Monthly Archive: April, 2020

April 6, 2020

Getting a Handle on the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Geoffrey C. Kabat

“Geoffrey Kabat’s vital, wide-ranging book cannot have arrived at a more fortuitous time. . . Everyone should read his analysis—at once clear-eyed, thoughtful, and beautifully written—to understand the nature of risk. I cannot overstate the importance of this book.” ~Siddhartha...

April 5, 2020

Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia

by Sarah Keller

“Anxious Cinephilia gives us the most far-reaching theorization of cinephilia yet. This exploration of desire and anxiety as twin impulses unearths novel connections across film cultures, affective states, and moments of technological change, from early cinema to cinematic spectacle in...

April 5, 2020

New Books in Film and Media Studies from Auteur, transcript publishing, and the Austrian Film Museum

No visit to the CUP tables at SCMS would be complete without a look through the exciting new titles we’ve brought from our distribution partners.  New from Auteur First up is the Auteur table, where you’ll find numerous new titles...

April 5, 2020

Ten Masterpieces of Experimental Cinema

The following list by Justin Remes, author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis and the forthcoming Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing, considers ten canonical experimental films. You can also watch the films below. •  •  • ...

April 5, 2020

Q&A: Kaeten Mistry on Whistleblowing Nation

In Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy, editors Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman detail the long American tradition of persecuting those who expose state misdeeds. The twenty-first century witnessed a new age...

April 4, 2020

OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. and Urban History

Hello, and welcome back to the second edition of Happy Hour Reads at the Columbia Virtual OAH Book Exhibit. This evening, we invite you to read excerpts from two brand new Columbia books that would have debuted at OAH. • ...

April 4, 2020

Book Excerpt! Reforming the City, by Ariane Liazos (introduction)

“A century ago, progressive reformers often thought expertise and nonpartisanship were the solution to extreme polarization and inequality in U.S. politics, as they do now. But Ariane Liazos dramatizes the unintended consequences of changes pursued in hundreds of U.S. cities...

April 4, 2020

Chromatic Modernity Wins the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award!

A big congratulations to Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe, whose book Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s was awarded The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award. This beautifully written and illustrated book tells a fascinating story of technological...

April 4, 2020

What’s New From the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Welcome back to our UAA Virtual Booth! We’re excited to hear from Maureen Clark and Emma Zehner, representing the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, one of our distributed presses, as they introduce two exciting new books for the urban studies...

April 4, 2020

There’s More to 3D Than Meets the Eye

By Nick Jones

“This book’s highly polished arguments situate digital 3D cinema within major debates about the role of the image in contemporary society as well as related structures of power. Jones’s historical focus and interaction with significant visual culture debates situate the...

April 4, 2020

Jason Hackworth on Manufacturing Decline

“Manufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and...

April 4, 2020

Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on Fresh Kills

“Fresh Kills is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended...