March 22, 2021

Early Photography in China

By Shengqing Wu

Chinese poetry, painting, and calligraphy have a long history of interaction and harmonious integration. But in the nineteenth century, photography was introduced into China: what happened when the brush encountered the shutter? In Photo Poetics, I explore the dynamics of...

March 22, 2021

Introducing ASIA SHORTS: Small Volumes with a Big Message: Strong Scholarship for a Wide Audience

By Bill Tsutsui, Asia Shorts series editor and Jon Wilson, AAS Publications Manager

In our information-saturated lives, there is much to appreciate in the expression of important, timely, and complex ideas in forms that are focused, clear, and concise. Brevity need not signify superficiality nor suggest any lack of ambition or effort. As...

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

Movie Clips from Bombay Hustle

By Debashree Mukherjee

In Bombay Hustle, I revisit the transition to talkies in India with a focus on material practice and techniques of film production. One of my biggest challenges while researching for this book was the fragile and fragmented nature of the...

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...

March 16, 2021

Three Things You Can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual

By Jonathan Schwabish

Tables are different from graphs and charts. Charts are meant to present a quick, visual representation of data. But tables are drill-downs, an outlay of all the data down to their exact values or estimates. Tables are not always the...

March 15, 2021

The Religious Left on the Rise Again? Let’s Wait and See

By L. Benjamin Rolsky

In January, Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the forty-sixth president of the United States. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently observed, the inauguration was a “very American-Catholic spectacle” because it represented a moment in which the...

January 13, 2021

Talking Alzheimer’s Research with Nonexperts

By Han Yu

Accomplished popular science. Yu delivers an expert account of the groundbreaking research that revealed the genetics and biochemistry of [Alzheimer’s] disease. —Kirkus In today’s featured SFN post, Han Yu introduces us to her forthcoming book, Mind Thief: The Story of...

January 12, 2021

Where Is Neuroscience Heading?

By Ashley Juavinett

“You might not know it yet, but you do want to be a neuroscientist, and this compelling book will show you why and how. A wonderful, entertaining, yet eminently practical guide to joining the quest to solve our deepest, richest...

January 11, 2021

Our Sense of Touch in the Social-Distancing Era

By Sushma Subramanian

“In this addictively readable book, Sushma Subramanian explores our vital human sense of touch in terms of history, science, culture, family and most of all humanity. It’s a story full of insight and surprise, told by a science writer with...

January 11, 2021

Browse Our SfN Virtual Book Exhibit with Miranda Martin

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual booth at the first ever Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome! I’m Miranda Martin, the press’s science editor. We may have met at last year’s SfN annual meeting, which was my first. If not,...