Abbas Kiarostami

Edited by Monika Raesch
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim ...

Bloodstained Narratives

Edited by Matthew Edwards & Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Categories: Popular Culture
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Contributions by Donald L. Anderson, Brian Brems, Eric Brinkman, Matthew Edwards, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Andrew Grossman, Lisa Haegele, Gavin F. Hurley, Mikel J. Koven, Sharon Jane Mee, Fernando ...

Visions of Invasion

By Michael Lechuga
Categories: Race And Ethnicity
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional ...

Sofia Coppola

Edited by Amy N. Monaghan
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffrey ...

Asghar Farhadi

Edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht & Drew Todd
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran’s most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially ...

Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media

Edited by John Stephens & Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Hélène Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann ...

After Midnight

Edited by Drew Morton
Foreword by Henry Jenkins
Afterword by Suzanne Scott
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis McGlynn, ...

The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman

By Alicia Kozma
Categories: Film Studies

The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the ...

Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index

By Allen H. Redmon
Categories: Film Studies

Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon ...

Improvising the Score

By Gretchen L. Carlson
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year—Honorable Mention Recipient

On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score ...