April 20, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of recent blog posts and features from other academic presses (this week with a political focus).

April 20, 2012

Peter Decherney on Copyright and the Netroots Movment

“This netroots infrastructure has proven to be an important corrective to the backroom policymaking of the past.”—Peter Decherney In the conclusion to Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, Peter Decherney looks at how academics and netroots movements are...

April 19, 2012

James McWilliams on the Myth of Sustainable Meat in the New York Times

“After all, it’s not how we produce animal products that ultimately matters. It’s whether we produce them at all.” — James McWilliams

April 19, 2012

Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, and Copyright

In the following excerpt from Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, Peter Decherney discusses how Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising influenced other filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes. Specifically, Anger’s use of public gave them creative inspiration...

April 18, 2012

Nicholas Teich Explains Transgender 101 on the Huffington Post

In an article and slideshow posted today on the Huffington Post, Nicholas Teich, author of Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue, explained the story behind Transgender 101 and lays out “15 essential things to know” about what “transgender” really means.

April 18, 2012

National Poetry Month: National Haiku Poetry Day

April is National Poetry Month and April 17 was National Haiku Poetry Day, so we’ve selected a number of haiku in honor of the occasion.

April 18, 2012

Why Alice in Wonderland Matters to Hollywood

Peter Decherney’s expertise on the importance of the public domain for Hollywood led him to file an amicus brief the Supreme Court case of Golan v. Holder that discusses Hollywood’s reliance on the public domain. (Watch a video of Peter...

April 17, 2012

Peter Decherney on Can the Supreme Court Save the Public Domain… and Hollywood?

In the following video, Peter Decherney, author of Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, discusses how Hollywood has benefited from works being in the public domain and why its current...

April 17, 2012

New Book Tuesday: A Hunger for Aesthetics and new works from Helene Cixous and Paul de Man

Our weekly list of new books. You can save 50% on all these books by using the sales code SALE in your shopping cart: A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art Michael Kelly Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical...

April 16, 2012

National Poetry Month Selection: "Christmas Sparrow" by Billy Collins

April is National Poetry Month, and over the next couple weeks we will be posting poems from our poetry titles and from those of our distributed presses.

April 16, 2012

Book Giveaway! Hollywood's Copyright Wars by Peter Decherney

This week our featured book is Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, by Peter Decherney. Throughout the week we will highlight aspects of the book and we are also offering a FREE copy of the book to one...

April 13, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of recent blog posts and features from other academic presses.