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HIGHLIGHTS Race and Media
Comics and Stuff
Critical Approaches
HENRY JENKINS
Edited by LORI KIDO LOPEZ
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now
A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media 344 PAGES • PAPER 9781479889310 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
352 PAGES • PAPER 9781479800933 • $32.00 104 full color illustrations
2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
The Content of Our Caricature
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging REBECCA WANZO
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head 256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479889587 • $29.00 In Postmillennial Pop
Horrible White People Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness TAYLOR NYGAARD and JORIE LAGERWEY
Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering 272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479805358 • $30.00
Misogynoir Transformed
Black Women’s Digital Resistance MOYA BAILEY
Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of antiBlack misogyny 256 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479865109 • $28.00 In Intersections
Technologies of Speculation
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 294 PAGES • PAPER 9781479883066 • $30.00
Gaming Sexism
Racialized Media
AMANDA C. COTE
Edited by MATTHEW W. HUGHEY and EMMA GONZÁLEZ-LESSER
Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games Interviews with female gamers about structural sexism across the gaming landscape 274 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802203 • $30.00
The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity
How media propagates and challenges racism 394 PAGES • PAPER 9781479814558 • $35.00
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Dislike-Minded
Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste JONATHAN GRAY
Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479809981 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
Border Optics
Cultures of Surveillance on the US-Mexico Frontier CAMILLA FOJAS
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance 224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479807017 • $28.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
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Wife, Inc.
The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century SUZANNE LEONARD
A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America 272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802517 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
Locked Out
Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture EVAN ELKINS
A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era 240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479873876 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
The Digital City
Media and the Social Production of Place GERMAINE R. HALEGOUA
Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479882199 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
Fake Geek Girls
Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry SUZANNE SCOTT
Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479879571 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association
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The Identity Trade
Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Postracial Resistance Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity
NORA A. DRAPER
RALINA L. JOSEPH
The successes and failures of an industry that claims to protect and promote our online identities
How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond
320 PAGES • PAPER 9781479811922 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
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Pain Generation
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Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie
Creator Culture
An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment
L. AYU SARASWATI
Edited by STUART CUNNINGHAM and DAVID CRAIG
Explores the perils and promise of feminist social media activism
Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment
224 PAGES • PAPER 9781479808335 • $28.00
336 PAGES • PAPER 9781479817979 • $35.00
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2018 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Magazine
The Procrastination Economy
A Biography JEAN BURGESS and NANCY K. BAYM
The Big Business of Downtime ETHAN TUSSEY
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
How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection
144 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479811069 • $18.95
256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802524 • $20.00
POPULAR CULTURE NEW IN PAPERBACK! 2020 Special Award - Professional, World Fantasy Con | Finalist, 2020 Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, FIYACO
Crime TV
Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture Edited by JONATHAN A. GRUBB and CHAD POSICK
From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television 384 PAGES • PAPER 9781479884971 • $35.00
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 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479833054 • $35.00
The Dark Fantastic
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS
Reveals the diversity crisis in children’s and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination 240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479806072 • $16.95 In Postmillennial Pop
Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination Case Studies of Creative Social Change
Edited by HENRY JENKINS, GABRIEL PETERS-LAZARO, and SANGITA SHRESTHOVA
How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change 400 PAGES • PAPER 9781479869503 • $32.00
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OPEN SQUARE
opensquare.nyupress.org Distributed Blackness African American Cybercultures ANDRÉ BROCK, JR.
An explanation of the digital practices of the Black Internet 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479829965 • $29.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
Netflix Nations
The Geography of Digital Distribution RAMON LOBATO
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture 240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479804948 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
Beyond Hashtags
Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks
Show Sold Separately Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts
SARAH FLORINI
JONATHAN GRAY
How Black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarity
“Show Sold Separately will rewrite the rules of what we look at when we want to understand how audiences make meaning of media franchises.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Comics and Stuff
288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479813056 • $30.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
264 PAGES • PAPER 9780814731956 • $27.00
GENDER AND SEXUALITY The Pornification of America
Gamer Trouble
BERNADETTE BARTON
Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games
How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture 232 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479894437 • $24.95
Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture AMANDA PHILLIPS
256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479834921 • $29.00
Finalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies
Queer Times, Black Futures KARA KEELING
A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time 288 PAGES • PAPER 9780814748336 • $30.00 In Sexual Cultures
Re-Imagining Black Women
A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics NIKOL G. ALEXANDER-FLOYD
A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women 304 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479850891 • $30.00
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Accessible America
The Hollywood Jim Crow
A History of Disability and Design BESS WILLIAMSON
The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry
A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it
MARYANN ERIGHA
The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry
304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479802494 • $19.95 In Crip
240 PAGES • PAPER 9781479847877 • $25.00
The Fight for Free Speech
S TAY C O N N E C T E D
Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms
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IAN ROSENBERG
“Essential reading for journalists, political activists, and ordinary citizens alike.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) 312 PAGES • CLOTH 9781479801565 • $27.95
KEYWORDS SERIES Keywords for Media Studies
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Keywords for Comics Studies
Edited by LAURIE OUELLETTE and JONATHAN GRAY
Edited by RAMZI FAWAZ, DEBORAH WHALEY, and SHELLEY STREEBY
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
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
240 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479859610 • $28.00 In Keywords
Keywords for Children’s Literature, second edition Edited by PHILIP NEL, LISSA PAUL, and NINA CHRISTENSEN
An updated vocabulary for children’s literature and culture 272 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479899678 • $28.00 In Keywords
288 PAGES • PAPER • 9781479831968 • $28.00 In Keywords
ABOUT THE SERIES Collaborative in design and execution, the books in the Keywords series bring together scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with each essay on a single term to help trace the contours and debates of a particular field. Providing accessible A-to-Z surveys of prevailing scholarly concepts, the books serve as flexible tools for carving out new areas of inquiry.
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Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
Avidly Reads Board Games
ARIELLE ZIBRAK
ERIC THURM
“My guilty pleasure wasn’t just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself.”
“How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?”
176 PAGES • PAPER 9781479807093 • $14.95 In Avidly Reads
144 PAGES • PAPER 9781479826957 • $14.95 In Avidly Reads
POSTMILLENNIAL POP SERIES 2020 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Open World Empire
Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
The Race Card
From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
CHRISTOPHER B. PATTERSON
TARA FICKLE
Seeking ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re-invigorate the potential passions and pleasures of play
How games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes
344 PAGES • PAPER 9781479895908 • $35.00 In Postmillennial Pop
Video Games Have Always Been Queer BONNIE RUBERG
Argues for the queer potential of video games 288 PAGES • PAPER 9781479843749 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop
272 PAGES • PAPER 9781479805952 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop
Stories of the Self
Life Writing after the Book ANNA POLETTI
The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics 248 PAGES • PAPER 9781479836666 • $29.00 In Postmillennial Pop
2020 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association
Social Media Entertainment
The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley STUART CUNNINGHAM and DAVID CRAIG
How the transformation of social media platforms and userexperience have redefined the entertainment industry 368 PAGES • PAPER 9781479846894 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop
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Anti-Fandom
Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age MELISSA A. CLICK
A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling 352 PAGES • PAPER 9781479851041 • $30.00 In Postmillennial Pop
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The Digital Edge
HENRY JENKINS, SANGITA SHRESTHOVA, LIANA GAMBERTHOMPSON, NETA KLIGLERVILENCHIK, and ARELY M. ZIMMERMAN
S. CRAIG WATKINS and ALEXANDER CHO
The New Youth Activism
The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital age
How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality
How Black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online 304 PAGES • PAPER 9781479849857 • $26.00 In Connected Youth and Digital Futures
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Affinity Online
How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning MIZUKO ITO, CRYSTLE MARTIN, RACHEL CODY PFISTER, MATTHEW H. RAFALOW, KATIE SALEN, and AMANDA WORTMAN
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people 256 PAGES • PAPER 9781479852758 • $26.00 In Connected Youth and Digital Futures
CONNECTED YOUTH AND D I G I TA L F U T U R E S This open access series explores young people’s day-to-day lives and futures. The volumes consider changes at the intersection of civil and political reform, transformations in employment and education, and the growing presence of digital technologies in all aspects of social, cultural and political life.
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WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS Power and Loss in South African Journalism News In the Age of Social Media
Tell Our Story
Multiplying Voices In the News Media
GLENDA DANIELS
JULIE REID and DALE T. MCKINLEY
This timely book analyses the crisis and chaos of journalism in contemporary South Africa and argues for and about the power of public interest journalism
Focusing on three South African communities the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that they are being deliberately ignored by dominant news media
232 PAGES • PAPER 9781776145997 • $20.00 Published by Wits University Press
Babel Unbound
Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life Edited by LESLEY COWLING and CAROLYN HAMILTON
In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied 292 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145898 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press
234 PAGES • PAPER • 9781776145775 • $20.00 Published by Wits University Press
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS Resistance
Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo Edited by SUE GOYETTE
Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette 176 PAGES • PAPER 9780889778016 • $21.95 Published by University of Regina Press
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GREAT FOR COURSES How to Watch Television, second edition Edited by ETHAN THOMPSON and JASON MITTELL
A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present 432 PAGES • PAPER 9781479898817 • $30.00 In User’s Guides to Popular Culture
How to Play Video Games Edited by MATTHEW THOMAS PAYNE and NINA B. HUNTEMANN
Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture 400 PAGES • PAPER 9781479827985 • $30.00 In User’s Guides to Popular Culture
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Algorithms of Oppression
Film as Religion, second edition
SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE
Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
Myths, Morals, and Rituals JOHN C. LYDEN
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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 9781479862030 • $25.00 In Critical Cultural Communication
Spreadable Media
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture HENRY JENKINS, SAM FORD, and JOSHUA GREEN
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries 352 PAGES • PAPER 9781479856053 • $22.00 In Postmillennial Pop
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Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry ANGELA JONES
The first inside look at how sex workers use webcams to make a living 344 PAGES • PAPER 9781479874873 • $30.00
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