Culture, Art, and Film

Hard Rain

Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History Alessandro Portelli

Bob Dylan’s iconic 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan’s work.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20593-1 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20592-4 2022 200 pages

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Hollywood and Israel

A History Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman

Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways in which Hollywood’s moguls, directors, and actors have supported or challenged Israel for more than seven decades.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18341-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18340-6 2022 368 pages Filming History from Below

Microhistorical Documentaries Efrén Cuevas

In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as “microhistorical documentaries” and examines how they push cinema’s capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19597-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19596-6 2022 304 pages 25 illus.

NONFICTIONS WALLFLOWER PRESS

Salo Baron

The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America Edited by Rebecca Kobrin

In 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions. This book brings together leading scholars to consider how Baron transformed the course of Jewish studies in the United States.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20485-9 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20484-2 2022 272 pages 13 illus.

CULTURE, ART, AND FILM The Long Year

A 2020 Reader Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom

In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.

$22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1 2022 560 pages

PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES

A Cultural History of the Soul

Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present Kocku von Stuckrad

This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20037-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20036-3 2022 352 pages

Not Exactly Lying

Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History Andie Tucher

From fibs in America’s first newspaper about royal incest to social-media-driven conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not- and why that matters for democracy.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18635-3 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-18634-6 2022 384 pages 9 illus. Radio for the Millions

Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders Isabel Huacuja Alonso

Radio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20661-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20660-0 January 2023 312 pages

Gastronativism

Food, Identity, Politics Fabio Parasecoli

Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. Featuring a wide array of examples from all over the world, this book is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and why food has become a powerful political tool.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20207-7 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20206-0 2022 248 pages

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

Images on the Move

Materiality - Networks - Formats Edited by Olga Moskatova

This edited volume reexamines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move—ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5246-8 2022 288 pages 21 illus.

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Spoiled

The Myth of Milk as Superfood Anne Mendelson

Spoiled is an unflinching and meticulous critique of the glorification of fluid milk and its alleged universal benefits. Anne Mendelson’s groundbreaking book chronicles the story of milk from the Stone Age peoples who first domesticated cows, goats, and sheep to today’s troubled dairy industry.

$29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18818-0 April 2023 416 pages

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

Van Gogh TV's “Piazza Virtuale"

The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992 Tilman Baumgärtel

“Piazza virtuale” by the artist group Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project on television ever—an early experiment with entirely user-created content, the project was also a forerunner of today’s social media. This book documents the radicality of its approach, novel program ideas, and technical innovations.

$35.00 cloth 978-3-8376-6066-1 2021 234 pages 50 illus.

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