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Book SynopsisHistorically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but it became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles builds upon this foundational insight to both examine the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and to explore the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. The volume editors aim to flesh out the gaps between Hollywood and Latin America, American imperialism and Latin American nationalism in order to produce a more nuanced view of transnational cultural relations in the western hemisphere. Trade Review"Excavating previously marginalized histories of Spanish-language film culture in the United States and painstakingly tracing its transnational connections, the exhaustively researched anthology Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles embodies the most exciting directions in film and media studies today. The volume’s essays offer rich, fine-grained studies of the local informed by international perspectives, considering the political economy of Spanish-language production and distribution, the forging of film publics, and the cross-pollination between cinema and entertainments like musical theater, popular song, and even contemporary fusions of lucha libre and performance art. Deftly rendering the complexities of cross-border exchanges and the role of film consumption in shaping social identities, Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles unearths forgotten but fascinating precursors of today's vibrant Latino and Spanish-language media." -- Rielle Navitski * coeditor of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960 *"With essays on previously unstudied production and distribution companies, Mexican producers’ attempts to appeal to U.S. audiences, Spanish-language cinema, Edwin Carewe’s Ramona (1928), Mexican teatro de revista, and the Mayan Theater this volume makes a compelling case for viewing Los Angeles as a crossroads for Latin American (especially Mexican) cinema. The authors’ transnational perspective allows them to trace the history of a film culture shaped by intermediality, migration, and vibrant border crossing entertainment cultures. The essays in this volume offer nothing less than a prehistory of Latino media." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 is not just ‘another book about cinema’, but an original, eclectic and to some extent brave contribution to the field. Instead of limiting itself to an audience of film scholars and historians, the book widens its scope to cinema aficionados interested in knowing about the presence and the essence of Spanish- language films up to 1960." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"Excavating previously marginalized histories of Spanish-language film culture in the United States and painstakingly tracing its transnational connections, the exhaustively researched anthology Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles embodies the most exciting directions in film and media studies today. The volume’s essays offer rich, fine-grained studies of the local informed by international perspectives, considering the political economy of Spanish-language production and distribution, the forging of film publics, and the cross-pollination between cinema and entertainments like musical theater, popular song, and even contemporary fusions of lucha libre and performance art. Deftly rendering the complexities of cross-border exchanges and the role of film consumption in shaping social identities, Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles unearths forgotten but fascinating precursors of today's vibrant Latino and Spanish-language media." -- Rielle Navitski * coeditor of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960 *"With essays on previously unstudied production and distribution companies, Mexican producers’ attempts to appeal to U.S. audiences, Spanish-language cinema, Edwin Carewe’s Ramona (1928), Mexican teatro de revista, and the Mayan Theater this volume makes a compelling case for viewing Los Angeles as a crossroads for Latin American (especially Mexican) cinema. The authors’ transnational perspective allows them to trace the history of a film culture shaped by intermediality, migration, and vibrant border crossing entertainment cultures. The essays in this volume offer nothing less than a prehistory of Latino media." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 is not just ‘another book about cinema’, but an original, eclectic and to some extent brave contribution to the field. Instead of limiting itself to an audience of film scholars and historians, the book widens its scope to cinema aficionados interested in knowing about the presence and the essence of Spanish- language films up to 1960." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction, Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Lisa Jarvinen El espectáculo: The Culture of the revistas in Mexico City and Los Angeles (1900−40), Jacqueline Avila Ramona in the City: Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the Remaking of a Mythic Story, Desirée J. Garcia Please Sing to Me: The Immigrant Nostalgia that Sparked the Mexican Film Industry, Viviana García Besné and Alistair Tremps A Mass Market for Spanish-language Films: Los Angeles, Hybridity, and the Emergence of Latino Audiovisual Media, Lisa Jarvinen Cantabria Films and the L.A. Film Market, 1938-1940, Jan-Christopher Horak A Cinema between Mexico and Hollywood: What We Can Learn from Adaptations, Remakes, Dubs, Talent Swaps and Other Curiosities, Colin Gunckel On the NUEVO TEATRO MÁXIMO DE LA RAZA: Still Thinking, Feeling and Speaking Spanish on and off Screen, Nina Hoechtl Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and education among others. For the contributors to this volume, translation is understood in its most expansive, transdisciplinary sense: translation as exchange, migration, and mobility, including cross-cultural communication and media circulation. Whether exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or silent film intertitles, this volume brings together the work of scholars aiming to address the edges of Translation Studies while engaging with major and minor languages, colonial and post-colonial studies, feminism and disability studies, and theories of globalization and empire.Trade Review"Readers tired of nervous calls for clear disciplinary borders around Translation Studies will rejoice at this book, written half by translation scholars living on various knife edges of the discipline, half by people the editors call 'disciplinary neighbors, commuters, for whom questions raised in and by translation serve to queer, as it were, their professional working terrain.' Call me fractious, or fractal, but it’s always seemed to me that we all live at the edge of translation, always, and shouldn’t pretend otherwise." -- Douglas Robinson * author of Critical Translation Studies *"At Translation’s Edge is an exciting, innovative and engaging volume which demonstrates the truly subversive potential of translation in the contemporary moment. Ranging across languages, historical periods and technologies, At Translation’s Edge shows how time and again translation disrupts normative thinking about language, writing and politics. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about the democratic future of our multilingual planet." -- Michael Cronin * author of Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: At Translation’s Edge - Nataša Ďurovičová and Patrice PetroPart I Translation’s Disciplines Chapter 1 The Eventfulness of Translation: Temporality, Difference, and Competing Universals - Lydia H. Liu Chapter 2 The Translation of Process - John Cayley Chapter 3 Who’s It For: Towards a Rhetoric of Translation - Russell Scott ValentinoPart II Translation at the Limits of Nation-State Chapter 4 Translation and Image: On the Schematism of Co-figuration - Naoki Sakai Chapter 5 Bute Droma-Many Roads: Romani Resilience and Translation in Contact with the World - Deborah Folaron Chapter 6 Ezhi-gikendamang Aanikanootamang Anishinaabemowin: Anishinaabe Translation Studies - Margaret A. Noodin Chapter 7 “If you Could Only Understand My Language”: Counterfeit Script, Make-believe Translation, and the Actor-Spectator Complicity in The Toll of the Sea (1922), Mr. Wu (1927) and Hollywood Party (1937) - Yiman WangPart III Translation’s Practices & Politics Chapter 8 Perspectives on the History of Translation in Latin America - Martha Pulido (Lorena Terando, Trans.) Chapter 9 From Interpreting to Colloquial Translations: Tools Indispensible to Literary Creation - Olga Behar (Lorena Terando, Trans.) Chapter 10 Language, Policy, and Dis/ability in Senegal, West Africa - Elizabeth R. Drame Chapter 11 The Translator in the Text - Suzanne Jill Levine Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMedia Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world’s population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values and how they influence media consumption and production throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and many others. The book’s contributors are especially interested in investigating media and their intersections with narrative, medium, technologies, and culture through the lenses that are particularly Asian by turning to Asian sociopolitical and cultural milieus as the meaningful interpretive framework to understand media. This timely and cutting-edge research is essential reading for those interested in transnational and global media studies. Trade Review“Media Culture in Transnational Asia is one of the most informative books on Asian cultural studies, examining the dynamics of the local and global forces in the trans-Asian mediascape from a local or Asian point of view. With its focus on the production and circulation of media products, old and new, both within and across national borders, this edition rewards its readership with a rich, productive dialogue among different nations, regions, and perspectives that sounds the possibilities of a rising new pan-Asian community.” -- Suk Koo Rhee * professor at Yonsei University *"Global and glocal, pan-Asian or trans-Asian, from radio to mukbang, this pithy volume presents a provocative collection of scholarship that interrogates transnational media culture in Asia—a region that is steeped in tradition yet burgeoning in exciting new ways. Media Culture in Transnational Asia is a timely and valuable contribution to media studies and Asian studies." -- Sun Sun Lim * professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design *Latinx Pop Lab podcast interview with HyeSu Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1y_8qPcvA0feature=youtu.be * Latinx Pop Lab podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Hyesu Park and Maya Dodd Part I: Transnational Approach Chapter 1: Converging on Love and Indifference: Mediated Otherness in South and East Asia Rea Amit Chapter 2: The Child Bride: Unpacking the Popularity of the Indian Television Show Balika Vadhu in Vietnam Shubhda Arora and Juhi Jotwani Chapter 3: Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTube Dorothy Wai Sim Lau Chapter 4: Screen to Screen: Adaptation and Transnational Circulation of Chinese (Web) Novels for Television W. Michelle Wang Chapter 5: Rhetorical Liminality in Southeast Asian Media Representations of Human Trafficking John Gagnon Chapter 6: Addressing Transnational Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia: Cases from Contemporary Japanese Art Hiroki Yamamoto Part II: Single-nation Approach Chapter 7: Media, Narrative, and Culture: Narrativizing and Contextualizing Korean Mukbang Shows Hyesu Park Chapter 8: Construction, Consumption, and Representation of White Supremacy in Sri Lankan Advertisements: Living White While Being Non-White Asantha U. Attanayake Chapter 9: A Liminal Bengali Identity: Film Culture in Bangladesh Sabiha Huq Chapter 10: Screening Southeast Asia: Film, Politics, and the Emergence of the Nation in Post-War Southeast Asia Darlene Machell de Leon Espena Chapter 11: Afghan Media and Culture in Transition Alireza Dehghan Chapter 12: A Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Actions of Iranian Instagram Users Hamid Abdollahyan and Hoornaz Keshavarzia Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women’s relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a more nuanced picture of the boundaries at play and women’s roles in negotiating them. Strictly Observant presents a compelling ethnographic study of the complex dynamic between women in both the Pennsylvanian Old Order Amish and Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and contemporary media technologies. These women regularly establish valuable social, cultural, and religious capital through the countless decisions for use and nonuse of media that they make in their daily lives, and in ways that challenge the gender hierarchies of each community. By exhibiting a deep awareness of how media can be managed to increase their social and religious reputations, these women prompt us to reconsider our outmoded understanding of the Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, the role that women play in these communities as agents of change, and our own relationship to media today. Table of ContentsList of Tables Introduction: The Miracle, Case Studies, and Methods 1 Under the Eyes of God: One Day in the Life of an Old Order Amish Woman 2 From the Holy House and Community to the Secular Workplace and Back: One Day in the Life of an Ultra-Orthodox Woman 3 “Only Occasionally, When I Happen to Be around One”: Self-Justifications of Media Consumption as Boundary Management 4 “My Husband Just Told Me . . .”: The Women’s Relationships with News 5 “Satan’s Tool to Draw Our Focus away from God”: The Women’s Perceptions about Media Technologies and Content 6 “We’d Rather Talk about Babies”: Sharing Behaviors among Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Women 7 “I Made It as a Boundary for Myself”: Concluding Discussion on the Women’s Boundary Management Appendix: The Specific Data and Statistics on the Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Women’s Media Consumption Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India. Including 75 interviews with feminist activists and journalists working across India, it proposes a framework of agenda-building and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging Global South.Trade Review"Activism or slacktivism?In a chat with Nandita Bose, author Pallavi Guha states that social media spaces have empowered voices against sexual abuse but the sustainability of these movements has been an issue," By Nandita Bose — Deccan Herald "The book’s strengths lie in its contextualization of the feminist movement in India in a scenario that is being speedily digitized. Guha does not shy away from talking about gatekeeping within organizations working in women’s rights and how it impeded her access to activists. Her frank delving, in designing this research, and self-reflexivity makes this an excellent text not just for those interested in digital feminist activism in India but also for global scholars of qualitative research methodology."— International Journal of Communication "Sexual offenders and academia: The great debate," an excerpt from Hear #MeToo in India — Hindu Business Line "New Books Network: New Books in Gender podcast" interview with Pallavi Guha— New Books Network: New Books in Gender "The author’s careful treatment of a very difficult subject allows the reader to consider the stories they don’t hear and, in fact, may never hear. To do so was no easy task. But the result is an important addition to interdisciplinary studies in sexual violence and feminist perspectives worldwide."— South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies KOOP Radio's People United interview with Pallavi Guha and Amy Wu— KOOP Radio's "People United" "Beach reads: The top “beach books” for your summer vacations," by Mary Carole McCauley— The Baltimore Sun "In this excellent work, author Pallavi Guha examines shifts in media landscapes and journalism in relation to social media and the reporting on rape and violence against women in India. She looks carefully at issues around access and visibility of marginalized feminist activists and how they are reported on and characterized. She notes how social media shifts the ways in which feminist activist groups and journalists similarly or differently reach out to larger publics to create awareness and contribute to social justice movements nationally and transnationally. She holds herself accountable to feminist principles of research throughout her writing. Importantly, she is clear about her own social location and her approach to this research project. This book is a very important contribution to the growing amount of published work around Indian feminists and new media"— Radhika Gajjala, author of Digital Diasporas: Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics "Nothing is more important than understanding how social media promote activist goals in our new media environment. In this important new study, Pallavi Guha demonstrates the power of social media to promote progressive social change. Examining the #metoo movement in India, Guha interviews both feminist activists and journalists, examining the intricate interconnections between media, social media, and activism in the context of the Global South. The work will be an important reference for generations of feminist media scholars to come." — Andrea L. Press, co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meanings Across Pla "It can be challenging to find a single volume that is rigorously researched, endlessly readable and undoubtedly useful in the fight against rape and sexual harassment, but this one does it."— Ms. Magazine The Cārvāka Podcast interview with Pallavi Guha— The Carvaka Podcast "By contextualizing women’s stories — and emphasizing the similarities among sexual-assault victims everywhere — the media, as well as authors like myself, can build a stronger, more accurate narrative around sexual assault, one that is respectful of victims regardless of where they live."— Washington Independent Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction and Historical Background Framing of Rape in News Media and its Impact on Feminist Activism and Journalists #metooindia Including Themes The Heart Doesn’t Bleed for Everyone: Selective Outrage and Activism The Successes and Failures of Transnational Hashtag Movements Moving Forward: Learning from Anti-Rape Feminist Movements References

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Book SynopsisBetween 1971 and 1979, All in the Family was more than just a wildly popular television sitcom that routinely drew 50 million viewers weekly. It was also a touchstone of American life, so much so that the living room chairs of the two main characters have spent the last 40 years on display at the Smithsonian. How did a show this controversial and boundary-breaking manage to become so widely beloved?Those Were the Days is the first full-length study of this remarkable television program. Created by Norman Lear and produced by Bud Yorkin, All in the Family dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, menopause, homosexuality, and racial prejudice in a way that no other sitcom had before. Through a close analysis of the sitcom’s four main characters—boorish bigot Archie Bunker, his devoted wife Edith, their feminist daughter Gloria, and her outspoken liberal husband Mike—Jim Cullen demonstrates how All in the Family was able to bridge the generation gap and appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers in an age when a network broadcast model of television created a shared national culture. Locating All in the Family within the larger history of American television, this book shows how it transformed the medium, not only spawning spinoffs like Maude and The Jeffersons, but also helping to inspire programs like Roseanne, Married... with Children, and The Simpsons. And it raises the question: could a show this edgy ever air on broadcast television today?Trade Review"Little did I know about the world Archie Bunker and All in the Family were born into until I read Jim Cullen’s informed and perceptive Those Were the Days: Why All In The Family Still Matters." -- Norman Lear"Jim Cullen's beguiling scholarship offers a nimble treatment of what was arguably American television's most influential scripted series, made in the waning days of the now bygone mass audience." -- Robert Thompson * Founding Director, Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, Syracuse University *"'All in the Family' pushed the envelope on race and gender. Has America regressed since then?" by Jim Cullen * USA Today *"A very accessible and highly readable study that situates All in the Family aptly in its historical moment. It illuminates why the show became a landmark and what makes it so special to this day." -- Christina von Hodenberg * author of Television's Moment: Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution *"From how each character evolved to the family's resemblance to real-life changes and developing social awareness, Those Were the Days provides a solid study that will serve as discussion material for any media studies or American social history classroom." * Donovan's Literary Services *"Those were the days: As ‘All in the Family’ turns 50, a look at why it succeeded" by Jim Cullen * New York Daily News *"Norman Lear deserves his Golden Globe award — does America deserve him?" by Benjamin Lear * The Foreward *Mary Baker Eddy Library podcast: Jean Stapleton and the spiritual dimensions of “All in the Family” episode * Seekers and Scholars podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Broad(cast) Humor 1 Situation Comedy, Situation Tragedy: The Transitional World of All in the Family 2 The Revolution, Televised: Origins of the Family 3 Fuzzy Reception: Meeting the Bunkers 4 Producing Comedy: Making All in the Family 5 The Character of Home: Chez Bunker 6 Not Bad for a Bigot: The Making of Archie Bunker 7 A Really Great Housewife: The Character of Edith Baines Bunker 8 Left In: The Liberal Arts of Michael Stivic 9 “Little Girl” to Mother: The Working-Class Feminism of Gloria Bunker Stivic 10 Family Resemblance: The Rise and Fall of the Lear Television Empire Conclusion: Just Like Us Acknowledgments Index

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Book Synopsis1 in 10 undergraduates in the US will study abroad. Extoled by students as personally transformative and celebrated in academia for fostering cross-cultural understanding, study abroad is also promoted by the US government as a form of cultural diplomacy and a bridge to future participation in the global marketplace. In Documenting the American Student Abroad, Kelly Hankin explores the documentary media cultures that shape these beliefs, drawing our attention to the broad range of stakeholders and documentary modes involved in defining the core values and practices of study abroad. From study abroad video contests and a F.B.I. produced docudrama about student espionage to reality television inspired educational documentaries and docudramas about Amanda Knox, Hankin shows how the institutional values of "global citizenship," "intercultural communication," and "cultural immersion" emerge in contradictory ways through their representation. By bringing study abroad and media studies into conversation with one another, Documenting the American Student Abroad: The Media Cultures of International Education offers a much needed humanist contribution to the field of international education, as well as a unique approach to the growing scholarship on the intersection of media and institutions. As study abroad practitioners and students increase their engagement with moving images and digital environments, the insights of media scholars are essential for helping the field understand how the mediation of study abroad rhetoric shapes rather than reflects the field's central institutional idealsTrade Review"Documenting the American Student Abroad is a cutting account of exactly how far off the study abroad industry is from forging a media culture, or what Hankin would call a collective visual grammar, that is ethically aligned with the many noble goals the educational field purports to promote. By placing study abroad practices under the scrutiny of analytical tools from media and cultural studies, Hankin renders the familiar unfamiliar: student-made youtube clips become avenues for fresh analysis of gender and race, and rote study abroad safety precautions become texts for questioning just how comfortable Americans really are with the ideals of global citizenship. For those with an interest in media studies, Documenting the American Student Abroad models the importance of close-reading visual texts as easily dismissed and as 'low brow' as an undergraduate's 'Vlog' sent home from abroad. For those concerned with improving the quality of international education, Hankin will provoke a full-on reckoning. Where institutions of study abroad typically see absence, Hankin finds voice. Where study abroad practitioners see accepted everyday communications strategies, Hankin finds troubling pedagogies and ideological presumptions that undermine the very premise of intercultural education. Documenting the American Student Abroad helps us to understand how it is that an educational practice that has been celebrated for an entire century as America's pathway to global redemption has ultimately done so little to shift some of the most stubborn imperialist ideals that underpin our nation's relationship to the world. "— Talya Zemach-Bersin, Education Studies Senior Capstone Coordinator and a Lecturer, Yale University The American Minute podcast: Kelly Hankin, University of Redlands – The Personal is Professional: The Study Abroad Video Contest— The American Minute podcast “This book offers an original and critical account of an influential domain of media practice—the “study abroad media culture” through which Americans learn about, experience, and document educational travel abroad. Through deft analysis of diverse types of travel media, including study abroad video contests, “homestay movies,” and student vlogs, Kelly Hankin traces how visions of the “globally engaged student” have emerged from a web of media histories, technologies, institutions, and stakeholders. Media, Hankin convincingly shows us, are central to understanding the fraught politics and transformative potential of international education.”— Katie Day Good, author of Bring The World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education “Kelly Hankin’s wide-ranging and deftly argued analysis of the ‘study abroad gaze’ is a welcome addition to current debates about tourism, travel, and intercultural exchange. She expertly guides us through such diverse topics as theories of mediated travel, reality television and vlogs, the foreign homestay, and the risks and rewards of overseas experiences. The result is an innovative reading of how this formative, multi-layered educational experience for contemporary American students is continually reframed through film and television.”— Ben McCann, University of Adelaide, Australia "NAB Podcast: Kelly Hankin on Media Cultures of Study Abroad in Higher Education"— The New American Baccalaureate ProjectTable of ContentsContents Introduction: The Media Cultures of Study Abroad The Personal is Professional: First-Person Travelogues and The Study Abroad Video Contest Intercultural Communication Among “Intimate Strangers”: Reality Television and Documentary Study Abroad House Hunters International: Homestay Movies in the Digital Era Study Abroad’s Diversity Problem: Vlogs as Necessary Media Spy Kids: The Consequences of Global Citizenship in Game of Pawns Study Abroad and The Female Traveler in the “Amanda Knoxudramas” Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDouble Exposure examines the role of film in shaping social psychology’s landmark postwar experiments. We are told that most of us will inflict electric shocks on a fellow citizen when ordered to do so. Act as a brutal prison guard when we put on a uniform. Walk on by when we see a stranger in need. But there is more to the story. Documentaries that investigators claimed as evidence were central to capturing the public imagination. Did they provide an alibi for twentieth century humanity? Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, including Milgram's Obedience Experiments, the Stanford Prison Experiment and many more, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.Trade ReviewNew Books Network: New Books in Sociology interview with Kathryn Millard— New Books Network: New Books in Sociology “This is an important contribution to the raging debate on ethics and truth in storytelling, both in film and scientific research; it sheds light on the true-crime film genre; it recovers lost film history; and it reveals the value of truly interdisciplinary research. An exceptional creative and scholarly achievement!"— Patricia Aufderheide, author of Documentary: A Very Short Introduction “A landmark work! The classic films that reported human behavior experiments selectively told one story but many more were possible. Why one and not another? Millard explains why the dominant stories won out with an insightful provocative mix of analysis and speculation.”— Bill Nichols, author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in DocumentaryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Setting the Scene 2. “You’re an Actor Now” 3. New Haven Noir 4. Good or Bad Samaritans? 5. Doing Time 6. Crime Scenes 7. Restaging the Psychology Experiment 8. “I was the SYSTEM” 9. Shifting the Story Index

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Book SynopsisDouble Exposure examines the role of film in shaping social psychology’s landmark postwar experiments. We are told that most of us will inflict electric shocks on a fellow citizen when ordered to do so. Act as a brutal prison guard when we put on a uniform. Walk on by when we see a stranger in need. But there is more to the story. Documentaries that investigators claimed as evidence were central to capturing the public imagination. Did they provide an alibi for twentieth century humanity? Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, including Milgram's Obedience Experiments, the Stanford Prison Experiment and many more, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.Trade Review“A landmark work! The classic films that reported human behavior experiments selectively told one story but many more were possible. Why one and not another? Millard explains why the dominant stories won out with an insightful provocative mix of analysis and speculation.” -- Bill Nichols * author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary *“This is an important contribution to the raging debate on ethics and truth in storytelling, both in film and scientific research; it sheds light on the true-crime film genre; it recovers lost film history; and it reveals the value of truly interdisciplinary research. An exceptional creative and scholarly achievement!" -- Patricia Aufderheide * author of Documentary: A Very Short Introduction *New Books Network: New Books in Sociology interview with Kathryn Millard * New Books Network: New Books in Sociology *“A landmark work! The classic films that reported human behavior experiments selectively told one story but many more were possible. Why one and not another? Millard explains why the dominant stories won out with an insightful provocative mix of analysis and speculation.” -- Bill Nichols * author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary *“This is an important contribution to the raging debate on ethics and truth in storytelling, both in film and scientific research; it sheds light on the true-crime film genre; it recovers lost film history; and it reveals the value of truly interdisciplinary research. An exceptional creative and scholarly achievement!" -- Patricia Aufderheide * author of Documentary: A Very Short Introduction *New Books Network: New Books in Sociology interview with Kathryn Millard * New Books Network: New Books in Sociology *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Setting the Scene2. “You’re an Actor Now”3. New Haven Noir4. Good or Bad Samaritans?5. Doing Time6. Crime Scenes7. Restaging the Psychology Experiment8. “I was the SYSTEM”9. Shifting the StoryIndex

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Book SynopsisAlthough the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume Televisuality reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."Trade Review“This may be the most sophisticated study of the American television medium, industry, and aesthetic to date. Caldwell ranges through industry bumf and the academic bibliography to rescue the medium from theoretical simplifications. [An] insightful and allusive text that leaves virtually no familiar generalization unchallenged.” * Choice, Outstanding Academic Title *“An original and outstanding contribution to television scholarship…. Illuminating both in its examination of television at a specific historical moment and in challenging common academic conceptions about the medium for their failure to engage with the historical changes in television production. -- Allan D. Campbell * Velvet Light Trap *“[A] well-researched volume.” * Library Journal *“With its combined attention to television aesthetic, economic, and technological aspects, it [is] a highly innovative book that question[s] a great deal of conventional wisdom.” * European Journal of Media Studies *“Engrossing and thought-provoking…. Televisuality points to a hole in television studies and highlights an interdisciplinary approach-combining the economic with the aesthetic and ideological-that could help to plug it.” -- Matthew P. McAllister * Film Quarterly *“Televisuality is a theoretical term coined by John Caldwell in the mid-1990s to characterize a change in the look and practice of television programming. This change began around 1980 and continues to the present day. Describing and discussing television through the lens of televisuality requires one to consider television as a mode of mass communication reliant on popularity with viewers and created in an industrial context whose labor relations affect how shows are produced. Overall, the main identifying feature of ‘the televisual’ is ‘an excess of style.’ Thus, programs produced from the 1980s onward are likely to break with traditional ‘invisible’ production styles and to innovate in ways that call the viewer's attention to the constructedness of the show—that it is a televisual text and that the viewer is watching (or, in a best-case scenario, participating) in the construction of meaning through attraction to or investment in the style of the televisual text.” * Encyclopedia of Gender in Media Televisuality *"Intense and complex." -- Markus Stauff * University of Amsterdam *Table of ContentsContents Preface Part I The Problem of the Image 1 Excessive Style: The Crisis of Network Television 2 Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States: A Short History of Aesthetic Posturing 3 Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus Part II The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality 4 Boutique: Designer Television/Auteurist Spin Doctoring 5 Franchiser: Digital Packaging/Industrial-Strength Semiotics 6 Loss Leader: Event Status Programming/Exhibitionist History 7 Trash TV: Thrift-Shop Video/More Is More 8 Tabloid TV: Styled Live/Ontological Stripmall Part III Cultural Aspects of Televisuality 9 Televisual Audience: Interactive Pizza 10 Televisual Economy: Recessionary Aesthetics 11 Televisual Politics: Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellion Postscript: Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. “Izzy” Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone’s own writings to tell the tale of one of the most significant journalists, intellectuals, and political mavericks of the twentieth century. The story of I. F. Stone is the tale of the American left over the course of his lifetime, of liberal and radical ideals which carried such weight throughout the twentieth century, and of journalism of the politically committed variety. Now available in a handsome new Rutgers University Press Classic edition, it is an examination of the life and career of a gregarious yet frequently grumpy loner who became his nation’s foremost radical commentator provides a window through which to examine American radicalism, left-wing journalism, and the evolution of key strands of Western intellectual thought in the twentieth century.Trade Review"I.F. Stone made a contribution to educating Americans that can hardly be overestimated. As a reader from childhood, later a friend, I was only one of many who found his work and life an inspiration. Izzy offers a valuable perspective on history and the meaning of integrity." -- Noam Chomsky * MIT *"A fascinating history of radical thought in the U.S. . . .essential for American history shelves." * Booklist *"Cottrell has used Stone's life as a prism through which some of the most significant episodes in recent American history can be view. . . . Balanced and thoughtful. While clearly an admirer of the man, Cottrell also asks hard questions about his judgement on a number of political issues." -- Maurice Isserman * If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left *"I. F. Stone's Weekly ... pioneered a new kind of investigative journalism, based upon the close reading of government documents. In the 1950's, he gained renown for exposing the hazards of nuclear testing. Then, as the United States became embroiled in Vietnam, he became one of the war's most persistent and effective critics and a hero to a new generation on the left... Stone's fans should welcome this book." * The New York Times Book Review *"A masterly biography." -- Athan Theoharis * The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition *"An intriguing and sympathetic biography. Admirably researched and forthrightly told, Izzy deserves a wide readership." -- Stephen J. Whitfield * Brandeis University *"A useful record of Stone's lifework." * The Washington Post *"Impressive in its details and its accolades to Stone." * Editor & Publisher *"Stone (1907-88) enjoyed a remarkable career as a journalist, muckraker, and indomitable critic of the Establishment. An editorialist at the New York Post during the Depression, Stone went onto to chronicle the rise of McCarthyism, the fall of segregation, and the emergence of the anti-Vietnam War movement. His newspaper I.F. Stone's Weekly, which ran from 1953 to 1971, exposed many forms of corruption at the highest levels of government." * Library Journal *"This well-balanced biography of Isidor Feinstein (I.F.) Stone...most famous for I.F. Stone's Weekly (1953-71), a newsletter that analyzed and criticized governmental operations. It became a model of investigative reporting and its founder a journalistic icon. The book provides superb documentation, exhaustive notes, and a helpful index. The few illustrations give insights into the very human “Izzy” Stone. Recommended for both general and academic readers at all levels." * Choice *“Definitive…an intellectual and political chronicle of progressive politics and activist journalism in twentieth century America…[and] a textured portrayal of Stone’s life as a prism through which to view decades of changes in the American left.” * Los Angeles Times *“A readable and convincing account." * Sydney Morning Herald *“Still valuable today.” -- Paul Berman * New York Times *“A superb biography….One might hope that journalism schools around the land might require students to read Cottrell’s biography." * Journal of American Culture *“We are indebted to Cottrell for this contribution to journalism history….it demonstrates the power of the pen as Stone evolved from the typewriter to a Macintosh….Look long and hard at what Cottrell has contributed to journalism literature with this book….This is a significant study." * Journalism History *"I.F. Stone made a contribution to educating Americans that can hardly be overestimated. As a reader from childhood, later a friend, I was only one of many who found his work and life an inspiration. Izzy offers a valuable perspective on history and the meaning of integrity." -- Noam Chomsky * MIT *"A fascinating history of radical thought in the U.S. . . .essential for American history shelves." * Booklist *"Cottrell has used Stone's life as a prism through which some of the most significant episodes in recent American history can be view. . . . Balanced and thoughtful. While clearly an admirer of the man, Cottrell also asks hard questions about his judgement on a number of political issues." -- Maurice Isserman * If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left *"I. F. Stone's Weekly ... pioneered a new kind of investigative journalism, based upon the close reading of government documents. In the 1950's, he gained renown for exposing the hazards of nuclear testing. Then, as the United States became embroiled in Vietnam, he became one of the war's most persistent and effective critics and a hero to a new generation on the left... Stone's fans should welcome this book." * The New York Times Book Review *"A masterly biography." -- Athan Theoharis * The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition *"An intriguing and sympathetic biography. Admirably researched and forthrightly told, Izzy deserves a wide readership." -- Stephen J. Whitfield * Brandeis University *"A useful record of Stone's lifework." * The Washington Post *"Impressive in its details and its accolades to Stone." * Editor & Publisher *"Stone (1907-88) enjoyed a remarkable career as a journalist, muckraker, and indomitable critic of the Establishment. An editorialist at the New York Post during the Depression, Stone went onto to chronicle the rise of McCarthyism, the fall of segregation, and the emergence of the anti-Vietnam War movement. His newspaper I.F. Stone's Weekly, which ran from 1953 to 1971, exposed many forms of corruption at the highest levels of government." * Library Journal *"This well-balanced biography of Isidor Feinstein (I.F.) Stone...most famous for I.F. Stone's Weekly (1953-71), a newsletter that analyzed and criticized governmental operations. It became a model of investigative reporting and its founder a journalistic icon. The book provides superb documentation, exhaustive notes, and a helpful index. The few illustrations give insights into the very human “Izzy” Stone. Recommended for both general and academic readers at all levels." * Choice *“Definitive…an intellectual and political chronicle of progressive politics and activist journalism in twentieth century America…[and] a textured portrayal of Stone’s life as a prism through which to view decades of changes in the American left.” * Los Angeles Times *“A readable and convincing account." * Sydney Morning Herald *“Still valuable today.” -- Paul Berman * New York Times *“A superb biography….One might hope that journalism schools around the land might require students to read Cottrell’s biography." * Journal of American Culture *“We are indebted to Cottrell for this contribution to journalism history….it demonstrates the power of the pen as Stone evolved from the typewriter to a Macintosh….Look long and hard at what Cottrell has contributed to journalism literature with this book….This is a significant study." * Journalism History *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Izzy, the Icon 2 Early Progress and Greater Philadelphia 3 On the Record 4 A New Deal and the Popular Front at the Post 5 The American Left, Interventionism, and Civil Liberties 6 Fighting the Good War 7 Going Underground 8 The Demise of the Old Left 9 The Panic Was On 10 A “Little Flea-Bite Publication” 11 “We Have to Learn to Think in a New Way” 12 Knockin’ on Jim Crow’s Doors 13 “The Steve Canyon Comic Strip Mentality” 14 Telling Truth to Power: The Emperor Has No Clothes 15 From Pariah to Character to National Institution 16 An Old Firehorse in Semiretirement 17 A Return to the Classics 18 The Rock of Stone Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNew Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project. Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America. Trade Review“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 An American Documentary Tradition2 Brave New World: Reframing and Reclaiming the Americas3 Americans All, Immigrants All: Toward Cultural Democracy4 Wings for the Martins: Cit-com5 Democracy in Action: Dramatizing the Democratic Process6 Pleasantdale Folks: Social Security SoapConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNew Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project. Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America. Trade Review“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 An American Documentary Tradition2 Brave New World: Reframing and Reclaiming the Americas3 Americans All, Immigrants All: Toward Cultural Democracy4 Wings for the Martins: Cit-com5 Democracy in Action: Dramatizing the Democratic Process6 Pleasantdale Folks: Social Security SoapConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAll My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people do when they go online after they have suffered a trauma. It offers in-depth academic analysis alongside deeply personal stories and case studies to take the reader on a journey through rapidly changing digital/social worlds. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and All My Friends Live in My Computer explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering. Through its attention to personal stories and application of media theory to new contexts, this book highlights how, when given the tools, people will make meaning in creative, novel, and healing ways. Trade Review"An emotionally intense, imaginative journey into the way our online lives mediate the experience and definition of the suffering subject. This book should appeal to a general audience as well as to specialists in media and communication and health communication who are intensely interested in how the new online world has shaped the most fundamental of human emotions and experiences." -- Andrea L. Press * co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms *"An emotionally intense, imaginative journey into the way our online lives mediate the experience and definition of the suffering subject. This book should appeal to a general audience as well as to specialists in media and communication and health communication who are intensely interested in how the new online world has shaped the most fundamental of human emotions and experiences." -- Andrea L. Press * co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Plat *Table of ContentsPrologue Part I Trauma and Media Theory 1 Introduction: Seeing through Suffering: Digital Mediation and the Suffering Subject 2 There Are Many Ways to Suffer 3 Putting It Out There: Tactics of Meaning Making in Digital Media Part II Meaning Making Online 4 The Battle We Didn’t Choose: Angelo Merendino and Mediations of Grief, Disease, and the Trauma of Bearing Witness 5 Nothing Can Stop You: CrossFit, Trauma, and the Digital Remaking of Ability 6 Bullied by the Nation: The Symbolic Trauma of Iranians Living in the United States 7 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHistorically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media. In War Without Bodies, author Martin Danahay argues that the media in the United States in particular constructs a “war without bodies” in which neither the corpses of soldiers or civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to transmit his dispatches, to the first of three “video wars” in the Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public. New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war “real” but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the ways in which war was framed in these different historical contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages can help prevent future unnecessary wars. Trade Review"War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. -- John Louis Lucaites * co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America *"Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality." -- Rebecca Adelman * author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War *"You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body." -- Roger Stahl * author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze *"War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. -- John Louis Lucaites * co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America *"Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality." -- Rebecca Adelman * author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War *"You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body." -- Roger Stahl * author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Two Photographs Framing Death War Culture 1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade Documenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s Photographs Reliving the Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice 2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of Mourning Memorializing the Dead The Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological Trauma Diagnosing Trauma 3. War Games Fantasy Wars: Dungeons and Dragons Virtual Warriors and Armchair Generals The Pleasures of Conquest 4. Trauma and the Soldier’s Body The Soldier’s Gendered Body PTSD and Moral Injury The Politics of PTSD 5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as BodyFait and Drone Vision Landscape and the Soldier’s Body Reinserting the Civilian Body into the Frame Conclusion: Future War without Bodies

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Book SynopsisHonoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Día de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latinx activists and artists in the United States began expanding "Day of the Dead" north of the border with celebrations of performance art, Aztec danza, art exhibits, and other public expressions. Focusing on the power of public ritual to serve as a communication medium, this revised and updated edition combines a mix of ethnography, historical research, oral history, and critical cultural analysis to explore the manifold and unexpected transformations that occur when the tradition is embraced by the mainstream. A testament to the complex role of media and commercial forces in constructions of ethnic identity, Day of the Dead in the USA provides insight into the power of art and ritual to create community, transmit oppositional messages, and advance educational, political, and economic goals. Today Chicano-style Day of the Dead events take place in all fifty states. This revised edition provides new information about: The increase in events across the US, incorporating media coverage and financial aspects, Recent political movements expressed in contemporary Day of the Dead celebrations, including #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo Greater media coverage and online presence of the celebration in blogs, websites, and streaming video Día de los Muertos themes and iconography in video games and films The proliferation of commercialized merchandise such as home goods, apparel, face paints and jewelry at mainstream big box and web retailers, as well as the widespread proliferation of calavera-themed decorations and costumes for Halloween 24 new full color illustrations Trade Review"Marchi provides a unique and valuable account of the rise of Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S., demonstrating the complex dynamics of ethnic and cultural identity in the contemporary cultural economy, urban community, and media environment." -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler * author of Ritual Communication and co-editor of Media Anthropology *"What a difference a day (the Day of the Dead) makes! In the U.S. in the past generation, a Latin American family/religious ritual has been reinvented as a holiday of ethnic pride that builds bridges between new and settled immigrants, between Latinos and Anglos, and across cultural identity, consumerism, and political protest. Regina Marchi reveals all this in a marvelous work, a rare blend of charm, grace, attentive field work, and theoretical savvy." -- Michael Schudson * author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Public Life *"Regina Marchi speaks directly to all of those wondering how Mexico's tradition of re-membering the dead within living communities became US America's newest holiday. The book thoughtfully records the voices of significant Chicanas/os whose traditional and non-traditional approaches initiated this transformation." -- David Avalos * Visual and Performing Arts Department, California State University San Marcos *“Regina Marchi has written the most historically and geographically comprehensive documentation of Día de los muertos. The second edition centers the voices of the Chicana/o/x artists and advocates who made this celebration into an international phenomenon and subsequently gained the attention of markets, museums, and the media.” -- Karen Mary Davalos * author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties *“Fifty years after the first Day of the Dead celebration was hosted in the United States, Marchi invites readers into a thriving world of the Día de los Muertos consumer culture. The book expands upon Marchi’s original historical and ethnographic research to foreground the role of consumer culture in the expression of ethno-racial identities within traditional practices of commemoration.” -- Rachel V. González-Martin * author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities *"Marchi provides a unique and valuable account of the rise of Day of the Dead celebrations in the U.S., demonstrating the complex dynamics of ethnic and cultural identity in the contemporary cultural economy, urban community, and media environment." -- Eric W. Rothenbuhler * author of Ritual Communication and co-editor of Media Anthropology *"What a difference a day (the Day of the Dead) makes! In the U.S. in the past generation, a Latin American family/religious ritual has been reinvented as a holiday of ethnic pride that builds bridges between new and settled immigrants, between Latinos and Anglos, and across cultural identity, consumerism, and political protest. Regina Marchi reveals all this in a marvelous work, a rare blend of charm, grace, attentive field work, and theoretical savvy." -- Michael Schudson * author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Public Life *"Regina Marchi speaks directly to all of those wondering how Mexico's tradition of re-membering the dead within living communities became US America's newest holiday. The book thoughtfully records the voices of significant Chicanas/os whose traditional and non-traditional approaches initiated this transformation." -- David Avalos * Visual and Performing Arts Department, California State University San Marcos *“Regina Marchi has written the most historically and geographically comprehensive documentation of Día de los muertos. The second edition centers the voices of the Chicana/o/x artists and advocates who made this celebration into an international phenomenon and subsequently gained the attention of markets, museums, and the media.” -- Karen Mary Davalos * author of Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties *“Fifty years after the first Day of the Dead celebration was hosted in the United States, Marchi invites readers into a thriving world of the Día de los Muertos consumer culture. The book expands upon Marchi’s original historical and ethnographic research to foreground the role of consumer culture in the expression of ethno-racial identities within traditional practices of commemoration.” -- Rachel V. González-Martin * author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on the TextGlossaryIntroduction An Ancient and Modern Festival Mexico’s Special Relationship with Day of the Dead Day of the Dead in the United States Ritual Communication and Community Building US Day of the Dead as Political Communication: A Moral Economy Day of the Dead in the US Media: The Celebration Goes Mainstream Appeal, Influence and Ownership The Commodification of Day of the Dead Conclusion: What We Can Learn from US Day of the Dead CelebrationsMethodological AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAmid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious misfits—marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race—employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, flexible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma. Trade Review“This book offers a compelling examination of how calls for gender equity, in concert with critiques of colonialism and empire, are playing out within contemporary Evangelical Christianity and American Muslim communities. With its focus on those who do not come from political or activist backgrounds yet find themselves engaging in feminist activism, the book will hold great interest to young women, especially those who have experienced religious trauma, who are similarly considering how best to act, perform, and express who they are in relation to their communities.”— Lynn Schofield Clark, author of Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism “This book is an inspiration for anyone interested in digital religion, the experiences of women in religious spaces, and how digital media can serve as a tool to resist sexual abuse, religious abuse, and fight patriarchal structures.”— Ruth Tsuria, co-editor of Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity "This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain an intersectional understanding of religion online. It moves away from essentialist framings to shed light on real, lived digital lives."— Rosemary Pennington, co-editor of On Islam: Muslims and the MediaTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Souls Chapter 2: #KissShameBye: Textual Critiques of Evangelical Purity Culture Chapter 3: Bold and Beautiful: Images of Unruly Bodies Destabilize Pious Muslim Icon Chapter 4: A Seat at the Table: Podcasts Facilitate Dialogue for Marginalized Christian Perspectives Chapter 5: “We Them Barbarians”: Digital Videos Creatively Rearticulate Muslim Identity Conclusion: Convergences and Connections

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Book SynopsisAmid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious misfits—marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race—employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, flexible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma. Trade Review“This book offers a compelling examination of how calls for gender equity, in concert with critiques of colonialism and empire, are playing out within contemporary Evangelical Christianity and American Muslim communities. With its focus on those who do not come from political or activist backgrounds yet find themselves engaging in feminist activism, the book will hold great interest to young women, especially those who have experienced religious trauma, who are similarly considering how best to act, perform, and express who they are in relation to their communities.” -- Lynn Schofield Clark * author of Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism *“This book is an inspiration for anyone interested in digital religion, the experiences of women in religious spaces, and how digital media can serve as a tool to resist sexual abuse, religious abuse, and fight patriarchal structures.” -- Ruth Tsuria * co-editor of Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity *"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain an intersectional understanding of religion online. It moves away from essentialist framings to shed light on real, lived digital lives." -- Rosemary Pennington * co-editor of On Islam: Muslims and the Media *“This book offers a compelling examination of how calls for gender equity, in concert with critiques of colonialism and empire, are playing out within contemporary Evangelical Christianity and American Muslim communities. With its focus on those who do not come from political or activist backgrounds yet find themselves engaging in feminist activism, the book will hold great interest to young women, especially those who have experienced religious trauma, who are similarly considering how best to act, perform, and express who they are in relation to their communities.” -- Lynn Schofield Clark * author of Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism *“This book is an inspiration for anyone interested in digital religion, the experiences of women in religious spaces, and how digital media can serve as a tool to resist sexual abuse, religious abuse, and fight patriarchal structures.” -- Ruth Tsuria * co-editor of Media and Power in International Contexts: Perspectives on Agency and Identity *"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain an intersectional understanding of religion online. It moves away from essentialist framings to shed light on real, lived digital lives." -- Rosemary Pennington * co-editor of On Islam: Muslims and the Media *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Dismantling the Hierarchy of SoulsChapter 2: #KissShameBye: Textual Critiques of Evangelical Purity CultureChapter 3: Bold and Beautiful: Images of Unruly Bodies Destabilize Pious Muslim IconChapter 4: A Seat at the Table: Podcasts Facilitate Dialogue for Marginalized Christian PerspectivesChapter 5: “We Them Barbarians”: Digital Videos Creatively Rearticulate Muslim Identity Conclusion: Convergences and Connections

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Book SynopsisWith the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this space, operating ethnic media outlets with limited staff and funding to produce content that is relevant and accessible to their specific community. Micro Media Industries explores the specific case of Hmong American media, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. Based on six years of fieldwork in Hmong American communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, it analyzes the unique opportunities and challenges facing Hmong newspapers, radio, television, podcasts, YouTube, social media, and other emerging platforms. It argues that micro media industries, rather than being dismissed or trivialized, ought to be held up as models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media. Trade Review“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Significance of Micro Media Industries 2 Without a Newsroom: Journalism and the Micro Media Empire 3 TV without Television: YouTube and Digital Video 4 Global Participatory Networks: Teleconference Radio Programs 5 Queer Sounds: Podcasting and Audio Archives 6 Alternative Aspirational Labor: Influencers and Social Media Producers 7 Conclusion: Beyond Hmong American Media Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent media and communication strategy. Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella argues that activist media create opportunities for activists to navigate conflict and embrace their political and ideological differences. Canella details how activist media practices—interviewing organizers, script writing, video editing, posting on social media, and hosting community screenings—foster solidarity among grassroots organizers. Informed by media theory, this book explores how activists are using media to mobilize supporters, communicate their values, and reject anti-union rhetoric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how collaborative media projects can help activists build broad-based coalitions and amplify their vision for a more equitable and just society. Trade Review"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike."— Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY "Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." — Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism "Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." — Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism "Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike."— Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNYTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Activist Media, Power, and Networked Publics 2 Movements and Media: Structures and Evolution 3 Pre-production: Embracing Confrontation and Difference 4 Production: Scripting Solidarity and Radical Storytelling 5 Post-production: Distribution, Exhibition, and Impact Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric—an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish—fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.Trade Review“Christopher Goetz’s The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment is a triumphant theoretical leap forward for game studies. The Counterfeit Coin invites readers to go on an adventure in game and media studies by unlocking how games and media let us play through our fantasies, whether those fantasies are what tether us into a safe spot, let us exceed and transcend bodily limitations, or just accrue more and more loot. Reading across a wide range of games, film, anime and television series, Goetz’s The Counterfeit Coin illuminates how and why players find comfort, transcendence, and accomplishment in the routine and familiar ways we play." -- Sheila C. Murphy * author of How Television Invented New Media *Table of Contents Introduction: Feeling Powerful and Getting Your Way   1  The Fantasy of Bodily Transcendence    2  The Fantasy of Bodily Transcendence in Narrative Media    3  The Tether Fantasy    4  The Fantasy of Accretions     Conclusion: Surface Narratives and the Contrivance of Fantasy     Acknowledgments     Notes     Works Cited     Index  

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Book SynopsisThe Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric—an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish—fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.Trade Review“Christopher Goetz’s The Counterfeit Coin: Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment is a triumphant theoretical leap forward for game studies. The Counterfeit Coin invites readers to go on an adventure in game and media studies by unlocking how games and media let us play through our fantasies, whether those fantasies are what tether us into a safe spot, let us exceed and transcend bodily limitations, or just accrue more and more loot. Reading across a wide range of games, film, anime and television series, Goetz’s The Counterfeit Coin illuminates how and why players find comfort, transcendence, and accomplishment in the routine and familiar ways we play."— Sheila C. Murphy, author of How Television Invented New MediaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Feeling Powerful and Getting Your Way   1  The Fantasy of Bodily Transcendence    2  The Fantasy of Bodily Transcendence in Narrative Media    3  The Tether Fantasy    4  The Fantasy of Accretions     Conclusion: Surface Narratives and the Contrivance of Fantasy     Acknowledgments     Notes     Works Cited     Index  

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Book SynopsisIn the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even as mass shootings continue. Expressed dissent to political power is labeled as “fake news.” DREAMers, Muslims, Trans military members, women, black bodies, the LGBTQI+ community, Latina/o/x communities, rape survivors, sex workers, and immigrants have all been systematically silenced. During this difficult time and despite such restrictions, advocates and allies persist and resist, forming dialogues that call to repel inequality in its many forms. Addressing the oppression of women of color, white women, women with (dis)abilities, and LBTQI+ individuals across cultures and contexts remains a central posit of feminist struggle and requires “a distinctly feminist politics of recognition.” However, as second wave debates about feminism have revealed, there is no single way to express a feminist politic. Rather, living feminist politics requires individual interpretation and struggle, collective discussion and disagreement, and recognizing difference among women as well as points of convergence in feminist struggle. Badass Feminist Politics includes a diverse range of engaging feminist political projects to not only analyze the work being done on the ground but provide an overview for action that can be taken on by those seeking to engage in feminist activism in their own communities. Contributors included here are working for equality and equity and resisting violent, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and sexist language and action during this tension-filled political moment. Collectively, the book explores what it means to live and communicate feminist politics in everyday choices and actions, and how we can facilitate learning by analyzing these examples. Taking up current issues and new theoretical perspectives, the authors offer novel perspectives into what it means to live feminist politics. This book is a testament to resilience, resistance, communication, and forward thinking about what these themes all mean for new feminist agendas. Learning how to resist oppressive structures through words and actions is particularly important for students. Badass Feminist Politics features scholars from non-dominant groups taking up issues of marginalization and oppression, which can help people accomplish their social justice goals of inclusivity on the ground and in the classroom. Trade Review"If ever there was a time for a badass feminist communication declaration, that time is now! Blithe and Bauer have carefully crafted a collection where perspectives, passions, voices, and views not only fill a gap in research, but carve a new path. The brilliance of the contributors is reflected in an affirmation of social identities across contexts representing 'what feminism looks like' for the next generation of badass feminist scholars aiming to right wrongs, ignite change, and sustain transformative practices in everyday lived experiences." -- Karla D. Scott * author of The Language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, Models, Messages and a New Mandate for Self-Care *"Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer have curated a must read edited collection for anyone interested in feminisms, communication, and identity justice. This is an important and timely resource for feminist scholar-teachers that engages critical questions about gender, race, and intersectionality in communication research and pedagogy by centering black feminist voices throughout." -- Stephanie Norander * Executive Director of Communication Across the Curriculum, UNC Charlotte *"If ever there was a time for a badass feminist communication declaration, that time is now! Blithe and Bauer have carefully crafted a collection where perspectives, passions, voices, and views not only fill a gap in research, but carve a new path. The brilliance of the contributors is reflected in an affirmation of social identities across contexts representing 'what feminism looks like' for the next generation of badass feminist scholars aiming to right wrongs, ignite change, and sustain transformative practices in everyday lived experiences." -- Karla D. Scott * author of The Language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, Models, Messages and a New Mandate for Self *"Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer have curated a must read edited collection for anyone interested in feminisms, communication, and identity justice. This is an important and timely resource for feminist scholar-teachers that engages critical questions about gender, race, and intersectionality in communication research and pedagogy by centering black feminist voices throughout." -- Stephanie Norander * Executive Director of Communication Across the Curriculum, UNC Charlotte *Table of Contents1 IntroductionSARAH JANE BLITHE AND JANELL C. BAUER2 Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and ActivismJANELL C. BAUER AND SARAH JANE BLITHEPart I Black Lives Matter: Research and Reflections3 Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up SpaceANGELA N. GIST-MACKEY, ASHLEY R. HALL, AND SHARDÉ M. DAVIS4 #BlackIndigenousStoriesMatterANITA MIXON5 Your Black Friends Are TiredANDREA EWING6 Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19SHARDÉ M. DAVIS7 The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives’ FearsPRISCA S. NGONDO8 Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and DismissedCERISE L. GLENN9 Antiracist Holistic Change in “STEM” Higher EducationMELANIE DUCKWORTH AND KELLY J. CROSS10 Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational EmpowermentIDRISSA N. SNIDER11 When You Can’t Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and #BlackLivesMatterREBECCA MERCADO JONES AND JAYNA MARIE JONES12 Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic RacismSIOBHAN E. SMITH-JONES AND JOHNNY JONES13 Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s Resistance of Sexual StereotypesSAVAUGHN WILLIAMS14 The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death)ROBIN M. BOYLORN15 Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial PandemicTINA M. HARRISPart II Narrating the Material Body16 Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and ResistanceCASSIDY D. ELLIS AND SARAH GONZALEZ NOVEIRI17 Visual Activism, Persistence, and Identity: Ostomy Selfies as a Form of Resistance to Dominant Body IdeologiesRUTH J. BEERMAN AND MICHAEL S. MARTIN18 The Silence of LaughterLYDIA HUERTA MORENOPart III Living Feminist Politics in Mediated Environments19 Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican Womanhood through the Power of MemesANA GOMEZ PARGA20 Smart Talk: Feminist Communication Questions for Artificial IntelligenceMAUREEN EBBEN AND CHERIS KRAMARAE21 The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A Case of Digital PersistenceKATHLEEN RUSHFORTHPart IV New Feminist Theorizing22 Social Justice Organizing through the Closet MetaphorJAMES McDONALD AND SARA DeTURK23 Disrupting the Ratchet-Respectable Binary: Explorations of Ratchet Feminism and Ratchet Respectability in Daily and Popular LifeDANETTE M. PUGH- PATTON AND ANTONIO L. SPIKES24 Afrofuturist Lessons in PersistenceJENNA N. HANCHEYAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisGerman Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, German Ways of War addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting -- between shooting a camera and discharging a gun – this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their violence in ways more revealing than their battle scenes. Beyond that well-known intersection of visuality and violence, German Ways of War explores how the genre frames violence within spatio-affective operations. The production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects transform war films, including the genre’s manipulation of mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks. Such effects amount to what author Jaimey Fisher terms the films’ “affective geographies” that interweave narrative-generated affects, spatial depictions, and political processes. Trade Review"German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . . The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany."— Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 "This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, German Ways of War offers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.”— Eric Rentschler, author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present "German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . . The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany."— Nora M. Alter, author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 "This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, German Ways of War offers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.”— Eric Rentschler, author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the PresentTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films, 1910s-2000s 2. Land into Landscape, Landscape into Territory: Transformations of Space in German War Cinema, 1914-1918 (The Diary of Dr. Hart, Sword and Hearth, Inexpiable) 3. “Landscapes of Death” and Memories of the Human: Distance, Scale, and the Double Map in the First “War-Sound-Film” (Westfront 1918, Kameradschaft) 4. Combat Films and their Aerial Spaces under the Nazi Regime (Medal of Honor, Squadron Lützow, Above Everything in the World) 5. Out of the War Mode: Demobilizing the War Genre in the Postwar Rubble-Film (Request Concert [1940], The Great Love, Ways into Twilight, The Sons of Mr. Gaspary, Birds of Migration) 6. War in the Reconstructive 1950s: Genre, Espionage, and Cold-War Subjectivities in the 1950s War Film (Canaris, Fox of Paris, Rommel Calls Cairo) 7. Conclusion: Affective Geographies of the Fading Genre (Das Boot, Downfall) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women’s resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market. Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that absorbed Thompson’s mantra. While the terminology may have changed over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have consistently sought to acknowledge Black women’s possession of a distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas. Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the late 1960s, Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women’s empowerment as a business enterprise. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have constructed an image economy that operates as both a sacred space for Black women and an easy hunting ground for their dollars. Trade Review“Branding Black Womanhood unearths the untold histories of the now-ubiquitous, commercial concept of 'Black Girl Magic.' With clear and compelling prose, Timeka Tounsel thoughtfully tells the story of how representations of Black women as 'magic' both provides Black women with empowerment and delivers a sparkly image that can seriously undercut Black women’s need for care.”— Ralina L. Joseph, author of Generation Mixed Goes to School: Listening to Multiracial KidsTable of ContentsPrologue Introduction: Black Women and the Twenty-First Century Image Economy Chapter 1: The Black Woman that Essence Built Chapter 2: Self-Branding Black Womanhood: The Magic of Susan L. Taylor Chapter 3: Marketing Dignity: The Commercial Grammar of Black Female Empowerment Chapter 4: Beyond Magic: Black Women Content Creators and Productive Vulnerability Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from “The Fappening” and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars’ activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women’s vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions. Trade Review"An incisive look at the role of technology and celebrity culture during the #MeToo moment and beyond. In key case studies, Lawson shows how 21st-century strides for women have been confronted by misogynistic backlash, enabled by digital platforms. A critical read at this pivotal moment for women’s rights." -- Andrea McDonnell * co-author of Celebrity: A History of Fame *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Rise of Celebrity Feminism 1 Hacking Celebrity: Sexuality, Privacy, and Networked Misogyny in the Celebrity Nude Photo Hack 2 Staging Feminism: Negotiating Labor and Calling Out Racism at the 2015 Academy Awards 3 Nasty Women, Silly Girls: Feminist Generation Gaps and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign 4 Platform Vulnerabilities: Fighting Harassment and Misogynoir in the Digital Attack on Leslie Jones 5 TIME’S UP: Celebrity Feminism after #MeToo Conclusion: Celebrity Feminist Futures Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration introducing vast distances between family members--a situation additionally complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirements of physical distancing, especially for the most vulnerable – older adults--this is a pertinent question. Through ethnographic fieldwork among families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, Tanja Ahlin explores how digital technologies shape elder care when adult children and their aging parents live far apart. Coming from a country in which appropriate elder care is closely associated with co-residence, these families tinker with smartphones and social media to establish how care at a distance can and should be done to be considered good. Through the notion of transnational care collectives, Calling Family uncovers the subtle workings of digital technologies on care across countries and continents when being physically together is not feasible. Calling Family provides a better understanding of technological relationality that can only be expected to further intensify in the future.Trade Review"Caring is commonly an exercise in sensitive listening and empathic understanding, with particular attention to all that is not said. This book shows how a scholar can manifest care through their research, and thereby appreciate how carers enact care in their daily lives and their creative deployment of digital technologies in facilitating transnational care." -- Daniel Miller * coeditor of The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology *"Calling Family innovatively combines the STS theoretical lens with anthropological sensitivity for social context. Through heartfelt storytelling, the reader is transported from the gardens of Kerala to the deserts of Oman, or takes a car ride across London via webcam. The author teases out the intricate influences of technologies on care and highlights the role of affect for transnational care collectives – the global assemblages of people and digital technologies through which families care at a distance." -- Loretta Baldassar * coauthor of Families Caring Across Borders: Migrating, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving *"Written with great empathy, Calling Family is an extremely timely and original book that explores how everyday digital technologies have become essential for caring relations across distance and how eldercare within such transnational care collectives is transformed." -- Monika Palmberger * coeditor of Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration *Table of Contents Foreword LENORE MANDERSON PART I: MAPPING LANDSCAPES 1 Enacting Care 2 Crafting the Field 3 Struggling with Abandonment PART II: CARING THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVES 4 Calling Frequently 5 Shifting Duties 6 Doing Health Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Note on Methodology Notes References Index

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