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Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 65, no. 4

By Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies

“Sing for the Pro-Palestinian Student Activists.” A Commencement Speech and the Fight to Protect the Freedom of Expression

Edited by Rebekah Modrak
Contributions by Derek Peterson, Samuel R. Bagenstos, John Carson, Jonathan Chait, Juan Cole, Gabe Efros, Gayle Kirshenbaum, Shamai Leibowitz, Rima Mohammed, Rogério M. Pinto, Qasim Rashid, Carina Ray, Davey Rosen, Lauren Barrett Smith, Alan Wald, Silke-Maria Weineck, John K. Wilson, Yi-Li Wu, and Basit Zafar
Subjects: History, General, Political Science, Democracy

Collects commentary on university commencement controversy: academic freedom, institutional neutrality, Palestine exception to speech

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism

A Reader

Edited by Lindsay Ceballos, D. Brian Kim, and Chloë Kitzinger
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, 19th Century

The first collection of newly translated Russian Symbolist essays on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in decades

China's Battler Poetry

Writing Like There's No Tomorrow

By Maghiel van Crevel
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Chinese, History, China
Series: cultural china

China’s Battler Poetry tells a gripping story of underclass writing as art and social practice.

The Artist William Keith

A Scots Giant Among the Redwoods

By Alexander Sutherland
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Art, General

Detailed biography of nineteenth-century Scottish-born American painter William Keith, celebrated for his wilderness paintings

J. J. R. Macleod

Co-discoverer of insulin

By Michael J Williams
Edited by Kenneth C McHardy
Subjects: Medical, History, Endocrinology & Metabolism

Reveals the almost-forgotten, Nobel prize-winning Scottish scientist who made life-saving insulin treatment available

Daleká cesta / Distant Journey

By Jiří Anger
Subjects: Performing Arts, General, History & Criticism, Historical
Series: film|minutes

A pioneering Czech Holocaust film reexamined through digital methods and the ethics of historical memory

All-American Dad

By Conor Bracken
Subjects: Poetry, Family

A mixed-race, white-passing father tries to model fatherhood for his children in a neoimperial hellscape.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Contributions by Karima Bennoune, Ji Yeon Hong, and Ronald Grigor Suny
Subjects: History, General, Political Science, Democracy

Explores the anti-democratic forces targeting universities and campus as key to protecting democratic values

Voicing the Mystery: An Introduction to the Qəne Tradition of the Täwaḥǝdo Orthodox Churches

By Calum A Samuelson & Ralph Lee
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Religion, Orthodox

Ethiopian–Eritrean sacred Qǝne poetry presented in accessible paired English translations revealing multilayered meanings.

EnTwine

Critical and Creative Teaching with Twine

Edited by Emily Christina Murphy & Lai-Tze Fan
Subjects: Computers, Games, General, Games, Video & Electronic
Series: Electronic Communities of Making

EnTwine: Critical and Creative Teaching with Twine is the first full-length collection devoted to teaching with the popular, digital story-telling platform Twine.

Music in the Background

By Bryce G Boyer
Edited by Alicia Beebe
Subjects: Poetry, General, General

This slim collection of mainly light verse was written in a thoroughly democratic spirit, the poems were intended to be congenial, conversational, and accessible

Vasto Pensamiento, Vast Thought

Latinas in the Nineteenth-Century California Press

By Vanessa Ovalle Perez
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Hispanic American, Women Authors

This book centers the words, stories, and social justice messages of Latinas in newspapers of nineteenth-century California.

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein

A Critical Study of His Work (Second Edition)

By Farah Mendlesohn
Subjects: Literary Criticism, General, Science Fiction & Fantasy

A critical analysis of Heinlein’s context and response to the world and the future

This Machine Breeds Fascists / Mašina Koja Hrani Fašiste

Thompson—the Rock Star, the Collapse of Political Will, and the Resistance to Radicalization in Croatia / Thompson, Poraz Politike i Otpor Radikalizaciji Hrvatske

By Barbara Matejčić, Hrvoje Šimičević
Introduction by Matea Gnječ, and Brian Willems
Subjects: Political Science, Democracy, European

Croatia’s popular singer, Thompson, and “moderate” governments enabled fascism to transition from fringes to mainstream

Dealmaking Detroit

Two Essays About White Privilege, Private Gain, and Public Loss

By Jamon Jordan & Craig Regester
Introduction by Stephen M Ward
Subjects: History, General, African American

Two essays about the millions in public funds diverted annually to subsidize Detroit corporate development.

Televising Taste

Performing Classical Music on American Screens

By Evelyn Kreutzer
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Art, Film & Video, Music, Classical
Series: Videographic Books: Film and Media Scholarship in Sound and Image

A deep dive into music on American screens

Kemtzij

Reciprocal Indigenous Ontologies in Kaqchikel Maya Arts

Edited by Joyce N. Bennett & Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Subjects: Art, Indigenous, Foreign Language Study, Indigenous Languages

Kemtzij is a volume on contemporary Kaqchikel Mayan art presented in English and Kaqchikel Mayan.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

By Dan Hassler-Forest
Subjects: Performing Arts, General, History & Criticism, Horror
Series: film|minutes

A must-have guide to the classic horror film that has lost none of its power to astonish, upset, and terrify viewers

Food, Diaspora, and Memory

Edited by Zoë Antoinette Eddy
Subjects: Social Science, Cultural, Cooking, History

How food preserves memory, shapes identity, and sustains community across diaspora

Reclaiming Black Brazil

Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Diaspora

Edited by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey & Paulo Dutra
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Caribbean & Latin American, Social Science, Caribbean & Latin American Studies

Foregrounds the cultural production of some of the most significant Black Brazilian writers and artists

Materializing Musical Cinema

Videographic Approaches to Genre Study

Edited by Desirée J. Garcia & Jenny Oyallon-Koloski
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Art, Film & Video
Series: Videographic Books: Film and Media Scholarship in Sound and Image

An audiovisual exploration of musical films around the world

The Rights of Communication

Beyond Free Speech

By Amit M. Schejter
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights

Proposes that a Right to Communication should serve as the normative foundation for communication-related rights

International Trade Law Through the Cases

Volume II

By Julian Arato, Sungjoon Cho, Kathleen Claussen, and Joseph Weiler
Subjects: Law, General, International Trade, International

International Trade Law Through the Cases provides materials for the study of international trade law through the case law of the WTO.

International Trade Law Through the Cases

Volume I

By Julian Arato, Sungjoon Cho, Kathleen Claussen, and Joseph Weiler
Subjects: Law, International Trade, International, General