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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

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

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

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

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

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

Edited by Clara Auclair, Ian Christie, Martin L. Johnson, Tami Williams, and Colin Williamson
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Performing Arts, History & Criticism
Series: Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor

Claiming and defending rights—legal, moral, and human—was central to the development of cinema

Otium

An Anthropology of Work, Freedom, and Common Ground in the Global Economy

By Gregor Dobler
Subjects: Social Science, Cultural, African Studies, European Studies

A fresh, global critique of work and productivity, and free time under contemporary capitalism

Spring In My Hometown

아름다운 시절

By Andrew David Jackson
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Performing Arts, History & Criticism
Series: Cinemas of Asia

A reevaluation of Spring In My Hometown (아름다운 시절), Lee Kwang-mo’s poignant exploration of childhood in wartime

Travels with Mina Loy

Navigating the Avant-Garde

By Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum
Subjects: Literary Criticism, 20th Century, Women Authors, Art, Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)

Maps Mina Loy’s “long aesthetic itinerary,” providing an essential guidebook to her art and writing

Human* Being

On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community

By Devin Proctor
Subjects: Social Science, Cultural, Gender Studies, General

A groundbreaking digital ethnography of the Otherkin community

Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education

Stories of Selfhood

Edited by Alison Cook-Sather
Subjects: Education, Higher, Social Science, People With Disabilities

Reflections on blindness and low-vision identities in higher education from student and faculty perspectives

Practice Dialogues

Listening to the Wisdom of Care Work

Edited by Alice Lesnick
Subjects: Education, Leadership

A guidebook for thinking about care work across a variety of disciplines and careers

God’s Own Land

Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy, and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya

By James G. Lochtefeld
Subjects: History, General, Religion, General
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Traces the Garhwal Himalaya region’s sacred history and the development of Hindu pilgrimage there

Screen Captures

Film in the Age of Emergency

By Stephen Lee Naish
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Art, Film & Video

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen

Living Rome

Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging

Edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro & Will Haynes
Subjects: Social Science, Urban, History, Italy

A living exploration of contemporary Rome's urban transformations, inequalities, activisms, and social dynamics

Trigger Warnings

Teaching Through Trauma

Edited by Ian Barnard, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Jada Patchigondla, Aneil Rallin, Morgan Read-Davidson, Ethan Trejo, and Kristi M Wilson
Subjects: Education, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Arts & Humanities

An interdisciplinary collection to deepen our understandings of trigger warnings in a social justice context

Open Access Musicology

Volume Three

Edited by Daniel Barolsky & Trudi Wright
Subjects: Music, General, Essays
Series: Open Access Musicology

Multimedia-rich scholarly essays intended for students and teachers of music history and ethnomusicology

Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers

A Sourcebook

Edited by Katherine Ngo & Kelly Ngo
Subjects: History, China, Education, History
Series: Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom

First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers in a European language

Adaptive Forms

Videographic Criticism and Contemporary Science Fiction Film

By Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Art, Film & Video
Series: Videographic Books: Film and Media Scholarship in Sound and Image

An examination of media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film, with 14 video essays

Bride of Frankenstein

By Shane Denson
Subjects: Performing Arts, General, History & Criticism, Horror
Series: film|minutes

Reactivating the familiar classic for contemporary audiences

Knowing an Empire

Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Huiyi Wu
Subjects: History, China, Spain & Portugal
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology

In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon

Happiness, History, and Environment in a Changing Bhutan

By Betsy Bolton
Subjects: History, General, India & South Asia, Political Science, Asian
Series: ASIANetwork Books

A journey through Bhutan that looks at the Buddhist mountain kingdom’s recent history, gross national happiness, ethnic conflicts, and biocultural heritage

Drift Net

The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration

By Chris Campanioni
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Gay & Lesbian

Theorizes literature and art produced through experiences of migration, detention, and exile

Our Little Life

A Novel with Other Archival Texts

By José Antonio Villarreal
Edited by Juan Velasco
Subjects: Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, 20th Century
Series: Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom

An archival recovery of the unpublished, much-expanded first draft of a groundbreaking novel in Mexican-American literature

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