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Ability Machines
What Video Games Mean for Disability
Sky LaRell Anderson
Digital Game Studies
July 2024 232pp 18 b&w illus.
9780253070036 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780253070029 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sky LaRell Anderson shows us how video games can help us imagine what our abilities mean and how they engage us physically, behaviorally, and cognitively to envision our agency beyond limitations. Featuring a comparative analysis of key video game titles, it tackles larger questions of ability and how our bodies relate to interactive media.
Arrival
David Roche
21st Century Film Essentials
September 2024 200pp 26 b&w photos
9781477330159 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781477330142 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016), scientists must peacefully communicate with aliens who have landed on Earth before the world’s military attacks. In this first booklength study of the film, Roche argues the films importance, whilst also examining how it bridges the gap between genre and art house cinema.
Bangtan Remixed
A Critical BTS Reader
Edited by Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen & Yutian Wong
August 2024 432pp 48 illus., including 15 in color
9781478030621 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781478026389 £106.00/ $117.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS and shows how one band can inspire millions of fans and provide a broad range of insights into contemporary social and political life. The collection’s contributors—who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans—approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives.
An Imaginary Cinema
Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film
Dustin Condren
December 2024 372pp 40 b&w hfts
9781501778469 £53.00/ $58.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
An Imaginary Cinema is the first systematic study of Sergei Eisenstein's unrealized films as well as a deeply informed historical and theoretical inquiry into the role and meaning of the unmade in his oeuvre. Eisenstein directed some of the twentieth century's most important films, from the early classic of montage, Battleship Potemkin, to his late masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible.
Background Artist
The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
Karen Fang
October 2024 404pp 61 color and 38 b&w images
9781978838413 £29.99/ $34.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Background Artist shares the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong’s remarkable 106-year life and showcases his wide array of creative work, from the paintings and fine art prints he made working for Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration to the unique handmade kites he designed and flew on the Santa Monica beach.
Blessings beyond the Binary
Transparent
and the
Queer Jewish Family
Edited by Nora Rubel & Brett Krutzsch
September 2024 266pp 27 b&w figures
9781978838796 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978838802 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book brings together leading scholars to analyze and offer commentary on what scholar Josh Lambert calls, “the most important work of Jewish culture of the century” The first book to focus on Transparent, Blessings Beyond the Binary offers a rich analysis of the groundbreaking series and its connections to contemporary queer, trans, and Jewish life.
Bong Joon Ho
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
Contemporary Film Directors
November 2024 176pp 21 b&w photos
9780252088575 £18.99/ $22.00 PB
9780252046483 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho’s enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Jeon provides a consideration of the director’s entire career and themes of his works. Insightful and engaging, Jeon offers an up-to-date analysis of the genre-bending international director.
Cinema under National Reconstruction
State Censorship and South Korea’s Cold War Film Culture
Hye Seung Chung
November 2024 230pp 24 b&w images
9781978838710 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978838727 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing upon primary documents from the Korean Film Archive’s digitized database and framing South Korean film censorship from a transnational perspective, Hye Seung Chung makes the case that, film censorship was not simply a tool for authoritarian dictatorship.
Dark Carnival
The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre
David J. Skal & Elias Savada
February 2025 416pp 120 b&w illus.
9781517916732 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time, Tod Browning (1880–1962) began his career buried alive in a carnival sideshow and saw his Hollywood reputation crash with the box office disaster–turned–cult classic Freaks. Penetrating the secret world of “the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema,” Dark Carnival excavates the story of this complicated, fiercely private man.
Brazil's Sex Wars
The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo Jay Sosa
November 2024 224pp 7 b&w photos
9781477330111
£29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477330104
£94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
An analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018. Interpreting conflicts between advocates and opponents over LGBT+ autonomy as not just an ideological struggle but an aesthetic one, Brazil’s Sex Wars rethinks a style of politics that seems counterintuitive.
Computational Humanities
Edited by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno & Lauren Tilton
Debates in the Digital Humanities
September 2024 344pp 19 b&w illus. and 3 tables
9781517915988 £31.00/ $36.00 PB
9781517915971 £111.00/ $124.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This volume is organized around four questions: Why or why not pursue computational humanities? How do we engage in computational humanities? What can we study using these methods? Who are the stakeholders?
Deepwater Alchemy
Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor Lisa Yin Han
August 2024 264pp 23 b&w illus.
9781517915940 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517915933 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Deepwater Alchemy shows us that deepwater mediation is entangled in existential hopes and fears for our planetary future. As the ocean bottom becomes increasingly accessible to people, Han prompts us to ask not whether we can tame the seafloor, but, rather, why and for whom are we taming it?
Digital Girlhoods
Katherine A. Phelps
January 2025 256pp
9781439925812 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781439925805 £99.00/ $110.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Phelps emphasizes tween girls’ agency on social media vis-à-vis identity formation, content creation, and community building.Featuring indepth interviews with a cross section of tween girls, Phelps allows them to givemeanings to their relationships with social media and their peers in their own words.
Elaine May
Elizabeth Alsop
Contemporary Film Directors
January 2025 192pp 30 b&w photos
9780252088582 £18.99/ $22.00 PB
9780252046490 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director’s non-conformist and uncompromising vision while looking at May’s films against trends in classic and post-classical Hollywood.
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
October 2024 284pp 44 color illus.
9781978839779 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978839786 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. SmithShomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical crux of Black popular culture. She argues that cultural, community and social support live within the Black church and that spirit, art and progress are deeply entwined and seal this connection.
Digital Victorians From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities
Paul Fyfe
Stanford Text Technologies
October 2024 272pp
9781503640948 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503639911 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this authoritative new work, Fyfe argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. Engaging with writers such as Thomas De Quincey, George Eliot, and George du Maurier, he explores how we have inherited Victorian anxieties about machine-driven reading and new technology.
Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents
The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films
Douglas Brode
September 2024 440pp 133 b&w illus.
9781477330760 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In this highly entertaining and knowledgeable book, film historian and pop culture expert Douglas Brode picks the one hundred greatest sci-fi films of all time. Brode’s list ranges from today’s blockbusters to forgotten gems, with surprises for even the most informed fans and scholars.
Forming the Public
A Critical History of Journalism in the United States
Frank D. Durham & Thomas P. Oates
The History of Media and Communication
December 2024 256pp 25 b&w photos
9780252088599 £99.00/ $110.00 PB
9780252046506 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
This book provides an analysis of the role of journalism in the ongoing struggle to transform ideas about the public in the US. Weaving eyewitness history through US history, Forming the Public reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us whilst also tracing the factors that shaped American culture.
Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing
Edited by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price & Caterina Bernardini
January 2025 312pp 31 b&w illus.
9781517916688
£25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517916671 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Navigates the ever-shifting terrain of digital academia, examining practical and ethical considerations as technology continues to evolve. In this indispensable collection, digital humanities practitioners and scholars work with a wide range of archival materials to confront key challenges surrounding the adaptation and sustainability of digital editorial projects as well as their societal impact.
I Know You Are, but What Am I?
On Pee-wee Herman
Cait McKinney
Forerunners: Ideas First
July 2024 92pp
9781517918286 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult television star of Pee-wee’s Playhouse. This children’s show—that was also for adults—ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990 and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion of animate computational toys and technologies.
Indie Porn
Revolution,
Regulation, and Resistance
Zahra Stardust
a Camera Obscura book
October 2024 328pp 39 illus.
9781478031062 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026815 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Zahra Stardust, herself a porn performer and participant, documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation.
Hollywood Unions
Edited by Kate Fortmueller & Luci Marzola
December 2024 306pp 15 b&w images and 1 table
9781978830585
£29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978830592
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IATSE, the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and the WGA. The Hollywood unions represent a wide swath of the workers making media: from directors and stars to grips and make-up artists.
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
From Film Noir to the Director's Chair
Alexandra Seros
December 2024 240pp 35 b&w photos
9781477330654 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Ida Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America between 1948 and 1971. Filmmaker Alexandra Seros retells the story of Ida Lupino’s career, using archival materials from collections housed around the world.
Introduction to Documentary, Fourth Edition
Bill Nichols & Jaimie Baron
August 2024 304pp 130 b&w illus., 5 b&w tables
9780253070159 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9780253070142 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The fourth edition of this best-selling text, has been vastly altered to bring this indispensable textbook up to date and reconceptualize aspects of its treatment of documentaries past and present. Here Nichols, with Jaimie Baron, has edited each chapter for clarity and ease of use and expanded the book with updates and new ideas.
It's All in the Delivery Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy
Victoria Sturtevant
December 2024 248pp 50 b&w photos
9781477330449 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477330432 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Pregnancy and the politics surrounding it are serious matters, but humor has been a revealing and transformative means of engaging the subject. This book argues that representational breakthroughs were enabled by comedy’s capacity to violate restrictive norms, introducing candor, courage, and critique into popular notions of pregnancy onscreen.
Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia
Race and Reception
Edited by David C. Oh & Benjamin Min Han
August 2024 pp 2 tables
9780295752969 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752952 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Exploring how fans from different cultural and racial backgrounds engage with Korean media, this edited collection reveals complex transcultural affinities, conflicts, and negotiations. Throughout, the contributors provide perceptive analyses that reveal what the interplay of race and Korean entertainment tells us about the complex nature of transnational fandom.
Millennial North Korea
Forbidden Media and Living
Creatively with Surveillance
Suk-Young Kim
October 2024 256pp
9781503640870 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503614918 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining a close reading of North Korean state media with original interviews with defectors, Kim explores how the tensions between millennial North Korea and North Korean millennials leads to a more nuanced understanding of a fractured and fragmented society that has been frequently perceived as an unchanging, monolithic entity.
Joanna Hogg
Shonni Enelow
Contemporary Film Directors
August 2024 168pp 33 b&w photos
9780252088124 £18.99/ $22.00 PB
9780252046025 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Enelow analyzes Hogg’s six feature films, including The Eternal Daughter and The Souvenir, around the concepts of turning away, the reality effect, and the impossible encounter. An in-depth interview with Hogg delves into the director’s process, approach to creating character, and use of artistic and literary references.
Mainstream Maverick
John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema
Holly Chard
September 2024 284pp
9781477321300 £29.99/ $34.95
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The first scholarly book on John Hughes examines Hollywood's complex relationship with genre, auteur in commercial cinema, and the legacy of favorites such as Sixteen Candles. The first serious treatment of Hughes, Mainstream Maverick elucidates the priorities of the American movie industry in the New Hollywood.
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
November 2024 258pp 5 b&w hfts, 5 b&w line drawings, 5 maps, 6 charts
9781501778964 £28.99/ $33.95
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.
Mother Trouble
Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave
Feminism
Miranda J. Brady
October 2024 136pp 4 b&w illus.
9781487556938 £27.99/ $37.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The book narrows in on popular media to think about white maternal angst as a manifestation of feminism’s unrealized possibilities and continued omissions since the second wave. Mother Trouble reveals how the unease around white motherhood in the media has become a proxy for the troubles faced by all mothers.
Poetics of the Paranormal
Kevin Chabot
October 2024 248pp 18 photos
9780228022985 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9780228022732 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon Slender Man, Chabot addresses with renewed rigour the relationships between media, perception, temporality, and the elusive concept of the evidential.
Projections of Dakar
(Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema
Devin Bryson & Molly Krueger Enz
Research in International Studies, Africa Series
October 2024 288pp 27 color and b&w images
9780896803497 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780896803480 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
The authors draw from interviews and ethnographic observations to center filmmakers’ practices and conceptualizations of contemporary cinema in Dakar. In each chapter, they focus on a particular urban issue and analyze how Senegalese filmmakers reimagine Africa with a better future for its inhabitants.
This book explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences.
Projecting Desire
Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India
Tupur Chatterjee
Critical Cultural Communication
January 2025 256pp 18 b&w images
9781479829644 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479829620 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Locates the post-globalization transformation of India’s screen and exhibition industries in a longer arc of ideas about urban planning and architecture, long mired in caste- and class-based gendered anxieties. It argues that the architectural mediations of India’s moviegoing cultures are key to imagining, planning, and policing the contemporary media city.
Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
William Grady
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
November 2024 304pp 75 b&w illus. 9781477329986 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes.
Reel Kabbalah
Jewish Mysticism and Neo- Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema
Brian Ogren
September 2024 188pp
9781978840249 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978840256 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-first century represents the esoteric Jewish speculative traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism. Brian Ogren transforms our understanding of reception history by focusing on how cinema has altered perceptions of Jewish mysticism.
Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order
RT as Populist Pariah
Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley & Marie Gillespie
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
October 2024 342pp 8 color line drawings 9781501777639 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Interrogating the communications strategies pursued by authoritarian states and grassroots populist movements, the book reveals the interlinked nature of today's global media-politics pathologies.
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
Sam Langsdale
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
September 2024 240pp 16 b&w illus.
9781477329788 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Searching for Feminist Superheroes recognizes that female-led superhero comics, with diverse casts of characters, exist on the margins of the mainstream superhero genre. But rather than focusing on these stories as marginalized, Sam Langsdale’s work on heroes locates the margins as a site of innovation and productivity.
Rewriting Television
Alison Peirse
January 2025 214pp
9781978839618
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978839625 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don’t want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies that can be taken up around the world.
Science Fiction against the Margins
Cinematic Futures, Global Imaginaries
Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Maya Montañez Smukler & Nicole Ucedo
October 2024 456pp 104 color illus. 9780895512086 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
This book is a compilation of fifteen essays by scholars and filmmakers that focus on B movies, television programs, independent productions, and experimental media installations. Addressing four thematic areas—the authors examine non-traditional science fiction films for their potential to theorize social change.
Sex Work in Popular Culture
Lauren Kirshner
July 2024 400pp 33 color illus., 20 b&w illus.
9781487548636 £27.99/ $37.50 PB
9781487507862 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years – a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex work in North American society. The book reveals how sex work is being recognized as real work and an issue of human rights.
Shakespeare and the World of “Slings & Arrows”
Poetic Faith in a Postmodern Age
Gary Kuchar
October 2024 256pp
9780228022817 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining contextualized interpretations of the series with subtle formalist readings, Kuchar explains how Slings & Arrows participates in a broader recuperation of humanist approaches to Shakespeare in contemporary scholarship. The result is a demonstration of how and why Shakespeare continues to provide not just entertainment, but equipment for living.
Telling the Bees
An Interspecies Monologue
Dominic Pettman
December 2024 192pp
9781531508494 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781531508487 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
An invitation to rediscover the art of reflection and a profound meditation on human connection, alienation, and our collective yearning for intimacy in an age of distance. Through what Pettman describes as an "interspecies monologue," readers are treated to a unique perspective on navigating the complexities of the twenty-first century, inspired by the ingenuity and resilience of our natural cohabitants.
The Explorations of Edmund Snow Carpenter
Anthropology Upside Down
Richard Cavell
October 2024 304pp 40 photos
9780228022725 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780228022718 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edmund Snow Carpenter was a renegade anthropologist who would plumb the connection between anthropology and media studies. The anthropological impetus for media studies has largely been forgotten. This study restores that memory, tracing Carpenter’s work in media and in anthropology over a lifetime of cultural achievements and intellectual convolutions.
Technoskepticism Between Possibility and Refusal DISCO Network
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
February 2025 216pp
9781503640634 £13.99/ $16.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create and how refusal of new technologies is an especially powerful mode, particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no.
In The Dressing Room, the only book-length study of the space, author Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed. Garcia analyzes the backstage film, which spans film history, modes, and genre, to show how dressing rooms have been a useful space for filmmakers to examine the performativity of American life.
The Grounds of Gaming
Nicholas Taylor
Digital Game Studies
December 2024 272pp 23 b&w illus.
9780253071231 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253071224 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Despite attempts to expand games beyond their conventional audience of young men, the physical contexts of game play and production remain offlimits and unsafe for so many. Nicholas Taylor explores the physical places where games are played and how they contribute to the persistence of gaming's problematic politics.
The Intimate Life of Computers
Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s
Reem Hilu
November 2024 240pp 15 b&w illus.
9781517916657
£22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517916640 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geared toward helping sustain heteronormative middleclass families by shaping relationships between users. Moving beyond the story of male-dominated computer culture, this book emphasizes the neglected history of the influence of women’s culture and feminist critique on the development of personal computing.
The Organization of Journalism
Market Models and Practice in a Fraying Profession
Patrick Ferrucci
November 2024 240pp 2 tables
9780252088292 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9780252046216 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Using rich interviews and participant observation, Ferrucci examines institutions with funding mechanisms that range from traditional mogul ownership and online-only nonprofits to staff-owned cooperatives and hedge fund control. An inside look at a fracturing profession, this book illuminates the institution’s expanding impact on newsgathering and those who practice it.
Tinker Belles and Evil Queens
The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out
Sean P. Griffin
February 2000 292pp
9780814731239 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Griffin traces the evolution of the interaction between the the Walt Disney Company. Armed with first-person accounts from Disney audiences, Griffin demonstrates how Disney animation, live-action films, television series, theme parks, and merchandise provide varied motifs and characteristics that readily lend themselves to use by gay culture.
The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression
Richard Moon
July 2024 358pp
9781487527822
£34.00/ $45.00 PB
9781487527815 £83.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The book considers a range of issues, including the regulation of advertising, hate speech, pornography, blasphemy, and public protest. Makes the case that the principal threat to public discourse may no longer be censorship, but it is rather the spread of disinformation, which undermines public trust in traditional sources of information.
Theology of Horror
The Hidden Depths of Popular Films
Ryan G. Duns, SJ
October 2024 328pp 1 chart
9780268208554 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes. Within the shadows of horror films, an attentive viewer can glimpse unexpected flashes of orthodox Christian belief. Duns, SJ, invites readers to undertake an unconventional pilgrimage in search of these buried theological insights.
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders.
Twisting in Air
The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
Carol Bradley
October 2024 224pp 13 photos
9781496239006 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Chronicles the era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to become the fastest falling horse of all. Offers an absorbing look at the dark early history of stunt horses in movies and the development of falling horses.
Women's
Transborder Cinema Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic
Labor in South Asia
Esha Niyogi De
Women’s Media History Now!
December 2024 320pp 24 b&w photos
9780252088285 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780252046209 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore this, delving into examples of women holding influential positions as stars, directors, and producers across the film industries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Under the White Gaze
Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism
Christopher Cheung
September 2024 224pp
9780774881111 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
This candid investigation into the state of race in Canadian media today challenges the way we think about the news we read, watch, and listen to. Essential reading for aspiring and seasoned journalists, media consumers, and anyone wondering why race and representation are so often missing from our headlines.
9781478030430 £58.00/ $65.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Your History with Me
The Films of Penny Siopis
Edited by Sarah Nuttall
Theory in Forms
October 2024 504pp 294 color illus.
A comprehensive study of Penny Siopis’s short films, which have put her at the front ranks of contemporary artist-filmmakers. Opening new vocabularies of thought for engaging with her films, this volume outlines how her work remakes the possibilities of film as a mode of experimentation and intervention.
