnold concludes by revisiting the film’s censorship travails and the s versions of The Devils that have appeared on both big and small screens, as well as the film’s legacy and influence. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-75-8
Simon Brown
Simon Brown’s analysis focuses on the key influences on the film, not just director George Romero and author Steven King but also the anthology horrors of Amicus Productions, body horror cinema, and the special makeup effects of Tom Savini, the relationship between horror and humor, and most notably the tradition of EC horror comics of the 1950s, from which the film draws both its thematic preoccupations and its visual style. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-91-8 April 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
2019 120 pages 12 illus.
Scream
House of Usher
Evert van Leeuwen
Steven West
This Devil’s Advocate offers a full exploration of Scream, including its structure, its many reference points (such as the prominent use of Halloween as a kind of sacred text), its marketing (“the new thriller from Wes Craven” – not a horror film), and legacy for horror cinema in the new millennium. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-27-7 2019 120 pages 20 illus.
This study of Roger Corman’s House of Usher explores the film's narrative structure and imagery. Evert van Leeuwen shows how the use of specific techniques creates and sustains the atmosphere of gothic decay and situates horror icon Vincent Price’s performance in the context of the Romantic misfit and the postwar countercultural antihero. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-60-4 2019 120 pages 20 illus.
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DEVIL'S ADVOCATES (Auteur Publishing) The Fly
It Follows
Emma Westwood
Joshua Grimm
Amid a recent resurgence in horror films, It Follows stands out. David Robert Mitchell reinvents genre bromides while simultaneously embracing and challenging tropes audiences and filmmakers rely on too heavily. Joshua Grimm shows how this film helped reinvent the rules of horror, particularly along the lines of genre, style, sex, and gender. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-58-1 2018 120 pages 20 illus.
This book teases out the intricate DNA of The Fly (1986) and how it represents the personalities of many authors, including a distinguished history of Man-as-God tales stretching back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Drawing from interviews with cast, crew, film commentators, and other filmmakers, Emma Westwood interlaces the "making of " travails of The Fly with why it is one of the most important works ever committed to screen. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-42-0 2018 140 pages 20 illus.
In the Mouth of Madness
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lindsay Hallam
Michael Blyth
David Lynch’s prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me has received renewed appreciation with the broadcast of Twin Peaks: The Return. Lindsay Hallam argues that what Lynch created was not a parody of soap opera and detective television but a horror movie. She examines initial reaction to and subsequent reevaluation of the film.
Neglected upon its initial release in 1995, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness has since developed a healthy cult reputation. It now appears as one of his most thematically complex and stylistically audacious pieces of work, prescient and more essential than ever. This book seeks to position this overlooked masterpiece as essential Carpenter.
$15.00 paper 978-1-911325-64-2
$15.00 paper 978-1-911325-40-6
2018 120 pages 20 illus.
2018 124 pages 20 illus.
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CONSTELLATIONS (Auteur Publishing) Jurassic Park
Children of Men Dan Dinello
Dan Dinello explicates Alfonso Cuarón’s visionary Children of Men (2006) from ideological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Dinello explores the film’s criticism of reactionary politics, arguing that it prods us to imagine an egalitarian alternative by urging identification with rebels, outcasts, and racial and ethnic outsiders.
Paul Bullock
This book shows that there's much more to Jurassic Park than a simple special effects extravaganza. It does this through close analysis of key characters, story points and scenes, and the film's place within the context of Steven Spielberg's career as a whole. $15.00 paper 978-1-999334-04-8 July 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
$15.00 paper 978-1999334-02-4 June 2019 132 pages 30 illus.
Dune
12 Monkeys
Christian McCrea
Susanne Kord
This volume examines Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) with an eye to the film’s major themes, including mental illness, conspiracy theories, the impossibility of human closeness, and the nature of reality. It reads 12 Monkeys’s portrayal of time travel in light of Einstein’s ideas about time and the problem of free will versus determinism. $15.00 paper 978-1-999334-00-0 June 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
David Lynch’s Dune (1984) is the film that science fiction—and the director’s most ardent fans—can neither forgive nor forget.This book is the first long-form critical study of the film; it delves into the relationship with the novel, the rapidly changing context of early 1980s science fiction, and takes a close look at Lynch’s attempt to breathe sincerity and mysticism into a blockbuster movie format that was shifting radically around him. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-82-6 May 2019 120 pages 20 illus
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CONSTELLATIONS (Auteur Publishing) Mad Max
Inception
David Carter
Martyn Conterio
Too classy and well-crafted to be lumped in with low-budget Ozploitation titles, Mad Max (1979) is completely unlike other films made during the 1970s Australian New Wave. Director George Miller is arguably the single most important filmmaker in Australia’s history, bringing a commercial and artistic vision to the screen few of his compatriots have ever managed before or since. This volume examines everything from the film’s extremely controversial critical reception to its legacy today via a string of sequels and the creation of an entire subgenre—postapocalyptic action.
Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) partakes of various genres from science fiction, the heist film, film noir, and the psychological thriller. While blurring the distinctions between genres, the film also explores how dreams are related to the conscious and unconscious mind. David Carter covers all facets of this complex yet highly successful film, in addition to placing the film in the context of the director’s other work. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-05-5 April 2019 120 pages 20 illus
$15.00 paper 978-1-911325-86-4 July 2019 120 pages 24 illus.
RoboCop
Rollerball
Omar Ahmed
RoboCop was Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s first American film, both a commercial and critical hit on release in 1987. Marking its thirtieth anniversary, this volume explores the film from a variety of critical approaches, including rereading RoboCop as a Western; the neofascist corporatization of the human body; satire, late-Reagan America and the rise of neoliberalism; and the cyborg in science fiction. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-25-3 2019 120 pages 20 illus.
Andrew Nette
Rollerball, Norman Jewison’s 1975 vision of a future dominated by anonymous corporations in which all individual effort is subsumed into a horrifically violent sport, remains critically overlooked. Andrew Nette shows how a film derided by many critics for its violence, works as a sophisticated and disturbing portrayal of a dystopian future that anticipates numerous contemporary concerns, including “fake news” and declining literary and historical memory. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-66-6 2018 120 pages 20 illus.
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STUDYING FILMS (Auteur Publishing) Studying Horror Cinema
Studying The Hurt Locker
Bryan Turnock
A comprehensive survey of the horror genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first-century resurgence. Bryan Turnock covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key sequences. In addition to such classics as Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby are analyses of influential non-English-language films as Kwaidan, Bay of Blood, and Let the Right One In. The author concludes with a chapter on 2017’s blockbuster It, the most financially successful horror film of all time. $25.00 paper 978-1-911325-88-8
Terence McSweeney
Terence McSweeney explores The Hurt Locker’s stylistic and narrative devices, cultural impact, reception, and its relationship to the genre of the war film. McSweeney places the film in a historical, political, and industrial context, arguing that The Hurt Locker is part of a long tradition of films about American wars that play a considerable role in how audiences perceive the conflicts that they depict. Thus, films about a nation’s wars are never “only a movie” but rather should be considered a cultural battleground themselves on which a war of representation is waged.
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$15.00 paper 978-1911325-73-4
2019 256 pages 50 illus.
2019 112 pages 24 illus.
Studying Feminist Film Theory
Studying Shakespeare on Film
Terri Murray
Rebekah Owens
This volume provides an introduction to the basics of feminist film theory. Terri Murray examines the connotations of visual and aural elements of film, narrative conflicts and oppositions, the implications of spectator “positioning” and viewer identification, and an ideological critical approach to film. Case studies include film noir, Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days and the work of directors Spike Lee, Claire Denis, and Paul Verhoeven.
Aimed at newcomers to literature and film, this book is a guide for the analysis of Shakespeare on film. Starting with an introduction to the main challenge faced by any director—the early-modern language—it presents case studies of the twelve films most often used in classroom teaching, including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and The Tempest. $16.00 paper 978-1-911325-38-3 May 2019 156 pages 20 illus.
$20.00 paper 978-1-911325-79-6 $60.00 cloth 978-1-911325-80-2 2019 192 pages 30 illus.
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STUDYING FILMS (Auteur Publishing) Studying Ida
Studying Waltz with Bashir
Sheila Skaff
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and provides political and cultural analysis to aid the reader in understanding the film’s setting and narrative. Skaff also touches on the influence of the film on current events in Poland. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-62-8 2018 112 pages 20 illus.
Giulia Miller
Ari Folman’s animated documentary Waltz with Bashir (2008) is viewed as a brilliant and original exploration of trauma, and trauma’s impact on memory and the recording of history. Although the film is seen through the eyes of one particular soldier, a viewpoint portrayed using highly experimental forms of animation, this has not prevented Waltz with Bashir from being regarded as both an ‘autobiographical’ and ‘honest’ account of the director’s own experiences in the 1982 Lebanon war. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-15-4 2017 112 pages 20 illus.
Folk Horror
Studying The Lord of the Rings
Hours Dreadful and Things Strange
Anna Dawson
Adam Scovell
Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century. $15.00 paper 978-1-911325-22-2 2017 224 pages 20 illus.
Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson’s trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. Studying The Lord of the Rings is the first book to consider the films in these terms, looking in turn at each of the major concepts: their complex origins and narrative structure; issues of representation masculinity, femininity and race; their industrial context from theatrical release to DVD extended editions and more. $15.00 paper 978-1-906733-82-7 2018 120 pages 20 illus.
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AUSTRIAN FILM MUSEUM Gerhard Friedl
Guy Debord
Edited and translated by Werner Rappl in collaboration with Wolfgang Kukulies
[German language] Edited by Volker Pantenburg
Das filmische Gesamtwerk
Austrian director Gerhard Benedikt Friedl (1967–2009) left a small but singular oeuvre. This book sheds light on the work behind Friedl’s films. It combines working- process documentation and conversations with close collaborators and the articles Friedl wrote as a film and art critic. $29.90 / £24.00 paper 978-3-901644-78-8 August 2019 256 pages 100 illus.
In his films Guy Debord (1931–1994) worked according to the following principle: do nothing you should, do everything you should not. Created between 1952 and 1978, all the films reflect this rule and confirm what he referred to as his “detestable ambition.” Gathered in a single volume for the first time in German, this publication unites the texts of all of Guy Debord’s films in a new translation. $42.50 / £34.00 paper 978-3-901644-76-4 May 2019 400 pages 100 illus.
The Real Eighties
Werner Schroeter
[German-language Edition]
Edited by Roy Grundmann
Amerikanisches Kino der Achtziger Jahre: Ein Lexikon
Edited by Lukas Foerster and Nikolaus Perneczky
A transformative decade that witnessed the U.S. film industry’s restructuring under the pressures of neoliberal globalization, the 1980s swept away the last remnants of Old and New Hollywood alike while preparing the ground for today’s High Concept wasteland—thus goes an all too familiar tale of decline. This volume tells a different, more complex story about Reagan-era Hollywood, attuned to the struggles that went on behind and in front of the camera: interrupted careers, defiant last stands, paths not taken. $29.90 / £24.00 paper 978-3-901644-71-9 2018 256 pages 100 illus.
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This volume traces Schroeter’s career as a filmmaker from early and rarely discussed works such as Salome (1971) and Willow Springs (1973) to his late 1970s breakout hits and later complex and mature art-house productions such as The Rose King (1986), Malina (1991), and Nuit de Chien (2008). The volume is supplemented by Schroeter’s own writings and conversations and includes an interview with his long-time collaborator Elfi Mikesch as well as an authoritative and completely updated filmography. $29.90 / £24.00 paper 978-3-901644-74-0 2018 256 pages 100 illus.
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HITCHCOCK ANNUAL
hantz on Hospitality in Dial M for Murder Slowik on Hitchcock’s Sparse Sonic Set Pieces
Leitch on What We Talk About When We Talk itchcock (review essay)
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Volume 22
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Edited by Sidney Gottlieb
Pleasure Garden Downhill Easy Virtue The Ring The Manxman Blackmail Juno Game Number Seventeen Rich and The Man Who Knew Too Much Young and Inno cent The Lady Van Rebecca Foreign Correspondent Mr. Shadow of a Doubt Lifeboat Rope Under Cap ricorn Stage Fright D i a l M f or Murder Rear Window To Catch a Thief The Trouble with Harry The Man Who Knew Too Much The Wrong Man Vertigo North by Northwest Psycho The Birds Marnie Torn Curtain Topaz Frenzy Family Plot The Pleasure Garden The Mountain Eagle The Lodger The Farmer’s Wife Champagne The Manxman Blackmail Juno and the Paycock Murder! The Skin Game Number Seventeen Rich and Strange The Man Who Knew Too Much Waltzes from Vienna Secret Agent Jamaica Inn Sabotage Young and Innocent Rebecca Hitchcock Annual 2018 The Lady Vanishes Suspicion Foreign Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Smith Saboteur Shadow of a Doubt Lifeboat Spellbound Notorious The Paradine Case Rope Under Capricorn Stage Fright Strangers On A Train I Confess Dial M For Murder Rear Window To Catch A
Hitchcock Annual: Volume 22 includes critical studies of several individual films by Hitchcock, a reprint of an early interview with Hitchcock, and an omnibus review essay covering selected recent critical studies of Hitchcock.
Hitchcock Annual: Volume 21 contains essays on textured characters in The Skin Game, hospitality in Dial M for Murder, sparse sonic set pieces in various Hitchcock films, and two detailed review essays on recent books on Hitchcock.
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April 2019 180 pages
2017 158 pages
Avengers Assemble!
Cinema in the Digital Age
Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Revised edition
Nicholas Rombes
Terence McSweeney
Cinema in the Digital Age REVISED EDITION
Nicholas Rombes
Avengers Assemble! explores the cinematic and televisual branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Beginning with Iron Man, the book considers them both as embodiments of the changing blockbuster film and as affective cultural artifacts that are immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18625-4 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18624-7 2018 310 pages 16 illus.
WALLFLOWER
Have digital technologies transformed cinema into a new art, or do they simply replicate and mimic analogue, film-based cinema? Newly revised and expanded to take the latest developments into account, Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in the wake of the digital revolution. Rombes examines how certain digital films are interested not in digital purity but rather in imperfection and mistakes that remind viewers of the human behind the camera. $30.00 / £2400 paper 978-0-231-16755-0 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-16754-3 2017 280 pages 22 illus.
WALLFLOWER
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JOURNALISM STUDIES Worlds of Journalism
Social Media and the Public Interest
Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe
Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age
Edited by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer
Philip M. Napoli
Philip M. Napoli offers a timely and persuasive case for seeing social media as news media, with a fundamental obligation to serve the public interest. Social Media and the Public Interest offers valuable insights for the democratic governance of today’s most influential shapers of news.
Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work.
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18454-0
$35.00 /£27.00 paper 978-0-231-18643-8
August 2019 288 pages
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18642-1 June 2019 384 pages
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SERIES
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The New Censorship
Troubling Transparency
Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
The History and Future of Freedom of Information
Joel Simon
Edited by David E. Pozen and Michael Schudson Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Simon calls on "global citizens," U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations.
Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved, especially the mixed legacy and effectiveness of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18499-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18498-4 2018 352 pages
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COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW BOOKS
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JOURNALISM STUDIES Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality
Journalism Under Fire Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
How Experiential Media Are Transforming News
Stephen Gillers
John V. Pavlik
John V. Pavlik argues that a new form of media has emerged: experiential news, which delivers not just news stories but also news experiences, in which the consumer engages as a participant or virtual eyewitness in immersive, multisensory, and interactive narratives. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18449-6
Stephen Gillers proposes a bold set of legal and policy changes to strengthen the freedom of the press and support the free press as a public good, including protecting news gathering and confidential sources. Journalism Under Fire weaves together practice, law, and policy into a program that can ensure a future for investigative reporting.
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18448-9
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September 2019 224 pages
$85.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-16886-1 2018 256 pages
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW BOOKS
NGOs as Newsmakers
Becoming the News
Matthew Powers
Ruth Palmer
How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight
The Changing Landscape of International News
Matthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.
Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of “making” the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists’ attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18493-9
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18314-7
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18492-2
2017 280 pages
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18315-4
2018 240 pages
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SERIES
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MEDIA STUDIES Media U
Facebook Society
How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education
Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves
Roberto Simanowski
Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx
Media U presents a provocative rethinking of the development of American higher education centered on the insight that universities are media institutions. Tracing over a century of media history and the academy, Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx argue that the fundamental goal of the American research university has been to cultivate audiences and convince them of its value. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978 0-231-18637-7
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978 0-231-18636-0 2018 352 pages
Translated by Susan H. Gillespie
Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18272-0 2018 296 pages
Residual Futures
Electrified Voices
The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
Franz Prichard
Kerim Yasar
Franz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from Japan’s intensive urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s. He maps the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19131-9
Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of Japanese modernity. Electrified Voices is a far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan.
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19130-2
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18713-8
April 2019 280 pages
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18712-1
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE,
2018 304 pages
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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MEDIA STUDIES The Digital Banal
Novel Sounds
Zara Dinnen
Florence Dore
Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll
New Media and American Literature and Culture
Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the “digital banal,” not noticing the affective and political novelty of our relationship to digital media. The Digital Banal recovers the shrouded disturbances that can help us recognize and antagonize our media environment. $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18428-1
Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature.
2018 240 pages.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18523-3
LITERATURE NOW
$85.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-18522-6 2018 200 pages
Transpacific Attachments
Contesting Cyberspace in China
Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness
Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience Rongbin Han
Lily Wong
Lily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity.
Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China’s survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18475-5 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18474-8 2018 336 pages
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GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE
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MEDIA STUDIES Playing Dystopia
Anonymity Performance in Electronic Pop Music
Nightmarish Worlds in Video Games and the Player's Aesthetic Response
A Performance Ethnography of Critical Practices
Gerald Farca
Edited by Stefanie Kiwi Menrath
Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player’s aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own offline environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments.
This study sketches two musico-artistic projects of anonymity performance as forms of immanent and particulate critical practice in the sense of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Adopting performance in a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical performative turn in the cultural studies of music.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-4597-2
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4256-8
2019 434 pages
May 2019 250 pages
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Digital Culture & Society (DCS)
Vol. 4, Issue 1/2018 – Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biometrics and the New Artificial Intelligence
Vol. 4, Issue 2/2018 – Digital Citizens
Edited by Ramón Reichert, Karin Wenz, Pablo Abend,
Edited by Ramón Reichert,
Mathias Fuchs, and
Mathias Fuchs, Pablo Abend,
Annika Richterich
Annika Richterich, and Karin Wenz
The meaning of AI has undergone drastic changes during the last 60 years of AI discourse(s). What we talk about when saying AI is not what it meant in 1958, when John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and their colleagues started using the term. Biological information processing is now firmly embedded in commercial applications like the intelligent personal Google Assistant, Facebook’s facial recognition algorithm, Deep Face, Amazon’s device Alexa, or Apple’s software feature Siri to mention just a few.
This issue discusses theoretical and artistic investigations of citizen engagement, digital citizenship, and grassroots information politics. Articles reflect on the role of the digital citizen. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4477-7 March 2019 200 pages
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MEDIA STUDIES Network Publicy Governance
TransCoding: From "Highbrow Art" to Participatory Culture
On Privacy and the Informational Self
Social Media – Art – Research
Andréa Belliger and David J. Krieger
Andréa Belliger and David J. Krieger propose a theory of information as a common good and redefine the individual as an informational self who exists in networks made up of both humans and nonhumans. Privacy is replaced by publicy and issues of data use and data protection are described in terms of governance instead of government. $30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4213-1 2018 170 pages
Barbara Lüneburg
Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project “Transcoding: From ‘Highbrow Art’ to Participatory Culture” encouraged creative participation in multimedia art via social media. Based on the artworks that emerged from the project, Barbara Lüneburg investigates authorship, authority, motivational factors, and aesthetics in participatory art created with the help of web 2.0 technology. $30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4108-0
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Blogging in Beirut
Pictorial Appearing
An Ethnography of a Digital Media Practice Sarah Jurkiewicz
Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz’s anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners’ daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of publicness enables a consideration of publics not as static “spheres” that actors merely enter, but as produced and constituted by social practices. The vibrant media landscape of Beirut serves as a selection of samples for an ethnographic exploration of blogging.
Image Theory After Representation Kresimir Purgar
The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as representation, immersion, and virtuality. Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. Purgar suggests that we are witnessing the transitional period of images as not-representation-anymore and not-yet-immersion. Instead of just asking what images mean, we should ask ourselves what images are, how they appear, and what they do to us.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-4142-4
$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-4135-6
2018 374 pages
2018 200 pages
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MEDIA STUDIES Games and Rules
Doing Text
Game Mechanics for the "Magic Circle" Edited by Beat Suter, Mela Kocher, and René Bauer
Media After the Subject Edited by Pete Bennett and Julian McDougall
This collection reimagines the study of English and media in a way that decentralises the text (e.g. romantic poetry or film noir) or media formats/ platforms (e.g. broadcast media/new media). Instead, the authors work across boundaries in meaningful thematic contexts that reflect the ways in which people engage with reading, watching, making, and listening in their textual lives.
Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of Games and Rules take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. $30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4304-6 2018 200 pages
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Games and Bereavement
On Desire
Positions of Time-Based and Immersive Arts
How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief
Edited by Bernd Kracke and Marc Ries
Sabine Harrer
How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by analyzing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for videogames to include grievers into game development. Overall, she explores how videogames can be used as a contemporary medium for personal storytelling.
With today’s new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships to the social body, to sexuality and gender questions, to ownership, and to the production, perception, and appropriation of moving images. On Desire brings together a broad spectrum of international positions relating to the time-based, immersive arts presented at the third B3 – the Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt/Main 2017 – which focuses on desire in the contemporary world.
$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4415-9
$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4285-8
2019 200 pages
2018 200 pages
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BEST OF THE BACKLIST Pier Paolo Pasolini
Performing Authorship Gian Maria Annovi
Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize from the Modern Language Association
Journalism After Snowden
Journalism After Snowden
The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State
The FuTure oF The Free Press in The surveillance sTaTe
Edited by Emily Bell and Taylor Owen. With Smitha Khorana and Jennifer R. Henrichsen
Edited by
Emily Bell and Taylor Owen with Smitha Khorana and Jennifer R. Henrichsen
Fo r e wo r d by lee c. bollinger
Foreword by Lee C. Bollinger
In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship, Gian Maria Annovi revisits Pasolini’s oeuvre to examine the author’s performance as a way of assuming an antagonistic stance toward forms of artistic, social, and cultural oppression. Annovi connects Pasolini’s notion of authorship to contemporary radical artistic practices and today’s multimedia authorship.
This book analyzes the implications of the Snowden affair for journalism and the role of the profession as a watchdog for the public good. Integrating discussions of media, law, surveillance, technology, and national security, Journalism After Snowden offers a much-needed assessment of the promises and perils for journalism in the digital age.
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Cinematic Overtures How to Read Opening Scenes
deciding what's true
Annette Insdorf
the rise of political
fact-checking in american journalism
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A great movie’s first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. In Cinematic Overtures, Annette Insdorf discusses the opening sequence, inviting viewers to turn first impressions into deeper understanding of cinematic technique. She offers a series of revelatory readings of individual films by some of cinema’s leading directors.
Over the past decade, fact-checking outlets have shaken up the political world by holding public figures accountable for what they say. Deciding What’s True recounts the routines of the journalists at these innovative news organizations and plots a compelling, personality-driven history of the fact-checking movement and its recent evolution.
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2017 208 pages 42 illus.
2016 336 pages
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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Foreword by Peter Bogdanovich Introduction by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker With a new afterword by the author
In his Village Voice “Movie Journal” columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. This new edition presents Mekas’s original critiques in full, with additional material on the filmmakers, film studies scholars, and popular and avantgarde critics whom he inspired and transformed.
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Matt Carlson
Winner, Best Essay in an Edited Collection, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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Journalistic Authority weaves together journalists’ relationships with their audiences, sources, technologies, and critics to present a new model for understanding journalism while advocating for practices we need in an age of fake news and shifting norms. $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17445-9 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-17444-2 2017 256 pages
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Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, contributors examine the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay. Filmmakers covered include Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17695-8 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17694-1 2016 216 pages 24 illus.
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