Film history, theory or criticism Books
University of Texas Press Theorizing Art Cinemas
Book SynopsisRanging across world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema, this book proposes a flexible, inclusive theory of art cinema that emphasizes quality, authorship, and anticommercialism.Trade ReviewAndrews remains acutely attuned to both potential criticisms in his logic by addressing them head-on, while never sliding into overtly academic-speak or rhetoric that could obscure his points, which makes Theorizing Art Cinemas a thrilling revelation from front to back….Andrews provides readers not just with an intricate explanation for various art cinemas, but how such scholarship can best be performed going forward….Andrews clears up complicated, much-debated issues with relative ease. * Slant *…a thought-provoking amalgamation of relevant theories and an interdisciplinary perspective. This book seems bound to inspire new research, which should move beyond the usual art-cinema suspects of auteurism and the avant-garde. * Film Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Correcting Art Cinema’s Partial Vision Part One: Art, Auteurism, and the World Chapter One. Art as Genre as Canon: Defining “Art Cinema” Chapter Two. No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory Chapter Three. From “Foreign Films” to “World Cinema” Part Two: Formats and Fetishes Chapter Four. Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film Chapter Five. Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema Chapter Six. Revisiting “The Two Avant-Gardes” Chapter Seven. Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema Part Three: Institutions and Distributions Chapter Eight. Re-integrating Stardom ( . . . or Technology or Reception or . . . ) Chapter Nine. Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies Chapter Ten. Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory Epilogue. Beyond, Before Cinephilia Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures
Book SynopsisThis engaging and comprehensive history of censorship and cinema reveals the ways in which film has had a lasting impact on the legal concept of free speech and personal freedoms.Trade Review"An important reference book for scholars of the law and cinema." * Kirkus Reviews *"… clarity, combined with scholarly authority and a graceful narrative style…makes Jeremy Geltzer’s Dirty Words And Filthy Pictures: Film And The First Amendment so compelling… valuable both as a specialized movie-history text and a meditation on morality, freedom of expression, changing notions of what constitutes the scandalous, and how, well, nothing ever stays the same." * The New York Times Book Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Censoring the Cinema 1. Boxing, Porn, and the Beginnings of Movie Censorship 2. The Rise of Salacious Cinema 3. State Regulations Emerge 4. Mutual and the Capacity for Evil 5. War, Nudity, and Birth Control 6. Self-Regulation Reemerges 7. Midnight Movies and Sanctioned Cinema 8. Sound Enters the Debate 9. Tension Increases between Free Speech and State Censorship 10. Threats from Abroad and Domestic Disturbances Part II: Freedom of the Screen 11. Outlaws and Miracles 12. State Censorship Statutes on the Defense 13. Devil in the Details: Film and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments Part III: Dirty Words, Filthy Pictures, and Where to Find Them 14. Dirty Words: Profanity and the Patently Offensive 15. Filthy Pictures: Obscenity from Nudie Cuties to Fetish Films 16. The Porno Chic: From Danish Loops to Deep Throat 17. Just Not Here: Content Regulation through Zoning Part IV: Censorship Today 18. Is Censorship Necessary? 19. The Politics of Profanity Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press The Classical Mexican Cinema
Book SynopsisFrom the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejected Hollywood’s paradigm outright. Directors Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel, Juan Bustillo Oro, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Julio Bracho sought to create a unique national cinema that, through the stories it told and the ways it told them, was wholly Mexican. The Classical Mexican Cinema traces the emergence and evolution of this Mexican cinematic aesthetic, a distinctive film form designed to express lo mexicano.Charles Ramírez Berg begins by locating the classical style’s pre-cinematic roots in the work of popular Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada at the turn of the twentieth century. He also looks at the dawTrade ReviewThe Classical Mexican Cinema is a gorgeous book, so full of stills and frame blowups deftly illustrating Berg’s narrative that it is an immersive experience…An invaluable resource for all students and lovers of cinema, this book would also make a superb course text. * Choice *Ramírez Berg explores the roots of the industry and explains how filmmakers of the time crafted a style that was distinctly Mexican. * New York Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Retheorizing Mexican Film History Chapter 2. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada's Protocinematic Graphic Art Chapter 3. Enrique Rosas's El automóvil gris (1919) and the Dawning of Modern Mexican Cinema Chapter 4. The Adoption of the Hollywood Style and the Transition to Sound Chapter 5. Mexican Cinema Comes of Age: Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s Chapter 6. The Cinematic Invention of Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of the Fernández Unit Style Chapter 7. Luis Buñuel in Mexico Chapter 8. Three Classical Mexican Cinema Genre Films Chapter 9. Conclusion: What Happened to the Classical Mexican Cinema? Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Cycles Sequels Spinoffs Remakes and Reboots
Book SynopsisSurveying a wide range of international productions, this collection of essays by established and emerging scholars investigates the important cultural work performed by repetition, or multiplicities, in film and television.Trade Review"This volume expands on Amanda Ann Klein’s American Film Cycles to open up an extremely fruitful approach to serial and related media phenomena. It will no doubt be adopted as a supplementary text for a wide range of courses in film and television studies." * Linda C. Badley, Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University, and author of Lars von Trier and many other works on film *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction (Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer) Chapter 2. The Kissing Cycle, Mashers, and (White) Women in the American City (Amanda Ann Klein) Chapter 3. Descended from Hercules: Masculine Anxiety in the Peplum (Robert Rushing) Chapter 4. The American Postwar Semidocumentary Cycle: Factual Dramatizations (R. Barton Palmer) Chapter 5. Cycle Consciousness and the White Audience in Black Film Writing: The 1949–1950 "Race Problem" Cycle and the African American Press (Steven Doles) Chapter 6. Vicious Cycle: Jaws and Revenge-of-Nature Films of the 1970s (Constantine Verevis) Chapter 7. Familiar Otherness: On the Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remake (Chelsey Crawford) Chapter 8. Anime's Dangerous Innocents: Millennial Anxieties, Gender Crises, and the Shōjo Body as a Weapon (Elizabeth Birmingham) Chapter 9. It's Only a Film, Isn't It? Policy Paranoia Thrillers of the War on Terror (Vincent M. Gaine) Chapter 10. Doing Dumbledore: Actor-Character Bonding and Accretionary Performance (Murray Pomerance) Chapter 11. A Lagosian Lady Gaga: Cross-Cultural Identification in Nollywood's Anti-Biopic Cycle (Noah Tsika) Chapter 12. Re-solving Crimes: A Cycle of TV Detective Partnerships (Sarah Kornfield) Chapter 13. Smart TV: Showtime's "Bad Mommies" Cycle (Claire Perkins) Chapter 14. My Generation(s): Cycles, Branding, and Renewal in E4's Skins (Faye Woods) Chapter 15. Extended Attractions: Recut Trailers, Film Promotion, and Audience Desire (Kathleen Williams) Chapter 16. Retro-Remaking: The 1980s Film Cycle in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Kathleen Loock) Chapter 17. I Can't Lead This Vacation Anymore: Mumblecore's American Man (Amy Borden) Chapter 18. Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal (Andrew Scahill) List of Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press Trying to Get Over
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking text focuses on the post-blaxploitation era of American filmmaking and illuminates contributions of directors who, although largely unrecognized, have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.Trade ReviewTrying to Get Over is required reading for those interested in film at the intersection of racial politics, production histories, and media industries...[Corson] reminds us of the rich and dynamic history of African Americans in Hollywood persistently making films that are now considered cult classics. * Media Industries Journal *Corson provides depth to our knowledge of black filmmaking during the understudied downturn in the decade following Blaxploitation. Understanding changes in the economic and decision-making forces during this time put both the Blaxploitation era and the 1990s into a new context. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood 2. Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz 3. Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier’s Move Behind the Camera 4. Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred “the Hammer” Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition 5. Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking 6. Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan 7. Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince Conclusion Filmography, 1969–1994 Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press New Maricon Cinema
Book SynopsisRecent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and empathic relationship with queer identities. Referring to these films as New Maricón Cinema, Vinodh Venkatesh argues that they represent a distinct break from what he terms Maricón Cinema, or a cinema that deals with sex and gender difference through an ethically and visually disaffected position, exemplified in films such as Fresa y chocolate, No se lo digas a nadie, and El lugar sin límites.Covering feature films from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Venezuela, New Maricón Cinema is the first study to contextualize and analyze recent homo-/trans-/intersexed-themed cinema in Latin America within a broader historical and aesthetic genealogy. Working with theories of affTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Maricón Cinema 1. Ficheras and Jotos in Mexican Cinema: We Just Want to Be Seen! 2. The Maricón: On Closets and Spectacular Bodies 3. Final Notes on a Maricón Genre Part II: New Maricón Cinema 4. Outing Contracorriente: On Spatial Contracts and Feeling New Maricónness 5. Outing El último verano de la Boyita: On Masculinities and the Moment of Engagement 6. XX- 7. Final Notes on Outing Latin America Part III: Rematerializing Bodies and the Urban Space 8. Plan B: Let’s Go Back to the City 9. On Children and Neoliberal Structures of Feeling 10. Closing Notes on a Very Open Field Films Discussed Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Texas Press New Maricón Cinema
Book SynopsisPresenting a comprehensive overview of recent queer cinema in Latin America, this pathfinding volume identifies a new vein of filmmaking that promotes affective relationships between viewers and homo/trans/intersexed characters.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Maricón Cinema 1. Ficheras and Jotos in Mexican Cinema: We Just Want to Be Seen! 2. The Maricón: On Closets and Spectacular Bodies 3. Final Notes on a Maricón Genre Part II: New Maricón Cinema 4. Outing Contracorriente: On Spatial Contracts and Feeling New Maricónness 5. Outing El último verano de la Boyita: On Masculinities and the Moment of Engagement 6. XX- 7. Final Notes on Outing Latin America Part III: Rematerializing Bodies and the Urban Space 8. Plan B: Let’s Go Back to the City 9. On Children and Neoliberal Structures of Feeling 10. Closing Notes on a Very Open Field Films Discussed Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Texas Press On StoryScreenwriters and Filmmakers on Their
Book SynopsisAward-winning screenwriters and filmmakers, including Ron Howard, Callie Khouri, Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally, Jenny Lumet, and Harold Ramis, discuss their careers and iconic films in these lively conversations transcribed from the acclaimed PBS series On StTrade Review"[L]ively and star-studded. . . . the collection will have you adding flicks to your ever-growing Netflix queue." * Austin Monthly *Table of Contents Foreword: Tips by James Franco Acknowledgments Biographies Introduction by Maya Perez 1. Creating Classic Characters A Conversation with Shane Black, David Milch, and Sydney Pollack, Moderated by Barry Josephson 2. Heroes and Antiheroes A Conversation with Paul Feig, Jenny Lumet, and Aline Brosh McKenna 3. ”In the name of my father and of the truth!” Up Close with Terry George Terry George on In the Name of the Father 4. ”Can it be done, father? Can a man change the stars?” A Conversation with Brian Helgeland, Moderated by Barbara Morgan 5. ”Attica! Attica!” Brian Helgeland Presents Frank Pierson with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2003 Austin Film Festival Robin Swicord on Dog Day Afternoon Up Close with Frank Pierson 6. ”Houston, we have a problem.” A Conversation with Ron Howard, Moderated by William Broyles Jr. A Conversation with Ron Howard, Jim Lovell, Sy Liebergot, John Aaron, Jerry Bostick, Michael Corenblith, Al Reinert, and William Broyles Jr., Moderated by Jane Sumner 7. ”If nobody loses their head, nobody will lose their head.” Up Close with Callie Khouri Callie Khouri on Thelma & Louise 8. ”It's Groundhog Day!” A Conversation with Harold Ramis, Moderated by Judd Apatow Danny Rubin on Groundhog Day 9. ”Have the lambs stopped screaming?” A Conversation with Jonathan Demme, Moderated by Paul Thomas Anderson Ron Nyswaner on Philadelphia A Conversation with Ted Tally, Moderated by Álvaro Rodríguez 10. ”I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” A Conversation with John Milius and Oliver Stone 11. ”I am Groot.” A Conversation with Michael Green, Ashley Miller, and Nicole Perlman, Moderated by Álvaro Rodríguez 12. ”Which story do you prefer?” Up Close with David Magee Afterword: Some Things I've Learned by Bill Wittliff
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University of Texas Press Haunting Bollywood
Book SynopsisThe first wide-ranging look at horror and the supernatural in Bollywood films made since 1949, this interdisciplinary study examines how gender and genre intersect in cinematic tales of unproductive love, abominable creatures, and unspeakable appetites.Trade ReviewHaunting Bollywood is an insightful volume that makes several important contributions to Indian cinema scholarship, including the consolidation of seemingly disparate bodies of films. . . . [It] is a welcome addition to scholarship on Indian cinema and an essential read for its students. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film 2. The Ramsay Rampage: Horror as Emergency Cinema 3. Ravishing Reptiles: Magic, Masala, and the Hindi “Snake Film” 4. Present Imperfect: Bollywood and the Ghosts of Neoliberalism 5. The Planetary Paranormal: Millennial Mythos and the Disassembly of the “Hindi Film” Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Cormac McCarthy and Performance
Book SynopsisDrawing on Cormac McCarthy's recently opened archive, as well as interviews with several of his collaborators, this book presents the first comprehensive overview of McCarthy's writing for film and theater, as well as film adaptations of his novels.Trade Review"[A]n extensive guide...Peebles makes a convincing case that many of the failures in adaptation derive from a failure to express fully the tragic nature of McCarthy's vision." * Times Literary Supplement *"Peebles effectively justifies the inclusion of...screenplays, scripts, and adaptations among McCarthy's recognized body of work. This book would enrich scholarship on McCarthy's novels, adaptation studies, and tragedy in the Western and Southern Gothic traditions." * Adaptation *"Cormac McCarthy and Performance is an invaluable contribution to the fields of Western American literature and film studies, but it will also appeal to afficionados seeking insight into the artist himself." * Western American Literature *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Cormac McCarthy, Center Stage Chapter 1. First Forays: Early Film Interest and The Gardener’s Son Chapter 2. The Unproduced Screenplays: “Cities of the Plain,” “Whales and Men,” and “No Country for Old Men“ Chapter 3. Works for Theater: The Stonemason and The Sunset Limited Chapter 4. Keeping the Faith: All the Pretty Horses and The Road Chapter 5. Tragic Success Stories: No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited Chapter 6. Great Expectations: The Counselor and Child of God Conclusion. Bears That Dance, Bears That Don’t: The Attempts to Adapt Blood Meridian Notes Bibliography Index
£66.60
University of Texas Press Why Harry Met Sally
Book SynopsisExplicating one of the most potent and recurring mass-culture fantasies, this book explores Jewish-Christian couplings across a century of popular American literature, theater, film, and television.Trade ReviewEssential. This richly detailed book on interfaith relationships—specifically between Jews and Christians—fills a real gap in cinema studies. . . Though the title of the book is a play on the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, Moss examines a truly encyclopedic series of texts, both filmic and literary, and dives deep into the subject, offering dazzling insights on nearly every page. * Choice *Moss’s argument is a refreshing break from the jeremiads that often accompany analyses of the representation of Jews in popular culture. . . the [questions] addressed by Moss in this work are both interesting and of value to Jews, non-Jews, and students of American Judaism and American religion more broadly conceived. * Reading Religion *Moss has accomplished a tour de force, and his coupling theory is worth the extended consideration he hopes it will receive…His work will be of interest to media studies, Jewish studies and American studies, to name just a few relevant areas. * Journal for Religion, Film and Media *[An] extensive, multigenerational, multidisciplinary survey of Jewish-Christian couplings...Why Harry Met Sally makes an important contribution to film and television history and is a valuable resource insofar as it points to just about every significant American film, Broadway show, and television show engaging the themes of Christian-Jewish coupling and links them to a broader literary history of this theme. * Jewish Historical Studies *Rich and engrossing…Moss's prodigious and impressive scholarship contributes an extremely important addition to the canon of academic writing on romantic comedy. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Moss's infusion of 'coupling theory' into the way interfaith relationships are both presented in popular media and read by audiences is nothing short of brilliant, and should be a methodological tool that all scholars in these fields immediately take up...a must-read for many scholars. * Studies in American Jewish Literature *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Sally’s Orgasm Part One. The First Wave: The Mouse-Mountains of Modernity (1905–1934) Chapter 1. Disraeli’s Page: Performative Jewishness in the Public Sphere Chapter 2. Kafka’s Ape: Literary Modernism, Jewish Animality, and the Crisis of the New Cosmopolitanism Chapter 3. Abie’s Irish Rose: Immigrant Couplings, Utopian Multiculturalism, and the Early American Film Industry Part Two. The Second Wave: Erotic Schlemiels of the Counterculture (1967–1980) Chapter 4. Benjamin’s Cross: Israel, New Hollywood, and the Jewish Transgressive (1947–1967) Chapter 5. Portnoy’s Monkey: Postwar Literature, Stand-Up Comedy, and the Emergence of the Carnal Jew (1955–1969) Chapter 6. Katie’s Typewriter: Hollywood Romance, Historical Rewrite, and the Subversive Sexuality of the Counterculture Part Three. The Third Wave: Global Fockers at the Millennium (1993–2007) Chapter 7. Spiegelman’s Frog: Coded Jewish Metamorph and Christian Witnessing (1978–1992) Chapter 8. Seinfeld’s Mailman: Global Television and the Wandering Sitcom (1993–2000) Chapter 9. Gaylord’s Tulip: Fluid and Fluidity at the Millennium (1993–2008) Conclusion. Plato’s Retweet Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Why Harry Met Sally
Book SynopsisExplicating one of the most potent and recurring mass-culture fantasies, this book explores Jewish-Christian couplings across a century of popular American literature, theater, film, and television.Trade ReviewEssential. This richly detailed book on interfaith relationships—specifically between Jews and Christians—fills a real gap in cinema studies. . . Though the title of the book is a play on the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, Moss examines a truly encyclopedic series of texts, both filmic and literary, and dives deep into the subject, offering dazzling insights on nearly every page. * Choice *Moss’s argument is a refreshing break from the jeremiads that often accompany analyses of the representation of Jews in popular culture. . . the [questions] addressed by Moss in this work are both interesting and of value to Jews, non-Jews, and students of American Judaism and American religion more broadly conceived. * Reading Religion *Moss has accomplished a tour de force, and his coupling theory is worth the extended consideration he hopes it will receive…His work will be of interest to media studies, Jewish studies and American studies, to name just a few relevant areas. * Journal for Religion, Film and Media *[An] extensive, multigenerational, multidisciplinary survey of Jewish-Christian couplings...Why Harry Met Sally makes an important contribution to film and television history and is a valuable resource insofar as it points to just about every significant American film, Broadway show, and television show engaging the themes of Christian-Jewish coupling and links them to a broader literary history of this theme. * Jewish Historical Studies *Rich and engrossing…Moss's prodigious and impressive scholarship contributes an extremely important addition to the canon of academic writing on romantic comedy. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Moss's infusion of 'coupling theory' into the way interfaith relationships are both presented in popular media and read by audiences is nothing short of brilliant, and should be a methodological tool that all scholars in these fields immediately take up...a must-read for many scholars. * Studies in American Jewish Literature *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Sally’s Orgasm Part One. The First Wave: The Mouse-Mountains of Modernity (1905–1934) Chapter 1. Disraeli’s Page: Performative Jewishness in the Public Sphere Chapter 2. Kafka’s Ape: Literary Modernism, Jewish Animality, and the Crisis of the New Cosmopolitanism Chapter 3. Abie’s Irish Rose: Immigrant Couplings, Utopian Multiculturalism, and the Early American Film Industry Part Two. The Second Wave: Erotic Schlemiels of the Counterculture (1967–1980) Chapter 4. Benjamin’s Cross: Israel, New Hollywood, and the Jewish Transgressive (1947–1967) Chapter 5. Portnoy’s Monkey: Postwar Literature, Stand-Up Comedy, and the Emergence of the Carnal Jew (1955–1969) Chapter 6. Katie’s Typewriter: Hollywood Romance, Historical Rewrite, and the Subversive Sexuality of the Counterculture Part Three. The Third Wave: Global Fockers at the Millennium (1993–2007) Chapter 7. Spiegelman’s Frog: Coded Jewish Metamorph and Christian Witnessing (1978–1992) Chapter 8. Seinfeld’s Mailman: Global Television and the Wandering Sitcom (1993–2000) Chapter 9. Gaylord’s Tulip: Fluid and Fluidity at the Millennium (1993–2008) Conclusion. Plato’s Retweet Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Not Your Average Zombie
Book SynopsisAnalyzing humanized zombies in popular culture across nearly a century, this innovative book discloses how the extra-ordinary undead mediate our fears of losing agency in the world of the living.Trade ReviewKee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *[An] ambitious study...Not Your Average Zombie is an insightful, clearly written, and well-researched book that both students and experts in the field of zombie studies will enjoy. * Alphaville *Kee's Not Your Average Zombie is an important book…Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice. * American Quarterly *[Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field…a fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *Rather than conclude that the zombie genre is static, [Kee] highlights extraordinary examples of the zombies, zombification, and zombie culture that hint at human agency amongst those often deemed brainless pawns or dehumanized bodies...In each chapter, Kee spends several pages establishing context before she focuses on her examples of extraordinary zombies. What results is robust coverage of every possible example. * ImageTexT *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. From the Zombi to the Zombie: The Extra-Ordinary Undead Part I. Zombie Identities Chapter 1. From Cannibals to Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields: Haiti, Vodou, and Early Zombie Films Chapter 2. Racialized and Raceless: Race after Death and Zombie Revolution Chapter 3. "You Can't Hurt Me, You Can't Destroy Me, You Can't Control Me": White Women in Zombie Films Chapter 4. A Proud and Powerful Line: Women of Color and Voodoo Part II. Playing the Zombie Chapter 5. "Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Brains": Playing the Zombie in Video Games Chapter 6. I Walked with a Zombie: Performing the Living Dead Conclusion. "I Think I'm Dead." Notes Bibliography Index
£63.00
University of Texas Press Not Your Average Zombie
Book SynopsisAnalyzing humanized zombies in popular culture across nearly a century, this innovative book discloses how the “extra-ordinary” undead mediate our fears of losing agency in the world of the living.Trade ReviewKee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism...useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *[An] ambitious study...Not Your Average Zombie is an insightful, clearly written, and well-researched book that both students and experts in the field of zombie studies will enjoy. * Alphaville *Kee's Not Your Average Zombie is an important book…Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice. * American Quarterly *[Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field…a fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *Rather than conclude that the zombie genre is static, [Kee] highlights extraordinary examples of the zombies, zombification, and zombie culture that hint at human agency amongst those often deemed brainless pawns or dehumanized bodies...In each chapter, Kee spends several pages establishing context before she focuses on her examples of extraordinary zombies. What results is robust coverage of every possible example. * ImageTexT *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. From the Zombi to the Zombie: The Extra-Ordinary Undead Part I. Zombie Identities Chapter 1. From Cannibals to Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields: Haiti, Vodou, and Early Zombie Films Chapter 2. Racialized and Raceless: Race after Death and Zombie Revolution Chapter 3. "You Can't Hurt Me, You Can't Destroy Me, You Can't Control Me": White Women in Zombie Films Chapter 4. A Proud and Powerful Line: Women of Color and Voodoo Part II. Playing the Zombie Chapter 5. "Be Safe, Have Fun, Eat Brains": Playing the Zombie in Video Games Chapter 6. I Walked with a Zombie: Performing the Living Dead Conclusion. "I Think I'm Dead." Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Evolving Images
Book SynopsisJews have always played an important role in the generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relatively small numbers in the overall population. In the early days of cinema, they served as directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, and broadcasters. As Latin American societies became more religiously open in the later twentieth century, Jewish characters and themes began appearing in Latin American films and eventually achieved full inclusion. Landmark films by Jewish directors in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, which are home to the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Latin America, have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim.Evolving Images is the first volume devoted to Jewish Latin American cinema, with fifteen critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel. The contributors address transnational and transcultural issues of Jewish life in Latin America, such as assimilation, integration, idenTrade Review[A] superb collection of essays…All too often we find a statement such as 'this is a 'must book' for all those interested in…' In considering Evolving Images it is warranted, for it points to an equally evolving academic enterprise within Latin American-Jewish studies. * Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas *A welcome addition to the English-language literature on Jewish themes in Latin American cinema...highly readable...Glickman and Huberman should be congratulated for putting together a fine collection of essays on the inadequately studied topic of Jewish presence in Latin American cinema. * Jewish Film and New Media *The editors are to be commended for creating a structure that gives insight into specific aspects of Jewish lives and how these are visually depicted in Latin American countries...Evolving Images is essential reading for anyone seeking to gain insight into Jewish filmmaking in Latin American countries. Those studying or wishing to learn more about how Jewish motives and themes are treated in Latin American film and cinema will find this edited anthology highly informative and engaging. Everyone interested in the depiction of religion, heritage and/or cultural identities on film might also be interested in the collection. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Introduction. Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema (Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman) Part I. Alternative Identities 1. Out of the Shadows: María Victoria Menis’s Camera Obscura (Graciela Michelotti) 2. Intercultural Dilemmas: Performing Jewish Identities in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (Elissa J. Rashkin) 3. Incidental Jewishness in the Films of Fabián Bielinsky (Amy Kaminsky) Part II. Memory and Violence 4. My German Friend and the Jewish Argentine/German “Mnemo-Historic“ Context (Daniela Goldfine) 5. Dispersed Friendships: Jeanine Meerapfel’s La amiga (Patricia Nuriel) 6. Revisiting the AMIA Bombing in Marcos Carnevale’s Anita (Mirna Vohnsen) Part III. New Themes 7. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation: A Jewish Journey in the Land of Soccer (Alejandro Meter) 8. Coming of Age in Two Films from Argentina and Uruguay (Carolina Rocha) 9. Waiting for the Messiah: The Super 8mm Films of Alberto Salomón (Ernesto Livon-Grosman) Part IV. Diasporas and Displacements 10. Geographic Isolation and Jewish Religious Revival in Front (Ariana Huberman) 11. Negotiating Jewish and Palestinian Identities in Latin American Cinema (Tzvi Tal) 12. From a Dream to Reality: Representations of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Latin American Film (Amalia Ran) 13. On Becoming a Movie (Ilan Stavans) Part V. Comparative Perspectives: North and South American Cinema 14. Jewish Urban Space in the Films of Daniel Burman and Woody Allen (Jerry Carlson) 15. Interfaith Relations between Jews and Gentiles in Argentine and US Cinema (Nora Glickman) Afterword. Film Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies (Naomi Lindstrom) Jewish Latin American Filmography Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press Screening Stephen King
Book SynopsisSurveying adaptations of Stephen King's work across four decades, this volume links the evolution of King's brand to the changing preoccupations and industrial contexts of the horror genre in film and TV since the seventies.Trade Review"Brown has done an excellent job of bringing together the many film and television King adaptations – the good, the bad and the ugly – and has packaged them into one coherent and, most importantly, accessible volume." * LSE Review of Books *"[A] seminal text...Thoroughly researched and engaging." * Popular Culture Studies Journal *"A unique, valuable addition to the academic world…this text grants an innovative perspective that will pique the interest of many scholars…As a result of its meticulous construction, Simon Brown's text provides an original, valuable contribution to the humanities." * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Mainstream Horror and Brand Stephen King Chapter 2. Stephen King from Vietnam to Reagan: The Early Adaptations and the Establishment of Brand Stephen King on the Screen Chapter 3. The Mainstream Adaptations, 1986–2007 Chapter 4. Stephen King as Low-Budget and Straight-to-DVD Horror Chapter 5. Stephen King as TV Horror Conclusion. The Future Is Also History: The Contemporary Evolution of Brand Stephen King Selected TV and Filmography References Index
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University of Texas Press Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
Book SynopsisPalestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though modest, film effort within the national liberation campaign of a stateless people. Filmmakers working within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and through other channels filmed the revolution as it unfolded, including the Israeli bombings of Palestinian refugee camps, the Jordanian and Lebanese civil wars, and Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, attempting to create a cinematic language consonant with the revolution and its needs. They experimented with form both to make effective use of limited material and to process violent events and loss as a means of sustaining active engagement in the Palestinian political project.Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution presents an in-depth study of films made between 1968 and 1982, the filmmakers and their practices, the political and cultural contexts in whiTrade ReviewYaqub's book helps to recover a period of revolutionary activity whose hopes and promises have been left unfulfilled. * Film Quarterly *[Yaqub's] message of maintaining artistic archives at risk of marginalization (or worse, total extinction) should resonate with anyone who appreciates the crucial interconnections between film and cultural identity. * Film International Online *Yaqub's is the first book devoted to this topic, certainly a reason in itself to welcome her study into the field of studies on Palestinian film...Yaqub does not exaggerate the quality of these films; nonetheless she sees past their limitations, exacerbated by the disappearance of so many of them, to their artistic and experimental merits and, most importantly, parses out their lasting importance for Palestinians today and for the present-day filmmakers who draw on them and draw inspiration from them. * Critical Inquiry *[An] important, comprehensive study…[Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution] opens a window to a luminous period of revolutionary production that, until now, has been largely inaccessible to English-language readers, and invites reengagement with these vital, visionary works in a moment where inspiration is urgently needed. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution delves into the political dynamics of Palestinian film...One striking aspect of Yaqub's study is the importance of collective memory and oral history in the Palestinian context. * The New Arab *[An] indispensable volume...Yaqub has gone to the painstaking effort to piece together what remains of these films, whether physically or simply from the memories of those who made them. Indeed, at a certain point it becomes difficult to see the author's effort to preserve an aspect of ever-threatened Palestinian history as different, or any less revolutionary, than the efforts of the film-makers she discusses in her book. * Al Jadid *[Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution] offers an extraordinarily well-researched, thorough, and nuanced historical account of a period of cultural production that is important to revisit today. Yaqub’s approach has the great merit of examining Palestinian revolutionary cinema in its social context and on its own terms. At the same time, it admirably sets Palestinian filmmakers’ goals in relation to militant cinemas addressing similar questions around the world. Thereby, her book addresses cinema of revolutionary times, exploring what it can tell us about filmmaking in the days of revolution past and to come, here and elsewhere. * Journal of Palestine Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Translation and Transcription Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction Chapter One: Emerging From a Humanitarian Gaze: Representations of Palestinians between 1948 and 1968 Chapter Two: Toward a Palestinian Third Cinema Chapter Three: Palestine and the Rise of Alternative Arab Cinema Chapter Four: From Third to Third World Cinema: Film Circuits and the Institutionalization of Palestinian Cinema Chapter Five: Steadfast Images: The Afterlives of Films and Photographs of Tall al-Za`tar Chapter Six: Cinematic Legacies: The Palestinian Revolution in Twenty-First Century Cinema Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
Book SynopsisPalestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though modest, film effort within the national liberation campaign of a stateless people. Filmmakers working within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and through other channels filmed the revolution as it unfolded, including the Israeli bombings of Palestinian refugee camps, the Jordanian and Lebanese civil wars, and Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, attempting to create a cinematic language consonant with the revolution and its needs. They experimented with form both to make effective use of limited material and to process violent events and loss as a means of sustaining active engagement in the Palestinian political project.Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution presents an in-depth study of films made between 1968 and 1982, the filmmakers and their practices, the political and cultural contexts in whiTrade ReviewYaqub's book helps to recover a period of revolutionary activity whose hopes and promises have been left unfulfilled. * Film Quarterly *[Yaqub's] message of maintaining artistic archives at risk of marginalization (or worse, total extinction) should resonate with anyone who appreciates the crucial interconnections between film and cultural identity. * Film International Online *Yaqub's is the first book devoted to this topic, certainly a reason in itself to welcome her study into the field of studies on Palestinian film...Yaqub does not exaggerate the quality of these films; nonetheless she sees past their limitations, exacerbated by the disappearance of so many of them, to their artistic and experimental merits and, most importantly, parses out their lasting importance for Palestinians today and for the present-day filmmakers who draw on them and draw inspiration from them. * Critical Inquiry *[An] important, comprehensive study…[Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution] opens a window to a luminous period of revolutionary production that, until now, has been largely inaccessible to English-language readers, and invites reengagement with these vital, visionary works in a moment where inspiration is urgently needed. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution delves into the political dynamics of Palestinian film...One striking aspect of Yaqub's study is the importance of collective memory and oral history in the Palestinian context. * The New Arab *[An] indispensable volume...Yaqub has gone to the painstaking effort to piece together what remains of these films, whether physically or simply from the memories of those who made them. Indeed, at a certain point it becomes difficult to see the author's effort to preserve an aspect of ever-threatened Palestinian history as different, or any less revolutionary, than the efforts of the film-makers she discusses in her book. * Al Jadid *[Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution] offers an extraordinarily well-researched, thorough, and nuanced historical account of a period of cultural production that is important to revisit today. Yaqub’s approach has the great merit of examining Palestinian revolutionary cinema in its social context and on its own terms. At the same time, it admirably sets Palestinian filmmakers’ goals in relation to militant cinemas addressing similar questions around the world. Thereby, her book addresses cinema of revolutionary times, exploring what it can tell us about filmmaking in the days of revolution past and to come, here and elsewhere. * Journal of Palestine Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Translation and Transcription Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction Chapter One: Emerging From a Humanitarian Gaze: Representations of Palestinians between 1948 and 1968 Chapter Two: Toward a Palestinian Third Cinema Chapter Three: Palestine and the Rise of Alternative Arab Cinema Chapter Four: From Third to Third World Cinema: Film Circuits and the Institutionalization of Palestinian Cinema Chapter Five: Steadfast Images: The Afterlives of Films and Photographs of Tall al-Za`tar Chapter Six: Cinematic Legacies: The Palestinian Revolution in Twenty-First Century Cinema Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Animated Personalities
Book SynopsisBroadening the field of star studies to include animation, this pioneering book makes the case that iconic cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse, are legitimate cinematic stars, just as popular human actors are.Trade Review[A] never less than fascinating analysis of the lives of animated actors, separate from their performances…this book excels as a fascinating history of who these celluloid celebrities were. * Austin Chronicle *[Animated Personalities] is impressive for its lucid historical structure and exceptionally enjoyable content...McGowan breathes life into celluloid figures, giving readers a backstory for some of the most enduring iconic characters of screen history. This is a truly gratifying book. * CHOICE *[A] meticulous study…McGowan's project stands out as an extensively researched and timely intervention that simultaneously underscores the need to systematically examine the intersections between animation and live-action stardom and provides a useful model for conducting this type of analysis in an engaging, provocative manner. * Celebrity Studies *McGowan delivers an in-depth, concise and convincing line of reasoning as to why animated characters should be considered star quality, whilst providing exceptional discourse on various aspects of cinematic history...This is a bold and powerful exposé on a subject matter that has had an enormous impact on our society extending way beyond the bounds of entertainment. * Leonardo *Combining historical, formal, and theoretical modes of analysis, Animated Personalities represents a vital contribution to both star studies and the study of animation in classical Hollywood and beyond. By embracing a key problematic of the study of stardom—the inability to take any element of its construction as authentic—McGowan does not undermine the validity of this approach so much as craft a more honest and complete understanding of it. * Synoptique *More than simply adding animation to the existing scholarship in star studies, McGowan raises important questions and contributes a significant work to the field in the twenty-first-century era of CGI artificiality in modern filmmaking...McGowan’s work is an important breakthrough in examinations of stardom. * Journal of Popular Culture *[McGowan offers] alternative approaches to star studies that reveal insights into how the field can and should develop. * Screen *[A] tralblazing book...McGowan draws detailed and insightful comparisons between the processes involved in custom building star personas for live-action and animated films. * Studies in American Humor *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Section I. Stages of Theatrical Stardom Chapter 1. Silent Animation and the Development of the Star System Chapter 2. Stars and Scandal in the 1930s Chapter 3. The Second World War Section II. Conceptualizing Theatrical Animated Stardom Chapter 4. The Comedian Comedy Chapter 5. Authorship Chapter 6. The Studio System Section III. Post-Theatrical Stardom Chapter 7. The Animated Television Star Chapter 8. The Death of the Animated Star? Notes Works Cited Index
£67.15
University of Texas Press Animated Personalities
Book SynopsisBroadening the field of star studies to include animation, this pioneering book makes the case that iconic cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse, are legitimate cinematic stars, just as popular human actors are.Trade Review[A] never less than fascinating analysis of the lives of animated actors, separate from their performances…this book excels as a fascinating history of who these celluloid celebrities were. * Austin Chronicle *[Animated Personalities] is impressive for its lucid historical structure and exceptionally enjoyable content...McGowan breathes life into celluloid figures, giving readers a backstory for some of the most enduring iconic characters of screen history. This is a truly gratifying book. * CHOICE *[A] meticulous study…McGowan's project stands out as an extensively researched and timely intervention that simultaneously underscores the need to systematically examine the intersections between animation and live-action stardom and provides a useful model for conducting this type of analysis in an engaging, provocative manner. * Celebrity Studies *McGowan delivers an in-depth, concise and convincing line of reasoning as to why animated characters should be considered star quality, whilst providing exceptional discourse on various aspects of cinematic history...This is a bold and powerful exposé on a subject matter that has had an enormous impact on our society extending way beyond the bounds of entertainment. * Leonardo *Combining historical, formal, and theoretical modes of analysis, Animated Personalities represents a vital contribution to both star studies and the study of animation in classical Hollywood and beyond. By embracing a key problematic of the study of stardom—the inability to take any element of its construction as authentic—McGowan does not undermine the validity of this approach so much as craft a more honest and complete understanding of it. * Synoptique *More than simply adding animation to the existing scholarship in star studies, McGowan raises important questions and contributes a significant work to the field in the twenty-first-century era of CGI artificiality in modern filmmaking...McGowan’s work is an important breakthrough in examinations of stardom. * Journal of Popular Culture *[McGowan offers] alternative approaches to star studies that reveal insights into how the field can and should develop. * Screen *[A] tralblazing book...McGowan draws detailed and insightful comparisons between the processes involved in custom building star personas for live-action and animated films. * Studies in American Humor *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Section I. Stages of Theatrical Stardom Chapter 1. Silent Animation and the Development of the Star System Chapter 2. Stars and Scandal in the 1930s Chapter 3. The Second World War Section II. Conceptualizing Theatrical Animated Stardom Chapter 4. The Comedian Comedy Chapter 5. Authorship Chapter 6. The Studio System Section III. Post-Theatrical Stardom Chapter 7. The Animated Television Star Chapter 8. The Death of the Animated Star? Notes Works Cited Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Hollywood in San Francisco
Book SynopsisThis pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.Trade ReviewHollywood in San Francisco is valuable for its wide-ranging historical scholarship on the golden age of location shooting in San Francisco. * Cineaste *This thoroughly researched book depicts a faithful account of the practice of decentralization of location shooting to the north of Los Angeles in the postwar era....We have come to know Joshua Gleich as a knowledgeable, prolific, and engaged commentator on film and television history, and on connecting various disciplines in urban and media studies, and this book is part of that universe... At a time when records and archives are under threat of simply being thrown away, an account this dense as Gleich’s book is more than timely. * Historic Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Postwar Location Shooting, the Semi-Documentary, and Dark Passage Chapter 2. The Cine-Tourist City: From Cinerama to The Lineup and Vertigo Chapter 3. “Sick Tales of a Healthy Land”: Blake Edwards in San Francisco Chapter 4. Countercultural Capital: Hollywood Chases the Summer of Love Chapter 5. The Manhattanization of San Francisco: Dirty Harry and The Streets of San Francisco Chapter 6. Hollywood North / Hollywood Resurgence: The Conversation and The Towering Inferno Conclusion: Hollywood’s San Francisco Appendix. Films Set and/or Shot in San Francisco between 1945 and 1975 Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Comics and Pop Culture
Book SynopsisThis engaging collection explores the multi-media intersections of comics, film, television, and popular culture over the last century, ranging from Felix the Cat to Black Panther.Trade Review"This is an indispensable contribution to scholarship on comic books, film, and the synergetic nature of adaptation." * CHOICE *"A rich group of essays that represent diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies." * New Books in Film *"[Comics and Pop Culture’s] 19 contributors deftly sidestep the ‘Are superhero movies cinema?’ debate – which usually leads to pointless semantic hair-splitting – and instead focus on diverse examples (from American Splendor, to Modesty Blaise and Scott Pilgrim) to illustrate the two mediums’ complex intersections." * Film International *"Grant and Henderson have collected a fascinating and novel group of essays that challenge conventional notions of adaptation and raise interesting questions for the future of adaptation studies...The variety of subject matter makes this a wonderful read for those interested in comics, film, pop culture, or adaptation theory." * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *"Comics and Pop Culture is an unapologetic celebration of the historical, cultural, and processual affect of comics and film by academics who are fans of the subjects of which they write…it provides a wonderful start to a conversation that other scholars may pick up to investigate in other ways. In that aspect, it proves itself to be a valuable resource for the ongoing scholarship around the things we love to study: comics, film, and pop culture." * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson) Part One. Issues and Debates The Crossroads of Infinity, or Universum Incognitum (Scott Bukatman) From Adaptation to Extension: A History of Comics Adapting Films, 1976–2015 (Blair Davis) Take the Movie Home! How the Comic Book Tie-In Anticipated Transmedia Production (Liam Burke) Manga, Anime, Adaptation: Economic Strategies, Aesthetic Specificities, Social Issues (Chris Reyns-Chikuma) Genre and Superhero Cinema (Aaron Taylor) Destroying the Rainbow Bridge: Representations of Heterosexuality in Marvel Superhero Narratives (Miriam Kent) Mutatis Mutandis: Constructing Fidelity in the Comic Book Film Adaptation (Jason Rothery and Benjamin Woo) “We Roller Coaster Through . . .”: Screenwriting, Narrative Economy, and the Inscription of the Haptic in Tentpole Comic Book Movies (Julian Hoxter) Adaptation and Seriality: Comic Book to Television Series Adaptations (Sherryl Vint) Part Two. Panels and Frames Felix in—and out of—Space (J. P. Telotte) A Comic Book Life/Style: World Building in American Splendor (Matt Yockey) The Extraordinary Career of Modesty Blaise (James Chapman) Authenticity and Judge Dredd on Film (J. Mark Percival) CGI as Adaptation Strategy: Can a Digitally Constructed Spider-Man Do Whatever a Hand-Drawn Spider-Man Can? (James C. Taylor) Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Texts: Adaptation, Form, and Transmedia Co-creation (John Bodner) Transmedia Adaptation and Writing in the Margins: A Graphic Expansion of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (Aviva Briefel) Agency and Intertextuality: Tank Girl, Subcultural Aesthetics, and the Strong Female Protagonist (Scott Henderson) Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation (Jeffrey A. Brown) Contributors Index
£73.95
University of Texas Press Quantum Screens
£79.20
University of Texas Press American Twilight
Book SynopsisA master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country's internal decay.
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University of Texas Press Below the Stars
Book SynopsisAn examination of the critical influence of working actors and actors' labor unions on industrial structures and practices in Hollywood, including film, television, and streaming.Trade ReviewGiven the recent stories surrounding Hollywood and its unions, [Fortmueller's] look at the place occupied by working actors and extras in the film industry could not be more timely. * The Film Stage *[A] thorough history of background actors and extras in the entertainment industry workforce, from the silent era to today...Fortmueller offers intriguing details and anecdotes uncovered in archival materials, and at times the book reads like an entertaining work of meta-cinema, full of scandal and intrigue. * Library Journal *[Below the Stars] is a valuable read that untangles, with exceptional clarity, the convoluted histories of labour unions in various media landscapes and stages of technological developments, presenting a comprehensive picture of industrial forces from the unique vantage point of below-the-star actors. * Alphaville *[Below the Stars demonstrates] how media studies scholars should theorize and teach labor organizing and media industry structures...Fortmueller’s archival research demonstrates a keen ability to find Hollywood workers often missing from other archival collections. But in her final chapter, interviews with working actors provide a striking look at the precarity of employment that defines our contemporary media moment. * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *[Below the Stars] provides us with multiple previously obscured union histories. It also drives home our need to re-envision the ideological constructs we sometimes cling to in our field: the conflation of actor and star and the belief in the impermeable boundaries between media. In short, this book fills several gaps in the field and is a necessary addition to any course on the US media industries, stardom, performance, and/or US television history. * Media Industries *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Hollywood Freelance: How Actors and Extras Shaped the Film Industry Chapter 2. Actors and the Making of Television’s First Golden Age Chapter 3. Reuse and Replace? Actors, Reruns, and the Cable Era Chapter 4. New Media, Old Labor Conflicts: Voice Actors and Digital Professionalization Conclusion Postscript. Actors and COVID-19: What the Pandemic Teaches Us about Film and Television Labor Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Hollywood Shutdown Production Distribution and
Book SynopsisA concise and timely analysis of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on film and television production, distribution, and exhibition in the first nine months of 2020.Trade ReviewThe value of Fortmueller’s book is as a contemporary historical record of what’s happened to the entertainment industry thus far [during the COVID-19 pandemic], and as a source of informed speculation on what might happen next...Despite its compact size, the book contains an impressive amount of information and analysis, all of it accessibly written and clearly explained. * PopMatters *Hollywood Shutdown is a slender but information packed analysis of the motion picture industry’s response to a crisis that recalled any number of Hollywood disaster movies. * Shepherd Express *One of the first (if not the first) books about the impact of COVID-19 on film and television production. Hollywood Shutdown covers how and why the production, distribution, and exhibition of entertainment has shifted so dramatically. Fortmueller explains that because of the pandemic’s ongoing nature, she 'did not have the kind of temporal and emotional distance from my subject that is usually part of the writing process.' But this perspective serves to make Shutdown even more vital as an in-the-moment chronicle of how Hollywood responded to COVID. * The Film Stage *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Hollywood Responds to a Pandemic Chapter 1. Production Chapter 2. Distribution Chapter 3. Exhibition Conclusion. Where Do We Go from Here? Acknowledgments Notes Index
£16.14
University of Texas Press Cinemas Original Sin
Book SynopsisHow century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.Trade ReviewCinema’s Original Sin is a fascinating, authoritative, and essential text for anyone interested in film history, the history of racism and its on-going echoes, or examining the history of ongoing social conversations from the public, press, and academia...The Birth of a Nation is not a masterpiece. It’s well-executed propaganda. It’s time to call that out and acknowledge it, which Professor McEwan definitively does with flawless scholarship and inarguable logic. It’s an essential read and an essential contribution to numerous on-going cultural conversations. * Mastering Modernity *Few films in the history of the medium have been as widely discussed as D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation...Yet it is this very excess of existing commentary that makes Paul McEwan’s contribution in the form of Cinema’s Original Sin so worthwhile and, ultimately, compelling...Tracing a long and contentious reception history that begins before cinema’s widespread acceptance as an art in its own right, McEwan delineates with rare authority how changing ideas about racism, artistic expression and film culture have been intertwined since the very earliest years of feature filmmaking in the United States. * Early Popular Visual Culture *Alongside the history McEwan keeps track of how film criticism might contribute to and ameliorate the contours of white supremacy—film criticism that includes his book and now this little review. * CHOICE *McEwan presents an enchanting and well-researched historical past . . . and argues that this controversy inside movie historical past has formed understandings of movie, race, and artwork. * Hetflix *Cinema’s Original Sin is expansive, particularly for students who think of racism and the cinema solely in terms of representational strategies. Once it becomes clear that the issue is structural, adjusting representational strategies appears an insufficient solution to the issues that led—and in some instances continue to lead—to Griffith’s defense. * Film Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Art, 1895–1915 2. Film Art, Intolerance, and Oscar Micheaux, 1915–1925 3. Little Theatres, MOMA, and the Birth of Art Cinema, 1925–1945 4. From American History to Film History, 1945–1960 5. In Search of Legitimacy and Masterpieces: Film Studies in the Academy, 1960–2000 6. Race, Reception, and Remix in the New Millennium Epilogue Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Black Panther
Book SynopsisBlack Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon that broke box office records. Yet it wasn’t just a movie led by and starring Black artists. It grappled with ideas and conflicts central to Black life in America and helped redress the racial dynamics of the Hollywood blockbuster.Scott Bukatman, one of the foremost scholars of superheroes and cinematic spectacle, brings his impeccable pedigree to this lively and accessible study, finding in the utopianism of Black Panther a way of re-envisioning what a superhero movie can and should be while centering the Black creators, performers, and issues behind it. He considers the superheroic Black body; the Pan-African fantasy, feminism, and Afrofuturism of Wakanda; the African American relationship to Africa; the political influence of director Ryan Coogler’s earlier movies; and the entwined performances of Chadwick Boseman’s T’ChalTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Tell Me a Story The Road to Wakanda Black Panther’s Black Body The Wakandan Dream The Killmonger Problem Conclusion: Why Do We Hide? Appreciations Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Visible Borders Invisible Economies
Book Synopsis2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’Trade ReviewUlibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . . The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. * Latin@ Literatures *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization Part I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Chapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox Chapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera Part II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy Chapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South” Notes Bibliography Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Labors of Fear
Book SynopsisHow work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film. American ideals position work as a source of pride, opportunity, and meaning. Yet the ravages of labor are constant grist for horror films. Going back decades to the mad scientists of classic cinema, the menial motel job that prepares Norman Bates for his crimes in Psycho, and the unemployed slaughterhouse workers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, horror movies have made the case that work is not so much a point of pride as a source of monstrosity. Editors Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton assemble the first study of horror’s critique of labor. In the 1970s and 1980s, films such as The Shining and Dawn of the Dead responded to deindustrialization, automation, globalization, and rising numbers of women in the workforce. Labors of Fear explores these critical issues and extends them in discussions of recent works such as The Autopsy of Jane Doe, MidsommarTrade ReviewAn intriguing array of essays that consider horror and various forms of labor and work. . . By analyzing and reflecting on these films—and how labor and work in all their forms relate to the terror of the contemporary—this collection illuminates the fears and frights to be found not only in the cinema but also in one's own occupations. * CHOICE *Labors of Fear makes a strong case that the horror genre has, in fact, understood that work is a monstrous presence in most of our lives all along, and the genre has been offering the resources to help us rethink what work can and should be . . . Thus, one of the main accomplishments of Labors of Fear is the simple act of lingering on aspects of work . . . It’s all presented in clear, readable prose, with a minimum of footnotes—well suited for both academics looking to use these essays as jumping-off points for their own work and for horror viewers wanting to find new ways to pay attention to their favorite films. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Jason Middleton and Aviva Briefel) Part I. How Horror Works: Killing, Dying, Surviving Chapter 1. Tools of the Trade: A Statistical Analysis of Slasher Hardware (Marc Olivier) Chapter 2. Every Ritual Has Its Purpose: Laboring Bodies in The Autopsy of Jane Doe (David Church) Chapter 3. George A. Romero and the Work of Survival (Adam Lowenstein) Part II. Working from Home: Domestic, Gendered, and Emotional Labor Chapter 4. Sonic Gothic: Listening to the Exhaustion of Gendered Domestic Labor in The Babadook and The Swerve (Lisa Coulthard) Chapter 5. No Drama: Emotion Work in Midsommar (Jason Middleton) Chapter 6. Reproductive Technics and Time: Ectogestational Labor, Biotechnological Horror, Social Reproduction (Alanna Thain) Part III. Stolen Work, Stolen Play: Race and Racialized Labor Chapter 7. “We Want to Take Our Time”: The Hard Work of Leisure in Jordan Peele’s Us (Aviva Briefel) Chapter 8. Racing Work and Working Race in Buppie Horror (Mikal J. Gaines) Chapter 9. The Horror of Stagnation; or, The Perspectival Dread of It Follows (Joel Burges) Chapter 10. Fieldwork: Anthropology and Intellectual Labor in Ari Aster’s Midsommar (Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb) Afterword: The Work of Horror after Get Out (Catherine Zimmer) List of Contributors Index
£40.50
University of Texas Press The Value Gap FemaleDriven Films from Pitch to
Book SynopsisHow female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood. Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the industry during this transformative moment. Drawing from five years of extensive interviews with female producers, writers, and directors at different stages of their careers, Courtney Brannon Donoghue examines how Hollywood business cultures value female-driven projects as risky or not bankable. Industry claims that movies
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University of Texas Press The Value Gap
Book SynopsisHow female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.Table of Contents Introduction. Mind the Gaps Chapter 1. The Gendered Workplace (Employment Gap) Chapter 2. Script Market to Pitch Meetings (Development Gap) Chapter 3. Production Work and Gendered Cultures (Leadership Gap) Chapter 4. Film Festivals and Markets (Programming Gap) Chapter 5. Distribution and Marketing (Bankability Gap) Conclusion. Gendered Value in a Changing Media Marketplace Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Paid to Care
Book SynopsisAn insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences. Paid domestic work in Latin America is often undervalued, underpaid, and underregulated. Exploring a wave of Latin American cultural texts since the 1980s that draw on the personal experiences of paid domestic work or intimate ties to domestic employees, Paid to Care offers insights into the struggles domestic workers face through an analysis of literary testimonials, documentary and fiction films, and works of digital media. From domestic workers’ experiences of unionization in the 1980s to calls for their rights to be respected today, the cultural texts analyzed in Paid to Care provide additional insight into public debates about paid domestic work. Rachel Randall examines work made in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, anTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Paid Domestic Workers’ Testimonios in Latin America Chapter 2. Labors of Love? Live-in Domestic Workers in Latin American Fiction Film Chapter 3. Immaterial Labors: Spectral Domestic Workers in Brazilian and Argentine Documentary Chapter 4. Domestic Workers in the Digital Domain Conclusion Appendix 1. Latin American Testimonios Exploring (Paid) Domestic Work and Published in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Appendix 2. Filmography: Latin American Fiction Films Released since 2000 That Feature Paid Domestic Workers in Key Roles Appendix 3. Filmography: Contemporary Latin American Documentaries That Focus on Paid Domestic or Care Workers Appendix 4. Filmography: Other Films or Television Shows Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press Im Not There
Book SynopsisAn examination of director Todd Haynes and his Bob Dylan biopic. As the first and only Bob Dylan “biopic,” I’m Not There caused a stir when released in 2007. Offering a surreal retelling of moments from Dylan’s life and career, the film is perhaps best known for its distinctive approach to casting, including Cate Blanchett and Marcus Carl Franklin, a Black child actor, as versions of Dylan though none of the characters bear his name. Greenlit by Bob Dylan himself, the film uses Dylan’s music as a score, a triumph for famed queer filmmaker Todd Haynes after encountering issues with copyright in previous projects. Noah Tsika eloquently characterizes all the ways that Dylan and Haynes harmonize in their methods and sensibilities, interpreting the rule-breaking film as a biography that refuses chronology, disdains factual accuracy, flirts with libel, and cannibalizes Western cinema. Fitting the film’s inspiration, creTrade ReviewIn I’m Not There (21st Century Film Essentials), Noah Tsika analyzes Haynes’ audacious 2007 Bob Dylan (sort of) biopic, which the author believes 'is perhaps the least studied' of the director’s films. The text establishes, however, that the film is more than worthy of deep consideration. Tsika even details how the film connects with Haynes’ career-long battles with trademark and copyright issues. All told, this is a truly essential study of a film that seems even bolder now than it did in 2007. * The Film Stage *Table of Contents Prologue: Flaming Quotations Introduction: 21st-Century Bedfellows Pursuing Opacity Violators Won’t Be Cited Mock the Documentary Playing On Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Imagining the Method
Book SynopsisA revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.Table of Contents Introduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method Chapter 1. Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness Chapter 2. Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness Chapter 3. James Dean’s Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized Chapter 4. History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness Chapter 5. Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present Conclusion. Facing a Future Methodness Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press The First Movie Studio in Texas
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University of Texas Press Quantum Screens
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Duke University Press Double Negative
Book SynopsisRacquel J. Gates examines the potential of so-called negative representations of African Americans in film and TV, from Coming to America to Basketball Wives and Empire, showing how such representations can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot.Trade Review"Gates considers not only formal producers of media but also black audiences who engage with these works, successfully arguing for a more nuanced understanding of what makes for black cultural production." -- Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook * Library Journal *"Racquel J. Gates’ unpacking of black racial media figures postulates that negative images derived from cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding practice can be reconfigured to provide agency and hybridity to black figures. . . . Recommended. All readers." -- S. Lenig * Choice *"Its potential for broader application across identity studies and the culture/media industries makes Double Negative essential reading." -- Leah Aldridge * Film Quarterly *"Double Negative is unique for recovering and giving value to texts that are assumed to be without value. Gates’ sharp analysis of how negative images interrogate American society in ways that the more positive ones do not is an important contribution to the fields of media studies, popular culture, and cultural studies." -- Linnete Manrique * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Double Negative offers evocative academic insight into past and present representations of black identity." -- Audrey Liow * Continuum *"An exciting entry into the academic study of African American media representations. . . . Gates reclaims negative images and foregrounds their importance for understanding hierarchies of media taste and the complexities of minoritarian identity and experience. The result is an evocative and provocative foray into what she calls the 'metaphorical gutter' of representation. . . . Highly accessible and engaging, Double Negative should be required reading for academics, students, and even pop-culture journalists who are interested in the complexities of race, identity, and contemporary media." -- Brandy Monk-Payton * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *“Building on media studies, cultural studies, genre studies, media industry studies, reception studies, film and television formalism, critical race theory, gender theory and queer theory, Gates masterfully shifts the conversation about black image production from one mired in a reductive positive/negative binary to one that demonstrates how ‘disreputable’ images are productive as a conduit to nuanced discussions about black images.” -- Alfred L. Martin * Film Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Negativity and the Black Popular Image 1 1. Eddie Murphy, Coming to America, and Formal Negativity 35 2. Relational Negativity: The Sellout Films of the 1990s 81 3. The Circumstantial Negativity of Halle Berry 114 4. Embracing the Ratchet: Reality Television and Strategic Negativity 142 Conclusion. Empire: A False Negative? 182 Notes 191 Bibliography 211 Index 219
£72.25
Duke University Press The Apartment Complex
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Apartment Complex offer global perspectives on films from a diverse set of genres—from film noir and comedy to horror and musicals—that use apartment living to explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities.Trade Review"[The Apartment Complex is] a concise, remarkably wide-ranging book on an unusual topic. ... Stark and satisfying. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *"The Apartment Complex builds upon the premise of Wojcik’s earlier book that wedded cinema studies to urban studies. . . Its strength lies in how the individual essayists apply Wojcik’s thesis— developed for post–World War II American films— to the more recent output of international films and television." -- Carrie Rickey * Film Quarterly *"Wojcik has produced a book unrestricted by the limits of genre, history, nation, or industry figure, and illuminates important visual and thematic connections between films in global screen culture." -- Anna Maria Sapountzi * Open Screens *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: What Makes the Apartment Complex? / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 1 1. Palaces of Pleasure and Deceit among the Clouds: The Depression-Era Cinematic Penthouse Plot / Merrill Schleier 21 2. From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's Apartment Plots / Steven Cohan 44 3. Alain Renais, Tsai Ming-liang, and the Apartment Plot Musical / Joe McElhaney 65 4. Movement and Stasis in Fassbinder's Apartment Plot / Michael DeAngelis 84 5. Housework, Sex Work: Feminist Ambivalence at 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Annamarie Jagose 105 6. Home's Invasion: Repulsion and the Horror of Apartments / Veronica Fitzpatrick 126 7. Reattachment Theory: Gay Marriage and the Apartment Plot / Lee Wallace 145 8. "We Don't Need to Dream No More. We Got Real Estate": The Wire, Urban Development, and the Racial Boundaries of the American Dream / Paula J. Massood 168 Bibliography 187 Contributors 195 Index 197
£86.70
Duke University Press Sound Objects
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline, and the limits of sonic objectivity.Trade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole, Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *"Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246 Bibliography 265 Contributors 281 Index 285
£98.60
Duke University Press Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
Book SynopsisDamon R. Young tracks the emergence of new forms of sexuality in French and American cinema from the 1950s to the present, showing how cinema transformed narratives of sexuality and how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation.Trade Review"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." -- Guy Davidson * Continuum *"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." -- Ricky Varghese * Public *"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." -- Nick Davis * GLQ *"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." -- Sam Hunter * Film & History *"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." -- Haley Hvdson * Synoptique *"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." -- Nick Rees-Roberts * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Sex Public 1 Part I. Women 1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject 21 2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex 54 Part II. Criminals 3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil 95 4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract 122 Part III. Citizens 5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy 159 6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus 187 Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality 215 Notes 239 Bibliography 279 Index 295
£80.10
Duke University Press The Apartment Complex
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Apartment Complex offer global perspectives on films from a diverse set of genresfrom film noir and comedy to horror and musicalsthat use apartment living to explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities.Trade Review"[The Apartment Complex is] a concise, remarkably wide-ranging book on an unusual topic. ... Stark and satisfying. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *"The Apartment Complex builds upon the premise of Wojcik’s earlier book that wedded cinema studies to urban studies. . . Its strength lies in how the individual essayists apply Wojcik’s thesis— developed for post–World War II American films— to the more recent output of international films and television." -- Carrie Rickey * Film Quarterly *"Wojcik has produced a book unrestricted by the limits of genre, history, nation, or industry figure, and illuminates important visual and thematic connections between films in global screen culture." -- Anna Maria Sapountzi * Open Screens *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: What Makes the Apartment Complex? / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 1 1. Palaces of Pleasure and Deceit among the Clouds: The Depression-Era Cinematic Penthouse Plot / Merrill Schleier 21 2. From Walter Neff to C.C. Baxter: Billy Wilder's Apartment Plots / Steven Cohan 44 3. Alain Renais, Tsai Ming-liang, and the Apartment Plot Musical / Joe McElhaney 65 4. Movement and Stasis in Fassbinder's Apartment Plot / Michael DeAngelis 84 5. Housework, Sex Work: Feminist Ambivalence at 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Annamarie Jagose 105 6. Home's Invasion: Repulsion and the Horror of Apartments / Veronica Fitzpatrick 126 7. Reattachment Theory: Gay Marriage and the Apartment Plot / Lee Wallace 145 8. "We Don't Need to Dream No More. We Got Real Estate": The Wire, Urban Development, and the Racial Boundaries of the American Dream / Paula J. Massood 168 Bibliography 187 Contributors 195 Index 197
£22.79
Duke University Press Sound Objects
Book SynopsisIs a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study?Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself. Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John MowittTrade Review"The carefully curated sequence of essays and chapters makes a significant contribution to the field of sound studies." -- Aurelio Cianciotta * Neural *"Like the field of sound studies, the essays collected here are disciplinarily difficult to define or contain.… The text may well contribute to the creation of an audience through the challenges it presents. This volume moves the discussion of sound forward by recognizing its aesthetic and ideological richness as well as its ontological instability. As a whole, Sound Objects demonstrates the potential for engagement with sound to reverberate more deeply across artistic, aesthetic, and scholarly landscapes, as well as the promise of richness that comes from examining our basic assumptions." -- Maribeth Clark * Notes *"Sound Objects provides readers with a deepened exploration of the sonic field while maintaining cross-disciplinary conversations to help sound studies further congeal as an integrated field. . . . The collection will also resonate with a wide readership through the range of represented experiences of sound with which readers will identify." -- Kate Galloway * MUSICultures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Sound Objects: An Introduction / James A. Steintrager, with Rey Chow 1 I. Genealogies 1. Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening / Michel Chion 23 2. Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source / John Dack 33 3. The Fluctuating Sound Object / Brian Kane 53 II. Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification 4. Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique / James A. Steintrager 73 5. Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies / Jonathan Sterne 94 III. Acousmatic Complications 6. Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic / Rey Chow 113 7. The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening / Pooja Rangan 130 IV. Sound Abjects and Nonhuman Relations 8. The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination / Veit Erlmann 151 9. The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat / Jairo Moreno and Gavin Steingo 167 10. On Nonhuman Sound—Sound as Relation / Georgina Born 185 V. Memory Traces 11. The Sound of Arche-Cinema / John Mowitt 211 12. Listening to the Sirens / Michael Bull 228 13. Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding / David Toop 246 Bibliography 265 Contributors 281 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
Book SynopsisBeginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women’s bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In Making Sex Public Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women’s and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late ''50s through the present, from And God Created Woman and Barbarella to Cruising and Shortbus,Trade Review"Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies is a vital contribution to queer studies and cinema studies. Young’s exquisitely written argument is richly loaded with insight and provocation and is bound to stimulate wide-ranging discussion in the fields with which it engages." -- Guy Davidson * Continuum *"Damon R. Young’s rigorously researched and beautifully written first book, Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies, is fundamentally a transnational and transatlantic study of how sex became, as the title goes, visible." -- Ricky Varghese * Public *"Making Sex Public intervenes with insight, eclecticism, and lively erudition into a period often approached through familiar narratives.… Young offers a fresh series of coordinates, widely dispersed yet carefully choreographed." -- Nick Davis * GLQ *"Making Sex Public is a deliberate text that carefully controls its scope and claims.… [It] offers an impressive toolkit of critical language and cinematic insights for a wide range of scholars and is a more than deserving entry into the broader canon of writing on screen sex." -- Sam Hunter * Film & History *"Young’s Making Sex Public is essential reading for those working in queer and feminist cinema studies." -- Haley Hvdson * Synoptique *"[An] important and original theoretical intervention in queer theory and film studies." -- Nick Rees-Roberts * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Sex Public 1 Part I. Women 1. Autonomous Pleasures: Bardot, Barbarella, and the Liberal Sexual Subject 21 2. Facing the Body in 1975: Catherine Breillat and the Antinomies of Sex 54 Part II. Criminals 3. The Form of the Social: Heterosexuality and Homo-aesthetics in Plein soleil 95 4. Cruising and the Fraternal Social Contract 122 Part III. Citizens 5. Word Is Out, or Queer Privacy 159 6. Sex in Public: Through the Window from Psycho to Shortbus 187 Epilogue. Postcinematic Sexuality 215 Notes 239 Bibliography 279 Index 295
£999.99
Duke University Press Abjection Incorporated
Book SynopsisExamining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death to theorizing how it has become a means to acquire political and cultural capital in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Passionate, eye-opening, exciting! From Lena Dunham to Amy Schumer to Larry Clark and Louis C. K. (not to mention Mad Magazine), who would have thought that forty years after Kristeva's Powers of Horror so much insight for our times could be discovered through the lens of abjection! Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond have contributed to and guided the production of a timely and unusually cohesive anthology.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley“Abjection Incorporated makes a strong case for the abject as an important political space for confrontations between identities assigned and performed. Even as many seek to displace the subject as a meaningful category of analysis and action, these essays demonstrate that the fundamental tension between the fragility of self and the abjection of otherness remains a viable and quite possibly unavoidable foundation for cultural theory and criticism.” -- Jeffrey Sconce, author of * The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity *“In an unique way, Abjection Incorporated makes a compelling argument about the concept of abjection as a useful tool to understand our peculiar existences in a sensory and irrational way.... [It] strongly advocates for a more nuanced perspective than the usual post-structuralist binary opposition of pleasure and violence....” -- Éric Falardeau * Jump Cut *“Abjection Incorporated succeeds in offering its readers a significant tool that helps to explain social, political, and cultural forces at work.... [T]he subject matter alone provides an important timely theoretical framework that can help make better sense of the competing reality spheres that have come to dominate the discourse over our present moment.” -- David Morton * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *“Comedy’s need to be miserable deeply complicates its relationship to power. Abjection Incorporated contributes essential scholarship to this historical and present problem.” -- Will Schmenner * Studies in American Humor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond 1 1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer 33 Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho 43 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo 64 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld 86 Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang 115 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta 140 7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak 164 8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill 185 9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney 208 Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System 10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond 217 11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema 243 12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shōjo Manga / Thomas Lamarre 268 13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King 291 Contributors 321 Index
£98.60
Duke University Press Abjection Incorporated
Book SynopsisExamining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death to theorizing how it has become a means to acquire political and cultural capital in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“Passionate, eye-opening, exciting! From Lena Dunham to Amy Schumer to Larry Clark and Louis C. K. (not to mention Mad Magazine), who would have thought that forty years after Kristeva's Powers of Horror so much insight for our times could be discovered through the lens of abjection! Editors Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond have contributed to and guided the production of a timely and unusually cohesive anthology.” -- Linda Williams, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley“Abjection Incorporated makes a strong case for the abject as an important political space for confrontations between identities assigned and performed. Even as many seek to displace the subject as a meaningful category of analysis and action, these essays demonstrate that the fundamental tension between the fragility of self and the abjection of otherness remains a viable and quite possibly unavoidable foundation for cultural theory and criticism.” -- Jeffrey Sconce, author of * The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity *“In an unique way, Abjection Incorporated makes a compelling argument about the concept of abjection as a useful tool to understand our peculiar existences in a sensory and irrational way.... [It] strongly advocates for a more nuanced perspective than the usual post-structuralist binary opposition of pleasure and violence....” -- Éric Falardeau * Jump Cut *“Abjection Incorporated succeeds in offering its readers a significant tool that helps to explain social, political, and cultural forces at work.... [T]he subject matter alone provides an important timely theoretical framework that can help make better sense of the competing reality spheres that have come to dominate the discourse over our present moment.” -- David Morton * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *“Comedy’s need to be miserable deeply complicates its relationship to power. Abjection Incorporated contributes essential scholarship to this historical and present problem.” -- Will Schmenner * Studies in American Humor *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond 1 1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer 33 Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho 43 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo 64 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld 86 Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang 115 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta 140 7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak 164 8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill 185 9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney 208 Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System 10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond 217 11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema 243 12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shōjo Manga / Thomas Lamarre 268 13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King 291 Contributors 321 Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Where Histories Reside
Book SynopsisPriya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.Trade Review“With grace and flair Priya Jaikumar shows how the preproduction practices and industry cultures of cinema—from expedition and nature films to commercial Bollywood cinema—produced and reinforced the spatial notions of territory and empire that dominated geopolitical histories. She looks forward to contemporary Indian geopolitics, as the privatization of economic resources increasingly harms vulnerable populations—even while location-based films exploit these populations and iconic precolonial architecture, now often in ruins, for a cinematic backdrop or ambience. Here is a magnificent study.” -- Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor, Harvard University“Where Histories Reside is a superbly written book in which Priya Jaikumar uses the optics of space to recast the discourse of Indian cinema and its pasts. Landscape, territory, and architecture are brought into conversation with geography, cultural theory, cinema studies, and politics. The result is a magnificent and methodologically daring approach that displaces the desire for causality with the spatialization of historical inquiry.” -- Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi"Employing a variety of methodologies, the volume is valuable both in itself and as a model for subaltern cinema history and historiography." -- K. J. Wetmore Jr. * Choice *"Written with style and verve, [Where Histories Reside] is one of those rare academic works that can justifiably claim a readership beyond conventional disciplinary provinces like film history or theory." -- Anustup Basu * Critical Quarterly *“Where Histories Reside is a great resource.... It is an authoritative book with meticulous research.... [I] recommend it to those who are interested in how space, history, geography, and people have come to create the cinematic space.” -- Umme Al-wazedi * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *“Where Histories Reside might be a book of multiple localised legacies concerning regional geography, Empire and globalised networks of capital and film production, but it is also very much a publication brimming with hard-won personal insight and critical reflection.” -- Alastair Philips * BioScope *“Where Histories Reside shows that space is not a thing to be filmed, nor simply a place to film in.... Jaikumar’s book invites us to regard both national and cinematic space as overdetermined and also to consider that seeing filmed space requires multiple overlapping lenses.” -- Pamela Robertson Wojcik * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *“Beginning with a promise of realizing a spatial critique in film studies, this book contributes to the spatial turn in film studies.... The significant success of the book is in gesturing towards diverse methods which go beyond the textual, enter the world of commerce, labour and interlink the on screen with off screen.” -- C. Yamini Krishna * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Filmed Space 1 Part I. Rationalized Spaces 1. Disciplinary: Indian Towns in British Geography Classrooms 35 2. Regulatory: The State in Films Division's Himalayan Documentaries 75 Part II. Affective Spaces 3. Sublime: Immanence and Transcendence in Jean Renoir's India 125 4. Residual: Lucknow and the Haveli as Cinematic Topoi 181 Part III. Commodified Spaces 5. Global: From Bollywood Locations to Film Stock Rations 233 Conclusion: Cinema and Historiographies of Space 287 Appendix 311 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 389
£112.20
Duke University Press Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, church films, and other forms of noncommercial filmmaking throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review“Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film illuminates what is hidden right in front of us. Like cable or YouTube today, nontheatrical films have left evidence of a broader expression beyond commercial films and examining them through the lens of race gives us a peek into a less homogenous and more realistic world. This collection of essays reminds us to reclaim this space as culturally valuable and, in a sense, take the power back by shifting perspective to explore an overlooked reality, not a marginal one.” -- Shola Lynch, Curator, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library“This collection of essays—with its range of topics and archival discoveries—is essential reading for anyone committed to, or even remotely interested in, the study of cinema. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film uncovers buried treasures that are part of the long-standing tradition of moving image storytelling—a tradition that did not always aspire to mainstream Hollywood recognition, but succeeded alongside it.” -- Rhea L. Combs, Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Center for African American Media Arts, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture"Brimming with sharp insights and archival discoveries, this valuable book opens up a world unknown to most and offers a look at American society in the 20th century, far from the artificial gloss of Hollywood cinema." -- W. W. Dixon * Choice *“An informative collection of works, the volume deftly illustrates the breadth, reach, and influence of nontheatrical films that centre race and ethnicity. As a bonus, a rich collection of videos discussed in the book is available for use in classrooms, particularly for instructors of film or race and ethnic studies who desire to use movies to explore specific themes…. Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film serves as a handy reference for scholars, researchers, and students and as a helpful reminder of the hidden gems showcased outside the theatre.” -- Maryann Mamie Erigha * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film not only...opens up a number of exciting avenues for future research, but also provides readers with the concrete steps, tools and materials needed to continue this work. I hope that this volume will serve as a productive starting point for many future studies.” -- Carolyn Condon Jacobs * Screen *Table of ContentsNote on the Companion Website ix Foreword. Giving Voice, Taking Voice: Nonwhite and Nontheatrical / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart xi Acknowledgments xxv Introduction / Allyson Nadia Field and Marsha Gordon 1 1. "A Vanishing Race"? The Native American Films of J. K. Nixon / Caitlin McGrath 29 2. "Regardless of Race, Color, or Creed": Filming the Henry Street Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, 1924–1933 / Tanya Goldman 51 3. "I'll See You in Church": Local Films in African American Communities, 1924–1962 / Martin L. Johnson 71 4. The Politics of Vanishing Celluloid: Fort Rupert (1951) and the Kwakwaka'wakw in American Ethnographic Film / Colin Williamson 92 5. Red Star/Black Star: The Early Career of Film Editor Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, 1948–1968 / Walter Forsberg 112 6. Charles and Ray Eames's Day of the Dead (1957): Mexican Folk Art, Educational Film and Chicana/o Art / Colin Gunkel 136 7. Ever-Widening Horizons? The National Urban League and the Pathologization of Blackness in A Morning for Jimmy (1960) / Michelle Kelley 157 8. "A Touch of the Orient": Negotiating Japanese American Identity in The Challenge (1957) / Todd Kushigemachi and Dino Everett 175 9. "I Have My Choice": Behind Every Good Man (1967) and the Black Queer Subject in American Nontheatrical Film / Noah Tsika 194 10. Televising Watts: Joe Saltzman's Black on Black (1968) on KNXT / Joshua Glick 217 11. "A New Sense of Black Awareness"? Navigating Expectations in The Black Cop (1969) / Travis L. Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper 236 12. "Don't Be a Segregationist: Program Films for Everyone": The New York Public Library's Film Library and Youth Film Workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton 253 13. Teenage Moviemaking in the Lower East Side: The Rivington Street Film Club, 1966–1974 / Noelle Griffis 271 14. Ro-Revus Talks about Race: South Carolina Malnutrition and Parasite Films, 1968–1975 / Dan Streible 290 15. Government-Sponsored Film and Latinidad: Voice of La Raza (1973) / Laura Isabel Serna 313 16. An Aesthetics of Multiculturalism: Asian American Assimilation and the Learning Corporation of America's Many Americans Series (1970–1982) / Nadine Chan 333 17. "The Right Kind of Family": Memories to Light and the Home Movie as Racialized Technology / Crystal Mun-Hye Baik 353 18. Black Home Movies: Time to Represent / Jasmyn R. Castro 372 Selected Bibliography 392 Contributors 401 Index 403
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