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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFinalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book AwardsAging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors over sixty-five worldwide. Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines a diverse array of cultural works including films, literature, and even art that represent this time of life, often made by people who are seniors themselves. These works, focusing on important topics such as housing, memory loss, and intimacy, are analyzed in dialogue with recent research to explore how “stories” illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination. Gray Matters also incorporates the life experiences of seniors gathered from over two hundred in-depth surveys with a range of questions on growing old, not often included in other age studies works. Combining cultural texts, gerontology research, and observations from older adults will give all readers a fuller picture of the struggles and pleasures of aging and avoids over-simplified representations of the process as all negative or positive. Trade Review“Creative, wide-ranging and well-written, Gray Matters offers a many-sided, complex understanding of late-life. It demonstrates that this period of our lives interweaves our past and present, takes grit, and offers opportunities for positive experiences. For some, learning becomes more enjoyable, as the phrase ‘senior college’ indicates. Gray Matters also skillfully shows that aging occurs in a social context, a fact often overlooked when the process is understood as solely an individual matter.” -- Margaret Cruikshank * from the foreword *"Gray Matters invites readers to reexamine what they think they know about growing old. Offering succinct close readings of richly diverse cultural texts, Lem’s book presents literature as a resource for dealing with the practical and existential concerns of aging. With its interdisciplinary grounding in age studies theory and sociological data, Gray Matters is itself a valuable resource for readers ready to reorient their view of later life." -- Erin Lamb * co-editor of Research Methods in Health Humanities *"Lem draws examples from literature, film, television, and a survey of older people to support a wide-ranging and accessible examination of contemporary culture. Especially helpful to those who are new to the field, this book is a welcome addition to age-studies scholarship." -- Valerie Lipscomb * author of Performing Age in Modern Drama *"A savvy analysis of films, books, and studies undermining Philip Roth’s contention that 'Old age is not a battle. It is a massacre.'" -- Susan Gubar * author of Late-Life Love: A Memoir *"The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics: Ellyn Lem on Works by Shakespeare, Lauren Fox, and Others" https://lithub.com/the-literature-of-elder-care-is-often-about-shifting-power-dynamics/ * Literary Hub *"Drawing on literature, movies and TV as well as her survey research with 200 seniors, Lem explores the diversity of experiences of older people and pushes back against negative stereotypes about aging. Sexuality, housing, memory loss, adult children and death are among the topics." * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel *"Often, the elderly handle the pandemic very well. Here’s why," by Ellyn A. Lem https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/elderly-coping-pandemic-despite-isolation/2020/09/18/f397dea8-f763-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html#comments-wrapper * Washington Post *"Gray Matters increases readers’ knowledge about contemporary literature, media, and research focused on lived experiences of older adults. The content and insights can be introduced into gerontology courses and social work practice, human behavior, policy, and research courses, as well as informing direct practice with critical perspectives." * Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work *"Just How Well Is Popular Culture Portraying Older Adults?" by Ellyn Lem * Next Avenue *"This illuminating book will be appreciated by anyone who is growing old, or who is committed to social changes that ensure a pleasant and productive old age for all. Recommended." * Choice *"What the New Movie 'Old' Gets Right About Aging," by Ellyn Lem * Next Avenue *Table of ContentsForeword by Margaret Cruikshank Introduction: “Where Do I Begin?” Senior Parents and Their Adult Children: “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Surveying the Housing Options: “No Place like Home”? Understanding Memory Loss: “Am I Losing my Mind?” Intimacy: “Love is All You Need”? Women and Men: “Separate But Equal”? Money, Work and Retirement: “Are We There Yet?” Death: “The Final Frontier”? Afterword Acknowledgments Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisUtilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women’s sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of various political stripes in the cultural mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally underground in their support for teenagers’ access to frank sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances in American political battles, and sheds new light on the resurgence of the right in the US in recent years.Trade Review“Teenage Dreams is a vital contribution to our historic understanding of the US culture wars from the 1980s to the present moment. This rich analysis uncovers a wealth of youth activism around sexuality, revealing how we might benefit if we heard the voices of youth who are typically left out of public conversations on their own sexuality.” -- Julie Bettie * author of Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity *"Teenage sexuality has long been a site of contention in US politics and popular culture. Examining policies and popular ideologies starting in the 1980s, Charlie Jeffries brings to light political and social histories that have long restricted teenage girl sexuality. Jeffries’ research into how multiple influencers of US policy have denied teen girls access to sex-positive education and information is as timely as it is informative." -- Rebekah J. Buchanan * author of Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics *“Teenage Dreams is a vital contribution to our historic understanding of the US culture wars from the 1980s to the present moment. This rich analysis uncovers a wealth of youth activism around sexuality, revealing how we might benefit if we heard the voices of youth who are typically left out of public conversations on their own sexuality.” -- Julie Bettie * author of Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity *"Teenage sexuality has long been a site of contention in US politics and popular culture. Examining policies and popular ideologies starting in the 1980s, Charlie Jeffries brings to light political and social histories that have long restricted teenage girl sexuality. Jeffries’ research into how multiple influencers of US policy have denied teen girls access to sex-positive education and information is as timely as it is informative." -- Rebekah J. Buchanan * author of Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Teenage Girls and the New Right 2. Women and Children? Sexual Speech and Sexual Harm 3. Explicit Content: Cultures of Girlhood 4. The Third Wave and the Third Way 5. Medicine, Education, and Sexualization Epilogue: Girlhood Sexualities in the Contemporary Culture Wars Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBy analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethnoreligious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability. Trade ReviewBromberg breaks the silence and pushes discomfort to the margins as he unpacks notions of American Jewish Ashkenazi exceptionalism without overlooking how Jewish whiteness, an embodied American process, exists as an anomaly... Innovative. -- Katya Gibel Mevorach * author of Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin, *In this provocative and timely book, Eli Bromberg dares to examine how anti-Semitic sexual stereotypes centered on the incest taboo continue to shape representations of Jews and Jewishness in American culture. Bromberg brings oft-silenced topics to the fore, exposing the “protective politics” of Jewish communities and unsettling paradigms...a fascinating contribution to the fields of Jewish cultural studies and comparative race studies. -- Lori Harrison-Kahan * author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary *"Bromberg presents a well-written critical analysis of the intersections of Jewish ethnoreligious identity, white racial identity, and gender that lays important groundwork for future work in the area. Those who read this text will have a more advanced understanding of the intersections of these categories in the context of the situations described....[A]n important contribution to the fields of race and ethnic studies and Jewish studies because it pioneers many previously undiscussed and under-discussed topics simultaneously." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, Incest in American Pop Culture by Eli Bromberg" * New York Jewish Travel Guide *"A timely and theoretically sophisticated contribution to studies in Jewish social politics, popular culture, and critical race studies. It shines a bold light on the ways in which Jewish vulnerability to sexual antisemitism, rooted in centuries of anti-Jewish belief, has continued to enable and reward complacence with the demands of racist and patriarchal power structures as a requisite for American Jews’ own conditional inclusion within the paradox of 'universalist,' white-dominated American culture. It furthers contemplation about the predicaments of Jewish identity in a context that awards conditional privileges to those whose security is easily dismantled by underlying prejudice and who are thus compelled to reinforce existing power structures in the name of self-defense." * AJS Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: A Victorian Freud: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jewish Second-Wave Feminist Criticism of Freud Chapter 2: Incest, Exogamy, and Jewishness on Roseanne Chapter 3: Woody, Wood Yi, and Communion Wafers Chapter 4: Blood Libel Humor and Incest Easter Eggs Chapter 5: “Till a Khusin Comes Along” Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisBy analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethnoreligious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability. Trade ReviewBromberg breaks the silence and pushes discomfort to the margins as he unpacks notions of American Jewish Ashkenazi exceptionalism without overlooking how Jewish whiteness, an embodied American process, exists as an anomaly... Innovative. -- Katya Gibel Mevorach * author of Black, Jewish and Interracial: It's Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin, *In this provocative and timely book, Eli Bromberg dares to examine how anti-Semitic sexual stereotypes centered on the incest taboo continue to shape representations of Jews and Jewishness in American culture. Bromberg brings oft-silenced topics to the fore, exposing the “protective politics” of Jewish communities and unsettling paradigms...a fascinating contribution to the fields of Jewish cultural studies and comparative race studies. -- Lori Harrison-Kahan * author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary *"Bromberg presents a well-written critical analysis of the intersections of Jewish ethnoreligious identity, white racial identity, and gender that lays important groundwork for future work in the area. Those who read this text will have a more advanced understanding of the intersections of these categories in the context of the situations described....[A]n important contribution to the fields of race and ethnic studies and Jewish studies because it pioneers many previously undiscussed and under-discussed topics simultaneously." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, Incest in American Pop Culture by Eli Bromberg" * New York Jewish Travel Guide *"A timely and theoretically sophisticated contribution to studies in Jewish social politics, popular culture, and critical race studies. It shines a bold light on the ways in which Jewish vulnerability to sexual antisemitism, rooted in centuries of anti-Jewish belief, has continued to enable and reward complacence with the demands of racist and patriarchal power structures as a requisite for American Jews’ own conditional inclusion within the paradox of 'universalist,' white-dominated American culture. It furthers contemplation about the predicaments of Jewish identity in a context that awards conditional privileges to those whose security is easily dismantled by underlying prejudice and who are thus compelled to reinforce existing power structures in the name of self-defense." * AJS Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: A Victorian Freud: A Rhetorical Analysis of Jewish Second-Wave Feminist Criticism of Freud Chapter 2: Incest, Exogamy, and Jewishness on Roseanne Chapter 3: Woody, Wood Yi, and Communion Wafers Chapter 4: Blood Libel Humor and Incest Easter Eggs Chapter 5: “Till a Khusin Comes Along” Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Other End of the Needle demonstrates that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an accessible writing style, sociologist Dave Lane explains the complexity of tattoo work as a type of social activity. His central argument is that tattooing is a social world, where people must be socialized, manage a system of stratification, create spaces conducive for labor, develop sets of beliefs and values, struggle to retain control over their tools, and contend with changes that in turn affect their labor. Earlier research has examined tattoos and their meanings. Yet, Lane notes, prior research has focused almost exclusively on the tattoos—the outcome of an intricate social process—and have ignored the significance of tattoo workers themselves. "Tattooists," as Lane dubs them, make decisions, but they work within a social world that constrains and shapes the outcome of their labor—the tattoo. The goal of this book is to help readers understand the world of tattoo work as an intricate and nuanced form of work. Lane ultimately asks new questions about the social processes occurring prior to the tattoo’s existence. Trade Review"A compelling, in-depth look at tattoo artists and their social world as they pursue fulfilling, enchanting work in the midst of a dehumanizing capitalist system. Lane provokes fascinating questions about how artists organize spaces, navigate laws, and construct authenticity as tattoos become increasingly popular. Reading made me want to get more tattoos – and ask my artist all sorts of questions!" -- Ross Haenfler * author of Straight Edge Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change *"It takes two to tattoo–someone being tattooed and the tattooist. Their encounter has to be face-to-face, and this fact shapes how tattooists work, regardless of whether they approach their work as a craft or as high art. In this fascinating book, David Lane takes us into the many corners of the tattooists’ world, revealing how the occupation retains its traditions in the face of dramatic changes." -- Joel Best * University of Delaware *"Looking at the nature, habits, and cultural codes of professional tattooing, Lane reveals the complexity of tattooing as an art form, work world, and social process. The tattooists appear as resilient agents who resist capitalist alienation, unionization, and state-level regulations. We also see the artists as gatekeepers who maintain the class, race, and gender order of professional tattooing. A truly interesting read." -- Katherine Irwin * University of Hawai’i at Manoa *"In The Other Side of the Needle, David C. Lane provides an absorbing and accessibly written view of the tattoo world from the perspective of tattoo workers. Drawing on an art-world perspective and packed with insights from tattooists, the book explores the working lives of tattooists. It provides a much-needed and thorough treatment of this understudied area and will be of interest to scholars in the production of culture as well as to anyone interested in tattoos and tattooing. -- Victoria D. Alexander * Goldsmiths, University of London *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Figure 1.1: The Stratified World of Tattooing Figure 7.1: Authenticity of Machine Ownership List of Tables Table 4.1: State and Local Tattoo Bans Introduction: Tattooing for Beginners 1 The Social World of Tattooing 2 Organizing Space 3 Careers of Tattooists 4 Legal Consciousness among Workers 5 Ties to Conventional Institutions and Ideas 6 Sources of Contention 7 External Threats and the Maintenance of Boundaries Conclusion: Continuity and Change Methodological Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & MusicHonorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition​ Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction, and so many other crucial issues. Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past one hundred years of politically conscious music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia, rap, punk, folk, and soul, Brad Schreiber demonstrates how musicians can take a variety of approaches— angry rallying cries, mournful elegies to the victims of injustice, or even humorous mockeries of authority—to fight for a fairer world. While shining a spotlight on Phil Ochs, Gil Scott-Heron, the Dead Kennedys and other seminal, politicized artists, he also gives readers a new appreciation of classic acts such as Lesley Gore, James Brown, and Black Sabbath, who overcame limitations in their industry to create politically potent music Music Is Power tells fascinating stories about the origins and the impact of dozens of world-changing songs, while revealing political context and the personal challenges of legendary artists from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley.Supplemental material (Artist and Title List): https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24001955/Music_Is_Power_Supplementary_Artist_Title_List.doc Trade Review“Brad Schreiber understands both music and politics, as well as the jagged lines where they overlap and intersect. His clarity, intelligence, and insight provide lasting rewards.” -- Anthony DeCurtis * Grammy Award–winning journalist, for Rolling Stone, author of Lou Reed: A Life *“An inspiring tour through the history of making change with music and an important call for retrieving music’s intrinsic ability to challenge power.” -- Douglas Rushkoff * documentarian, professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, author of Team Human *“A stirring survey of the sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, sometimes angry but ever hopeful music that is the soundtrack for America’s struggle to become a more fair and just society.” -- Seth Rosenfeld * journalist, winner of the George Polk Award, author of Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radical *Interview on "Deep Dish Radio with Tim Powers" with Brad Schreiber https://play.acast.com/s/deepdishradio/7424927b-bdc3-4183-a884-a84f4ba85c5f * Deep Dish Radio with Tim Powers *Law and Disorder Radio interview with Brad Schreiber https://lawanddisorder.org/2019/11/law-and-disorder-november-25-2019/ * Law and Disorder *Interview with Brad Schreiber on The Stuph File Program * The Stuph File *"Music is Power: Author Brad Schreiber digs into he history and power of protest music" interview with Brad Schreiber https://wgnradio.com/2019/12/10/music-is-power-author-brad-schreiber-digs-into-he-history-and-power-of-protest-music/ * Nick Digilio Show - WGN *Music Is Power mention in Planet Proctor, December 2019 issue * Planet Proctor *MWN Episode 136 – Popular Songs , Social Justice, and the Will to Change with Brad Schreiber * Midnight Writer News *"A fun read. It provides the old timer with a quick sail down the streams of memory and the younger reader with a useful and concise look at the music of the West that helped form the culture of today." * CounterPunch *Louisiana Radio Network "Talk Louisiana" interview with Jim Engster and Brad Schreiber https://www.wrkf.org/post/monday-january-20th-faye-williams-daryl-glasper-brad-schreiber * Louisiana Radio Network *"Music Is Power covers the socio-political history of important music, from Bob Dylan to hip-hop, including genres like punk, comedy, folk, psychedelia, RB/soul and major musicals, and encourages listeners to respond to this powerful music with real world activism. It’s a timeless New Year’s gift!" * Planet Proctor *Unstructured Podcast interview with Brad Schreiber https://unstructuredpod.com/psychotically-eclectic-author-brad-schreiber/ * Unstructured Podcast *"Brad Schreiber talks about this topic perfectly...You did a lot of research."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gaim6C8E3wfeature=youtu.be * The Allan Handelman Show interview with Brad Schreiber: Music Is Power" *Brad Schreiber's Playlist for His Book "Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change" * Largehearted Boy *"Brad Schreiber Visits Madame Perry's Salon" podcast interview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brad-schreiber-visits-madame-perrys-salon/id1063919048?i=1000465223311 * Madame Perry's Salon *"In-Depth Interview: Author Brad Schreiber Talks..." interview on the Peter B. Collins Show https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/peter-b-collins-newscomment/e/66984975 * The Peter B. Collins Show *"A fun and informative read from first page to last." * Midwest Book Review *"Brad Schreiber, 'Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice And The Will To Change'" https://www.wortfm.org/brad-schreiber-music-is-power-popular-songs-social-justice-and-the-will-to-change/ * Madison Bookbeat *Parallax Views with J.G. Michael interview with Brad Schreiber https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/schreiber/ * Parallax Views *"Passing Through" KAAD-LP 103.5 FM interview with Brad Schreiber * Passing Through *"An intensively researched yet rollicking tour of socially charged music...A compelling read on the intersection of popular music and social activism, from Pete Seeger to Zappa to Public Enemy and beyond." * American Songwriter *INTERVIEW WITH BRAD SCHREIBER ON ‘MUSIC IS POWER’: PART 1—DIXIE CHICKS, MARVIN GAY https://shadowproof.com/2020/03/31/music-is-power-interview-schreiber-dixie-chicks-marvin-gaye/ * Shadowproof *"What’s better than a book you didn’t know you needed? Music Is Power is a history of the nexus of music and protest, from Wobbly-turned-musician Joe Hill to Green Day, from folk to hip-hop." * Razorcake *"INTERVIEW WITH BRAD SCHREIBER ON ‘MUSIC IS POWER’: PART 2—JIMI HENDRIX, PINK FLOYD" * Shadowproof, Part 2 *“Music Is Power - Part 3: Black Sabbath, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy” https://shadowproof.com/2020/04/28/music-is-power-schreiber-gil-scott-heron-black-sabbath/ * Shadowproof, Part 3 *"Much has been written about these artists elsewhere, but Schreiber’s focus sets this study apart. He goes beneath the surface to detail how their social consciousness evolved during the course of their careers, and how they came to understand their music’s power to address social ills. This carefully researched book is suitable for fans and scholars alike. Recommended." * Choice *"Madame Perry's Salon" interview with Brad Schreiber, part two https://www.blogtalkradio.com/madameperryssalon/2020/05/14/writer-producer-brad-schreiber * Madame Perry's Salon, part two *Brad Schreiber interview on “Passing Through” on KAAD-LP 103.5 FM * Passing Through, part 2 *"Coast to Coast AM" interview with Brad, Schreiber, part 1 * Coast to Coast AM, part 1 *"Coast to Coast AM" interview view Brad Schreiber, part 2 * Coast to Coast AM, part 2 *"Coast to Coast AM" interview with Brad Schreiber, part 3 * Coast to Coast AM, part 3 *"MWN Episode 144 – Music is Power (Part 2) with Brad Schreiber" https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-episode-144-music-is-power-part-2-with-brad-schreiber/ * Midnight Writer News *"Chatting with Sherri," BlogTalkRadio interview with Brad Schreiber https://www.blogtalkradio.com/rithebard/2020/06/25/chatting-with-sherri * Chatting with Sherri - Blog Talk Radio *Music's Connection to Societal Issues The Patty Hearst/SLA Case - interview with Brad Schreiber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHdxbXK6Ys * Beyond Reality Radio *"Talk with Ted" interview with Brad Schreiber https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s3b37-e5cbf5 * Talk with Ted podcast *"Brad Schreiber interview – Episode 288" http://readingandwritingpodcast.com/brad-schreiber-interview/ * Reading and Writing podcast *High Road to Humanity - Music Is Power! Popular Songs, Social Justice, with Guest Brad Schreiber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j15fa54NIfeature=youtu.be * Nancy Yearout's High Road to Humanity *"Episode 37: "Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and The Will to Change" with Brad Schreiber" https://allmusicbooksdeepdive.podbean.com/e/episode-37-music-is-power-popular-songs-social-justice-and-the-will-to-change-with-brad-schreiber/ * Deep Dive podcast *Beyond Reality Paranormal Podcast - Hidden History episode interview with Brad Schreiber https://anchor.fm/brparanormal/episodes/Hidden-History---Brad-Schreiber---102020-elclvh * Beyond Reality Paranormal podcast *"Tuesday, December 8th: Andrea Gallo, Brad Schreiber" * "Talk Louisiana," WRKF *The Stuph File Program interview with Brad Schreiber * The Stuph File Program *"How Tom Odell’s Another Love became an unlikely anthem for Ukraine," by James Hall * The Telegraph **Special episode * Music is Power: Donna and Dr Adam in conversation with author Brad Schreiber * Love's A Secret Weapon podcast *"In Music Is Power, Brad Schreiber argues that socially or politically conscious music emerges from practically every genre of popular music, and he takes the reader on a journey through the various ways that musicians have addressed the issues of their day." -- Shalon Van Tine * Western Folklore journal *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Musical Workers of the World Unite: Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete SeegerChapter 2: There For More Than Fortune: Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Bob DylanChapter 3: Caged Artists: Lesley Gore, Janis Ian, P.F. SloanChapter 4: Parody and Poetry: Tom Lehrer, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Smothers BrothersChapter 5: Psychedelicate Situation: Jimi Hendrix and Pink FloydChapter 6: Reason and Blues: Marvin Gaye and The TemptationsChapter 7: Say It Loud, We’re Blocked but Proud: James Brown and Curtis MayfieldChapter 8: Hard Rock Turns Metallic: The Who and Black SabbathChapter 9: More Than a Working Class Hero: John LennonChapter 10: Out of Place and In Your Face: The Dead Kennedys and The Sex PistolsChapter 11: Word: Gil Scott Heron and Grandmaster FlashChapter 12: Global Music Consciousness: Bob Marley and Peter GabrielChapter 13: Weird, Funny, Angry: Frank Zappa vs. EverybodyChapter 14: Rap, Not Hip Hop: N.W.A. and Public EnemyChapter 15: Weapons of Mass Deconstruction: Dixie Chicks and Green DayEpilogueBibliography

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Book SynopsisA collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any form of literature. Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar Jan Baetens examines how Schuiten’s work as an architectural designer informs the series’ concerns with the preservation of historic buildings. He also includes an original interview with Peeters, which reveals how poststructuralist critical theory influenced their construction of a rhizomatic fictional world, one which has made space for fan contributions through the Alta Plana website. Synthesizing cutting-edge approaches from both literary and visual studies, Rebuilding Story Worlds will give readers a new appreciation for both the aesthetic ingenuity of The Obscure Cities and its nuanced conception of politics. Trade Review"In this compelling study of world making and storytelling in The Obscure Cities by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, Jan Baetens offers a subtle and intelligent reading of how structures of authorship, character, image, and world draw readers into a truly fictional universe in which interpretation and rereading are key. With this book, Baetens has certainly brought The Obscure Cities into its rightful place in the history of American and European comics."— Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland "Baetens ‘monograph is devoted to the overall concept of a series that was not originally conceived as such. The heterogeneity of the individual, complementary and contradicting volumes that stand for themselves and can be read in the context of the other volumes."— Comic.de "With clarity, insight, and depth, Jan Baetens’ Rebuilding Story Worlds gives the reader all the essential keys to navigate François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’ sprawling graphic novel series The Obscure Cities—Belgium’s most sophisticated, contemporary bande dessinée opus."— Jean-Paul Gabilliet, author of Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of Comic Books in AmericaTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations 1 A New Series, A New Type of Author 2 A World of Its Own 3 More than a Possible World 4 Between Chapter and Series 5 A New Fantastic 6 In and Out the Medium 7 Doing Politics in Comics 8 Close-reading The Leaning Girl 9 A Conversation with Benoît Peeters 10 Image Gallery Acknowledgments Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisMarvel is one of the hottest media companies in the world right now, and its beloved superheroes are all over film, television and comic books. Yet rather than simply cashing in on the popularity of iconic white male characters like Peter Parker, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, Marvel has consciously diversified its lineup of superheroes, courting controversy in the process. Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain “legacy heroes,” including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen. If the superhero comic is a quintessentially American creation, then how might the increasing diversification of Marvel’s superhero lineup reveal a fundamental shift in our understanding of American identity? This timely study answers those questions and considers what Marvel’s comics, TV series, and films might teach us about stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification. Trade Review"Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel’s contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined."— Ronald L. Jackson II, co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics "Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain 'legacy heroes,' including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen."— Forces of Geek "[Brown] has written a wonderfully readable book whose academic posture does not make it any less appealing to the layperson or the aficionado."— South China Morning Post "Smash Pages QA: Jeffrey A. Brown: The pop culture scholar discusses his latest books on superheroes, diversity and gender"— SmashPagesTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Marvel and Modern America Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comics Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification and Appropriation Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation and Repatriation Totally Awesome Asian Heroes vs. Stereotypes A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine Afterword: “Because the World Still Needs Heroes” Works Cited

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Book SynopsisOur understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible images of previous times. Yet such historical television programs always reveal just as much about the era in which they are produced as the era in which they are set; there are few more quintessentially late-90s shows than That ‘70s Show, for example. From Memory to History takes readers on a journey through over fifty years of historical dramas and sitcoms that were set in earlier decades of the twentieth century. Along the way, it explores how comedies like M*A*S*H and Hogan’s Heroes offered veiled commentary on the Vietnam War, how dramas ranging like Mad Men echoed current economic concerns, and how The Americans and Halt and Catch Fire used the Cold War and the rise of the internet to reflect upon the present day. Cultural critic Jim Cullen is lively, informative, and incisive, and this book will help readers look at past times, present times, and prime time in a new light.Trade Review"This is a terrific book, fun and learned and provocative. Ranging across television from The Waltons to The Americans, Cullen provides an entertaining and thoughtful account of the ways that we remember and how this is influenced and directed by what we watch. The discussions of popular television series are excellent, and together they provide a compelling account of historical television, reminding us that nothing artistic happens by chance and that we should be careful of what we believe." -- Jerome de Groot * author of Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture *"Jim Cullen has been writing incisively about how Americans remember the past and make sense of the present through various forms of popular culture for a quarter-century. This time his focus is prime-time television with deep dives into seven celebrated series from the 1960s through the 2010s, which will inspire readers to return to these beloved programs with renewed insight and appreciation." -- Gary R. Edgerton * Professor of Creative Media and Entertainment at Butler University and coeditor of the Journal of Po *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Television’s History 1 LEFT TO THE RIGHTThe Waltons as a 1970s Version of the 1930s 2 CAMP HISTORYHogan’s Heroes as a 1960s Version of the 1940s 3 A FUNNY WARM*A*S*H as a 1970s Version of the 1950s 4 DREAM ADVERTISEMENTMad Men as a 2000s Version of the 1960s 5 WE’RE ALL ALL RIGHTThat ’70s Show as a 1990s Version of the 1970s 6 DOMESTIC FRONTThe Americans as a 2010s Version of the 1980s 7 PROGRAMMING HOPEHalt and Catch Fire as a 2010s Version of the 1990s CONCLUSION Visualizing the Future of the Past Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBollywood’s New Woman examines Bollywood’s construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminates the contexts and contours of this contemporary figure that has been identified in sociological and historical discourses as the “New Woman.” On the one hand, this figure is a variant of the fin de siècle phenomenon of the “New Woman” in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the Indian context, the New Woman is a distinct articulation resulting from the nation’s tryst with neoliberal reform, consolidation of the middle class, and the ascendency of aggressive Hindu Right politics. Trade Review"There is an emerging gap in classical narrative or textual analysis which marked the early blossoming of film studies in India. Anwer and Arora’s edited volume on Bollywood’s New Woman addresses precisely this gap by taking the attention back to the text to comment on gender, history and society. This collection of articles, spread across fourteen chapters and four sections attempts to reconfigure screened womanhood from the post-liberalization era."— Studies in South Asian Film and Media "These authors deconstruct the tools that filmmakers use and how the characters themselves strategize to assert identity and individuality. Localized, globalized, and contextualized within the larger Indian landscape and yet focusing on the intersections of place, class, caste, and age, the book offers an overview of the New Bollywood Woman."— Uma Vangal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video "A timely and valuable collection, Bollywood’s New Woman offers a critical assessment of nearly three decades of post-economic liberalization India through a focus on the changes and consistencies, in female characters and stars in Hindi cinema. The close readings situate films in diverse industrial formations—big-budget, small films, multiplex, hatke—that shape the many manifestations of these ‘new’ women. And, the perceptive readings anchored in genres, star texts, and new media skillfully show how these ‘new’ women navigate, question, and/or embrace the tradition/modern dyad in neoliberal and Hindu nationalist India." — Monika Mehta, author of Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema "A sumptuous and well-rounded volume of essays by leading experts on Indian cinema. This book is recommended for all scholars and students for an in-depth understanding of the gender dynamics in post-globalization Bollywood." — Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, author of Unruly Cinema: History, Politics, and Bollywood "Essays in this exciting and welcome collection show us how India’s economic liberalization ushers in new figurations of women. Tracking Bollywood’s New Woman across revised filmic tropes, unconventional screen bodies, emergent technological formats and cosmopolitan geographies, they reveal gender’s starring role in the unfolding story of India’s neoliberalism and cinema." — Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space "Insightful and wide-ranging, Bollywood’s New Woman brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship in South Asian film and cultural studies. The figure of the ‘New Woman’ has emerged as the site on which many of India’s current desires and anxieties come to be rehearsed and executed. This anthology is essential reading for anyone interested in gender, politics, and popular culture in contemporary India and beyond." — Meheli Sen, author of Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial CinemaTable of ContentsContents Introduction Part I Family and Nation 1. Koel Banerjee and Jigna Desai, “Mompreneur in the Multiplex: Entrepreneurial Technologies of the “New Woman” Subject in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization” 2. Sangita Gopal, “Lethal Acts: Bollywood’s new woman and the Nirbhaya Effect” 3. Baidurya Chakrabarti, “Beyond the Couple Form: The Space of the New Woman in Yash Raj Films” 4. Aparajita De, “Mera Saaya: Shadows of the Woman in Bollywood’s Cultural Imagination” Part II Body Matters 5. Gohar Siddiqui, “New Womanhood and #LipstickRebellion: Feminist Consciousness in Lipstick Under My Burkha” 6. Debadatta Chakraborty, “Queering Bollywood: Sexuality of the disabled Body – A Case Study” 7. Ajay Gehlawat, “Plus-size Femininity: The Multiple Figurations of Bhumi Pednekar” 8. Puja Sen, “The Many Bodies of Vidya Balan: The Dirty Picture, Kahaani, and Tumhari Sulu” Part III Geographies of the New Woman 9. Anjali Ram, “Out of India: Educating the New Woman in Queen, EnglishVinglish, and Badrinath ki Dulhaniya” 10. Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey, “Learning to Love The(ir) World: Using Feminist Spaces and Cosmopolitan Impulses against the Heteropatriarchy in Queen and English Vinglish” 11. Namrata Rele Sathe, “Single in the City: The Female Flâneur in Queen” 12. Madhavi Biswas, ”Dedh Ishqiyaand Ishqiya “Glocal Women: Gender, Genre, and Performance in Abhishek Chaubey’s Part IV New Media and the New Woman 13. Kuhu Tanvir, “All Broken Up and Dancing: Looking at Katrina Kaif in eight GIFs” 14. Tanushree Ghosh, “Reshaping ‘Bollywood’: Dissident New Media Femininities and Hindi Cinema” Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe 2010s might be remembered as a time of increased polarization in American life. The decade contained both the Obama era and the Trump era, and as the nation’s political fissures widened, so did the gap between the haves and have-nots. Hollywood reflected these divisions, choosing to concentrate on big franchise blockbusters at the expense of mid-budget films, while new players like Netflix and Amazon offered fresh opportunities for low-budget and independent filmmakers. As the movie business changed, films ranging from American Sniper to Get Out found ways to speak to the concerns of a divided nation. The newest installment in the Screen Decades series, American Cinema in the 2010s takes a close look at the memorable movies, visionary filmmakers, and behind-the-scenes drama that made this decade such an exciting time to be a moviegoer. Each chapter offers an in-depth examination of a specific year, covering a wide variety of films, from blockbuster superhero movies like Black Panther and animated films like Frozen to smaller-budget biopics like I, Tonya and horror films like Hereditary. This volume introduces readers to a decade in which established auteurs like Quentin Tarantino were joined by an exceptionally diverse set of new talents, taking American cinema in new directions. Trade Review"American Cinema of the 2010s offers a lively compendium of insights about the complicated relationship between Hollywood cinema and the cultural zeitgeist." -- Virginia Wexman * editor of Directing *"American Cinema of the 2010s offers a lively compendium of insights about the complicated relationship between Hollywood cinema and the cultural zeitgeist." -- Virginia Wexman * editor of Directing *Table of ContentsTimeline: 2010s Introduction: Movies and the 2010s DENNIS BINGHAM 2010 Movies and Recessionary Gender Politics MICHELE SCHREIBER 2011 Movies and Masculinity at a Crossroads DAVID GREVEN 2012 Movies and Myths, Heroes, and History RAYMOND HABERSKI JR. 2013 Movies and Personhood ALEXANDRA KELLER 2014 Movies and the Unexpected Virtue of How the Sausage Gets Made DANIEL SMITH-ROWSEY 2015 Movies and Female Agency LISA BODE 2016 Movies and the Solace of Progressive Narratives CYNTHIA BARON 2017 Movies and the Right to Be Heard JULIE LEVINSON 2018 Movies and Revolution MIKAL J. GAINES 2019 Movies, Anniversaries, and the Limits of Looking Back DENNIS BINGHAM Select Academy Awards, 2010–2019 Acknowledgments Works Cited and Consulted Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisStar Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children’s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.Trade ReviewE2K: Eager to Know podcast, "Seriously Star Wars" episode interview with Carmelo Esterrich— Eager to Know podcast (e2K) "Things are never as simple as they seem. While the stories of Star Wars span multiple media forms, the universes of the franchise are vast and uncharted. In this insightful volume, Carmelo Esterrich mines the unique and multifaceted Star Wars multiverse in all its complexities, delving deeply into discussions of diversity, war, fandom, and gender across the galaxy. Whether discussing the Canon and the Legend, the Fan and the Creator, or the human and the alien (and the droid!), Esterrich proves that the force is strong with Star Wars. Don’t be a nerf herder – get this book now!" — Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media "Alumnus authors book, a 'conversation starter,' about all things Star Wars"— Penn State News "Associate Professor Carmelo Esterrich to publish Star Wars Multiverse in 2021"— Columbia College ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface: Seriously, Star Wars 1 Navigating a Multiverse: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars 2 Humans and Creatures + Droids: Hierarchies of Life 3 Imperial Desires: War, Order, Colonialism 4 Beyond Princesses and Flyboys: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars Conclusion: Star Wars, Seriously Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisStar Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children’s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.Trade ReviewE2K: Eager to Know podcast, "Seriously Star Wars" episode interview with Carmelo Esterrich— Eager to Know podcast (e2K) "Things are never as simple as they seem. While the stories of Star Wars span multiple media forms, the universes of the franchise are vast and uncharted. In this insightful volume, Carmelo Esterrich mines the unique and multifaceted Star Wars multiverse in all its complexities, delving deeply into discussions of diversity, war, fandom, and gender across the galaxy. Whether discussing the Canon and the Legend, the Fan and the Creator, or the human and the alien (and the droid!), Esterrich proves that the force is strong with Star Wars. Don’t be a nerf herder – get this book now!" — Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media "Alumnus authors book, a 'conversation starter,' about all things Star Wars"— Penn State News "Associate Professor Carmelo Esterrich to publish Star Wars Multiverse in 2021"— Columbia College ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface: Seriously, Star Wars 1 Navigating a Multiverse: Watching, Reading, Wearing Star Wars 2 Humans and Creatures + Droids: Hierarchies of Life 3 Imperial Desires: War, Order, Colonialism 4 Beyond Princesses and Flyboys: Gender and Sexuality in Star Wars Conclusion: Star Wars, Seriously Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.Trade Review"Andrew Guest uses sociology and psychology to guide readers into a world of complex and malleable meanings associated with global soccer. With an engaging writing style, he presents an insightful introduction to the ways that critical thinking about sports enables us to play with ideas as we develop a better understanding of ourselves and the social worlds in which we live."— Jay Coakley, author of Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies “Soccer in Mind is a fun and thought-provoking read. By bringing social science theories and research findings to some of the most well-known, thrilling moments from soccer past and present, Guest illustrates a ‘thinking fandom’ that encourages us all to be more curious observers of the global game. Ultimately, this book helps us to understand ourselves through soccer, offering a compelling take not only on who we are, but also how we can be better.”— Rachel Allison, author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional SoccerTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Lenses: Psychology, Sociology, and the Ways Soccer Explains Us 2. Fans: Losing Your Mind and Finding Your Place 3. Cultures: Soccer is Familiar, Soccer is Strange 4. Players: Talent Development Versus Human Development 5. Performances: Mental Skills, People Skills, and the Psychology in Soccer 6. Impacts: Players, Games, and the Greater Good 7. Initiatives: Soccer for Development and Peace 8. Futures: Toward Thinking Fandom Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHoly adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight’s history—and debuting just a few months prior to the word “teenager” first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have “played” Robin over the past eighty years, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of “Batman and—.” Trade Review“Lauren R. O’Connor explains Robin—as a teen, as a superhero, as a symbol—as a necessary way to understand adolescence in America along the axes of age, class, gender, and race. O'Connor does us all a favor and gives us a way to know how this enduring figure of adolescence fits into the superhero genre, into comics publishing, and into American culture.” -- Peter Coogan * author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre *"In Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, Lauren R. O'Connor deftly demonstrates how various iterations of Robin express contemporary anxieties about adolescence, sexuality, gender, and race. This insightful, engaging study discusses the various ways Batman's sidekick is often kicked aside; it urges us to see how Robin's subordinate position mirrors young people's peripheral status. Robin and the Making of American Adolescence is a valuable contribution to histories of comics and adolescence." -- Lara Saguisag * author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics *"In this engaging account located at the intersection of youth studies and comics studies, O’Connor uses Robin as a lens to look at shifting cultural constructions of adolescence in the USA over time. In doing so she emphasizes the significance of the longevity of the character and the diversity of the individuals who have taken on the role." -- Mel Gibson * co-editor of Superheroes and Identities *"Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight’s history—and debuting just a few months prior to the word 'teenager' first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have 'played' Robin over the past eighty years, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of 'Batman and—.'" * Forces of Geek *“Lauren R. O’Connor explains Robin—as a teen, as a superhero, as a symbol—as a necessary way to understand adolescence in America along the axes of age, class, gender, and race. O'Connor does us all a favor and gives us a way to know how this enduring figure of adolescence fits into the superhero genre, into comics publishing, and into American culture.” -- Peter Coogan * author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre *"In Robin and the Making of American Adolescence, Lauren R. O'Connor deftly demonstrates how various iterations of Robin express contemporary anxieties about adolescence, sexuality, gender, and race. This insightful, engaging study discusses the various ways Batman's sidekick is often kicked aside; it urges us to see how Robin's subordinate position mirrors young people's peripheral status. Robin and the Making of American Adolescence is a valuable contribution to histories of comics and adolescence." -- Lara Saguisag * author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Com *"In this engaging account located at the intersection of youth studies and comics studies, O’Connor uses Robin as a lens to look at shifting cultural constructions of adolescence in the USA over time. In doing so she emphasizes the significance of the longevity of the character and the diversity of the individuals who have taken on the role." -- Mel Gibson * co-editor of Superheroes and Identities *"Holy adolescence, Batman! Robin and the Making of American Adolescence offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. Debuting just a few months after Batman himself, Robin has been an integral part of the Dark Knight’s history—and debuting just a few months prior to the word 'teenager' first appearing in print, Robin has from the outset both reflected and reinforced particular images of American adolescence. Closely reading several characters who have 'played' Robin over the past eighty years, Robin and the Making of American Adolescence reveals the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about adolescents in relation to sexuality, gender, and race. This book partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, following Robin as he swings alongside the ever-changing American teenager and finally shining the Bat-signal on the latter half of 'Batman and—.'" * Forces of Geek *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One The Secret Origins of Adolescence Chapter Two Robin, Nightwing, Batman: The Shifting Sexuality of Dick Grayson Chapter Three Girls Wonder: Young Female Robins in the Modern Age of Comics Chapter Four Mixed Signals: Adolescence, Race, and Robin Chapter Five The Sidekick on Screen: Images of Robin in Television and Film Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVery Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz, Jr. on I Love Lucy to contemporary examples such as a delayed episode of Black-ish and the streaming-era phenomenon of the “Very Special Seasons” of UnReal and 13 Reasons Why, this collection seriously and critically uses the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Trade Review“’Very special episodes’ are an intriguing and surprisingly underexplored topic. This excellent collection pulls together an impressive array of approaches to this concept that will give readers a broad but detailed look at how ostensibly challenging material was made palatable on television.” -- Derek Kompare * Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts, Southern Methodist University * "Very Special Episodes establishes a compelling framework detailing how the TV industry makes and manages cultural value, relevance, and distinction not via aesthetic exceptionalism, but as special parts of its programming regularity. Historical grounding from the volume's sixteen astute essays provides a much-needed antidote to film studies' myopic 'discovery' of a 'golden age' of quality TV only in the premium HBO/Netflix era. This is Exhibit-A, a must-read, for understanding TV not just as an 'industry' but as a resilient critical industrial practice." -- John T. Caldwell * Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, and author of Specworld: Studying Folds, Faultlines, and Fra *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments A Very Special Introduction JONATHAN COHN AND JENNIFER PORST 1 Listen to Save Lives: Music and the Atomic Bomb in Cold War Very Special Episodes REBA WISSNER 2 Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched’s “Sneaky Racism” JONATHAN COHN 3 Conspicuous Morality: Very Special Episodes, the War on Drugs, and Broadcast Deregulation PHILIP SCEPANSKI 4 “Due to Its Subject Matter”: Creating the Very Special Teen Sex Talk in 1980s Sitcoms BARBARA SELZNICK 5 “Thanksgiving Orphans”: Cheers and Very Special Holiday Episodes of Television JENNIFER PORST 6 Very Spooky Episodes: Roseanne, Working-Class Monsters, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT 7 A Very Special Visit to the “Old Neighborhood”: Containing the Los Angeles Uprising on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air LINDSAY GIGGEY 8 The Night the Lights Went out at (Most of) NBC: Producing a Network with 1994’s Must See TV Blackout Stunt ERIN COPPLE SMITH 9 Ellen, “The Puppy Episode,” and a Special TV Milestone? RON BECKER 10 “And Was There a Lesson in All This?”: Weaponizing—and Subverting—the Very Special Episode ERIN GIANNINI 11 Animating Entertainment, or Very Special Media Reflexivity MIMI WHITE 12 Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy BRETT MILLS 13 Too black-ish? Banned Very Special Episodes APRYL ALEXANDER AND JENNIFER PORST 14 Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders CHRISTINE BECKER 15 UnREAL, Sexual Assault, and the Very Special Season JORIE LAGERWEY AND TAYLOR NYGAARD Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative roles women played in the 1970s American film industry. Women and New Hollywood revises our understanding of this important era in American film by examining the contributions that women made not only as directors, but also as screenwriters, editors, actors, producers, and critics. Including essays on film history, film texts, and the decade’s film theory and criticism, this collection showcases the rich and varied cinematic products of women’s creative labor, as well as the considerable barriers they faced. It considers both women working within and beyond the Hollywood film industry, reconceptualizing New Hollywood by bringing it into dialogue with other American cinemas of the 1970s. By valuing the many forms of creative labor involved in film production, this collection offers exciting alternatives to the auteurist model and new ways of appreciating the themes and aesthetics of 1970s American film. Trade Review"Women and New Hollywood provides the much-needed and long-awaited intervention on 1970s American movie industry mythologies, paying tribute to those whose talents, contributions, and perseverance were until now un(der)appreciated and, in so doing, modeling feminist media historiography at its finest."— Maria San Filippo, author of Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media "This ambitious and impressive edited collection, with contributions from some of the field’s most exciting scholars, is a much-needed feminist intervention into scholarship around the so-called 1970s Hollywood Renaissance. The essays place the women creators and collaborators—and vitally, their labor—back to the center of discussion where they belong. A stimulating and provocative read."— Julie Turnock, author of The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism "A major disruption of conventional narratives about New Hollywood in the 1970s, this collection demonstrates how essential women were to all levels of filmmaking and film culture during a period of fundamental transformation and transition."— Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck GirlsTable of ContentsIntroduction AARON HUNTER AND MARTHA SHEARER Part I History 1 The Rothman Renaissance, or the Politics of Archival (Re)Discovery ALICIA KOZMA 2 Watering the Grapevine: Jessie Maple, Self-Narration, and the Trajectory of a Career in Community NICHOLAS FORSTER 3 “It Was a Little Late in the Day for All That Prissy Business”: The New Hollywood Career of Jay Presson Allen OLIVER GRUNER 4 “We Knew and She Knew That She Was Barbra”: Streisand in the 1970s NICHOLAS GODFREY 5 I Know Why: Maya Angelou and the Promise of 1970s Hollywood MAYA MONTAÑEZ SMUKLER Part II Text 6 Women Editors in New Hollywood: Cutting Down on the Raging Bullshit KAREN PEARLMAN 7 Elaine May’s Awkward Age JAMES MORRISON 8 “She’s a Professional, Now”: Girlfriends, Creative Labor, and the Challenge of Feminist Professionalization ABIGAIL CHEEVER 9 A Different Image: Studies in Contrasts by Women Filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion VIRGINIA BONNER 10 Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970): A Radically Negative Feminist Aesthetic ANNA BACKMAN ROGERS Part III Theory and Criticism 11 Genealogies of a Decade: Classifying and Historicizing Women of the New Hollywood AMELIE HASTIE 12 “Women’s-Movement Anger”: Pauline Kael and New Hollywood ADRIAN GARVEY 13 Feminism, Auteurism, and the 1970s, in Theory MARIA PRAMAGGIORE Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial ideologies as they reclaimed the ability to represent themselves in the changing landscape of the early 20th century. Marginalized communities routinely use humor, specifically satire, to subvert the political, social, and cultural realities of race and racism in America. Through contemporary examples in popular culture and politics, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, in Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire author Brandon J. Manning examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men. In focusing on vulnerability these satirists attend to America’s most basic assumptions about Black men. Contemporary Black satire is a highly visible and celebrated site of black masculine self-expression. Black satirists leverage this visibility to trouble discourses on race and gender in the Post-Civil Rights era. More specifically, contemporary Black satire uses laughter to decenter Black men from the socio-political tradition of the Race Man. Trade Review"Played Out is an instantly canonical book. It tackles narratives of the Race Man, racial uplift, and respectability politics through the lens of satire to reveal the enduring mythos of acceptable Black social justice work. Through this brilliant, deeply researched book, Brandon Manning rescripts the pathways to social transformation and progress." -- Robin R. Means Coleman * author of African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor *“Brandon Manning joins a group of brilliant scholars working on contemporary African American satire who have redefined scholarship on Black texts and Black bodies. His analyses of Percival Everett’s recent work and President Barack Obama’s role in this era cannot be missed.” -- Darryl Dickson-Carr * author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance *Left of Black | Brandon J. Manning on Black Satire * Left of Black Podcast, produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute *"Played Out is an instantly canonical book. It tackles narratives of the Race Man, racial uplift, and respectability politics through the lens of satire to reveal the enduring mythos of acceptable Black social justice work. Through this brilliant, deeply researched book, Brandon Manning rescripts the pathways to social transformation and progress." -- Robin R. Means Coleman * author of African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor *“Brandon Manning joins a group of brilliant scholars working on contemporary African American satire who have redefined scholarship on Black texts and Black bodies. His analyses of Percival Everett’s recent work and President Barack Obama’s role in this era cannot be missed.” -- Darryl Dickson-Carr * author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance *Left of Black | Brandon J. Manning on Black Satire * Left of Black Podcast, produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Please Let Me Be Misunderstood Chapter 1: Of Our Satirical Strivings Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and the Funny Race Man Chapter 3: Integrationist Intimacies Chapter 4: The President and His Translator Conclusion: Beyond the Funny Race Man

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Book SynopsisSome comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or unintelligible minstrels. Yet the true portrait is more complex and reveals that even as caricatures predominated, some Golden Age comics creators offered more progressive and nuanced depictions of Black people. Desegregating Comics assembles a team of leading scholars to explore how debates about the representation of Blackness shaped both the production and reception of Golden Age comics. Some essays showcase rare titles like Negro Romance and consider the formal innovations introduced by Black comics creators like Matt Baker and Alvin Hollingsworth, while others examine the treatment of race in the work of such canonical cartoonists as George Herriman and Will Eisner. The collection also investigates how Black fans read and loved comics, but implored publishers to stop including hurtful stereotypes. As this book shows, Golden Age comics artists, writers, editors, distributors, and readers engaged in heated negotiations over how Blackness should be portrayed, and the outcomes of those debates continue to shape popular culture today.Trade Review“Only someone living in a cave wouldn't see how thoroughly comics permeate American culture. But even those knowledgeable about graphic arts may not be aware of how comics mirror this nation's often tortured racial history. And even fewer people know about the pioneering Black artists who worked to challenge and change racist stereotypes. What that means is that the groundbreaking essays in Desegregating Comics are essential contributions to an exciting, relatively new field of long-overdue scholarship.” -- Charles Johnson * National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage *"Desegregating Comics is essential reading for those seeking a more complex and revisionist history of the Black image in comics in the first half of the twentieth century. It includes leading voices in media, literature, gender, and Black studies who unearth the collaborative efforts in the industry to reshape visual and narrative renderings of spectacular blackness and speculations of blackness." -- Deborah Elizabeth Whaley * author of Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “An Apt Cartoon” QIANA WHITTED Part I Iconographies of Race and Racism 1 Rose O’Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness IAN GORDON 2 The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat NICHOLAS SAMMOND 3 “How Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?”: Racial Caricature and Will Eisner’s Legacy 61 ANDREW J. KUNKA Part II Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range 4 Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation REBECCA WANZO 5 Misdirections in Matt Baker’s Phantom Lady CHRIS GAVALER AND MONALESIA EARLE 6 The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth BLAIR DAVIS 7 “Hello Public!”: Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier ELI BOONIN-VAIL Part III Comics Readership and Respectability Politics 8 “Never Any Dirty Ones”: Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century CAROL L. TILLEY 9 All-Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age QIANA WHITTED 10 “This Business of White and Black”: Captain Marvel’s Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett’s Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero BRIAN CREMINS 11 Al Hollingsworth’s Kandy: Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics MORA J. BEAUCHAMP-BYRD Part IV Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention 12 Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in “The Voodoo Man” PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM 13 Love in Color: Fawcett’s Revolutionary Negro Romance JACQUE NODELL 14 An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital JULIAN C. CHAMBLISS 15 “For They Were There!”: Dell Comics’ Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books MIKE LEMON Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite similar to the stories they tell. Perfect Copies considers the dual notions of reproduction, mechanical as well as biological, and explores how comics are works of reproduction that embed questions about the nature of reproduction itself. Through close readings of the comics My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris, The Black Project by Gareth Brookes, The Generous Bosom series by Conor Stechschulte, Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, and Panther by Brecht Evens, Perfect Copies shows how these comics makers push the limits of different ideas of “reproduction” in strikingly different ways. Kwa suggests that reading and thinking about books like these, that push us to engage with these complicated questions, teaches us how to become better readers.Trade Review“Perfect Copies is about the creation and impact of comics that skirt the line of what readers might imagine would be considered typical within the medium. This book pushes readers to think about the ways that comics creators nudge the boundaries of how comics might look, "read" and visually "feel.” It is a must read for everyone who loves the ways that comics have revolutionized art and aesthetics and that art has revolutionized comics and notions of reproduction.”— Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Dean of Liberal Arts, UNC School of The ArtsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2 Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Haptic Dreams of Gareth Brookes 3 Phantom Threads: Seeing in the Dark and Conor Stechschulte 4 If You See Something Say Something: Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina 5 There is a Monster in My Closet: Brecht Evens’s Panther Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisSinger. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in the twenty-first century. This provocative new study explores how Monáe’s work has connected different media platforms to strengthen and enhance new movements in art, theory, and politics. It considers not only Monáe’s groundbreaking albums The ArchAndroid, The Electric Lady, and Dirty Computer, but also Monáe’s work as an actress in such films as Hidden Figures and Antebellum, as well as her soundtrack appearances in socially-engaged projects ranging from I May Destroy You to Us. Examining Monáe as a cultural icon whose work is profoundly intersectional, this book maps how she is actively reshaping discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism. Tracing Monáe’s performances of joy, desire, pain, and hope across a wide range of media forms, it shows how she imagines Afrofuturist, posthumanist, and postcapitalist utopias, while remaining grounded in the realities of being a Black woman in a white-dominated industry. This is an exciting introduction to an audacious innovator whose work offers us fresh ways to talk about identity, desire, and power.Trade Review“An expert critic of the ideological construction of transmedia worlds, Dan Hassler-Forest offers a tour de force analysis of virtuoso music and media artist Janelle Monae as a vernacular theorist and intersectional figure. The resulting book makes a compelling case that her interventions into popular culture may help to shape how we collectively imagine our futures and the world according to Janelle Monae is a better one by far.” -- Henry Jenkins * co-editor of Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change *"Building on a close reading of the transformative potential central to Afrofuturism, Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism highlights how Monáe's mix of speculation and liberation shines a light on acceptance, care, and community central to Afrofuturism's appeal. Carefully framing intersectional concerns around bodies and power expressed in Monáe's artistic work allows Hassler-Forest to provide an intriguing examination of an artist who has quickly come to embody the transformative potential of black speculative practice." -- Julian C. Chambliss * co-editor of Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History *“Hassler-Forest clarifies why artist-activists like Monae are so central not only to how we can imagine a future that is free from the strictures of white supremacy but also to how we can harness the power of utopian thinking in the here and the now.” -- TreaAndrea Russworm * author of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry *Pg. 99: Dan Hassler-Forest's "Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism" * The Page 99 Test/Campaign for the American Reader *Table of ContentsIntroduction Vector 1: AFROFUTURISM Vector 2: BLACK FEMINISM Vector 3: : INTERSECTIONALITY Vector 4: : POSTHUMANISM Vector 5: POSTCAPITALISM Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse. Trade Review"Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation’s social, economic, and political norm."— Chon A. Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano CinemaTable of Contents1 Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television 2 Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama 3 Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal 4 Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners 5 Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate Epilogue AcknowledgmentsNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaid for Television examines race, class, and gender relations as embodied in a long history of television servants from 1950 to the turn of the millennium. Although they reside at the visual peripheries, these figures are integral to the idealized American family. Author L. S. Kim redirects viewers' gaze towards the usually overlooked interface between characters, which is drawn through race, class, and gender positioning. Maid for Television tells the stories of servants and the families they work for, in so doing it investigates how Americans have dealt with difference through television as a medium and a mediator.The book philosophically redirects the gaze of television and its projection of racial discourse. Trade Review"Maid for Television is a rigorously intersectional and interdisciplinary study that places the racialized domestic servant at the center of U.S. television history. This figure is ubiquitously invisible, yet also absolutely essential to maintaining the white middle-class family as the nation’s social, economic, and political norm." -- Chon A. Noriega * author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television 2 Domesticating Blackness: African Americans in Service in Comedy and Drama 3 Shades of Whiteness: White Servants Keeping Up a Class Ideal 4 Unresolvable Roles: Asian American Servants as Perpetual Foreigners 5 Invisible but Viewable: The Latina Maid in the Age of Nannygate Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to make and share these images, and how do they relate to other online social practices? The Internet is for Cats examines how animal images are employed to create a lighter, more playful mood, uniting users within online spaces that can otherwise easily become fractious and toxic. Placing today’s pet videos, photos, and memes within a longer history of mediated animal images, communication scholar Jessica Maddox also considers the factors that make them unique. She explores the roles that animals play within online economies of cuteness and attention, as well as the ways that animal memes and videos respond to common experiences of life under neoliberalism. Conducting a rich digital ethnography, Maddox combines observations and textual analysis with extensive interviews of the people who create, post and share animal media, including TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous, activists tweeting about wildlife conservation, and Redditors upvoting every cute cat photo. The Internet is for Cats will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online. Trade Review"By exploring the ambivalent overlaps between attention, cuteness, toxicity, and neoliberalism - among other key themes - in animal imagery sharing practices, The Internet is for Cats is essential reading for understanding how and why the fun of animal memes is serious cultural business." -- Whitney Phillips * author of You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape *"The Internet is for Cats skillfully demonstrates that the visual cultures of animals and pets in social media are not only cute and entertaining—they can also mask the Internet’s hateful and toxic content. Maddox’s project is an important reminder that even the most seemingly frivolous aspects of culture must be carefully examined." -- Melissa A. Click * associate professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University *"[The Internet is for Cats]'s major claim is convincing: there is more to cat (and other animal) pics than meets the eye." -- Gregory Hays * New York Review of Books *"The Internet is for Cats skillfully demonstrates that the visual cultures of animals and pets in social media are not only cute and entertaining—they can also mask the Internet’s hateful and toxic content. Maddox’s project is an important reminder that even the most seemingly frivolous aspects of culture must be carefully examined." -- Melissa A. Click * associate professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University *"By exploring the ambivalent overlaps between attention, cuteness, toxicity, and neoliberalism - among other key themes - in animal imagery sharing practices, The Internet is for Cats is essential reading for understanding how and why the fun of animal memes is serious cultural business." -- Whitney Phillips * author of You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Kittens in Context 2 “I’ve Heard People on TikTok Love This": Attention as Materiality and Looking Relation 3 Beyond Doomscrolling in an Internet of Cute 4 “You Can’t Buy Happiness, But You Can Rescue It”: Neoliberal Pets and Animals 5 Feels Good, Man: Collisions, Collusions, and Cloaks in Pet and Animal Social Media 6 Nature is Healing, We are the Virus: Beyond Signifiers Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism; both backed by the authority of the state and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of the two. More importantly, the book reveals, through its focus on India and its complex media landscape that this intersection has a narrative form, which author, Madhavi Murty labels spectacular realism. The book shows that the intersection of neoliberalism with authoritarian nationalism is strengthened by the circulation of stories about “emergence,” “renewal,” “development,” and “mobility” of the nation and its people. It studies stories told through film, journalism, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture. Moving between mediascapes to create an archive of popular culture, Murty advances our understanding of political economy through material that is often seen as inconsequential, namely the popular cultural story. These stories stoke our desires (e.g. for wealth), scaffold our instincts (e.g. for a strong leadership) and shape our values. Trade Review"In this beautifully written and timely book, Murty explores how popular cultural forms become politically charged. Moving across journalism, film, and other mediascapes, she shows how new forms of storytelling made sense of and won popular consent for majoritarian nationalism in a nation transformed by neoliberal reforms. Rigorously conceptualized and deeply researched, Stories That Bind is a brilliant exemplar of media and cultural studies." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *"In this beautifully written and timely book, Murty explores how popular cultural forms become politically charged. Moving across journalism, film, and other mediascapes, she shows how new forms of storytelling made sense of and won popular consent for majoritarian nationalism in a nation transformed by neoliberal reforms. Rigorously conceptualized and deeply researched, Stories That Bind is a brilliant exemplar of media and cultural studies." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Spectacular Realism and Political-Economic Change 1 The Development Story: Caste, Religion, and Poverty in “New” India 2 Iconicity: Moving between the Real and the Spectacular 3 The Entrepreneur: New Identities for New Times 4 Love in New Times Conclusion AcknowledgmentsNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTranspacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are. Trade Review"Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging." -- Chih-ming Wang * author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America *"Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant." -- Rob Sean Wilson * author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization: Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal 2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era: Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi 3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience 4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams: Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTranspacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are. Trade Review"Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging." -- Chih-ming Wang * author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America *"Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant." -- Rob Sean Wilson * author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization: Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal 2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era: Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi 3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience 4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams: Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions and smaller towns all over the country. These campus concerts were often programmed, promoted, and reviewed by students themselves, and their diverse tastes challenged narrow definitions of rock music. Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s. Analyzing campus archives and college newspapers, historian James Carter traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities in the 1960s. Furthermore, he finds that these progressive students refused to segregate genres like folk, R&B, hard rock, and pop. Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower gives readers a front-row seat to a dynamic time for the music industry, countercultural politics, and youth culture. Trade Review“The research and writing are exciting; Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower fills an important gap in the historiography of rock music and the sixties.” -- Dewar MacLeod * author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springste *“Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower offers a welcome entry into a field of study that is only just beginning to flower.” -- Kenneth Womack * author of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Postwar America, the Revolution in Higher Education, and Popular Music 2 “The Sound of the Sixties”: Popular Music and College Campuses 3 “I Blundered My Way Through”: The College Impresario, Fall 1965–Fall 1967 4 “They’re Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower”: Fall 1967–Fall 1968 5 The “Americanization of Rock”: Spring 1969–Fall 1970 Conclusion Appendix A: Bands/Artists at Drew University, 1967–1971 Appendix B: Bands/Artists at Stony Brook University, 1967–1971 Notes Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture model, author Diana Leon-Boys teases out moments of complex negotiations by Disney, producers, and audiences as they navigate Elena’s circulation. Case studies highlight how a flexible Latinidad is deployed through corporate materials, social media pages, theme park experiences, and the television series to create a princess who is both marginal to Disney’s normative vision of princesshood and central to Disney’s claims of diversification. This multi-layered analysis of Disney’s mediated Latina girlhood interrogates the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and a global conglomerate that stands in for the U.S. on the global stage. Trade Review"In this fascinating and insightful study, Diana Leon-Boys demonstrates how Disney has constructed notions of Latina girlhood through its first Latina princess. Through apt exploration of Elena of Avalor on screen and at Disney theme parks, she illuminates how Latina girls’ media is positioned as both Latin American and Latinx, and always peripheral to the U.S. mainstream."— Mary Beltrán, author of Latino TV: A History and Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and "Well researched and argued, Princesa of the Periphery is a welcome contribution to Latinx/girls/media studies. Focusing on Elena of Avalor, one of Disney’s newest 'empowered' yet marginalized princesses, Leon-Boys helps us to understand the complexities of representing and performing Latina girlhood in U.S. popular culture while also drawing attention to the potential consequences of such depictions for Latina girls, who are hungry for public recognition and deserving of authentic role models."— Mary Celeste Kearney, author of Girls Make Media and editor of Mediated Girlhoods "This is a vital and sophisticated study of the connection between Latina girlhood and the dream machine that is Disney. Leon-Boys attends to the voices of Latina girls, and complements this with powerful insights on how Latina girls are seen within media production cultures. The result is a powerful and compelling argument about the marketization of dreams and the reconstitution of Latina marginalization."— Hector Amaya, author of Citizenship Excess: Latinos/as, Media, and the NationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Latina Girls’ Media Studies 1 From Black-and-White Mouse to “Latina” Girl 2 The Flexible Production of a “Latina” Princess 3 Animated Latina Girlhood and the Continuum of Flexibility 4 On-Site Performance of Latinidad from East Coast to West Coast Conclusion: A Princess for All Is a Princess Without a Home Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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

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Book SynopsisFor two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight, to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected take place. He argues that the primary aim of group intoxication is the religious experience that Émile Durkheim calls collective effervescence, the essence of which is a sense of connecting with other people and being part of a larger whole. This experience is empowering and emboldening and may lead to crime and deviance, but it is at the same time vital to our humanity because it strengthens social bonds and solidarity. The book fills important gaps in Durkheim’s social theory and contributes to current debates in micro-sociology as well as cultural criminology and cultural sociology. Here, for the first time, readers will discover a detailed account of collective effervescence in contemporary society that includes: an explanation of what collective effervescence is; a description of the conditions that generate collective effervescence; a typology of the varieties of collective effervescence; a discussion of how collective effervescence manifests in the realm of nightlife, politics, sports, and religion; and an analysis of how commercial forces amplify and capitalize on the universal human need for intoxication.This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition.Download the open access ebook here.Trade Review"Intoxication is a remarkable and ambitious book. Rarely is ethnography connected to classical social theory with such productive results. Tutenges offers a significant extension of the concept of collective effervescence. We learn that Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille are essential resources for understanding the self, the sacred, and the collectivity in modernity." -- Philip Smith * Professor of Sociology, Yale University *"Tutenges’s study of collective effervescence is commanding, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. Intoxication is a stunning example of ethnographically informed social theory." -- Lois Presser * author of Why We Harm *"From sports to religion to party venues, effervescence is as much a blind spot of research as it is a phenomenon fundamental to society’s very make-up. Intoxication introduces us to the party practices of today’s youth in vivid fashion and with a remarkable interpretative sensitivity. Far from being the wastelands of meaning they appear to be, these drunken landscapes are existential theaters for the abandonment of the self to social forces and the experience of other ways of being and feeling. A long-awaited book which could well become a campus classic." -- François Gauthier * author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market *"Intoxication is a remarkable and ambitious book. Rarely is ethnography connected to classical social theory with such productive results. Tutenges offers a significant extension of the concept of collective effervescence. We learn that Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille are essential resources for understanding the self, the sacred, and the collectivity in modernity." -- Philip Smith * Professor of Sociology, Yale University *"Tutenges’s study of collective effervescence is commanding, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. Intoxication is a stunning example of ethnographically informed social theory." -- Lois Presser * author of Why We Harm *"From sports to religion to party venues, effervescence is as much a blind spot of research as it is a phenomenon fundamental to society’s very make-up. Intoxication introduces us to the party practices of today’s youth in vivid fashion and with a remarkable interpretative sensitivity. Far from being the wastelands of meaning they appear to be, these drunken landscapes are existential theaters for the abandonment of the self to social forces and the experience of other ways of being and feeling. A long-awaited book which could well become a campus classic." -- François Gauthier * author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction2 Ways to Effervescence3 Unity 4 Intensity 5 Transgression 6 Symbolization 7 Revitalization 8 Afterword NotesReferences Index

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Book Synopsis Immigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food system. For others, cooking was a way of reconnecting with homelands they could not visit during periods of lockdown. Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from professional food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, whose stories range from emotional reflections on hardship, loss, and resilience to journalistic investigations of racism in the American food system. Each contribution is accompanied by a recipe of special importance to the author, giving readers a taste of cuisines from around the world. Every essay is accompanied by gorgeous food photography, the authors’ snapshots of pandemic life, and hand-drawn illustrations by Filipino American artist Angelo Dolojan. Trade Review"This eloquently written collection of essays takes you on a journey into the memories and foodways that sustain, bind and ground us, especially during times of adversity such as the COVID pandemic. Deeply personal and evocative, these powerful narratives are sure to resonate with everyone." -- Laila el-Haddad * coauthor of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey *"Resilient Kitchens collects the deeply personal accounts of immigrant chefs, writers, and scholars of how their experiences as “other” informed their use of food and cooking to stay centered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their stories are vastly different but all bear on why food matters so much to personal identity." -- Marion Nestle * author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *"This illuminating, often deeply personal collection of essays and interviews gives voice to the immigrant experience during the worst public health crisis of the past century. The chefs, writers, artists, scholars, and humanitarians in this volume speak of fractures to the system -- some freshly made, some untreated from many, many years ago. But they also speak of food as a solace, a connection to home, and a way to find meaning amid the chaos." -- Tim Carman * food reporter and columnist with The Washington Post *"Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis beautifully details the recipes, writings, and personal stories from a collection of incredible immigrant chefs and food writers in America during the COVID-19 crisis - how they fed our communities, combated food insecurity, fostered food equity, and comforted so many of us through their deeply poignant and inspiring stories." -- Marisel Salazar * food writer, cook, host, and immigrant *Table of ContentsPreface 1 The Lost Year Reem Kassis Recipe: Malfoof (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls) 2 Quarantine Cooking in an Improvised HouseholdStephanie Jolly and Krishnendu Ray Recipe: Pasta with Shallots and White Wine 3 Duck TalesTien Nguyen Recipe: Cà Phê Sữa Đá (Iced Coffee with Condensed Milk) 4 Cooking with the Lights OffBonnie Frumkin Morales Recipe: Mom’s Chicken Kotleti 5 The Meaning of Martin YanMayukh Sen Recipe: Martin Yan’s Hot Walnut Soup 6 Pound Cake and PuriGeetika Agrawal and Fernay McPherson Recipes: Sour Cream Pound Cake and Puri 7 Teta Thursdays: Conversations on Food, Culture, and Identity during a Global PandemicAntonio Tahhan Recipe: Kousa Mahshi (Aleppan-Style Stuffed Squash) 8 The Map to MyselfSangeeta Lakhani Recipe: Murgh Makhani (Butter Chicken) 9 There Will Always Be a Seawritten by Keenan Dava, recipe by Tim Flores Recipe: Kasama Chicken Adobo 10 Food and Caring during the Times of COVID-19 on the U.S.–Mexico BorderGuillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri Recipe: Red Chilaquiles 11 Intimate Tables: Food and Migration in a Time of CrisisPhilip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan Recipes: Hefezopf / Tsoureki (German-Greek Bread) and Almond, Lemon, and Ricotta Cake for Passover AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsArt CreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisEver since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre.Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. In covering the last decade, this new edition includes coverage of the resurgence of the genre, covering the swath of new groundbreaking horror films directed by women, Black and queer horror films, and a new international wave in body horror films.A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system, how the distribution and exhibition of horror films have changed in a post-COVID world, and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time.Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over sixty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences. Trade Review"Dixon is recognized as an eminent film scholar and the current title is an impressive addition to his oeuvre. This book certainly has solid scholarship, but it is also a book that once picked up is hard to put down. Essential." * Choice *"Dixon is a deft and knowledgeable guide, leading us from silent ghouls to Universal's monsters. Interspersed throughout this catalogue are nuggets of surprising information." * Times Literary Supplement *"This is an excellent survey of horror movies. The author, a veteran film historian, takes the reader back to the beginning, when, in the first three decades of the twentieth century, such directors as Georges Melies, F. W. Murnau, and Paul Wegener were defining not only the look of a genre but also cinema itself. The period between 1930 and the late 1940s saw the rise of the classic Universal Studios characters—Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy—and the actors who played them: Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney Jr. By the end of the 1940s, horror was dying, 'killed by a plethora of poorly made sequels.' But never fear: the period between the late 1940s and 1970 saw a massive resurgence, due in part to gimmicks (such as 3-D); low-budget quickies from the likes of Roger Corman, the wizard of the B movie; and the stylish resurrection of the classic Universal monsters by Britain's Hammer Film Productions. This survey, which takes the reader right up to the present, is full of fascinating information and is delivered in an accessible manner. Required reading for horror fans." -- David Pitt * Booklist *"Dixon surveys the development of the horror genre from the earliest Frankenstein and Dracula films through the decades of classics by Hammer studios, William Castle, Roger Corman, and Val Lewton. Dixon covers movies seldom found in other histories and more modern, international titles such as Wolf Creek, Black Water, and Grudge. The endurance of horror, trends like remakes and sequels, and such popular franchises as Child's Play and Halloween are also discussed. In the final chapter, Dixon analyzes the decline of modern horror owing to desensitized audiences, graphic gore, violence, and lack of solid plot lines or character development. Lists of the best horror websites as well as the 50 movies covered round out this volume. This concise overview is an informative and entertaining read. Recommended." * Library Journal *"In less than 250 pages, Wheeler Winston Dixon manages to cover the trends and sub-genres of film horror from 1896 to 2009. Bonuses include a list of top horror sites, a list of fifty classic films, and a pretty wonderful bibliography. Well written and well researched and offering an enjoyable overview of more than one hundred years of cinema, A History of Horror is a quick, delightful read." * Seattle Post-Intelligencer *"No mere catalogue of titles, Dixon's account explores all aspects of the genre: literary underpinnings, themes, and transformations, including much on actors and directors. Dixon's mind-priming volume will enhance spine-tingling late-night viewings." * ForeWord Reviews *"A breathtaking panorama, written with wit and candor, showing how the horror film has shaped cinema from the origins of the genre until now." -- Tom Conley, Harvard University"Rich with excellent illustrations and clever anecdotes, this book will appeal to fans of horror as well as film students and scholars interested in a readable overview of the history of the genre." -- Rebecca Bell-Metereau, author of Hollywood Androgyny "There’s No Dark Universe Anymore, Just One Monster After Another," by Robert Ito https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/movies/the-invisible-man-universal.html * New York Times *"New from Rutgers U. Press: A History of Horror" by Dan Aubrey https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/artsandentertainment/new-from-rutgers-u-press-a-history-of-horror/article_3fae29f2-a6fb-11ed-9ef2-ff473369899e.html * U.S. 1, Princeton *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Origins: 1896-1929 2 Classics: 1930-1948 3 Rebirth: 1949-1970 4 New Blood: 1970-1990 5 The Next Wave: 1990-2010 6 The Future: 2010-Present Top Horror Websites 50 Classic Horror Films Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nearly all the decade’s notable Black sitcoms were made by a single company, Tandem Productions. Founded by two white men, the successful team behind All in the Family, writer Norman Lear and director Bud Yorkin, Tandem gave unprecedented opportunities to Black actors, writers, and producers to break into the television industry. However, these Black auteurs also struggled to get the economic privileges and creative autonomy regularly granted to their white counterparts. Scratchin’ and Survivin’ discovers surprising parallels between the behind-the-scenes drama at Tandem and the plotlines that aired on their sitcoms, as both real and fictional African Americans devised various strategies for getting their fair share out of systems prone to exploiting their labor. The media scholar Adrien Sebro describes these tactics as a form of “hustle economics,” and he pays special attention to the ways that Black women—including actresses like LaWanda Page, Isabel Sanford, and Esther Rolle—had to hustle for recognition. Exploring Tandem’s complex legacy, including its hit racially mixed sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, he showcases the Black talent whose creative agency and labor resilience helped to transform the television industry. Trade Review"Adrien Sebro's fascinating and instructive look at these series will force industry stakeholders to see and pursue them anew." -- Beretta E. Smith-Shomade * editor of Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences *“This is what the next generation of scholarship on critical black television and media studies look like—original, probing, curious, courageous, confident. By taking on complex questions of Black family life, social class, passing and Black difference, and the role of Black women, Scratchin’ and Survivin’ reframes the radical nature of the meanings, impacts, and struggles over representation and production.” -- Herman S. Gray * author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation *"In Scratchin’ and Survivin’, Adrien Sebro pays close attention to and honors the often-invisible labor of Black culture industries workers. Using the framework of 'hustle economics,' Sebro uncovers a treasure trove of hidden and archival transcripts that give voice to Black-cast sitcom stars like Redd Foxx and Esther Rolle as more than talented actors, but Black Americans working in Hollywood trying to get, as The Jeffersons’ theme song says, their 'piece of the pie'.” -- Alfred L. Martin * author of The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Hustle 1 Approaching Tandem Productions 2 Sanford and Son 3 Good Times 4 The Jeffersons Conclusion: A Piece of the Pie Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nearly all the decade’s notable Black sitcoms were made by a single company, Tandem Productions. Founded by two white men, the successful team behind All in the Family, writer Norman Lear and director Bud Yorkin, Tandem gave unprecedented opportunities to Black actors, writers, and producers to break into the television industry. However, these Black auteurs also struggled to get the economic privileges and creative autonomy regularly granted to their white counterparts. Scratchin’ and Survivin’ discovers surprising parallels between the behind-the-scenes drama at Tandem and the plotlines that aired on their sitcoms, as both real and fictional African Americans devised various strategies for getting their fair share out of systems prone to exploiting their labor. The media scholar Adrien Sebro describes these tactics as a form of “hustle economics,” and he pays special attention to the ways that Black women—including actresses like LaWanda Page, Isabel Sanford, and Esther Rolle—had to hustle for recognition. Exploring Tandem’s complex legacy, including its hit racially mixed sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, he showcases the Black talent whose creative agency and labor resilience helped to transform the television industry. Trade Review"Adrien Sebro's fascinating and instructive look at these series will force industry stakeholders to see and pursue them anew." -- Beretta E. Smith-Shomade * editor of Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences *“This is what the next generation of scholarship on critical black television and media studies look like—original, probing, curious, courageous, confident. By taking on complex questions of Black family life, social class, passing and Black difference, and the role of Black women, Scratchin’ and Survivin’ reframes the radical nature of the meanings, impacts, and struggles over representation and production.” -- Herman S. Gray * author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation *"In Scratchin’ and Survivin’, Adrien Sebro pays close attention to and honors the often-invisible labor of Black culture industries workers. Using the framework of 'hustle economics,' Sebro uncovers a treasure trove of hidden and archival transcripts that give voice to Black-cast sitcom stars like Redd Foxx and Esther Rolle as more than talented actors, but Black Americans working in Hollywood trying to get, as The Jeffersons’ theme song says, their 'piece of the pie'.” -- Alfred L. Martin * author of The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Hustle 1 Approaching Tandem Productions 2 Sanford and Son 3 Good Times 4 The Jeffersons Conclusion: A Piece of the Pie Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThere She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits—love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy—are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting long-lasting social change. By questioning how these franchises reimagine their protagonists over time, the book reflects on the role that gendered exceptionalism plays in social and political action, as well as what forms of knowledge and power are presumed distinctly feminine. The franchises explored in this book illustrate the ambivalent (post)feminist representation of women protagonists as uniquely gifted in ways both gendered and seemingly ungendered, and yet inherently bound to expressions of their femininity. At heart,There She Goes Again asks under what terms and in what contexts women protagonists are imagined, envisioned, embodied, and replicated in media. Especially now, in a period of gradually increasing representation, women protagonists demonstrate the importance of considering how we should define—and whether we need—feminine forms of knowledge and power.Trade Review"In an analysis both invigorating and theoretically rigorous, Aviva Dove-Viebahn skillfully deconstructs the age-old dichotomy of feminism versus femininity to produce a nuanced reading of popular culture's mediation of gendered empowerment. This is essential reading for readers interested in gender, media and power, and a valuable contribution to ongoing cultural debates.”— Miriam Kent, author of Women in Marvel Films "For all of us who love our pop-culture wonder women and have wondered about their feminist implications, There She Goes Again asks fearless questions about these characters and offers brilliant insights about their appeal. Aviva Dove-Viebahn explores what female exceptionalism means for super-powered heroines, and as the title suggests, advances timely insights about how we imagine and picture extraordinary women in the postfeminist era." — Linda Mizejewski, author of Hardboiled & High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture “Relying on close readings that in turn recognize nuances of media texts, Dove-Viebahn accurately and persuasively enumerates the potentialities and pitfalls of gendered understandings. She brings together media analysis with a serious sense of what is at stake, which is, in short, the contemporary state of feminist thought.” — Suzanne Leonard, co-editor of Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary CultureTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Feminine Intuition?: The Gendering of Knowledge and Power 2. Seriality and ‘Strong Female Characters’: The Double Bind of Women’s Empowerment 3. From Girl Power to Intersectional Sisterhood: Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of Belonging 4. Motherhood and Myth: Inside and Outside the Family Circle 5. At the End of the World: Apocalyptic Bodies and the Feminine Sublime Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBefore 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world. Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre. A companion website to this book is available at https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/) Book trailer: https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw) Trade Review“This is a fantastic book that looks at the intellectual, industrial, funding, and reception contexts of Israeli horror but without bouncing between them like demented pinball. Instead, what we get is an extraordinarily integrated interdisciplinary account that should operate as an exemplar for horror scholarship for decades to come!” — Mark Jancovich, author of Horror and editor of Horror, The Film Reader “New Israeli Horror perceptively chronicles the origins and evolution of Israeli horror films. It brilliantly analyzes how this corpus of films replicated or subverted the familiar tropes of the horror genre and demonstrates that they possess implicit and eventually explicit relevance to the political and social conflicts within Israel.” — Lawrence Baron, author of Projecting The Holocaust Into The Present and editor of The Modern Jewish Experience in Wo "New Israeli Horror is the definitive study of Israeli cinema’s most unorthodox genre from its inception among a small group of students at Tel Aviv University to its success on the international film festival circuit and in online piracy in the Arab world. Through an examination of technology, financing, transnational adaptation, local and international reception, and interviews with filmmakers it deciphers the meanings behind the throng of serial killers in uniform, Palestinian ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and monsters from Jewish folklore that have invaded Israeli screens in this millennium." — Boaz Hagin, co-editor of Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema “This significant work charts the ways in which New Israeli Horror films offer a critique of the violence that lies at the heart of Israeli society, the damaging masculinity of the military machine, and the suppression of Palestinian trauma. The result is a hugely readable and subtly nuanced work that makes a substantive contribution to our understanding of both modern Israel and the horror genre’s ability to articulate national trauma. It’s essential reading for all with an interest in the genre and in national cinema more broadly.” — Linnie Blake, Manchester Metropolitan University and author of The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical TrTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Precursors: From The Angel Was a Devil to Frozen Days Part I Subversion 2 The First Hebrew Horror: Rabies 3 A Korean Revenge Thriller in the Israeli Countryside: Big Bad Wolves Part II Conversion 4 Horror in the IDF Zombies in the Fatigues: Poisoned and Cannon Fodder Freak Out: “The Final Boy” on the Base The Specters of Violence in The Damned 5 The Jewish Supernatural: JeruZalem 6 Slasher on the Kibbutz: Children of the Fall Part III Aversion 7 Escaping Israel: Another World, Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, and The Golem Coda: Is There I-Horror? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBefore 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world. Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre. A companion website to this book is available at https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/) Book trailer: https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw) Trade Review“This is a fantastic book that looks at the intellectual, industrial, funding, and reception contexts of Israeli horror but without bouncing between them like demented pinball. Instead, what we get is an extraordinarily integrated interdisciplinary account that should operate as an exemplar for horror scholarship for decades to come!” — Mark Jancovich, author of Horror and editor of Horror, The Film Reader “New Israeli Horror perceptively chronicles the origins and evolution of Israeli horror films. It brilliantly analyzes how this corpus of films replicated or subverted the familiar tropes of the horror genre and demonstrates that they possess implicit and eventually explicit relevance to the political and social conflicts within Israel.” — Lawrence Baron, author of Projecting The Holocaust Into The Present and editor of The Modern Jewish Experience in Wo "New Israeli Horror is the definitive study of Israeli cinema’s most unorthodox genre from its inception among a small group of students at Tel Aviv University to its success on the international film festival circuit and in online piracy in the Arab world. Through an examination of technology, financing, transnational adaptation, local and international reception, and interviews with filmmakers it deciphers the meanings behind the throng of serial killers in uniform, Palestinian ghosts, zombies, cannibals, and monsters from Jewish folklore that have invaded Israeli screens in this millennium." — Boaz Hagin, co-editor of Deeper Than Oblivion: Trauma and Memory in Israeli Cinema “This significant work charts the ways in which New Israeli Horror films offer a critique of the violence that lies at the heart of Israeli society, the damaging masculinity of the military machine, and the suppression of Palestinian trauma. The result is a hugely readable and subtly nuanced work that makes a substantive contribution to our understanding of both modern Israel and the horror genre’s ability to articulate national trauma. It’s essential reading for all with an interest in the genre and in national cinema more broadly.” — Linnie Blake, Manchester Metropolitan University and author of The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical TrTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Precursors: From The Angel Was a Devil to Frozen Days Part I Subversion 2 The First Hebrew Horror: Rabies 3 A Korean Revenge Thriller in the Israeli Countryside: Big Bad Wolves Part II Conversion 4 Horror in the IDF Zombies in the Fatigues: Poisoned and Cannon Fodder Freak Out: “The Final Boy” on the Base The Specters of Violence in The Damned 5 The Jewish Supernatural: JeruZalem 6 Slasher on the Kibbutz: Children of the Fall Part III Aversion 7 Escaping Israel: Another World, Madam Yankelova’s Fine Literature Club, and The Golem Coda: Is There I-Horror? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and more.Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a pallid era, a downtime between the heights of the classic studio system and the rise of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese and Altman in the 1970s. It seemed to be a moment when the movie industry was floundering as the popularity of television caused a downturn in cinema attendance. Cinema ’62 challenges these assumptions by making the bold claim that 1962 was a peak year for film, with a high standard of quality that has not been equaled since. Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan show how 1962 saw great late-period work by classic Hollywood directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks, and John Huston, as well as stars like Bette Davis, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, and Barbara Stanwyck. Yet it was also a seminal year for talented young directors like Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, and Stanley Kubrick, not to mention rising stars like Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Peter O’Toole, and Omar Sharif. Above all, 1962—the year of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Manchurian Candidate—gave cinema attendees the kinds of adult, artistic, and uncompromising visions they would never see on television, including classics from Fellini, Bergman, and Kurosawa. Culminating in an analysis of the year’s Best Picture winner and top-grossing film, Lawrence of Arabia, and the factors that made that magnificent epic possible, Cinema ’62 makes a strong case that the movies peaked in the Kennedy era.Trade Review"I wouldn’t have pointed to 1962 as a landmark year for movies, but Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan have proven me wrong. Their knowledgeable and persuasive book spotlights diverse films from the U.S. and abroad that put today’s mainstream releases to shame. Can you imagine a menu of superior movies like Lolita, The Manchurian Candidate, Ride the High Country, Days of Wine and Roses and The Music Man all coming out in one twelve-month period? The authors provide valuable context for this lineup, a treasure trove well worth celebrating." -- Leonard Maltin * film critic and historian *"1962 was the greatest AND most important year in movie history! 1939, its closest competitor, was the apex of Hollywood’s Golden Age when dream factories entranced and riveted audiences into their seats. But in 1962 new waves washed into theaters, and the spell was broken: the Golden Age gave way to the Emboldened Age. Filmmakers began to feel they could create their own dreams. Art houses and film schools proliferated. Audiences jumped out of their seats and argued about what they loved… and hated. Friendships were tested. Film mattered! It was the New Frontier. You shoulda been there! Wait! You can be there! Farber and McClellan have provided you with the best way to re-live those thrilling days. They’ve unearthed gems, told great tales, and provided plenty of juicy gossip. Cinema ’62 will arouse you to once again have arguments, go for the jugular, test your friendships…and care about film!” -- Philip Kaufman * award-winning director of The Right Stuff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers *"1962 was a magical year for all of us who love the movies. Filmmaking and art merged in ways that were under-appreciated until now. This fine work by Farber and McClellan makes me realize how fortunate we are to have these momentous and enduring movies. It also made me remember why I wanted to become a director." -- Penelope Spheeris * Director of The Decline of Western Civilization and Wayne’s World *"Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan, with first-rate scholarship and an accessible, entertaining style, make a superb case that 1962 was perhaps the most fascinating, influential, and yes, greatest year in world cinema. They examine a year when the major studios were still committed to making films for adults, the stifling production code was at last loosening up, foreign films were gaining in popularity, and a woman in the central role wasn't a brave and rare event. Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies is as great as its subject." -- Charles Busch * playwright, actor and screenwriter *"What an amazing year 1962 was in the history of cinema, and what an amazing book Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan have written about it. Cinema '62 is at once deft scholarship and sublime storytelling, a tough balance to maintain, but Farber and McClellan pull it off seamlessly. And the authors make an absolutely convincing case for 1962 as the greatest year in the history of world cinema." -- W.K. Stratton * author of The Wild Bunch *"The case for 1962 can certainly be made with socially provocative films such as Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita, and The Manchurian Candidate, yet the authors bolster their argument with dozens of other entries, including David and Lisa and a Taste of Honey, largely overlooked by the general public." * Library Journal *"There’s plenty of interesting history in Cinema ’62. Farber and McClellan bop from film to film with details about each one’s development, making, release, and influence." * Psychobabble *"Authors Farber and McClellan serve film fans a briskly written, meticulously researched history that gives an often-overlooked and underrated era in cinema its due." * Associated Press *"1962 Was The Year" http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2020/03/1962-was-the-year/ * Hollywood Elsewhere *"BETTE DAVIS VS. JOAN CRAWFORD: HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST FEUD: On the set of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962" https://crimereads.com/bette-davis-vs-joan-crawford-hollywoods-greatest-feud/ * CrimeReads *"With fresh interviews from participants in many of the key projects and with the authors’ vast, personal knowledge of the films and the context in which they were made, Cinema ’62 is as sharp and lively as that modernist-slanted title implies. Best of all, its approach never feels as if it’s looking back. One feels that the authors just watched all the movies last week and they’re just dying to tell you about some life-changing piece of art that you’ve just got to see." * Variety *"The authors argue their case convincingly by systematically trotting out one exciting foreign film after another, reminding you that, especially thanks to France and Italy, the early 1960s represented a true golden age for arthouse cinema, as it was widely called at the time." * The Hollywood Reporter *Classic Movie Musts podcast interview with Michael McClellan https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/classic-movie-musts/id1375263468#episodeGuid=classicmoviemusts.podbean.com/786a74f0-976d-5578-95f4-2dcfa7cf39d5 * Classic Movie Musts podcast *"From ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’ And ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ To The Debut Of James Bond, Was 1962 The Greatest Movie Year EVER? A New Book Says Yes" by Pete Hammond * Deadline *"A potent reminder that the early 1960s were indeed a turning point in global cinema." * Classic Film & TV Cafe *A New and Notable Film Book for March 2020: "I never would have chosen 1962 as a watershed year for filmmaking but authors McClellan and Farber have proven me wrong. Their essays provide historical context and a well-informed look at the ingredients that meshed to make this an exceptional period for filmmakers and filmgoers alike." * LeonardMaltin.com *"DigiGods Episode 198: Hey Macorona!" interview with Stephen Farber http://digigods.ign.libsynpro.com/digigods-episode-198-hey-macorona * DigiGods podcast *Battleship Pretension podcast: Episode 681: Cinema '62 with Stephen Farber http://battleshippretension.com/episode-681-cinema-62-with-stephen-farber/ * Battleship Pretension *"The Greatest Year at the Movies: Experts Share Behind-the-Scenes Stories about the Unforgettable Classics We Know and Love" by Katie Bruno * Closer Weekly *"This is a solid work of film study and appreciation that makes its case for a new ‘Golden Year’ quite well." * CineSavant Column *"Was 1962 the best year for film? Grab your popcorn, we have time to discuss it," by Ben Hoyt * The Times of London *"Cinema '62 is a compelling and entertaining assessment of the films released in 1962 and will help budding film buffs assemble a list of must-see movies. Forget 1939, Cinema '62 looks at the acclaimed and neglected films of 1962, and persuasively and entertainingly argues it was the peak year for motion pictures." * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Interview: Author Michael McClellan Talks New Book" https://journeysinclassicfilm.com/2020/04/23/interview-author-michael-mcclellan-talks-new-book/ * Journeys in Classic Film *"The Gold Standard: Is 1962 secretly the greatest year ever for movies?" by Ben Hoyle * Air Mail *"What’s the best movie year ever? People have claimed for years it was 1939; recently, there have been dissenters. Farber, a veteran Los Angeles film critic, and McClellan, a longtime film buyer, make their case for 1962, the year that produced such classics as 'Lawrence of Arabia,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'The Manchurian Candidate.'" * Milwaukee Journal Sentinel *"[Farber and McClellan] succeed in crafting a credible, critical narrative of an art form in transition, with chapters covering the foreign-film revolution, the loosening of sexual morals onscreen, the increasing influence of psychoanalysis and, naturally, the move from black and white to glorious Technicolor." * Flick Attack *"A terrific recapitulation of the year in film...It’s superb at probing the political, social, critical, and economic impact of the major and not-so major movies of the year with insight and meticulous research." * Mount Laurel Library, "Irv on Film" *"The authors knowledgeably examine some two-dozen films from 1962, offering cogent insights on what makes them great. Highly recommended." * Choice *CineSavant column mention of Cinema '62 https://cinesavant.com/cinesavant-column-254/ * CineSavant *"Wisely organized thematically....The result is a good survey of critical and box office receptions and makes for easy reading." * CineMontage *"[Farber and McClellan] do an excellent job of moving the needle for American/UK cinema in favor of their claim. They remind us, and provide short, but pithy discussions, of some truly great films of the year." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *"Film historians/authors Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan make the argument for cinema in 1962, culminating with David Lean's extraordinary 'Lawrence of Arabia."' * Los Angeles Times Gift Guide *"29 Best New Cinema Books To Read In 2021" * Book Authority *"Cinema ’62: The Greatest Year at the Movies by Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan deserve[s] film lovers’ attention." * Boston Globe *"The authors not only rave about excellent films and the correspondingly high number of viewers, they also work out a trend that is already emerging—the end of the Hollywood studio system and the growing influence of so-called filmmakers. The authors deal with an equally important aspect by discussing the move away from black and white to color film." * Country Mag *Table of ContentsForeword by Bill Condon Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Overseas Explosion 2 New American Auteurs 3 Survivors: Con Men and Hollywood Honchos 4 Grande Dames and a Box-Office Queen 5 Calling Dr. Freud 6 Adapted for the Screen: Prestige and Provocation 7 Black and White to Technicolor 8 The New Frontier 9 Sexual and Social Outlaws 10 Crowning Achievement Epilogue Appendix A: Other Films of 1962 Appendix B: Accolades and Box Office for 1962 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.Chapters 1 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Game history and the local; Melanie Swalwell.- 2. Adventures in Everyday Spaces: Hyperlocal computer games in 1980-1990s Czechoslovakia; Jaroslav Švelch.- 3. ‘The Last Cassette’ and the Local Chronology of 8-bit Video Games in Poland; Maria B. Garda and Paweł Grabarczyk.- 4. Swedish Game Development History: The Founders and the social structure; Ulf Sandqvist.- 5. A Place for a Nintendo? Discourse on locale and players’ topobiographical identity in the late 1980s and the early 1990s; Jaakko Suominen, Anna Sivula.- 6. On Footwork: Finding the local in American video game history; Laine Nooney.- 7. Bon Voyage: A global tour of local user groups with the Sorcerer of Exidy; Michael Borthwick and Melanie Swalwell.- 8. Cracking Technocultural Memory: Scenes and stories of origin in the PlayStation Portable forensic imaginary; David Murphy.- 9. Indie Games of No Nation: The transnational indie imaginary and the occlusion of national markers; John Vanderhoef.- 10. Video Games Have Never Been Global: Resituating video game localization history; Stephen Mandiberg.- 11. “Welcoming all gods and embracing all places”: Computer games as constitutively transcendent of the local; Graeme Kirkpatrick.- 12. Heterodoxy in Game History: Toward more ‘connected histories’; Melanie Swalwell.

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes and from a rich variety of research methods and perspectives. As a game with more than 40 million individual players, an annual international World Cup, and a franchised professional league with teams from Canada, China, Europe, South Korea, and the US, Overwatch provides a multifaceted perspective to the cultural, social, and economic topics associated with the development of esports, which has begun to attract attention from both commercial and academic audiences.The book starts with an introduction chapter to Overwatch and esports engagement in general, co-authored by the editors. This is followed by 15 unique chapters from scholars within the field of game cultures and esports, representing ten different nationalities. The contributions construct thematic sections that divide the book into three parts: Players, Diverse Audiences? and Fan & Fiction Work. As such, the parts provide a wide-ranging overview of esport engagement, thus disclosing the phenomenon’s cross-cultural, transmedial, and interconnected relations that have not been probed earlier in a single anthology.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen & Veli-Matti Karhulahti.- 2. Two Overwatch Player Profiles; Jukka Vahlo & Veli-Matti Karhulahti.- 3. One Tricks, Hero Picks, and Player Politics: Highlighting the Casual-Competitive Divide in the Overwatch Forums; Courtney Blamey.- 4. The Player’s Interpretative Agency and the Developer’s Disruptive Powers: How Blizzard Entertainment Enforces Authorial Intention in Overwatch; Joleen Blom.- 5. Player Reception of Change and Stability in Character Mechanics; Tanja Välisalo & Maria Ruotsalainen.- 6. “KKona Where’s Your Sense of Patriotism?” - Positioning Nationality in the Spectatorship of Competitive Overwatch Play; Marko Siitonen & Maria Ruotsalainen.- 7. A Region of Contenders: Overwatch in Brazil; Mayara Caetano.- 8. Gender and Toxic Meritocracy in Competitive Overwatch: Case “Ellie”; Usva Friman & Maria Ruotsalainen.- 9. Overwatch Fandom and the Range of Corporate Responses; Hanna Wirman & Rhys Jones.- 10. Overwatch to Oversnatch: The Mutually Reinforcing Gendered Power Relations of Pornography, Streaming, and Esports; Thomas Apperley.- 11. The Talk of the Town: Community Perspectives on Loot Boxes; Joseph Macey & Mila Bujić.

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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life.Table of Contents1. What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities.2. The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade.3. Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury.4. Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s.5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It explores the variable relationships between satire and definition and concludes with a detailed case study from recent history: the iconic Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister television comedies.

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Book SynopsisExpanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive explores Jane Austen’s reception in popular culture through an exploration of the ever-expanding terrain of online fanfiction, professionally published (profic) texts, and other intertextual reworkings inspired by the author’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. The book argues that given its pervasiveness, Pride and Prejudice could be usefully considered not as a single novel, but as an entire ‘archive’ of interrelated texts, or as a portal that opens a ‘virtual world’ for readers to expand and explore. By examining the Pride and Prejudice archive of interrelated texts, this book analyses the process through which an individual novel can develop a virtual life, or afterlife. The evolving world that is opened by Pride and Prejudice, and extended and enriched through fanfiction, is conceptualised in the monograph as ‘Austenland’.Table of Contents Chapter 1 ‘She stimulates us to supply what is not there’: Expanding Austen’s world through fanfiction Chapter 2 ‘Light and bright and sparkling’ – Pride and Prejudice and fairy tales Chapter 3 ‘You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you’ – Darcymania takes over Chapter 4 ‘An arrival in Austenland’: The virtual world of Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 ‘Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?’ – Zombies and vampires invade Pride and Prejudice Chapter 6 ‘How differently did everything now appear’ – The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and transmedia storytelling Chapter 7 ‘There’s no one to touch Jane when you’re in a tight place’: Pride and Prejudice and the pandemic

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: The Gothic Aesthetic.- Chapter 2. Memory as Personal History: Émigrés, Exiles, and Professional Travellers.- Chapter 3. Memory-Objects and Journeys of Re-collection.- Chapter 4. Memory as Touch: The Hand, Amputation, and Sensory Contagion.- Chapter 5. Tactile Travelling, Manual Space, and the Duality of Gothic Hands.- Chapter 6. Pathological Journeys, Gloves, and Affect-Logic'.- Chapter 7. Amnesia and Oblivion.- Chapter 8. The Gothic Piano: Elegy to an Absence.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Routes of Re-membering.

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