The Thinking Woman

“This is the film history book we’ve been waiting for.”

—David Sterritt, chairman, National Society of Film Critics

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A Short History of Film is a comprehensive and detailed overview of the last 100 years of international film history. It will prove to be a useful reference tool for all students of film, both in and out of the classroom.”

—Paula J. Massood, Brooklyn College, CUNY

“A new history of international film at an affordable price. Nothing like those text book prices for a change. Includes perspectives on women and minorities in film along with innovations in technology, genres, studios, and conglomerates.”

—Stephanie Ogle, Cinema Books

“This excellent introduction stands out in a crowded field with its lively, accessible writing, broad coverage, and particular focus on traditionally marginalized figures in film history...the most striking aspect of the book is the coverage of women, African Americans, and Third World filmmakers, which strongly complements its solid coverage of American and European film. This text would also make an excellent textbook for introductory film-studies courses.” Library Journal starred review

Music

“An expert critic of the ideological construction of transmedia worlds, Dan Hassler-Forest offers a tour de force analysis of virtuoso music and media artist Janelle Monae as a vernacular theorist and intersectional figure. The resulting book makes a compelling case that her interventions into popular culture may help to shape how we collectively imagine our futures and the world according to Janelle Monae is a better one by far.”

—Henry Jenkins, co-editor of Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change

“Building on a close reading of the transformative potential central to Afrofuturism, Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism highlights how Monáe’s mix of speculation and liberation shines a light on acceptance, care, and community central to Afrofuturism’s appeal. Carefully framing intersectional concerns around bodies and power expressed in Monáe’s artistic work allows Hassler-Forest to provide an intriguing examination of an artist who has quickly come to embody the transformative potential of black speculative practice.”

—Julian C. Chambliss, co-editor of Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History

San Francisco Year Zero

COMICS • POPULAR CULTURE

“With Comic Studies: A Guidebook, Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (both top of their game) bring together a dream team of top researchers to produce a foundational collection that is going to be a cornerstone for all future research in this field. Each essay is not only encyclopedic in its synthesis of existing research but expands our knowledge of comics history and our conceptual understanding of how comics operates as an industry, as a set of social practices, as a confluence of genres, as a readership, and as an array of formal practices.”

—Henry Jenkins, author of Comics and Stuff

A concise introduction to one of today’s fastest-growing, most exciting fields, Comics Studies: A Guidebook outlines core research questions and introduces comics’ history, form, genres, audiences, and industries. Authored by a diverse roster of leading scholars, this Guidebook offers a perfect entryway to the world of comics scholarship.

& MEMOIR

“Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen at 70 offers a comprehensive, timely overview of Springsteen’s life and work. The eminently qualified essayists in Sawyers and Cohen’s anthology astutely address Springsteen’s achievement in terms of the artist’s evolving legacy, with a valuable accent upon exploring his lasting contributions to twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury popular music and culture.”

—Kenneth Womack, author of Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles

“A killer collection of Boss studies and stories, as varied as Springsteen’s own body of work and a fitting tribute to the man—at 70, both an American legend and an artist as vital as ever.”

—Christopher Phillips, Editor of Backstreets.com

“Taken together, the 26 essays in Long Walk Home give readers a rich understanding of why the Boss matters so profoundly to his audience; how each of us has been moved, challenged, and shaped by Springsteen’s music.”

—Roxanne Harde, co-editor of Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture