José Alaniz

José Alaniz is associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington-Seattle. He is author of Death, Disability, ...

Film by Design

Edited by Gary D. Rhodes & Robert Singer
Categories: Film Studies

Contributions by Vlad Dima, Laura Hatry, Alicia Kozma, Lynette Kuliyeva, Madhuja Mukherjee, Frank Percaccio, Gary D. Rhodes, Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, Marlisa Santos, Michael L. Shuman, and Robert ...

Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers

By Emma Christopher Lirette
Categories: Louisiana

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn’t consider leaving ...

The Superhero Blockbuster

By James C. Taylor
Categories: Comics Studies

The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood. In combining theories of adaptation ...

To Paint and Pray

Edited by Robin C. Dietrick
Categories: Art And Architecture

William R. Hollingsworth, Jr. (1910-1944) remains one of Mississippi's most significant artists. To Paint and Pray explores Hollingsworth's life, from his childhood in Jackson, through his studies at the ...

Bringing the World to Mississippi

By Rebecca Smart Montague
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

In narrative, photographs, and documents, Bringing the World to Mississippi: The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, 1919-2010 delivers the definitive account of one of the state's most ...

The Intelligent Eye, Reality Re-Seen

Text by Renata Karlin
Categories: Art And Architecture

The oil paintings featured in this catalog are the culmination of over forty years of making art in a variety of media: watercolors, oil paintings, egg tempera, and printmaking, as well as several large ...

Gary D. Rhodes

Gary D. Rhodes is professor of media production at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is author of numerous books, including The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896–1950 and The Birth ...

Robert Singer

Robert Singer is retired professor of liberal studies at CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice. His areas of expertise include literary and film ...

Emma Christopher Lirette

Emma Christopher Lirette is a writer and independent scholar. After growing up on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, she earned an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and a PhD in American studies ...