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Book SynopsisFor seven months in 1880, Lafcadio Hearn amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block ‘cartoons’ and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political, whimsical, and moral. This book collects, for the first time, all of the extant satirical columns and woodcut illustrations published in the Daily City Item.

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Book SynopsisWith publication of Herbert Corey’s Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey’s name in the annals of American war reporting. In this memoir, Corey is especially illuminating on the obstacles reporters faced in conveying the story of the Great War to Americans.

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Book SynopsisWith a focus on media forms through which southern identity gets articulated and questioned - including horror movies, Swamp Thing comics, and popular music - The Dirty South probes the sustained fascination with southern dirtiness while reflecting on its causes and consequences since the end of the civil rights era.Trade ReviewA unique and multilayered analysis of what and who makes the South legible in its modern iterations, The Dirty South offers some new language and approaches to push back against the lazy assertions of the region being a singularly white, conservative, and monolithic experience. . . . It's a helluva read." - Regina N. Bradley, author of Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

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Book SynopsisOffers an understanding of race in America through an analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. This work argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early ""talkies"" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.

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Book SynopsisOprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify class-passers - those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own. The book deconstructs the politics of celebrity, fashion, and conspicuous consumerism and analyzes class-passing as it relates to the American Dream, gender, and marriage.

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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the structural role of crises, gaps, and negativity as central to our experiences of reality, Flisfeder interprets the social media metaphor through a combination of dialectical, Marxist, and Lacanian frameworks to show that algorithms may indeed read our desire, but capitalism, not social media, truly makes us antisocial.

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Book SynopsisThe Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's Internet and social media and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations.Trade Review"The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China is the first book-length study of the Chinese Internet after the social media revolution that completely changed the contours and possibilities of Chinese cyberspace. The individual chapters provide a diverse range of empirical and conceptual insights, and, taken as a whole, the volume stands alongside the major publications in the field." * Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China —Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang Chapter 1: The Coevolution of the Internet, (Un)Civil Society, and Authoritarianism in China —Min Jiang Chapter 2: Connectivity, Engagement, and Witnessing on China's Weibo —Marina Svensson Chapter 3: New Media Empowerment and State-Society Relations in China —Shi and Guobin Yang Chapter 4: The Privilege of Speech in New Media: Conceptualizing China's Communications Law in the Internet Age —Rogier Creemers Chapter 5: Embedding Law into Politics in China's Networked Public Sphere —Ya-Wen Lei and Daniel Xiaodan Zhou Chapter 6: Microbloggers' Battle for Legal Justice in China —Anne S. Y. Cheung Chapter 7: Public Opinion and Chinese Foreign Policy: New Media and Old Puzzles —Dalei Jie Chapter 8: Social Media, Nationalist Protests, and China's Japan Policy: The Diaoyu Islands Controversy, 2012-13 —Peter Gries, Derek Steiger, and Wang Tao Chapter 9: Going Out and Texting Home: New Media and China's Citizens Abroad —James Reilly Chapter 10: Images of the DPRK in China's New Media: How Foreign Policy Attitudes Are Connected to Domestic Ideologies in China —Chuanjie Zhang Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisCombining the practical knowledge of a renowned director with the perspective of a historian and media specialist, Christian Delage explores the conditions and consequences of using film for the purposes of justice and memory by examining archival footage from war crime trials from Nuremberg to the present.Trade Review"While other scholars have focused on film-as-evidence or trial-as-film, Christian Delage, a historian and documentary filmmaker, addresses both in this meticulously researched book. Tracing the double history of the use of film in legal cases and the filming of court proceedings, Delage reveals how what we see on film in and of human rights trials is a modern construction rooted in the Holocaust and its aftermath. . . . Caught on Camera will be of interest to anyone wanting a historical lens through which to analyze our culture's current obsession with cell phone-generated footage and its potential to transform adjudication for human rights abuse." * American Historical Review *"Caught on Camera provides an invaluable overview of the role films played in the historic international criminal trials that so indelibly marked the second half of the twentieth century. Ranging in scope and rich in reference, this admirable book shows how prosecutors used films as evidence in court and how court sessions were themselves filmed and widely diffused for public audiences. As the international community continues to struggle with the legacies of Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur, the original perspectives Christian Delage offers will helpfully inform the ongoing quest for justice." * Stuart Liebman, Professor Emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center *"Meticulously researched and highly topical, Caught on Camera is the first scholarly work to tell the story of the impact of film on advocacy, trials, and legal judgment. Historian, filmmaker, critic and adjunct professor of law, Delage is ideally qualified to uncover the extraordinary narrative of the introduction of film into legal evidence in the Nuremberg trials and its subsequent and expanding role in tribunals and international criminal proceedings to the present day. In a meticulously researched and fluently argued analysis, this book not only exposes the link between visual evidence and war crimes trials but also, and even more surprisingly, shows how film has subtly and persistently impacted the staging, process, performance, and even architecture of law." * Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law *Table of ContentsEditor's Note Introduction PART I. FILM AS EVIDENCE: AN AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE (1920-1945) Chapter 1. The Filmmaker, the Judge, and the Evidence Chapter 2. The Camera: An Impartial Witness of Social Relations? Chapter 3. Learning to Read Enemy Films Chapter 4. Face to Face with Nazi Atrocities PART II. THE STAKES OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL (NUREMBERG, 1945-1946) Chapter 5. "Establishing Incredible Events by Means of Credible Evidence" Chapter 6. Getting Film into the Courtroom Chapter 7. Catching the Enemy with Its Own Pictures PART III. NUREMBERG HISTORY ON FILM Chapter 8. The Un-United Nations and the Ideal of a Universal Justice Chapter 9. Documentary Archives and Fictional Film Narratives PART IV. THE ERA OF JUSTICE ON FILM (1945 TO THE PRESENT) Chapter 10. Trials of the Present or the Past? Chapter 11. Hearings on Film, Film in Hearings Chapter 12. The Face of History Chapter 13. The Spectator's Place Chapter 14. Court Settings and Movie Stagings: From Nuremberg to the Khmer Rouge Trial Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisMedia Nation brings together some of the most exciting voices in media and political history to present fresh perspectives on the role of mass media in the evolution of modern American politics. Together, these contributors offer a field-shaping work that aims to bring the media back to the center of scholarship modern American history.Trade Review"An invaluable collection that advances important arguments while looking at the big picture of how American media, politics, and policy intersect. Media Nation promises to become a key text in the growing canon of modern American media history and political communication studies." * Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania *"Incredible as it seems, historians have largely left the history of twentieth-century U.S. media to others. In Media Nation, two leading political historians have gathered an impressive array of scholars who make up for lost time. Once you start reading, you won't want to touch that dial." * Brian Balogh, University of Virginia *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Goddu’s bold monograph contributes new interpretive tools to the collective efforts to recover neglected aspects of the African American archive. And it adds its voice to the growing collection of studies prompting us to scrutinize the structures of white abolitionist feeling. Selling Antislavery also sets the scene for further material and visual histories of the antebellum abolitionist movement, and the manifold, complex affective confrontations with slavery that brought the US to Civil War." * American Literary History *"Selling Antislavery offers a richly detailed and meticulously researched interrogation of the American Antislavery Society’s print, visual, and material culture. Goddu’s careful analysis of the ways these objects and texts shaped the tastes, perspective, and identity of those white northerners who would come to define the region’s middle class is especially compelling. " * Winterthur Portfolio *"What makes Selling Antislavery essential reading is the breadth of its research, the depth of its analysis, and the way it demonstrates that 'the movement’s rhetorical approaches were consolidated by its material practices'...Selling Antislavery will interest early Americanists for how it moves from the decades of antislavery activism before the 1830s through the 1860s. It is an important study for anyone interested in the history of media, politics, and culture in the United States." * Early American Literature *"This meticulously researched and crisply argued book manages the interlocking commercial, sentimental, and political formations of 19th-century U.S. print and material cultures with nuance and analytical dexterity...Goddu’s book represents the crucial work that print and material culture studies do. Her readings texture conversations of the literary with material and print cultures’ tangible, quotidian presences...[Selling Antislavery] s a model of how to contextualize whiteness and its various communities and identities and practices, helping us to think about how whiteness as an identity mobilizes racial politics to define itself not just seemingly against Blackness, but also seemingly against racism and anti-Blackness." * Textual Cultures *"Selling Antislavery provides a comprehensive analysis of the fascinating material culture of abolitionism: quirky almanacs, women's Christmas fairs, lavish gift annuals, and grand panoramas of southern slavery and black achievement. It is the book for which slavery studies-and American studies more broadly-has been waiting." * Jeannine DeLombard, author of In the Shadows of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity *"Through a multimedia array of case studies, Teresa A. Goddu focuses on the business-minded corporatism of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Her book is a much-needed history of the key dynamic that drove the rapid evolution of the antislavery effort in the United States from a small, heterogenous, and unpopular collection of gradualists and radicals into an organized and efficient mass movement." * Marcy Dinius, author of The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Antislavery Inc. Part I. Antislavery Print Culture Chapter 2. Summing Up Slavery: The Antislavery Almanac and the Production of Fact Chapter 3. The African American Slave Narrative as Factual Compendium Part II. Antislavery Material Culture Chapter 4. Speaking Objects: Antislavery Fairs and Sentimental Consumerism Chapter 5. Antislavery Fairs and the Culture of Class Part III. Antislavery Visual Culture Chapter 6. Antislavery's Panoramic Perspective Chapter 7. Fugitive Sight: African American Panoramas of Slavery and Freedom Conclusion. The American Anti-Slavery Society Celebrates Its Third Decade Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T[his is a stimulating and wide-ranging book that will enrich our understanding of the early modern broadside ballad, augment the invaluable research tool that the English Broadside Ballad Archive has become, and stimulate further scholarship on this important 'multimedia artifact' of early modern culture." * Journal of British Studies *"In this substantial study, Patricia Fumerton draws on more than a decade of working closely with early modern printed texts to analyze English black-letter broadside ballads of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, approaching them as material artifacts...The strength of Fumerton’s book resides in her analysis of the techniques of assemblage whereby publishers produced black-letter ballad sheets, freely reprinting and often cannibalizing their own prior publications so as to offer fresh versions or combinations of a ballad’s constituent elements." * Journal of American Folklore *"Drawing on formidable experience with gathering, editing, teaching, thinking about, and writing about ballads, Patricia Fumerton has produced a comprehensive synthesis of all the scholarly work on broadsides that has been done to date. Her book will be the starting point for all future research on the subject." * Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California *Table of ContentsNote on Audio Tracks Website and Citation Conventions Introduction Chapter 1. The Critical and Theoretical Parts: Moving, Assemblage, Publics, and Tactics Part I. Assembling by Disassembling: Archives, Databases, and Ballad Bits Chapter 2. Accessing the Artifact, Now and Then Chapter 3. Random Tactical Hits Part II. Remembering by Dismembering: Black Letter, Calligraphy, and Print History Chapter 4. The Network of Black-Letter Broadside Ballad Collectors Chapter 5. The Passing Present of Black Letter and Calligraphy Part III. From Networks to Publics: Samuel Pepys Chapter 6. Pepys and the Making of Gendered Publics Chapter 7. Pepys and the Making of Political Publics Part IV. Diachronic and Synchronic Ballad Publics: Crossing Society, History, and Space Chapter 8. The Moving Violations of "The Lady and the Blackamoor" Conclusion: The Limits of the Shakespearean Stage: Ballading The Winter's Tale Notes Bibliography Sources for Music Notations Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe first book to examine dance criticism in the United States across 100 years, from the late 1920s to the early twenty-first century, Shaping Dance Canons argues that critics in the popular press have influenced how dance has been defined and valued, as well as which artists and dance forms have been taken most seriously.

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Book SynopsisThe Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of animals in cartoons and animation more generally. Paul Wells argues that artists use animals to engage with issues that would be more difficult to address directly because of political, religious, or social taboos.Trade ReviewWells has proven himself to be a leading scholar of animation and has here produced a solid piece of scholarship that shows an incredible breadth of knowledge. -- Eric Smoodin * author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity,and American Film Studies, *Wells has proven himself to be a leading scholar of animation and has here produced a solid piece of scholarship that shows an incredible breadth of knowledge. -- Eric Smoodin * author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity,and American Film Studies, *Table of ContentsThe bear who wasn't : bestial ambivalence Of mice and men : what do animals mean? "I don't care what you say, I'm cold" : anthropomorphism, practice, narrative Which came first, the chicken or the egg? : performance, philosophy, tradition Creature comforted : animal politics, animated memory

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Book SynopsisFor over a century, movies have played an important role in our lives, entertaining us, often provoking conversation and debate. This title examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies.Trade ReviewA superb book that helps us think beyond the grand but sometimes ungrounded digital convergence and user revolution rhetoric. Particularly impressive are the ways that the book marshals historical evidence to fill important gaps in new media "theory".ORA superb book that helps us think beyond the grand but sometimes ungrounded digital convergence and user revolution rhetoric. Particularly impressive are the ways that the book marshals historical evidence to fill important gaps in new media ôtheory,ö connects domestic activities with industrial practice, and shows how ôDIYö (do-it-yourself) vernacular film criticism and analysis (film blogging) is as important as DIY production activities (uploaded videos and ômash-upsö) in spurring participation in contemporary film culture.ENDORSER PREFERS LONGER VERSION, BUT IS OKAY WITH SHORTER ONE IF SPACE IS TIGHT. RUN ANY CHANGES BY HIM. -- John T. Caldwell * author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in *Reinventing Cinema represents a significant accomplishment for the way it revisions recent film history, drawing into its account such key questions for the digital age as who actually controls the dissemination of images and who determines their meaning. -- J.P. Telotte * author of The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology *Expanding film studies beyond traditional boundaries, Tryon explores how cinema affects and is affected by developments in technology and culture that have altered the way movies are consumed, produced, and perceived. The book is readable and well researched, offering students an excellent opportunity to go beyond more traditional film studies. Highly recommended. * Choice *A timely and important book, Reinventing Cinema is a must read for any scholar interested in the current trends in film studies, industry convergence, participatory culture, and digital cinema. * Popular Communication *The book is recommended because it makes an important contribution to our understanding of film and how technology continues to alter the way we perceive and interpret our society. * Film & History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Rise of the Movie Geek The Screen is Alive Wall-to-Wall Color Desktop Productions Toppling the Gates Hollywood Remixed Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists.Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union''s demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country''s governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as Trade Review"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." -- Yiedy Rivero * author of Tuning Out Blackness *"This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." -- Marvin D'Lugo * Clark University *"A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." -- Yiedy Rivero * author of Tuning Out Blackness *"This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." -- Marvin D'Lugo * Clark University *"A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies 2 Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy" 3 Tourism and the Social Ramifications of 3 Media Technologies 4 Film Culture in the Digital Millennium 5 Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive overview of the history, people, films, and multiple functions of the festival world. From Sundance to Hong Kong, from the glitter of Cannes to edgier festivals that challenge boundaries or foster LGBTQ cultural production, film festivals celebrate art, promote business, bring cinema to diverse audiences, and raise key issues about how we see our world.Trade Review"Wong's sharp, clever, and highly knowledgeable account provides a dazzling and dynamic look at the world film festival scene. This long overdue insider approach mixes the practical and the personal in a winning, original fashion." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln *"This is an insightful, engaging, and meticulously researched investigation covering the most recent trends in international film festivals from Venice and Cannes to Hong Kong and Pusan. Wong's book contributes enormously to our understanding of film festivals as a vital aspect of global motion picture culture." -- Gina Marchetti * University of Hong Kong *"This book is both an excellent introduction to and in-depth analysis of the world of film festivals. Wong’s book offers both a big picture view of the role of festivals within the global film industry and a close-up scrutiny of specific events, films and people to give a sense of the culture-making activity that happens in these spaces. An essential read for those who are interested both in the global dimensions of the industry, as well as in parsing out the cultural political nuances of particular sites." * Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. History, Structure, and Practice in the Festival World2. The Films of the Festivals3. Auteurs, Critics, and Canons: Extratextual Elements and the Construction of Festival Films4. Film Festivals and Film Industries5. Festivals as Public Spheres6. The Hong Kong International Film Festival as Cultural EventConclusionNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Revelatory. Bozak is passionate and occasionally poetic." * Afterimage *"Bozak looks at the many issues surrounding the relationship between film and the natural environment. The book is at the intersection of many disciplines and will thus likely prove thought provoking for a wide range of readers. It is an ideal volume for serious students of film and environmental studies. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Highly original and beautifully written, Bozak's groundbreaking work adds an essential new dimension to the act of critically viewing film. I have long been awaiting a book that brings environmental matters into the heart of film and media studies!" -- Lisa Parks * University of California, Santa Barbara *"Very few recent books on cinema genuinely deserve to be called 'groundbreaking.' This, by all means, is one of them." -- Paolo Cherchi Usai * author of The Death of Cinema *"Bozak's arguements are illuminating and thought-provoking. The Cinematic Footprint is a must read for anyone interested in the developing canon of ecocinema studies." * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"Revelatory. Bozak is passionate and occasionally poetic." * Afterimage *"Bozak looks at the many issues surrounding the relationship between film and the natural environment. The book is at the intersection of many disciplines and will thus likely prove thought provoking for a wide range of readers. It is an ideal volume for serious students of film and environmental studies. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Highly original and beautifully written, Bozak's groundbreaking work adds an essential new dimension to the act of critically viewing film. I have long been awaiting a book that brings environmental matters into the heart of film and media studies!" -- Lisa Parks * University of California, Santa Barbara *"Very few recent books on cinema genuinely deserve to be called 'groundbreaking.' This, by all means, is one of them." -- Paolo Cherchi Usai * author of The Death of Cinema *"Bozak's arguements are illuminating and thought-provoking. The Cinematic Footprint is a must read for anyone interested in the developing canon of ecocinema studies." * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Energy2. Resource3. Extraction4. Excess5. WasteConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With ingenuity, nuance, and an eye for visual detail, Coon's timely and significant book explores the tendency of recent media narratives to question the sanitized, simplistic myth of suburbia." -- Steve Macek * author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral Panic Over the City *"Coon's savvy book is dynamic, contentious, and revealing. His persuasive analyses show how cinema, television, and advertising have both reinforced and challenged prevailing ideas of the 'burb and the happy, bizarre, and painful lifestyles that unfold there." -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *"Coon primarily examines contemporary Hollywood representations of middle-class life in the US cul-de-sacs. This is a well-written book that will benefit a variety of readers. Highly recommended." * Choice *"A needed contribution to the young fields of suburban studies and popular media." * The Journal of American Culture *"With ingenuity, nuance, and an eye for visual detail, Coon's timely and significant book explores the tendency of recent media narratives to question the sanitized, simplistic myth of suburbia." -- Steve Macek * author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral Panic Over the City *"Coon's savvy book is dynamic, contentious, and revealing. His persuasive analyses show how cinema, television, and advertising have both reinforced and challenged prevailing ideas of the 'burb and the happy, bizarre, and painful lifestyles that unfold there." -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *"Coon primarily examines contemporary Hollywood representations of middle-class life in the US cul-de-sacs. This is a well-written book that will benefit a variety of readers. Highly recommended." * Choice *"A needed contribution to the young fields of suburban studies and popular media." * The Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to the Neighborhood 1. Traditional Values: Nostalgia and Self-Reflexivity in Visual Representations of Suburbia 2. Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in Suburban Dramas 3. Suburban Citizenship: Defining Community through the Exclusion of Racial and Sexual Minorities 4. Desperate Husbands: The Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in Post-9/11 Suburbia 5. Protecting the Suburban Lifestyle: Consumption, Crime, and the American Dream Conclusion: There Goes the Neighborhood Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A tremendously important advance in our understanding of landscape, cityscape, and place in postwar American cinema, among the most innovative current work in film and media studies, American studies, English literature, and cultural geography.” -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended." * Choice *"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus." -- Matthew Bernstein * author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent *"Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history." * The Velvet Light Trap *“A tremendously important advance in our understanding of landscape, cityscape, and place in postwar American cinema, among the most innovative current work in film and media studies, American studies, English literature, and cultural geography.” -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended." * Choice *"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus." -- Matthew Bernstein * author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent *"Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history." * The Velvet Light Trap *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Real History, Real Cinema 1. Filming the Transitory World We Live In 2. The Postwar Turn toward the Real 3. Of Backdrops and Place: The Searchers and Sunset Blvd. 4. An American Neorealism? 5. Noir on Location 6. Ramparts We Watch: Legacies Conclusion: Authentic Banality Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A tremendously important advance in our understanding of landscape, cityscape, and place in postwar American cinema, among the most innovative current work in film and media studies, American studies, English literature, and cultural geography.” -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended." * Choice *"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus." -- Matthew Bernstein * author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent *"Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history." * The Velvet Light Trap *“A tremendously important advance in our understanding of landscape, cityscape, and place in postwar American cinema, among the most innovative current work in film and media studies, American studies, English literature, and cultural geography.” -- Mark Shiel * author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles *"A well-documented, clearly written study that enhances understanding of an important trend that still resonates today… Recommended." * Choice *"Like the tenacious investigators of the post-war semi-documentaries he analyzes (among many other genres and films), Palmer delivers a probing, conceptually sophisticated, multi-faceted, sensitively written account of Hollywood’s return to location shooting. A major achievement that overturns the historical consensus." -- Matthew Bernstein * author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent *"Shot on Location provides clear evidence that Hollywood's approach to location shooting was in many ways influenced by Europe both in the philosophy of the filmmakers and in the strategies through which the footage was used to add a sense of authenticity....Shot on Location is a worthy contribution to film history, as it furthers the connections between disparate but exciting facets of film history." * The Velvet Light Trap *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Real History, Real Cinema 1. Filming the Transitory World We Live In 2. The Postwar Turn toward the Real 3. Of Backdrops and Place: The Searchers and Sunset Blvd. 4. An American Neorealism? 5. Noir on Location 6. Ramparts We Watch: Legacies Conclusion: Authentic Banality Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a timely and thoughtful book. It clearly reveals the disconnect between public pronouncements on obesity and what a great many fat people experience in their own lives." * The Journal of American Culture *"[Boero] deals with an accusation of the media for the spread and perpetuation of the 'obesity panic,' ... the role of medical intervention, especially bariatric surgery, for obese individuals, and of government activites in harnessing this 'postmodern epidemic' and in the now open warfare against obesity waged by public health officials. Recommended." * Choice *"Boero’s analysis provides an insightful perspective on the framing of the obesity epidemic. Her book is an engaging and fascinating read, as well as a vital contribution to medical sociology." -- Jennifer Fosket * McGill University *"Boero weighs in powerfully for healthy sanity in the 'war against obesity.' Killer Fat clarifies complex science, punitive clinical care, and the relentless screech of the media with aplomb. Brava!" -- Adele E. Clarke * UC San Francisco *"This book is both an enjoyable read and incredibly informative. Written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Natalie Boero's Killer Fat is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the so-called 'Obesity Epidemic.'" -- Kjerstin Gruys * author of Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall *"Killer Fat is a significant contribution to the project of skepticism about the so-called 'obesity' epidemic and a compassionate exploration of the burdens it imposes on individuals' lives." -- Marilyn Wann * author of FAT!SO? *"This is a timely and thoughtful book. It clearly reveals the disconnect between public pronouncements on obesity and what a great many fat people experience in their own lives." * The Journal of American Culture *"[Boero] deals with an accusation of the media for the spread and perpetuation of the 'obesity panic,' ... the role of medical intervention, especially bariatric surgery, for obese individuals, and of government activites in harnessing this 'postmodern epidemic' and in the now open warfare against obesity waged by public health officials. Recommended." * Choice *"Boero’s analysis provides an insightful perspective on the framing of the obesity epidemic. Her book is an engaging and fascinating read, as well as a vital contribution to medical sociology." -- Jennifer Fosket * McGill University *"Boero weighs in powerfully for healthy sanity in the 'war against obesity.' Killer Fat clarifies complex science, punitive clinical care, and the relentless screech of the media with aplomb. Brava!" -- Adele E. Clarke * UC San Francisco *"This book is both an enjoyable read and incredibly informative. Written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Natalie Boero's Killer Fat is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the so-called 'Obesity Epidemic.'" -- Kjerstin Gruys * author of Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall *"Killer Fat is a significant contribution to the project of skepticism about the so-called 'obesity' epidemic and a compassionate exploration of the burdens it imposes on individuals' lives." -- Marilyn Wann * author of FAT!SO? *

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Book SynopsisThe words “Asian American film” might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS. In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged.Trade Review"A first-of-its-kind study of Asian American cinema's productive and sometimes uncomfortable relationship to institutional definitions of 'Asian America.'" * Film Quarterly *"Okada has written a very important book. The historical reach, the diversity of texts, and the expansive engagement with filmic influences make it possible for her to take an inventory of Asian American film and video in the second decade of the twenty-first century and wonder what might be possible for the future of Asian American film and video." * Cinema Journal *"Institutional context provides Okada with the framework for her illuminating study of Asian American filmmaking from its roots in the early 1970s to the present." * Choice *"Making Asian American Film and Video tells the fascinating and significant story of the emergence of Asian American film and video within the wider media culture of the United States." -- Gina Marchetti * author of The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema *"Both a hip guide to movies for your queue and an incisive commentary on the ways we (filmgoers, critics, TV executives, and others) use movies and TV to talk about race, sex, and class. Okada makes Asian American film fun again." -- Peter X Feng * author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Shared History of Asian American Film and Video and Public Interest MediaChapter 1: “Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell”: Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982Chapter 2: The Center for Asian American Media and the Televisual Public SphereChapter 3: Pathology as Authenticity: ITVS, Terminal USA, and the Televisual Struggle Over Positive/Negative ImagesChapter 4: Dismembered from History: The Counternostalgia of Gregg ArakiChapter 5: Better Luck Tomorrow and the Transnational Reframing of Asian American Film and VideoChapter 6: Post–Asian American Feature Film: The Persistence of Institutionality in Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee and American ZombieAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex 

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Book SynopsisAs the two billion YouTube views for “Gangnam Style” would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the nation's film industry has long been a hub for transnational exchange, producing movies that put a unique spin on familiar genres, while influencing world cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood.Trade Review"Deftly weaves together eclectic, interdisciplinary references, from transnational literary studies to political economy, translation and adaptation studies, film genre studies, and inter-Asian Pacific Rim cultural studies." * The Journal of Asian Studies *"Brimming with insight and detail, this is the go-to book for South Korean genre cinema, a remarkable achievement of scholarship, richly detailed with frame grabs and production stills … Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Movie Migrations offers insightful readings of the deep connections between Korean and foreign films. A model of transnational scholarship, it will revitalize genre studies." -- Christina Klein * author of Cold War Orientalism *"A magnificent service to the scholarly analysis of South Korean cinema. This book is insightful, eloquent, and fully engaged. It has been researched and written with tremendous rigour and commitment." -- Julian Stringer * University of Nottingham *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories Part I From Classical Hollywood to the Korean Golden Age: Cinephilia, Modernization, and Postcolonial Genre Flows 1 Toward a Strategic Korean Cinephilia: A Transnational Détournement of Hollywood Melodrama2 The Mamas and the Papas: Cross-Cultural Remakes, Literary Adaptations, and Cinematic “Parent” Texts3 The Nervous Laughter of Vanishing Fathers: Modernization Comedies of the 1960s4 Once upon a Time in Manchuria: Classic and Contemporary Korean Westerns Part II From Cinematic Seoul to Global Hollywood: Cosmopolitanism, Empire, and Transnational Genre Flows 5 Reinventing the Historical Drama, De-Westernizing a French Classic: Genre, Gender, and the Transnational Imaginary in Untold Scandal6 From Gojira to Goemul: “Host” Cities and “Post” Histories in East Asian Monster Movies7 Extraordinarily Rendered: Oldboy, Transmedia Adaptation, and the US War on Terror8 A Thirst for Diversity: Trends in Korean “Multicultural Films,” from Bandhobi to Where is Ronny? Conclusion: Into “Spreadable” Spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the Question of Cultural TranslatabilityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Taken as a whole, this collection is a useful addition ot the conversation on techno-orientalism. It should prove of interest to both scholars in Asian and Asian American Studies and those with a beginner's understanding of the subject." * The Journal of Popular Culture *"Situating itself at the nexus of Asian and Asian American Studies, Techno-Orientalism covers an exciting range of topics and draws productive connections between literature, popular culture, technology, and the emergent geopolitics of what has been called the Pacific Century. This collection is a vital contribution to global media and cultural studies." -- Peter Paik * author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe *"'Techno-orientalism' is everywhere. This volume demonstrates for the first time that it is an indispensable critical category for contemporary thought. Any attempt to think globalization, neo-liberalism, and the human is incomplete without it." -- Mark C. Jerng * University of California, Davis *"The editors brilliantly sum up Techno-Orientalism as 'a form of pathology, necessitated by the 'Rising East' rhetoric and rationalized by the neo-liberal logic of (Asian) humans as mortal engines of modernity and economic growth.'" * Muslim World Book Review *"This anthology usefully introduces an emergent area of Asian American literary and cultural criticism that seeks to bridge what are often separate realms and discourses of analysis: Asian American studies and critical race studies and speculative fiction studies and media studies." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asian Speculative, Fiction, History, and Media is a timely and valuable resource for teaching and studying science fiction." * Science Fiction Studies *"Techno-Orientalism is a smart, compelling installment in the 'critical countertechnology' that we must build in order to resist our own sickness." * Extrapolation *"This collection remains vital in an age of magnified surveillance and racialization, and unambiguously establishes that the critique of techno-Orientalism is both imperative and here to stay." * Journal of Asian Studies *"What happens when we think of techno- orientalism in places like Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, or the Philippines? The volume offers its readers an invitation to think precisely about such omissions. If there’s something troubling about primarily looking to East Asia for signs of the future, what alternative futures might we be able to imagine if we were to look elsewhere?" * ALH Online *"As with Techno-Orientalism, the conceptual emphasis in The Buddha in the Machine is on considering how racialized ideas about technology are put into circulation, becoming the racial medium for linking together yet other ideas, technologies, and populations, not simply exposing racial ideology as the grounds for cultural production. Particularly impressive is the care with which Williams unfolds stories of reverse-directionality, as represented most clearly by the chapter on the Chinese American writer Lin Yutang’s lifelong at- tempt to invent and bring to production a Chinese typewriter." * American Literary History *"A valuable addition to the rela- tively scarce body of scholarship on the topic, Techno-Orientalism is a must-read for scholars in Asian American studies, Asian studies, and race/ethnicity studies, and is a rich source of fresh insight for academics in a range of other fields, including cultural studies, literary criticism, media studies, posthuman theory, speculative fiction studies, and postcolonial studies." * MELUS *"A dynamite collection...full of tight and intricate arguments that will be of value to Asian Americanists, scholars of speculative fiction, and popular culture." * The Year's Work in English Studies *"How The Dark Future Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles Looks In The Light Of Actual Today," by LAist staff https://laist.com/2019/11/18/blade_runners_2019_los_angeles_then_now_future_past.php * LAist *"Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction: Cyberpunk as a genre, and Cyberpunk 2077 the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored—but it can be examined," by George Yang * Wired *"Techno-orientalism was first coined in Rutgers University Press’ 2015 book Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang and Greta A. Niu, it investigates the phenomenon of how Asia and Asians are represented in hypo- or hyper-technological terms, 'while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.'" * The Hollywood Reporter *"Episode 193: Asian Futures Without Asians" * Imaginary World podcast *"Where the Future is Asian, and the Asian Are Robots," by Jane Hu * New Yorker *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction Part I Iterations & Instantiations Chapter 1 Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America’s Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime Chapter 2 “Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East”: Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century United States Radio Broadcasting Chapter 3 Looking Backward from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion Chapter 4 Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race Chapter 5 I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley Chapter 6 The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as an Mnemotechnics of 20th Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts Chapter 7 Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica, and Mixed-Race Imagining Chapter 8 “Never Stop Playing”: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death Chapter 9 “Home Is Where the War Is”: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront Part II Reappropriations & Recuperations Chapter 10 Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy Chapter 11 Re-imagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction Chapter 12 The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot Chapter 13 Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: Or, Joss Whedon’s “grand vision of an Asian/American tomorrow” Chapter 14 “How Does It Not Know What It Is?”: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’s Automaton Biographies Chapter 15 “A Poor Man from a Poor Country”: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Trade Review"Taken as a whole, this collection is a useful addition ot the conversation on techno-orientalism. It should prove of interest to both scholars in Asian and Asian American Studies and those with a beginner's understanding of the subject." * The Journal of Popular Culture *"Situating itself at the nexus of Asian and Asian American Studies, Techno-Orientalism covers an exciting range of topics and draws productive connections between literature, popular culture, technology, and the emergent geopolitics of what has been called the Pacific Century. This collection is a vital contribution to global media and cultural studies." -- Peter Paik * author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe *"'Techno-orientalism' is everywhere. This volume demonstrates for the first time that it is an indispensable critical category for contemporary thought. Any attempt to think globalization, neo-liberalism, and the human is incomplete without it." -- Mark C. Jerng * University of California, Davis *"The editors brilliantly sum up Techno-Orientalism as 'a form of pathology, necessitated by the 'Rising East' rhetoric and rationalized by the neo-liberal logic of (Asian) humans as mortal engines of modernity and economic growth.'" * Muslim World Book Review *"This anthology usefully introduces an emergent area of Asian American literary and cultural criticism that seeks to bridge what are often separate realms and discourses of analysis: Asian American studies and critical race studies and speculative fiction studies and media studies." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asian Speculative, Fiction, History, and Media is a timely and valuable resource for teaching and studying science fiction." * Science Fiction Studies *"Techno-Orientalism is a smart, compelling installment in the 'critical countertechnology' that we must build in order to resist our own sickness." * Extrapolation *"This collection remains vital in an age of magnified surveillance and racialization, and unambiguously establishes that the critique of techno-Orientalism is both imperative and here to stay." * Journal of Asian Studies *"What happens when we think of techno- orientalism in places like Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, or the Philippines? The volume offers its readers an invitation to think precisely about such omissions. If there’s something troubling about primarily looking to East Asia for signs of the future, what alternative futures might we be able to imagine if we were to look elsewhere?" * ALH Online *"As with Techno-Orientalism, the conceptual emphasis in The Buddha in the Machine is on considering how racialized ideas about technology are put into circulation, becoming the racial medium for linking together yet other ideas, technologies, and populations, not simply exposing racial ideology as the grounds for cultural production. Particularly impressive is the care with which Williams unfolds stories of reverse-directionality, as represented most clearly by the chapter on the Chinese American writer Lin Yutang’s lifelong at- tempt to invent and bring to production a Chinese typewriter." * American Literary History *"A valuable addition to the rela- tively scarce body of scholarship on the topic, Techno-Orientalism is a must-read for scholars in Asian American studies, Asian studies, and race/ethnicity studies, and is a rich source of fresh insight for academics in a range of other fields, including cultural studies, literary criticism, media studies, posthuman theory, speculative fiction studies, and postcolonial studies." * MELUS *"A dynamite collection...full of tight and intricate arguments that will be of value to Asian Americanists, scholars of speculative fiction, and popular culture." * The Year's Work in English Studies *"How The Dark Future Of Blade Runner's 2019 Los Angeles Looks In The Light Of Actual Today," by LAist staff https://laist.com/2019/11/18/blade_runners_2019_los_angeles_then_now_future_past.php * LAist *"Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction: Cyberpunk as a genre, and Cyberpunk 2077 the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored—but it can be examined," by George Yang * Wired *"Techno-orientalism was first coined in Rutgers University Press’ 2015 book Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang and Greta A. Niu, it investigates the phenomenon of how Asia and Asians are represented in hypo- or hyper-technological terms, 'while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.'" * The Hollywood Reporter *"Episode 193: Asian Futures Without Asians" * Imaginary World podcast *"Where the Future is Asian, and the Asian Are Robots," by Jane Hu * New Yorker *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction Part I Iterations & Instantiations Chapter 1 Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America’s Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime Chapter 2 “Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East”: Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century United States Radio Broadcasting Chapter 3 Looking Backward from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion Chapter 4 Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race Chapter 5 I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley Chapter 6 The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as an Mnemotechnics of 20th Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts Chapter 7 Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica, and Mixed-Race Imagining Chapter 8 “Never Stop Playing”: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death Chapter 9 “Home Is Where the War Is”: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront Part II Reappropriations & Recuperations Chapter 10 Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy Chapter 11 Re-imagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction Chapter 12 The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot Chapter 13 Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: Or, Joss Whedon’s “grand vision of an Asian/American tomorrow” Chapter 14 “How Does It Not Know What It Is?”: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’s Automaton Biographies Chapter 15 “A Poor Man from a Poor Country”: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOver the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic”. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form.Trade Review"Frey and Sayad assemble both academic and popular analyses on the dearth – perhaps death – of the working film critic, caught up and rubbed out in the brave new World Wide Web of bottomless blogs and 14-character tweets. Refusing a simplistic 'thumbs up/thumbs down' approach, this useful if fitful anthology merits several stars." * Journal of Film and Video *"Offers such distinguished critics as Armond White and Nick James a chance to weight in on the need for informed, responsible film criticism in the digital era… Highly recommended." * Choice *"This is a great and highly important volume for film studies as a discipline and cultural and media studies more generally." -- Dana Polan * New York University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: The Critic and the Audience Chapter 1. Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Post-Vanguard WorldChapter 2: Critics Through Authors: Dialogues, Similarities, and the Sense of a CrisisChapter 3. “The Last Honest Film Critic in America”: Armond White and the Children of James Baldwin Part II: New Forms and Activities Chapter 4. The New Democracy? Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and IMDbChapter 5. The Price of Conservation: Online Video Criticism of Film in ItalyChapter 6. Before and After AfterEllen: Online Queer Cinephile Communities as Critical CounterpublicsChapter 7. Elevating the “Amateur”: NollywoodCritics and the Politics of Diasporic Film Criticism Part III: Institutions and the Profession Chapter 8. American Nationwide Associations of Film Critics in the Internet EraChapter 9. Finnish Film Critics and the Uncertainties of the Profession in the Digital AgeChapter 10. The Social Function of Criticism; or, Why Does the Cinema Have (to Have) a Soul? Part IV: Critics Speak Chapter 11. The Critic Is Dead . . .Chapter 12. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About MoviesChapter 13. Who Needs Critics?Chapter 14. Excerpts from Cineaste’s “Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium” AfterwordSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisOver the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic”. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form.Trade Review"This is a great and highly important volume for film studies as a discipline and cultural and media studies more generally." -- Dana Polan * New York University *"Frey and Sayad assemble both academic and popular analyses on the dearth – perhaps death – of the working film critic, caught up and rubbed out in the brave new World Wide Web of bottomless blogs and 14-character tweets. Refusing a simplistic 'thumbs up/thumbs down' approach, this useful if fitful anthology merits several stars." * Journal of Film and Video *"Offers such distinguished critics as Armond White and Nick James a chance to weight in on the need for informed, responsible film criticism in the digital era… Highly recommended." * Choice *"Frey and Sayad assemble both academic and popular analyses on the dearth – perhaps death – of the working film critic, caught up and rubbed out in the brave new World Wide Web of bottomless blogs and 14-character tweets. Refusing a simplistic 'thumbs up/thumbs down' approach, this useful if fitful anthology merits several stars." * Journal of Film and Video *"This is a great and highly important volume for film studies as a discipline and cultural and media studies more generally." -- Dana Polan * New York University *"Offers such distinguished critics as Armond White and Nick James a chance to weight in on the need for informed, responsible film criticism in the digital era… Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I: The Critic and the Audience Chapter 1. Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Post-Vanguard WorldChapter 2: Critics Through Authors: Dialogues, Similarities, and the Sense of a CrisisChapter 3. “The Last Honest Film Critic in America”: Armond White and the Children of James Baldwin Part II: New Forms and Activities Chapter 4. The New Democracy? Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Twitter, and IMDbChapter 5. The Price of Conservation: Online Video Criticism of Film in ItalyChapter 6. Before and After AfterEllen: Online Queer Cinephile Communities as Critical CounterpublicsChapter 7. Elevating the “Amateur”: NollywoodCritics and the Politics of Diasporic Film Criticism Part III: Institutions and the Profession Chapter 8. American Nationwide Associations of Film Critics in the Internet EraChapter 9. Finnish Film Critics and the Uncertainties of the Profession in the Digital AgeChapter 10. The Social Function of Criticism; or, Why Does the Cinema Have (to Have) a Soul? Part IV: Critics Speak Chapter 11. The Critic Is Dead . . .Chapter 12. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About MoviesChapter 13. Who Needs Critics?Chapter 14. Excerpts from Cineaste’s “Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium” AfterwordSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fresh and intriguing, Hidden in Plain Sight offers a wealth of fascinating historical information on the myriad ways and contexts in which moving images have evoked experiences of wonder from audiences. Williamson’s interest in the material is infectious." -- Stephen Prince * author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality *"In answering questions that date back at least a century in movie-making, Williamson looks at how movie magic has inspired people to learn more about the techniques and technology behind the images. " * Flicksided *"Williamson’s superb book is a broadly conceived and thought-provoking reconsideration of the consanguinity of magic and moving images that obliges us to contemplate the special sense of wonder magic induces." -- Matthew Solomon * author of Disappearing Tricks and The Gold Rush *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Watching Closely 1 (De)Mystifying Tricks: The Wonder Response and the Emergence of the Cinema 2 Quicker than the Eye: Science, Cinema, and the Question of Vision 3 Second Sight: Time Lapse and the Cinema as Seer 4 The Enchanted Screen: Performing the Cinema’s Illusion of Life 5 Digital Prestidigitation: The Eclipse of the Cinema’s Mechanical Magic 6 Through Digital Eyes: Reanimating Early Cinema Conclusion: Other Obscurities and Illuminations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This carefully edited volume encourages thought about the impact of war, from 9/11 to involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, on youth in the US through 11 elegant and lucid essays that variously use ethnographic methods and literary and cultural analyses, together with practical reflections on pedagogical method ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"[A] welcome collection of essays … The War of My Generation evinces the historian William Appleman Williams's pithy observation that in the United States empire is, and has long been, 'a way of life.'" * The Chronicle of Higher Education *"A compelling study of what it means to grow up in the shadow of 9/11--the War on Terror truly is the war of their generation." -- Beth Bailey * author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force *"The array of approaches and resources in this well-conceived and original volume will make it the 'go to' book on how the war on terror has shaped a generation." -- Julia L. Mickenberg * Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, & Radical Politics in the United States *"This collection of essays has created a robust discussion of many aspects of how young people may or may not connect with various actions that are part of the war on terror … The War of My Generation engages the reader in the difficult topics related to the relationship of the military and the personal decision of youth." * IRSCL Reviews *"The War of My Generation is, in some ways, a classic American studies volume, combining a range of disciplinary methods, cultural resources, and popular voices to paint a complex picture of US life at a particular historical moment. Readers with an interdisciplinary bent, who are trained to hunt for diversity where there seems uniformity, will find The War of My Generation compelling." * American Literary History Online Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “The War of My Generation” Part I Experiences and Attitudes of the 9/11 Generations Chapter 1 Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and 21st Century Youth Chapter 2 Summer, Soldiers, Flags and Memorials: How U.S. Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays Chapter 3 Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror Part II Post-9/11 Militarism in Old and New Media Chapter 4 How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children’s Literature Addresses Deployment Chapter 5 “What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked”: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War Chapter 6 Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the “Next Great Generation” Chapter 7 Software and Soldier Lifecycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era Part III Coming of Age Stories and the Representation of Millennial Citizenship During the War on Terror Chapter 8 Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence Chapter 9 “Army Strong”: Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can Part IV Politics and Pedagogy Chapter 10 In This War But Not Of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War Chapter 11 “Coffins After Coffins”: Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture During the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay Notes List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music has served as a key recruiting tool for neo-Nazi and racist hate groups worldwide.Trade Review"Fascinating and by far the most comprehensive treatment of the topic. No other book provides this level of detail regarding white power music." -- Pete Simi * author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate *"In this disturbing study of the rise/success of racist rock that recruits, rallies, and rouses angry, hate-filled followers of darkly apocalyptic music, Dyck reveals a disturbing, emerging medium with global roots … Highly recommended." * Choice *"Provide[s] deep and detailed insight into recent formations and violent effects of white-power music, phenomena inspired into greater prominence by the current rise of far-right social and political movements." * American Music *"In this disturbing study of the rise/success of racist rock that recruits, rallies, and rouses angry, hate-filled followers of darkly apocalyptic music, Dyck reveals a disturbing, emerging medium with global roots … Highly recommended." * Choice *"Fascinating and by far the most comprehensive treatment of the topic. No other book provides this level of detail regarding white power music." -- Pete Simi * author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate *"Provide[s] deep and detailed insight into recent formations and violent effects of white-power music, phenomena inspired into greater prominence by the current rise of far-right social and political movements." * American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1What Is White-Power Music? 2The History of White-Power Music in Britain 3The History of White-Power Music in Continental Western Europe 4The History of White-Power Music in Eastern Europe 5The History of White-Power Music outside Europe 6Conclusion NotesSelect BibliographySelect Recordings CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music has served as a key recruiting tool for neo-Nazi and racist hate groups worldwide.Trade Review"Fascinating and by far the most comprehensive treatment of the topic. No other book provides this level of detail regarding white power music." -- Pete Simi * author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate *"In this disturbing study of the rise/success of racist rock that recruits, rallies, and rouses angry, hate-filled followers of darkly apocalyptic music, Dyck reveals a disturbing, emerging medium with global roots … Highly recommended." * Choice *"Provide[s] deep and detailed insight into recent formations and violent effects of white-power music, phenomena inspired into greater prominence by the current rise of far-right social and political movements." * American Music *"In this disturbing study of the rise/success of racist rock that recruits, rallies, and rouses angry, hate-filled followers of darkly apocalyptic music, Dyck reveals a disturbing, emerging medium with global roots … Highly recommended." * Choice *"Fascinating and by far the most comprehensive treatment of the topic. No other book provides this level of detail regarding white power music." -- Pete Simi * author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate *"Provide[s] deep and detailed insight into recent formations and violent effects of white-power music, phenomena inspired into greater prominence by the current rise of far-right social and political movements." * American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1What Is White-Power Music? 2The History of White-Power Music in Britain 3The History of White-Power Music in Continental Western Europe 4The History of White-Power Music in Eastern Europe 5The History of White-Power Music outside Europe 6Conclusion NotesSelect BibliographySelect Recordings CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines a rich history of gender-bending film roles, enabling readers to appreciate the wide array of masculinities that these actresses performed - from sentimental boyhood to rugged virility to gentlemanly refinement. Taking us on a guided tour through a treasure-trove of vintage images, Girls Will Be Boys helps us view the histories of gender, sexuality, and film through fresh eyes.Trade Review"Horak has produced a meticulously researched, astutely argued, and highly readable text … her use of archival materials is impeccable and her filmic and historical analyses clearly display a nuanced understanding of her topic." * Publishers Weekly *"This fascinating and well-written treatise is a laudable addition to film scholarship and a must-purchase for academic collections with concentrations in film or women's and gender studies." -- Library Journal * Starred review *"Drawing on the early archives of American cinema, Horak questions the assumption that cross-dressing actresses were inherently transgressive ... and provides a new lens through which to view gender, sexuality and film." -- Autostraddle * 15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016 *"Fascinating and timely ... As the lesbian subject is being normalised in Hollywood and far beyond, this study of cross-dressing’s early filmic transition from heterosexual ideal to queer deviance is particularly valuable." * Times Higher Education *"Horak's exhaustive research turns up many incredible moments in the history of gender shake-ups in the movies. Girls Will Be Boys is a hugely satisfying read, one of those rare books that offer distinct value to scholars while siultaneously being an entertaining read." * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *"Girls Will Be Boys is a good read. It is thoroughly researched, well argued, insightful and readable. Anyone interested in LGBT history, film studies, or the early 20th century will appreciate this recommended book." * Huffington Post *"Laura Horak's first monograph, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, is refreshing and invigorating. In a moment when pop culture is ablaze with stories of the 'novelty' of transgender and gender nonconforming people, this historian was delighted to sink into a thoroughly researched book that was ten years in the making." * Film Quarterly *"One rarely comes across works that can recalibrate an entire field the way Horak’s does. This amazing book reconfigures cinematic depictions of cross-dressing and lesbianism … Meticulously researched and accessible, Girls Will Be Boys is a must read for anyone working in GLBT film, gender studies, or early American cinema. Few scholarly arguments as sophisticated as Horak’s are presented in such clear and precise language … Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." * Choice *"Girls Will Be Boys expands and complicates the existing studies of androgyny, female masculinity, lesbian representation, and proto-queer identity in the early decades of U.S. film ... The reader may leave the book feeling grateful for Horak’s interpretive and anthropological labors, melancholy for how few of the films have survived on celluloid prints, and eager to pass Horak’s work to anyone—a new student or a senior scholar—who will be likewise surprised and challenged by its findings." * Women's Studies *"Meticulously researched and engagingly-written … Horak's work is solidly interdisciplinary and combines contemporary feminist, queer, gender, and critical-race theory with thorough historical research; she uses media texts as a way to tell a larger story about American culture and succeeds brilliantly." * The Journal of American History *"A thorough and thoughtful look at early cinema's phenomenon of films featuring female boys, mannish women, and cross-dressing girls ... [Horak's] approach changes what we thought we could assume about the history of sexuality and asks us to question how we made such assumptions." * Feminist Media Studies *"Girls Will Be Boys is an excellent work of film scholarship, meticulously researched and expertly presented, while still being an approachable and enjoyable read for the diligent non-academic reader. This is a wonderful book for those cinephiles who take an interest in how gender and sexuality have been presented throughout film history, and for social historians who recognize the important role cinema has played over the last century in shaping popular perspectives on gender and sexuality. Laura Horak has written an informative and necessary book." * Fourth & Sycamore *"Horak’s work is solidly interdisciplinary and combines contemporary feminist, queer, gender, and critical-race theory with thorough historical research; she uses media texts as a way to tell a larger story about American culture and succeeds brilliantly" -- Allison McCracken * The Journal of American History *"Who knew how important were those girls who would be boys? Not only as signs of 'deviancy' but as ideals of red-blooded boyhood itself? This engaging, well-researched book tells more than we ever knew about the many and various reasons 'girls will be boys.'" -- Linda Williams * University of California, Berkeley *"Laura Horak's Girls Will Be Boys is without peer as a historical contribution to queer scholarship on early film. It is a revisionist work that draws upon a wealth of historical research to completely overturn previous accounts." -- Robert J. King * author of The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture *"With this fascinatingly detailed and thorough study of cross-dressed women in pre-code cinema, Horak puts the light on a seldom studied practice." * French Journal of Media Studies *"By repositioning our perspective within the lens of the films’ initial reception, Horak provides a much-needed new view of what cross-dressing women and lesbians meant within the context of early film." * The Velvet Light Trap *"An edifying study at the crossroads of film history and gender studies, Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys will, one hopes, inspire students and scholars to explore the forgotten films, novels, and plays that Horak recovers and to re-examine the familiar examples on which she sheds new light." * Film and History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Cross-Dressed Women as American Ideals (1908–1921) 1 Moving Picture Uplift and the Female Boy 2 Cowboy Girls, Girl Spies, and the Homoerotic Frontier Intermezzo Codes of Deviance (1892–1914) 3 Cultural Hierarchy and the Detection of Sexual Deviance in A Florida Enchantment (1894 and 1914) Part II The Emergence of Lesbian Legibility (1921–1934) 4 Enter the Lesbian: Cosmopolitanism, Trousers, and Lesbians in the 1920s 5 The Lesbian Vogue and Backlash against Cross-Dressed Women in the 1930s Conclusion Appendix: U.S. Films Featuring Cross-Dressed Women, 1895–1934 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines a rich history of gender-bending film roles, enabling readers to appreciate the wide array of masculinities that these actresses performed - from sentimental boyhood to rugged virility to gentlemanly refinement. Taking us on a guided tour through a treasure-trove of vintage images, Girls Will Be Boys helps us view the histories of gender, sexuality, and film through fresh eyes.Trade Review"Laura Horak's Girls Will Be Boys is without peer as a historical contribution to queer scholarship on early film. It is a revisionist work that draws upon a wealth of historical research to completely overturn previous accounts." -- Robert J. King * author of The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture *"Horak has produced a meticulously researched, astutely argued, and highly readable text … her use of archival materials is impeccable and her filmic and historical analyses clearly display a nuanced understanding of her topic." * Publishers Weekly *"Who knew how important were those girls who would be boys? Not only as signs of 'deviancy' but as ideals of red-blooded boyhood itself? This engaging, well-researched book tells more than we ever knew about the many and various reasons 'girls will be boys.'" -- Linda Williams * University of California, Berkeley *"This fascinating and well-written treatise is a laudable addition to film scholarship and a must-purchase for academic collections with concentrations in film or women's and gender studies." -- Library Journal * Starred review *"Drawing on the early archives of American cinema, Horak questions the assumption that cross-dressing actresses were inherently transgressive ... and provides a new lens through which to view gender, sexuality and film." -- Autostraddle * 15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016 *"Fascinating and timely ... As the lesbian subject is being normalised in Hollywood and far beyond, this study of cross-dressing’s early filmic transition from heterosexual ideal to queer deviance is particularly valuable." * Times Higher Education *"Girls Will Be Boys is an excellent work of film scholarship, meticulously researched and expertly presented, while still being an approachable and enjoyable read for the diligent non-academic reader. This is a wonderful book for those cinephiles who take an interest in how gender and sexuality have been presented throughout film history, and for social historians who recognize the important role cinema has played over the last century in shaping popular perspectives on gender and sexuality. Laura Horak has written an informative and necessary book." * Fourth & Sycamore *"Girls Will Be Boys is a good read. It is thoroughly researched, well argued, insightful and readable. Anyone interested in LGBT history, film studies, or the early 20th century will appreciate this recommended book." * Huffington Post *"Horak's exhaustive research turns up many incredible moments in the history of gender shake-ups in the movies. Girls Will Be Boys is a hugely satisfying read, one of those rare books that offer distinct value to scholars while siultaneously being an entertaining read." * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *"Laura Horak's first monograph, Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, is refreshing and invigorating. In a moment when pop culture is ablaze with stories of the 'novelty' of transgender and gender nonconforming people, this historian was delighted to sink into a thoroughly researched book that was ten years in the making." * Film Quarterly *"One rarely comes across works that can recalibrate an entire field the way Horak’s does. This amazing book reconfigures cinematic depictions of cross-dressing and lesbianism … Meticulously researched and accessible, Girls Will Be Boys is a must read for anyone working in GLBT film, gender studies, or early American cinema. Few scholarly arguments as sophisticated as Horak’s are presented in such clear and precise language … Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." * Choice *"Girls Will Be Boys expands and complicates the existing studies of androgyny, female masculinity, lesbian representation, and proto-queer identity in the early decades of U.S. film ... The reader may leave the book feeling grateful for Horak’s interpretive and anthropological labors, melancholy for how few of the films have survived on celluloid prints, and eager to pass Horak’s work to anyone—a new student or a senior scholar—who will be likewise surprised and challenged by its findings." * Women's Studies *"Meticulously researched and engagingly-written … Horak's work is solidly interdisciplinary and combines contemporary feminist, queer, gender, and critical-race theory with thorough historical research; she uses media texts as a way to tell a larger story about American culture and succeeds brilliantly." * The Journal of American History *"A thorough and thoughtful look at early cinema's phenomenon of films featuring female boys, mannish women, and cross-dressing girls ... [Horak's] approach changes what we thought we could assume about the history of sexuality and asks us to question how we made such assumptions." * Feminist Media Studies *"Horak’s work is solidly interdisciplinary and combines contemporary feminist, queer, gender, and critical-race theory with thorough historical research; she uses media texts as a way to tell a larger story about American culture and succeeds brilliantly" -- Allison McCracken * The Journal of American History *"With this fascinatingly detailed and thorough study of cross-dressed women in pre-code cinema, Horak puts the light on a seldom studied practice." * French Journal of Media Studies *"By repositioning our perspective within the lens of the films’ initial reception, Horak provides a much-needed new view of what cross-dressing women and lesbians meant within the context of early film." * The Velvet Light Trap *"An edifying study at the crossroads of film history and gender studies, Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys will, one hopes, inspire students and scholars to explore the forgotten films, novels, and plays that Horak recovers and to re-examine the familiar examples on which she sheds new light." * Film and History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Cross-Dressed Women as American Ideals (1908–1921) 1 Moving Picture Uplift and the Female Boy 2 Cowboy Girls, Girl Spies, and the Homoerotic Frontier Intermezzo Codes of Deviance (1892–1914) 3 Cultural Hierarchy and the Detection of Sexual Deviance in A Florida Enchantment (1894 and 1914) Part II The Emergence of Lesbian Legibility (1921–1934) 4 Enter the Lesbian: Cosmopolitanism, Trousers, and Lesbians in the 1920s 5 The Lesbian Vogue and Backlash against Cross-Dressed Women in the 1930s Conclusion Appendix: U.S. Films Featuring Cross-Dressed Women, 1895–1934 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry - from the employees' wives who hand-coloured the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as menial workers, Erin Hill shows how their labour was essential to the industry.Trade Review"In addition to its commendable social agenda, Never Done's meticulous research, direct, elegant prose, and novel approach to an under-researched topic secure its status as an essential contribution to film history." * Film Quarterly *"Erin Hill's book is an eye opening look at 'women's work' in the entertainment industry. If you are asking why there aren't more women in the executive suite or the director's chair, the answer is here." -- Diane English * writer, producer, director *"An absolutely essential work. Erin Hill's Never Done is elegantly researched and analyzed and profoundly moving, taking us through all the roles women created in early motion picture history. Exhilarating!" -- Allison Anders * film and TV director and screenwriter *"Exactly the history we need! Erin Hill provides a fascinating account of the work women have always done at all levels of the movie industry." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood *"Hill offers a unique and exciting analysis of the largely unacknowledged work done by women in the film industry, providing a new history that shifts our understanding of old ones. Never Done will make a significant impact in the field." -- Mary Desjardins * author of Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video *"At a time in which revelations about industry sexism and brutal power games emerge on a seemingly daily basis, Hill’s book stands as a valuable chronicle of not just the struggles but also the successes of studio-era Hollywood women. Enhancing our understanding of the past while helping to place present-day crises in their historical context, Hill demonstrates that a woman’s work in Hollywood is, indeed, never done." * Media Industries *"[A] ground‐breaking contribution to women's media history." * Gender and History *"Hill’s well-researched book...excels in exposing readers to female actors previously ignored by historians." * H-Net *"Hill’s project is also a necessary addition to any course on production studies, or media industry studies because it demonstrates a viable historical research method on media labor to students. It does so in a way that calls for further research on undervalued media laborers. And in conclusion, at a moment when many academic programs and departments are establishing archives of their own institutional histories, Never Done reminds us of the need for inclusive approaches to historicizing labor in our own communities." * Cinema Journal *"Hill’s project is...a necessary addition to any course on production studies, or media industry studies because it demonstrates a viable historical research method on media labor to students. It does so in a way that calls for further research on undervalued media laborers. And in conclusion, at a moment when many academic programs and departments are establishing archives of their own institutional histories, Never Done reminds us of the need for inclusive approaches to historicizing labor in our own communities." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"[A] highly engaging read and inspir[es] models of historical scholarship that add volumes to our understanding of the roles that women played or were blocked from playing in the Hollywood studio system and the first decade of network television....Never Done draws from untapped sources to uncover history that few at the time thought was worth preserving in any systematic way." * Signs *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Paper Trail: Efficiency, Clerical Labor, and Women in the Early Film Industry 2 Studio Tours: Feminized Labor in the Studio System 3 The Girl Friday and How She Grew: Female Clerical Workers and/as the System 4 “His Acolyte on the Altar of Cinema”: The Studio Secretary’s Creative Service 5 Studio Girls: Women’s Professions in Media Production Epilogue: The Legacy of “Women’s Work” in Contemporary Hollywood Appendix: Work Roles Divided By Gender as Represented in Studio Tours Films NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIntroduces generations of women who worked behind the scenes in the film industry - from the employees' wives who hand-coloured the Edison Company's films frame-by-frame, to the female immigrants who toiled in MGM's backrooms to produce costumes. Challenging the dismissive characterization of these women as menial workers, Erin Hill shows how their labour was essential to the industry.Trade Review"In addition to its commendable social agenda, Never Done's meticulous research, direct, elegant prose, and novel approach to an under-researched topic secure its status as an essential contribution to film history." * Film Quarterly *"Erin Hill's book is an eye opening look at 'women's work' in the entertainment industry. If you are asking why there aren't more women in the executive suite or the director's chair, the answer is here." -- Diane English * writer, producer, director *"An absolutely essential work. Erin Hill's Never Done is elegantly researched and analyzed and profoundly moving, taking us through all the roles women created in early motion picture history. Exhilarating!" -- Allison Anders * film and TV director and screenwriter *"Exactly the history we need! Erin Hill provides a fascinating account of the work women have always done at all levels of the movie industry." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood *"Hill offers a unique and exciting analysis of the largely unacknowledged work done by women in the film industry, providing a new history that shifts our understanding of old ones. Never Done will make a significant impact in the field." -- Mary Desjardins * author of Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video *"At a time in which revelations about industry sexism and brutal power games emerge on a seemingly daily basis, Hill’s book stands as a valuable chronicle of not just the struggles but also the successes of studio-era Hollywood women. Enhancing our understanding of the past while helping to place present-day crises in their historical context, Hill demonstrates that a woman’s work in Hollywood is, indeed, never done." * Media Industries *"[A] ground-breaking contribution to women's media history." * Gender and History *"Hill’s well-researched book...excels in exposing readers to female actors previously ignored by historians." * H-Net *"Hill’s project is also a necessary addition to any course on production studies, or media industry studies because it demonstrates a viable historical research method on media labor to students. It does so in a way that calls for further research on undervalued media laborers. And in conclusion, at a moment when many academic programs and departments are establishing archives of their own institutional histories, Never Done reminds us of the need for inclusive approaches to historicizing labor in our own communities." * Cinema Journal *"Hill’s project is...a necessary addition to any course on production studies, or media industry studies because it demonstrates a viable historical research method on media labor to students. It does so in a way that calls for further research on undervalued media laborers. And in conclusion, at a moment when many academic programs and departments are establishing archives of their own institutional histories, Never Done reminds us of the need for inclusive approaches to historicizing labor in our own communities." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"[A] highly engaging read and inspir[es] models of historical scholarship that add volumes to our understanding of the roles that women played or were blocked from playing in the Hollywood studio system and the first decade of network television....Never Done draws from untapped sources to uncover history that few at the time thought was worth preserving in any systematic way." * Signs *"In addition to its commendable social agenda, Never Done's meticulous research, direct, elegant prose, and novel approach to an under-researched topic secure its status as an essential contribution to film history." * Film Quarterly *"Erin Hill's book is an eye opening look at 'women's work' in the entertainment industry. If you are asking why there aren't more women in the executive suite or the director's chair, the answer is here." -- Diane English * writer, producer, director *"An absolutely essential work. Erin Hill's Never Done is elegantly researched and analyzed and profoundly moving, taking us through all the roles women created in early motion picture history. Exhilarating!" -- Allison Anders * film and TV director and screenwriter *"Exactly the history we need! Erin Hill provides a fascinating account of the work women have always done at all levels of the movie industry." -- Shelley Stamp * author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood *"Hill offers a unique and exciting analysis of the largely unacknowledged work done by women in the film industry, providing a new history that shifts our understanding of old ones. Never Done will make a significant impact in the field." -- Mary Desjardins * author of Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video *"At a time in which revelations about industry sexism and brutal power games emerge on a seemingly daily basis, Hill’s book stands as a valuable chronicle of not just the struggles but also the successes of studio-era Hollywood women. Enhancing our understanding of the past while helping to place present-day crises in their historical context, Hill demonstrates that a woman’s work in Hollywood is, indeed, never done." * Media Industries *"[A] ground‐breaking contribution to women's media history." * Gender and History *"Hill’s well-researched book...excels in exposing readers to female actors previously ignored by historians." * H-Net *"Hill’s project is also a necessary addition to any course on production studies, or media industry studies because it demonstrates a viable historical research method on media labor to students. It does so in a way that calls for further research on undervalued media laborers. And in conclusion, at a moment when many academic programs and departments are establishing archives of their own institutional histories, Never Done reminds us of the need for inclusive approaches to historicizing labor in our own communities." * Cinema Journal *"Hill’s project is...a necessary addition to any course on production studies, or media industry studies because it demonstrates a viable historical research method on media labor to students. It does so in a way that calls for further research on undervalued media laborers. And in conclusion, at a moment when many academic programs and departments are establishing archives of their own institutional histories, Never Done reminds us of the need for inclusive approaches to historicizing labor in our own communities." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"[A] highly engaging read and inspir[es] models of historical scholarship that add volumes to our understanding of the roles that women played or were blocked from playing in the Hollywood studio system and the first decade of network television....Never Done draws from untapped sources to uncover history that few at the time thought was worth preserving in any systematic way." * Signs *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Paper Trail: Efficiency, Clerical Labor, and Women in the Early Film Industry 2 Studio Tours: Feminized Labor in the Studio System 3 The Girl Friday and How She Grew: Female Clerical Workers and/as the System 4 “His Acolyte on the Altar of Cinema”: The Studio Secretary’s Creative Service 5 Studio Girls: Women’s Professions in Media Production Epilogue: The Legacy of “Women’s Work” in Contemporary Hollywood Appendix: Work Roles Divided By Gender as Represented in Studio Tours Films NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of the genre. The book's ten contributors - black female scholars from a variety of disciplines - provide a wide range of perspectives, while considering everything from Basketball Wives to Say Yes to the Dress.Trade Review"Every now and then a publication arrives that's right on time, and Real Sister is the read of the season … Cue the book club debates!" -- #1 in Patrik's Picks * Essence Magazine *"Real Sister makes a significant contribution to existing scholarship by establishing links between depictions of black women in television and a longer-running history of representations of black women in literature and popular culture tropes." -- Leigh H. Edwards * author of The Triumph of Reality TV: The Revolution in American Television *"A frank meditation on the images of black women in television’s most dominant form, Real Sister exposes the ways in which the ambivalent pleasures derived from reality TV’s obligatory train wrecks implicate black women as both victim and entrepreneur." -- Darnell Hunt * editor of Channeling Blackness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Real Scandal: Portrayals of Black Women in Reality TV Jervette R. Ward Chapter 1 Black Women: From Public Arena to Reality TV Sheena Harris Chapter 2 Selective Reuptake: Perpetuating Misleading Cultural Identities in the Reality Television World LaToya Jefferson-James Chapter 3 Striving to Dress the Part: Examining the Absence of Black Women in Different Iterations of Say Yes to the Dress Alison D. Ligon Chapter 4 The Semiotics of Fashion and Urban Success in The Real Housewives of Atlanta Cynthia Davis Chapter 5 A Home without Walls, A Family without Boundaries: How Family Participation in Reality Television Impacts Children’s Development Detris Honora Adelabu Chapter 6 Where Is Clair Huxtable When You Need Her?: The Desperate Search for Positive Media Images of African American Women in the Age of Reality TV Monica Flippin-Wynn Chapter 7 Questions of Quality and Class: Perceptions of Hierarchy in African American Family–Focused Reality TV Shows Preselfannie E. Whitfield McDaniel Chapter 8 Contemplating Basketball Wives: A Critique of Racism, Sexism, and Income-Level Disparity Sharon Lynette Jones Chapter 9 Exploiting and Capitalizing on Unique Black Femininity: An Entrepreneurial Perspective Terry A. Nelson Chapter 10 Reunion Chapter: A Conversation among Contributors Jervette R. Ward Appendix Reality TV Shows That Prominently Feature Black Women Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, this title comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken.Trade Review”Smart textual analysis and informed feminist critique make Abstinence Cinema a welcome addition to scholarship that takes popular culture seriously for its participation in the struggles of contemporary public life." -- Bonnie J. Dow * author of Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News *"This is a groundbreaking, fearless book, one that takes on a hitherto relatively unexplored question of Hollywood cinema and makes one think anew about the social, political, and sexual politics of contemporary mainstream movies ... Highly recommended." * Choice *"[Abstinence Cinema] educates audiences, particularly younger readers, parents, and scholars, on the ideological turn of rewriting purity narratives into popular culture through contemporary film." * Southern Communication Journal *"A fascinating exposé … Students and scholars of film, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies will learn much from Kelly’s well-argued text." * H-SAWH *"Popular entertainment is an unexplored front in the ongoing culture wars over sexuality. Casey Ryan Kelly’s sophisticated and lively analysis of abstinence cinema is a timely reminder of the high stakes in these debates." -- Janice M. Irvine * University of Massachusetts *"Abstinence Cinema is an exceptional book and should find wide readership throughout communication and rhetorical studies as well as related fields like film studies, gender, studies, and popular culture … Kelly wisely chooses to stay attuned to the early twenty-first century and the particular issues of abstinence but in so doing provides insight into a wide range of contemporary cultural issues ranging from femininity to neoliberalism. The end result of this engaging analysis is a powerful intervention into American cinema." * Quarterly Journal of Speech *"This book may well enlighten [readers] in terms of what price one have to pay in order to conform to a so-called 'liberated' postmodern society, revealing itself a truly relevant indicator of Hollywood’s deeply rooted yet far from obsolete evangelical moral and political values. That’s already quite an achievement." * InMedia *"This is a groundbreaking, fearless book, one that takes on a hitherto relatively unexplored question of Hollywood cinema and makes one think anew about the social, political, and sexual politics of contemporary mainstream movies ... Highly recommended." * Choice *”Smart textual analysis and informed feminist critique make Abstinence Cinema a welcome addition to scholarship that takes popular culture seriously for its participation in the struggles of contemporary public life." -- Bonnie J. Dow * author of Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News *"Popular entertainment is an unexplored front in the ongoing culture wars over sexuality. Casey Ryan Kelly’s sophisticated and lively analysis of abstinence cinema is a timely reminder of the high stakes in these debates." -- Janice M. Irvine * University of Massachusetts *"A fascinating exposé … Students and scholars of film, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies will learn much from Kelly’s well-argued text." * H-SAWH *"[Abstinence Cinema] educates audiences, particularly younger readers, parents, and scholars, on the ideological turn of rewriting purity narratives into popular culture through contemporary film." * Southern Communication Journal *"Abstinence Cinema is an exceptional book and should find wide readership throughout communication and rhetorical studies as well as related fields like film studies, gender, studies, and popular culture … Kelly wisely chooses to stay attuned to the early twenty-first century and the particular issues of abstinence but in so doing provides insight into a wide range of contemporary cultural issues ranging from femininity to neoliberalism. The end result of this engaging analysis is a powerful intervention into American cinema." * Quarterly Journal of Speech *"This book may well enlighten [readers] in terms of what price one have to pay in order to conform to a so-called 'liberated' postmodern society, revealing itself a truly relevant indicator of Hollywood’s deeply rooted yet far from obsolete evangelical moral and political values. That’s already quite an achievement." * InMedia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cinema of Abstinence1 Melodrama and Postfeminist Abstinence: The Twilight Saga (2008–2012)2 Man/Boys and Born-Again Virgins: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)3 The Monstrous Girls and Absentee Fathers of Horror: The Possession (2012)4 Abstinence, the Global Sex Industry, and Racial Violence: Taken (2008)5 Sexsploitation in Abstinence SatiresConclusion: CounternarrativesNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, this title comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken.Trade Review”Smart textual analysis and informed feminist critique make Abstinence Cinema a welcome addition to scholarship that takes popular culture seriously for its participation in the struggles of contemporary public life." -- Bonnie J. Dow * author of Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News *"This is a groundbreaking, fearless book, one that takes on a hitherto relatively unexplored question of Hollywood cinema and makes one think anew about the social, political, and sexual politics of contemporary mainstream movies ... Highly recommended." * Choice *"[Abstinence Cinema] educates audiences, particularly younger readers, parents, and scholars, on the ideological turn of rewriting purity narratives into popular culture through contemporary film." * Southern Communication Journal *"A fascinating exposé … Students and scholars of film, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies will learn much from Kelly’s well-argued text." * H-SAWH *"Popular entertainment is an unexplored front in the ongoing culture wars over sexuality. Casey Ryan Kelly’s sophisticated and lively analysis of abstinence cinema is a timely reminder of the high stakes in these debates." -- Janice M. Irvine * University of Massachusetts *"Abstinence Cinema is an exceptional book and should find wide readership throughout communication and rhetorical studies as well as related fields like film studies, gender, studies, and popular culture … Kelly wisely chooses to stay attuned to the early twenty-first century and the particular issues of abstinence but in so doing provides insight into a wide range of contemporary cultural issues ranging from femininity to neoliberalism. The end result of this engaging analysis is a powerful intervention into American cinema." * Quarterly Journal of Speech *"This book may well enlighten [readers] in terms of what price one have to pay in order to conform to a so-called 'liberated' postmodern society, revealing itself a truly relevant indicator of Hollywood’s deeply rooted yet far from obsolete evangelical moral and political values. That’s already quite an achievement." * InMedia *"This is a groundbreaking, fearless book, one that takes on a hitherto relatively unexplored question of Hollywood cinema and makes one think anew about the social, political, and sexual politics of contemporary mainstream movies ... Highly recommended." * Choice *”Smart textual analysis and informed feminist critique make Abstinence Cinema a welcome addition to scholarship that takes popular culture seriously for its participation in the struggles of contemporary public life." -- Bonnie J. Dow * author of Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News *"Popular entertainment is an unexplored front in the ongoing culture wars over sexuality. Casey Ryan Kelly’s sophisticated and lively analysis of abstinence cinema is a timely reminder of the high stakes in these debates." -- Janice M. Irvine * University of Massachusetts *"A fascinating exposé … Students and scholars of film, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies will learn much from Kelly’s well-argued text." * H-SAWH *"[Abstinence Cinema] educates audiences, particularly younger readers, parents, and scholars, on the ideological turn of rewriting purity narratives into popular culture through contemporary film." * Southern Communication Journal *"Abstinence Cinema is an exceptional book and should find wide readership throughout communication and rhetorical studies as well as related fields like film studies, gender, studies, and popular culture … Kelly wisely chooses to stay attuned to the early twenty-first century and the particular issues of abstinence but in so doing provides insight into a wide range of contemporary cultural issues ranging from femininity to neoliberalism. The end result of this engaging analysis is a powerful intervention into American cinema." * Quarterly Journal of Speech *"This book may well enlighten [readers] in terms of what price one have to pay in order to conform to a so-called 'liberated' postmodern society, revealing itself a truly relevant indicator of Hollywood’s deeply rooted yet far from obsolete evangelical moral and political values. That’s already quite an achievement." * InMedia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cinema of Abstinence1 Melodrama and Postfeminist Abstinence: The Twilight Saga (2008–2012)2 Man/Boys and Born-Again Virgins: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)3 The Monstrous Girls and Absentee Fathers of Horror: The Possession (2012)4 Abstinence, the Global Sex Industry, and Racial Violence: Taken (2008)5 Sexsploitation in Abstinence SatiresConclusion: CounternarrativesNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sociology on Film delivers intriguing new insights on the operations of Hollywood in the postwar years and its complex, muted engagement with the problems of social and industrial modernity." -- Lee Grieveson * University College London *"Brims with fresh insights and penetrating sociological analysis, smoothly moving from one film to the next, highlighting unexpected linkages along the way… Highly recommended." * Choice *"Cagle makes a powerful case for the importance of the social problem film as a prestige genre that conscientiously popularized developments in 20th-century sociology as it both formed and gratified Hollywood's aspirational 'middlebrow' audience." -- Jerome Christensen * author of America's Corporate Art: Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1Two Modes of Prestige Film 2Hollywood as Popular Sociology 3Hollywood and the Public Sphere 4A Genre Out of Cycles 5Realist Melodrama Epilogue NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sociology on Film delivers intriguing new insights on the operations of Hollywood in the postwar years and its complex, muted engagement with the problems of social and industrial modernity." -- Lee Grieveson * University College London *"Brims with fresh insights and penetrating sociological analysis, smoothly moving from one film to the next, highlighting unexpected linkages along the way… Highly recommended." * Choice *"Cagle makes a powerful case for the importance of the social problem film as a prestige genre that conscientiously popularized developments in 20th-century sociology as it both formed and gratified Hollywood's aspirational 'middlebrow' audience." -- Jerome Christensen * author of America's Corporate Art: Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1Two Modes of Prestige Film 2Hollywood as Popular Sociology 3Hollywood and the Public Sphere 4A Genre Out of Cycles 5Realist Melodrama Epilogue NotesIndex

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