Category: Wallflower

October 28, 2022

Look Away: Instinct as Deterministic Force in Jordan Peele’s Nope

Thomas M. Puhr

Note: This piece contains spoilers. In a series of one-sheets released for Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022), the horror film’s characters stare skyward, expressions of wide-eyed fear dominating their faces. They almost appear hypnotized. What, we wonder, is eliciting this response?...

March 29, 2021

Q&A: Kathleen Cummins on Herstories on Screen

Kathleen Cummins is a film professor in the Faculty of Animation, Arts, and Design at Sheridan College. She is also a filmmaker whose work has been broadcast and screened internationally. In this Q&A she discusses her new book Herstories on...

March 17, 2021

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020): The Villain We Deserve and the Hero We Need?

By Terence McSweeney and Rebecca Cohen

Arriving at the end of a year in which cinemas around the globe had spent much of the time with their doors closed,  Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) was one of only a few American superhero films even released...

March 17, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog

 Letter from the editors: We are very excited to be sharing with you the 2021 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies catalog. The recent resurgence of interest in the work of William Greaves is complemented and enhanced by the publication...

March 17, 2021

Browse Our SCMS 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth

While we are disappointed not to be able to attend the SCMS conference in person, we are very excited to share with you some recent and forthcoming books from our film and media studies list. We are happy to offer...

October 27, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Plastic Free and Super Polluters, The Contemporary Superhero Film

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Plastic Free The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn This book explores how one of the world’s leading environmental campaigns...

May 26, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Asian Place, Filipino Nation, Sex-Positive Social Work, Management Fundamentals, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Asian Place, Filipino Nation A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz Asian Place, Filipino Nation reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East...

May 13, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the Connection Between Post-Holocaust Studies and Cambodian Perpetrator Cinema

“The book offers front-row seats to a new genre of post-Holocaust global documentary film, with innovative approaches to the study of genocide, trauma, and gender.” ~Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia Under...

April 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Thriving in Crisis, The Power of And, The Ages of Globalization and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Ages of Globalization Geography, Technology, and Institutions Jeffrey D. Sachs Jeffrey D. Sachs turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Cinema of James Cameron, by James Clarke (introduction)

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 22, 2020

Picturing Wilderness

By James Clarke

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 3, 2020

Join Ryan Groendyk in a Conversation About Wallflower

Welcome to the Wallflower table, it’s nice to see you again! I’m Ryan Groendyk, the editor for Wallflower. You may have heard (from me, most likely) that Wallflower became a true imprint of Columbia University Press a few years ago,...