Category: Media Studies

July 25, 2008

The Best Documentaries of All Time: A Post from Jonathan Kahana

Jonathan Kahana is assistant professor of cinema studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and author of the just-published Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary. A few years ago, I was asked by a writer...

July 15, 2008

The New Yorker Cover Controversy and the History of Editorial Cartoons

While the New Yorker Obama cover has been dominating the news cycle for the past 24 hours, disputes and controversies regarding editorial cartoons are hardly new. Here are a couple of books that offer some historical perspective: In her forthcoming...

June 19, 2008

Beyond the Blockbuster: Intelligence Work by Jonathan Kahana

As we brace for/look forward to the onslaught of Summer blockbusters, we should also look to Jonathan Kahana’s Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary to offer critical and historical insight to films of a very much different stripe than...

May 28, 2008

Donald Keene: Review in Bookforum and Meeting Greta Garbo!

We were doubly fortunate yesterday to both receive our new issue of the always excellent Bookforum, which is again chock-full of interesting articles and reviews and is fully accessible online, and to find Roland Kelts’s glowing review of Donald Keene’s...

May 9, 2008

Keith Woods on How the Media Has Covered Race in the Presidential Campaign

Earlier this week, Keith Woods, coauthor of The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity, appeared on the Newshour to discuss how the media has covered and talked about the issue of race in this year’s presidential race....

April 25, 2008

Party at the Tribeca Film Festival!

Join Wallflower Press and Columbia University Press for a party to celebrate the official North American launch of the TCM International Film Guide 2008 and Film & Festivals magazine during the Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday, April 29th. Frances Ford...

April 1, 2008

Sales and Special Offers

A definitive guide to world cinema today, a new history of the Hudson River, and Olivier Roy’s new book on the Middle East— all these books are currently available at a 20% discount. While the CUP blog is mostly devoted...

March 17, 2008

Books to bring out the Irish in you

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of the Irish today we bring you books that celebrate the achievements of the Irish and Irish-Americans. We begin with acclaimed The Columbia Guide to Irish American History by Timothy J. Meagher. Named a...

March 13, 2008

Lust, Caution, and Eileen Chang: A Posting from Darrell William Davis

We invited film scholars to comment on films relating to their work. In this posting, Darrell William Davis, coauthor with Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh of Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island, considers Ang Lee’s recent film Lust, Caution and its adaptation...

March 4, 2008

Film and Philly: The Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference

For some people six things come to mind when they think about Philadelphia and film: Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, and the mose recent Rocky Balboa. However, beginning on Thursday, The Society for Cinema & Media...

February 22, 2008

Oscar Reading to Win That Pool

Whether you are watching the Academy Award nominated movies for fun, for money, or for professional reasons, it’s always good to do a little research on the categories that films are nominated in. To that end, we present our highly...

February 21, 2008

Interview with Marda Dunsky, author of Pens and Swords

In this interview with the Press, Marda Dunsky talks about her new book Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and discusses some of the failures by the media and what can be done to...