Category: Media Studies

March 29, 2011

Indie: An American Culture — Michael Z. Newman

On his blog Zigzigger, Michael Newman author of Indie: An American Film Culture , offers a “behind the scenes” look at the book. In the post Newman explains how parenting helped with his productivity, the genesis behind the title and...

March 22, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Indie!

The following books are now available: Indie: An American Film Culture Michael Z. Newman Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film Anat Pick Radical Democracy and Political Theology Jeffrey W. Robbins

March 16, 2011

Film Titles on Sale!

We are offering 30% off orders on dozens of titles in Film and Media Studies. Film Theory & History U.S., Canadian, and Latin American Film British, European, and Oceanic Film Asian and African Film Genre Films and Genre Studies Film...

March 14, 2011

Patrick Keating Wins Award for Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir

A belated congratulations to Patrick Keating’s whose book Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir was selected by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) as the Best First Book in 2011. The award was presented to...

September 27, 2010

Jerelle Kraus on the New York Times Op-Ed at 40

Yesterday’s New York Times celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the op-ed section. Part of the commemoration is a video dedicated to the influential illustrations of the op-ed section. The video includes an interview with Jerelle Kraus, the former art director...

September 9, 2010

Counter-Archive and Photos from the Albert Kahn Collection

In Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète Paula Amad examines one of the most extraordinary collections of film and photography. Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like...

August 18, 2010

Hiroshima After Iraq — Rosalyn Deutsche on Political Art

In Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War, Rosalyn Deutsche begins by citing a 2008 article in October that polled a group of “art world intellectuals” about artistic critiques of about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq....

August 16, 2010

Charli Carpenter on WikiLeaks

In a recent Foreign Policy article on the recent release by WikiLeaks of documents pertaining to the U.S. war in Afghanistan , Charli Carpenter, author of Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond,...

June 18, 2010

Sam Girgus — Conversations with scholars of American popular culture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present recently interview Sam Girgus, author of Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine, in their series of conversations with scholars of American popular culture. As you...

May 13, 2010

Nicholas Rombes: 10/40/70 on The Rumpus

“No compromise: the film must be stopped at these time codes. Constraint as a form of freedom.”—Nicholas Rombes The always-worthwhile and consistently engaging (and fun) The Rumpus is currently running a great series of posts from Nicholas Rombes, author of...

April 27, 2010

Five Years of YouTube

Last week of course was the fifth anniversary of YouTube leading to inevitable commentaries both celebrating its democratic possibilities and bemoaning it as a massive waste of time. For those looking for more innovative and thoughtful views of the phenomenon,...

April 7, 2010

The Late Age of Print Open Source Audio Project

Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control, has launched an inventive and exciting new project in connection with his book. He is putting together a crowd-sourced production of a text-to-speech audiobook...