Film, Theatre & Performance Fall 2020
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Film
American Blockbuster
Animation Behind the Iron Curtain
Movies, Technology, and Wonder Charles R. Acland
Eleanor Cowen
September 2020 212pp 49 color illus., 50 b&w illus. 9780861967452 £24.99 / $32.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sign, Storage, Transmission August 2020 400pp 54 illus. 9781478009504 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781478008576 £91.00 / $109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Animation Behind the Iron Curtain is a journey of discovery into the world of Soviet era animation from Eastern Bloc countries. This excursion into Soviet era animation brings to light magnificent art, ruminations on the human condition, and celebrations of innocence and joy.
Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the most visible, entertaining, and disparaged cultural form - the American Blockbuster.
Celeste Holm Syndrome
Cinema and the Cultural Cold War
On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age David Lazar
US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network Sangjoon Lee
October 2020 186pp 22 photos 9781496200457 £15.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The United States in the World December 2020 306pp 25 b&w hts. 9781501753916 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781501752315 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Thelma Ritter, Oscar Levant, Martin Balsam, Nina Foch, Elizabeth Wilson, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton and the eponymous Celeste Holm.
Explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. L
Discorrelated Images
Ends of Cinema
Shane Denson
Edited by Richard Grusin & Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
October 2020 328pp 98 illus. 9781478010913 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478009856 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
21st Century Studies December 2020 248pp 24 b/w illus., 15 color plates 9781517910587 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517910570 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Analyzing works ranging from the Transformers series and Blade Runner 2049 to videogames and multimedia installations, Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema.
Scholars interrogate multiple potential “ends” of cinema: its goals and spaces, its relationship to postcinema, its racial dynamics and environmental implications, and its theoretical and historical conclusions. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Film and the Anarchist Imagination
From Street to Screen
Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep Edited by David C. Wall & Michael T. Martin
Expanded Second Edition Richard Porton
October 2020 352pp 9780252085246 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9780252043338 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora November 2020 272pp 48 b&w illus. 9780253049544 £27.99 / $35.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Porton delves into the ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism’s traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Charles Burnett’s 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. From Street to Screen is the first booklength collection dedicated to the film.
Girl Head
Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
Feminism and Film Materiality Genevieve Yue
October 2020 240pp 13 color and 18 b/w illus. 9780823289561 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9780823289554 £88.00 / $110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Masha Salazkina & Enrique Fibla
January 2021 360pp 42 b&w illus. 9780253052032 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253052025 £99.00 / $115.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive.
For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. Editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez, however, fill the literature gap by extending that focus and increasing inclusivity.
I Died a Million Times
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
Gangster Noir in Midcentury America Robert Miklitsch
January 2021 304pp 9780252085543 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9780252043611 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focused on crime syndicates, crooked cops, and capers. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Daisuke Miyao
August 2020 232pp 71 illus. 9781478009429 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478008538 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905.
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Love and Loss in Hollywood
Mainstream Maverick
John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema Holly Chard
Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin Edited by Cooper C. Graham & Christoph Irmscher
September 2020 288pp 9781477321294 £40.00 / $50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
December 2020 400pp 45 color photos 9780253052940 £37.00 / $45.00 PB 9780253052926 £66.00 / $80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the 1980s and 1990s, John Hughes was one of Hollywood’s most reliable hitmakers, churning out beloved teen comedies and family films such as The Breakfast Club and Previously unpublished letters between Deshon & Home Alone, respectively. But was he an artist? Eastman to reconstruct their relationship against Holly Chard traces Hughes’s evolution from entertainer to auteur. the backdrop of the “golden age” of Hollywood.
Not According to Plan
Picturing Indians
Filmmaking under Stalin Maria Belodubrovskaya
Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960 Liza Black
November 2020 266pp 6 b&w halftones, 1 chart 9781501752025 £19.99 / $24.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 366pp 2 photos, 1 filmography 9780803296800 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. A revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953, highlighting the extent to which it remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods.
Critically examines the inner workings of post– World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”
Power Misses II
Provenance and Early Cinema
Cinema, Asian and Modern Edited by David E. James
Edited by Joanne Bernardi, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Tami Williams & Joshua Yumibe
September 2020 208pp 60 b&w illus. 9780861967476 £31.00 / $38.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor February 2021 424pp 60 b&w illus., 2 b&w tables 9780253052995 £58.00 / $70.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Like David James’ earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultural activity that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media.
Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. Contributors challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, “How did these moving images get here for me to see them?”
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Provocauteurs and Provocations
Pulses of Abstraction
Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston
Screening Sex in 21st Century Media Maria San Filippo
December 2020 280pp 52 b/w illus., 12 color plates 9780816685295 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780816685233 £99.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
February 2021 352pp 25 b&w illus. 9780253052124 £33.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253052117 £82.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Johnston presents both a revealing history of abstract animation and an investigation into the relationship between animation and cinema. Uncovers important epistemological shifts around film and related media. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Looks at the provocative in films, television series, web series and videos, entertainment industry publicity materials, and social media discourses and explores its potential to create alternative, even radical ways of screening sex.
Renegades and Rogues
Revisiting Women’s Cinema
The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard Todd B. Vick
Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream
Culture in Modern China
January 2021 312pp 9781477321959 £22.99 / $29.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Lingzhen Wang
a Camera Obscura book December 2020 304pp 18 illus. 9781478010807 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478009757 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. Todd B. Vick delves into newly available archives and probes Howard’s relationships, particularly with school teacher Novalyne Price, to bring a fresh, objective perspective to Howard’s life.
Ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China.
South Asian Filmscapes
Starring Women
Transregional Encounters Edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury & Esha Niyogi De
Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 Sara E. Lampert
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History October 2020 280pp 9780252043352 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
November 2020 336pp 13 b&w illus., 1 table 9780295747859 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780295747842 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Excavates the complex politics and poetics of bordered identity and crossings through selected histories of cinema in South Asia.
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¡Presente!
Dana Polan
The Politics of Presence Diana Taylor
November 2020 pp 9781477321577 £16.99 / $21.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Dissident Acts July 2020 352pp 75 illus. 9781478009443 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478008552 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Incorporating insights from conversations with producer Dan Lin and writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Polan examines the production and reception of The LEGO Movie and closely analyzes the film within popular culture at large and in relation to LEGO as a toy and commodity.
Performance
The LEGO Movie
Offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done.
The Cry of the Senses
Liquor Store Theatre
Maya Stovall
Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics Ren Ellis Neyra
Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study November 2020 312pp 32 color illus. 9781478011125 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478010098 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dissident Acts November 2020 240pp 31 illus., incl. 16 in color 9781478011170 £20.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478010111 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stovall uses her Liquor Store Theatre conceptual art project—in which she danced near her Detroit neighborhood’s liquor stores as a way to start conversations with her neighbors—as a point of departure for understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research, art, and knowledge creation.
Weaves together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema and music, highlighting how Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, postEnlightenment, and humanist epistemologies.
Race and Performance after Repetition
The Art of Parasitical Resistance Anna Watkins Fisher
Edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones & Shane Vogel
October 2020 320pp 53 illus., incl. 19 in color 9781478009702 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478008842 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 352pp 34 illus. 9781478008293 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478007807 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, theorizes parasitism—a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.
Examining theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, and photography, the contributors explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time.
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Theatre
The Play in the System
Staging Cultural Encounters
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater Nina Penner
Algerian Actors Tour the United States Jane E. Goodman
Musical Meaning and Interpretation October 2020 296pp 1 b&w illus, 69 music exx., 3 tables 9780253049971 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253049964 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa October 2020 280pp 28 b&w illus. 9780253049629 £26.99 / $34.00 PB 9780253049612 £70.00 / $85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works and how music can orient spectators to characters’ points of view.
Follows Algerian theater troupe Istijmam as they tour the US under the auspices of the Center Stage program, sponsored by the US State Department to promote cross-cultural dialogue.
Subscription Theater
Telltale Women
Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1939 Matthew Franks
Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography Allison Machlis Meyer
Material Texts September 2020 296pp 7 illus. 9780812252477 £72.00 / $89.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World January 2021 372pp 9781496208491 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Asks why turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens spent so much time, money, and effort joining subscription lists. Matthew Franks argues that subscribers have been responsible for how we value audience and repertoire today, offering a new account of the relationship between ephemera, drama, and democracy.
Reimagines the relationship between the history play and its source material as an intertextual one, presenting evidence for a new narrative about how—and why—these genres disparately chronicle the histories of royal women.
The Sense of Brown
Ways of the World
José Esteban Muñoz Edited by Joshua ChambersLetson & Tavia Nyong’o
Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond Laura J. Rosenthal
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe October 2020 224pp 14 illus. 9781478011033 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009979 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 324pp 16 b&w hts. 9781501751585 £39.00 / $46.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both Muñoz’s treatise on brownness and being as well memorializing and satirizing its implications and as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. consequences. Analyzes ethnicity as a structure of feeling, and brown feelings as they emerge in, through, and beside art and performance.
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