Category: Media Studies

March 15, 2018

Q&A: Leon Hunt on Danger: Diabolik

This week, one of our featured books is Danger: Diabolik, by Leon Hunt. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Leon Hunt. Enter our book giveaway by Friday at 1 PM for a chance to win a free...

January 25, 2018

Tapehead: Video Store Film School

This week, our featured book is The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out. Today, we are happy to present an essay in which author Wayne Byrne, reveals how the book came to be. CUP Blog Essay – Tapehead: Video Store...

January 24, 2018

An Interview with Wayne Byrne, Author of The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out

This week, our featured book is The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Wayne Byrne. Q: What attracted you to Tom DiCillo’s work enough for you to embark...

January 15, 2018

Book Giveaway! Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face

This week, our featured book is Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face, by Michael Tapper. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page....

June 30, 2017

Capitalism and the History of the iPhone

On the iPhone’s 10th birthday, read an excerpt from MOVING DATA: THE IPHONE AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA, by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau.

May 24, 2017

Netflix on the Croisette — Jonathan Buchsbaum

Jonathan Buchsbaum, author of “Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood’s New World Order,” examines the recent Netflix-Cannes controversy and what it says about the threat to the future of French national cinema.

March 15, 2017

Art in an Age of Narrowcasting — Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom, author of “After Uniqueness,” examines how artists’ videos broadcast on Greek television are engaging shifting distribution ecologies of contemporary moving-image art and with the specific context of Greek public television in a time of austerity measures.

March 9, 2017

Reconstructing Strangelove

Read an interview with Mick Broderick, author of RECONSTRUCTING STRANGELOVE: INSIDE STANLEY KUBRICK’S “NIGHTMARE COMEDY.”

February 15, 2017

Trump's Strange Loves

Read a post by Mick Broderick, author of RECONSTRUCTING STRANGELOVE: INSIDE STANLEY KUBRICK’S “NIGHTMARE COMEDY,” on Donald Trump and Dr. Strangelove, as part of our series of blog posts on the 2016 election and beyond.

January 26, 2017

On Modernist Magazines, Little and Small — A Conversation with Eric Bulson and Donal Harris (Part 2)

Donal Harris discusses his book “On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines,” with Eric Bulson.

November 10, 2016

Interview with Donal Harris, author of "On Company Time"

Read an interview with Donal Harris, author of ON COMPANY TIME: AMERICAN MODERNISM IN THE BIG MAGAZINES, in which Harris explains “big magazines,” the relationship between journalism and literature, and his interest in the topic.

September 28, 2016

William Guynn on Film's Depiction of Historical Trauma

“Recovery of experience can be harrowing and is particularly so in films that speak about traumatic events in the catastrophic twentieth century. All the films evoke unresolved historical situations—unresolved for the communities that experienced them and for the historians who...