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HIGHLIGHTS Comics and Stuff HENRY JENKINS
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0093-3 • $32.00 104 full color illustrations
The Content of Our Caricature
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO
Distributed Blackness African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.
An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2996-5 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
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A Biography JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head
The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8958-7 • $29.00 In Postmillennial Pop
144 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-1106-9 • $18.95
Gamer Trouble
Technologies of Speculation
Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS
Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3492-1 • $29.00
The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society SUN-HA HONG
An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms 288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8306-6 • $30.00
Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination
Open World Empire
Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO, and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA
Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play
Case Studies of Creative Social Change
How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change 400 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6950-3 • $32.00
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON
344 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9590-8 • $35.00 In Postmillennial Pop
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CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATION SERIES The Digital City
Media and the Social Production of Place
Beyond Hashtags
Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks
GERMAINE R. HALEGOUA
SARAH FLORINI
Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments
How black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarity
288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8219-9 • $30.00
288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1305-6 • $30.00
Locked Out
Fake Geek Girls
Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture
Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
EVAN ELKINS
SUZANNE SCOTT
A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era
Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities
240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7387-6 • $29.00
Celebrity
A History of Fame SUSAN J. DOUGLAS and ANDREA McDONNELL
The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6203-0 • $25.00
304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7957-1 • $30.00
The Identity Trade
Selling Privacy and Reputation Online NORA A. DRAPER
The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities 320 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9565-6 • $35.00
2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association
Postracial Resistance Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity RALINA L. JOSEPH
How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond
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280 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8637-1 • $30.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY Camming
Queer Times, Black Futures
ANGELA JONES
A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time
Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry
KARA KEELING
The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living 344 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-7487-3 • $30.00
K A R A K E E L IN G
QUEER TIMES, BLACK FUTUR ES
Video Games Have Always Been Queer
288 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-4833-6 • $30.00
Sex and Stigma
Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada’s Legal Brothels
BONNIE RUBERG
SARAH JANE BLITHE, ANNA WIEDERHOLD WOLFE, and BREANNA MOHR
Argues for the queer potential of video games
An intimate and original look at the lives of Nevada’s legal sex workers through the voices of current and former employees, brothel owners, madams, and local law enforcement
288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4374-9 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop
320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2070-2 • $30.00
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Accessible America
The Procrastination Economy
A History of Disability and Design BESS WILLIAMSON
The Big Business of Downtime
“This illuminating and thoughtful overview of the evolution of accessible design in the U.S. between the end of WWII and the late 1990s is a strong introduction to the topic... Williamson skillfully connects social narratives; this work should reward readers interested in either topic.” —Publishers Weekly In Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies
ETHAN TUSSEY
“[An] engrossing study. Tussey’s book is likely to strike a chord... with the many readers who see their smartphones and other mobile devices as a help, rather than hindrance, to their lives.” —Publishers Weekly 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0252-4 • $20.00
304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0249-4 • $19.95
Wife, Inc.
The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
LOOKING TO REFRESH YOUR SYLLABUS?
SUZANNE LEONARD
“Leonard explores how American women look at and experience marriage....Yet even after getting married which is seen as the prize at the end of the romance narrative women often find themselves saddled with another job: the work of being a wife.” —Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
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272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0251-7 • $25.00
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POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES The Race Card
Stories of the Self
From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
Life Writing after the Book
TARA FICKLE
The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics
How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0595-2 • $30.00
ANNA POLETTI
240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3666-6 • $29.00
The Dark Fantastic
The Power of Sports
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Media and Spectacle in American Culture
EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS
“[W]ill entirely change the way you read science fiction, fantasy, [and] horror...”—BookRiot “A must read, especially for current and future educators.” —CHOICE Magazine
“This is a powerful, intellectual, and vital contribution to our understanding of sports and sports culture. ...walks the line between the scholarly and the popular with uncommon dexterity.”—Dave Zirin, Sports Editor, The Nation
240 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0065-0 • $28.00
400 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-8731-6 • $35.00
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POPULAR CULTURE Avidly Reads Board Games ERIC THURM
Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships
God on the Big Screen A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today TERRY LINDVALL
Film history meets church history through the ritual of prayers 384 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9261-7 • $35.00
144 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2695-7 • $14.95 In Avidly Reads
Don’t Use Your Words! Children’s Emotions in a Networked World JANE JUFFER
How children are taught to control their feelings and how they resist this emotional management through cultural production
The Hollywood Jim Crow
The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry MARYANN ERIGHA
The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4787-7 • $25.00
304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3305-4 • $35.00
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USER’S GUIDES SERIES U S E R’S G U I D E S TO P O P U L A R C U LT U R E Bringing together dozens of tightly focused original essays from today’s leading scholars on popular culture, User’s Guides offer accessible, engaging cultural criticism across a host of media, past and present. Designed to engender classroom discussion by placing popular culture in broader social and cultural contexts, User’s Guides demonstrate how to meaningfully engage what we consume the most. FOUNDING EDITORS Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
How to Watch Television, second edition
How to Play Video Games
Edited by ETHAN THOMPSON and JASON MITTELL
THOMAS PAYNE and NINA B. HUNTEMANN
A collection of 40 essays, almost half new to this edition, that bring the ways we watch and think about television up to the present
Edited by MATTHEW
Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture 400 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2798-5 • $30.00
432 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9881-7 • $30.00
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Keywords for Media Studies Edited by LAURIE OUELLETTE and JONATHAN GRAY
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies 240 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-5961-0 • $28.00
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE
“[A] wakeup call to bring awareness to the biases of the internet, and should motivate all concerned people to ask why those biases exist, and who they benefit.” —New York Journal of Books 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3724-3 • $28.00
Social Media Entertainment
Film as Religion, second edition
STUART CUNNINGHAM and DAVID CRAIG
Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture
The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley
How the transformation of social media platforms and userexperience have redefined the entertainment industry
Myths, Morals, and Rituals JOHN C. LYDEN
320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1199-1 • $28.00
368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4689-4 • $30.00
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OPEN SQUARE Netflix Nations
The Geography of Digital Distribution
Show Sold Separately Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts
RAMON LOBATO
JONATHAN GRAY
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture
Highlights the trailers, merchandising and cultural conversations that shape our experiences of film and television
240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0494-8 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
264 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-3195-6 • $27.00
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CONNECTED YOUTH & DIGITAL FUTURES SERIES Affinity Online
The Digital Edge
MIZUKO ITO, CRYSTLE MARTIN, RACHEL CODY PFISTER, MATTHEW H. RAFALOW, KATIE SALEN, and AMANDA WORTMAN
How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online
How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people
How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality S. CRAIG WATKINS
304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-4985-7 • $26.00
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-5275-8 • $26.00
By Any Media Necessary
The Class
HENRY JENKINS, SANGITA SHRESTHOVA, LIANA GAMBERTHOMPSON, NETA KLIGLERVILENCHIK, and ARELY M. ZIMMERMAN
SONIA LIVINGSTONE and JULIAN SEFTON-GREEN
The New Youth Activism
“Readers are given a nuanced picture of the successes and complications of youth activism and participatory politics in the current era.”—CHOICE Magazine 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7414-9 • $25.00
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Living and Learning in the Digital Age
An intimate look at how children network, identify, learn and grow in a connected world 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2424-3 • $28.00
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