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 ...

Encountering Pennywise

Edited by Whitney S. May
Categories: Literature
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Whitney S. May, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon ...

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader

Edited by Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren
Categories: Comics Studies

Winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond ...

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 ...

Contagious Imagination

Edited by Jane Tolmie
Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
Afterword by Glenn Willmott
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series
Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O’Connor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, ...

Harry Potter and the Other

Edited by Sarah Park Dahlen & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Named a 2023 Honour Book by the International Research Society for Children's Literature

Contributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia ...

Social TV

By Cory Barker
Categories: Media Studies

Winner of the 2023 SCMS Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group Outstanding Book Award sponsored by the Center for Entertainment & Media Industries

On March 15, 2011, Donald Trump changed television ...

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 ...

Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian

By Michael Owen Jones
Categories: Cooking And Foodways

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. At the outset he notes it was Victor Frankenstein’s ...

The World of Marty Stuart

By Marty Stuart
Foreword by Ken Burns
Introduction by Katie Blount
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Contributions by Scott B. Bomar, Rick Bragg, Dayton Duncan, David Fricke, Holly George-Warren, Peter Guralnick, and Michael Streissguth

In the late 1960s in Philadelphia, Mississippi, nine-year-old Marty ...