Category: Cultural Studies

May 22, 2012

Media Alert! Ross Melnick's American Showman

Reviews of Ross Melnick’s American Showman.

May 11, 2012

Julie Stephens — The Contradictions of Mother's Day

Julie Stephens discusses the contradictory messages of Mothers’ Day.

May 10, 2012

Kelly Oliver — Bella's Baby: Extreme Home Birth

Kelly Oliver looks at the portrayal of motherhood in Twilight: Breaking Dawn.

April 12, 2012

Udi Aloni and Slavoj Zizek in NYC

Over the next couple weeks, New York City is going to be treated to a couple of unique events featuring CUP author Udi Aloni and CUP Insurrections Series editor Slavoj Zizek.

January 5, 2011

J. P. Singh Takes The Page 99 Test

J. P. Singh, author of Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity, recently took the page 99 test as a way to describe some of the central themes of his book. Here are some excerpts from his essay for...

August 20, 2010

The Late Age of Print Coming to a Syllabus Near You

The Atlantic recently posted C. W. Anderson’s syllabus for his class at CUNY on the history of print culture. Anderson, who is also a a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and a Knight Media Policy Fellow...

July 19, 2010

Interview with Gary Cross, author of Men to Boys (now available in paper!)

Gary Cross’s bestselling cultural history Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity is now available in paperback. Here is an interview we conducted with him when the book was first published. Question: Why did you write a book about...

March 5, 2010

The Basement Boys: George Will on Gary Cross's Men to Boys

It’s not every day that a prominent conservative columnist discusses a university press book, so it is worth mentioning the lengthy references by George Will in his Newsweek column to Gary Cross’s Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity....

November 19, 2009

2009's best books about books

Book Patrol, the Seattle PI book blog, recently put together a list of the best books on books from 2009. Included on the list is Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Here’s...

September 10, 2009

Richard Nash on The Late Age of Print

In an interesting and appropriate pairing of reviewer and book, the excellent new Web site, The Critical Flame chose Richard Nash to review Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Richard Nash (R_Nash)...

June 8, 2009

"In North Korea, everyone knows that a labor camp is a place where life is suspended. One does not live there, one slowly dies there. I was simply another dead soul in Camp No. 14."

As the New York Times and others have reported, North Korea sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor. While little is known about them, the North Korean labor camps are notorious for their brutal conditions. One of...

April 29, 2009

The Quarterly Conversation Reviews The Late Age of Print & The Late Age of Print on "Amazonfail"

Two worthwhile items relating to Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control: A few weeks ago Scott Esposito, published an interview with Ted Striphas and has now followed that up with a review...