October 26, 2012

Clockwork Orgy?

In his chapter from the book Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic, edited by Xavier Mendik. I. Q. Hunter takes on the phenomenon of porn “interpretations” of mainstream films. More specifically, he offers a reading of A Clockwork Orgy...

October 25, 2012

Schryer wins Robert K. Martin Book Prize!

Congrats to Stephen Schryer, whose book Fantasies of the New Class has won the 2012 Robert K. Martin Book Prize!

October 24, 2012

Bettie Page, Peep Shows, and Their Impact on 1950s America

One of the most famous icons of erotic cinema is, of course, Bettie Page. In the chapter “Pages of Sin: Bettie Page — From ‘Cheesecake’ Tease to Bondage Queen,” from Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic, Bill Osgerby examines...

October 24, 2012

An interview with Margo DeMello on Animal Studies

Today, we have an interview with Professor DeMello, in which she discusses some problems with common human conceptions of animals.

October 23, 2012

Xavier Mendik on Academics and Cult Film

In a 2008 interview with Electric Sheep, Xavier Mendik describes how Cine-Excess, a film festival he curates, brings together the academic world with the world of cult film fandom: It might surprise you to know that academics have been really...

October 23, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Poetry in America, Communism in China, Derrida, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America Mike Chasar The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party Ishikawa Yoshihiro War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics Emile Simpson...

October 22, 2012

Book Giveaway: Peep Shows!

October 19, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

October 18, 2012

From Shameful to Sexy — Kelly Oliver on Changing Representations of Pregnancy

“Pregnancy and pregnant bodies have gone from shameful and hidden to sexy and spectacular”—Kelly Oliver In From Shameful to Sexy, the introduction to Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films , Kelly Oliver examines the...

October 17, 2012

Margo DeMello: Why Human-Animal Studies?

Margo DeMello offers an explanation of the field of human-animal studies and explains why it is important to study human-animal interactions.

October 17, 2012

MomCom as RomCom

“Today, Hollywood need not bother with marriage. Rather, sex, baby, love—often in that order—are the contemporary triple threat.”—Kelly Oliver In her book Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films, Kelly Oliver discusses the genre of...

October 17, 2012

VIDEO: Siddharth Kara on Bonded Labor

This week CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery has been featuring posts and videos by Siddharth Kara, author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia. On Monday, he looked at bonded labor in Nepal and the...