April 2, 2020

Continue Your Exploration of New Books in Film Studies with Philip Leventhal

Yesterday, I talked about some new books from our Film and Culture series. I did not want to overwhelm you with too much information, so here are four more books we recently published in film studies that I am also...

April 2, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our OAH 2020 Virtual Booth

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Organization of American Historians annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog. I...

April 2, 2020

Comedies of Catastrophe, Contagion, and Self-Quarantine: A Spectral Playlist for the Impromptu Apocalypse

One of my favorite books to have worked on from the past few years is Maggie Hennefeld’s  Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes. In this post she offers a list of comedies featuring women who focus on societal catastrophe,...

April 2, 2020

Welcome to Our UAA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

Hello! Welcome to our Urban Affairs Association 2020 virtual exhibit booth. The global pandemic may have canceled our plans to meet you in person, but that’s not stopping us from bringing our exhibit booth to you. We’ve relocated our booth...

April 2, 2020

Welcome to Our OAH 2020 Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, and welcome to our Organization for American Historians (OAH) 2020 virtual exhibit booth. As coronavirus has canceled the spring academic conferences (and most everything else, for that matter), we are moving our conference booth online. Over the next four...

April 1, 2020

Join Philip Leventhal on a Tour of Our New Books from the Film and Culture Series

Hello, my name is Philip Leventhal, and I acquire new books in film and media studies at Columbia University Press. SCMS is always one of my favorite conferences, so it is particularly disappointing not to be able to attend this...

April 1, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing NOlympians Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond Jules Boykoff Now more than ever, it’s clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic...

April 1, 2020

Welcome to Our SCMS 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

We are disappointed that we are not able to attend the Society for Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference. We will miss all the great conversations and sense of community. Since the COVID-19 virus has many of us sitting home and...

March 31, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies Catalog

Letter from the editors: We are pleased to be sharing with you Columbia University Press’s 2020 Film, Media, and Journalism Studies catalog. The books featured here reflect the press’s commitment to publishing innovative works examining the multifaceted ways in which...

March 31, 2020

Columbia University Press Makes E-Book Learning Resources Available to Students Online at No Cost

Columbia University Press has joined with VitalSource to make its titles available for free as e-books for students affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Many students purchased books for classroom use but now can’t access them after having moved rapidly to...

March 31, 2020

Book Excerpts! Mad for Foucault and Are the Lips a Grave?, By Lynne Huffer

As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, we are featuring Foucault’s Strange Eros, a modern consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics. by Lynne Huffer. In this forthcoming book, Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet and shows how...

March 31, 2020

New Book Tuesday! How the Suburbs Were Segregated, The Bearded Lady Project and Socialist Cosmopolitanism

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series How the Suburbs Were Segregated Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960 Paige Glotzer Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest...