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...

October 16, 2012

Award Winner! Uncreative Writing Wins the A.S.A.P. Book Prize!

Congratulations to Kenneth Goldsmith, whose book Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age was recently awarded Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (A.S.A.P) Book Award. Here is the announcement from A.S.A.P. Uncreative Writing was praised...

October 16, 2012

Kelly Oliver — Bella’s Baby: Extreme Home Birth

With our featured book this week being Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films we are re-posting Kelly Oliver’s essay originally published for mother’s day. Twilight: Breaking Dawn continues a long line of horror films...

October 16, 2012

New Book Tuesday: White Collar Criminals, Action Movies, Birds, and More New Titles

Our weekly list of new titles now available: How They Got Away with It: White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown Edited by Susan Will, Stephen Handelman, and David C. Brotherton Experiencing Animal Minds: An Anthology of Animal-Human Encounters Edited...