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Broads, Sisters, Exes
Publication Date: March 2025
Through elegant prose deeply rooted in an intersectional feminist perspective, Stephens expands the aesthetic and narrative grammars of contemporary television.
Murder, She Wrote
Publication Date: February 2025
Embark on a journey through the mysteries of Cabot Cove and beyond to learn why Murder, She Wrote remains a timeless classic.
New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts
Publication Date: January 2025
Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what New German Cinema was and imagine what it might yet become.
Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance
Publication Date: October 2024
Thus, Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance demonstrates its premise through close readings considering how performance must be read in tandem with the whole.
Movie-Made Los Angeles
Publication Date: October 2023
A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
Hidden Light
Publication Date: September 2023
By virtue of this exploration, Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of "magicmay be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.
Will & Grace
Publication Date: September 2023
In negotiating protocols of network television and the desires of audiences both gay and straight, this trailblazing series remains simultaneously haunted by and liberated from longstanding queer stereotypes.
Beyond the Land
Publication Date: August 2023
This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
Mad Men
Publication Date: April 2023
Throughout its seven seasons, the series struck a delicate balance of being both complex and cerebral while entertaining and accessible, a balance that Edgerton skillfully carries over to this book.
Parks and Recreation
Publication Date: March 2023
Throughout its run, Parks and Recreation engaged with political debates simmering in American culture, offering a humorous ripped-from-the-headlines take on issues such as same-sex marriage, distrust of politicians, government shutdowns, and corporate bailouts Through compelling analysis, Holladay untangles representations of women and BIPOC in the series as they engage with...
Queer Imaginings
Publication Date: March 2023
Ultimately, Queer Imaginings is a journey in shared pleasures in which writing for and about cinema makes way for unanticipated cinematic friendships.
Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Publication Date: March 2023
Offering ample evidence and examples along the way, Caplan guides readers through a series of phenomenological and ideological changes across generations, concluding with commentary regarding the potential influences on Jewish humor of later Millennials, Gen Z, and beyond.
Fearless Vulgarity
Publication Date: November 2022
Susann's promotional appearances led to another comedy of bad manners, this one populated with critics alternately horrified and delighted by an upstart woman vulgarian barging into the male literary firmament, and which continues to inspire fascination for the author, her novels, and their legendarily bad film adaptations.
Streisand
Publication Date: November 2022
Down through her filmed return to the concert stage, Stewart elicits the sinuous phonetic text of Streisand's on-screen musical delivery in a keenly attentive mode of audition that puts into fresh perspective the indelible aura of her stardom.
Gene Tierney
Publication Date: September 2022
Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.
Kolchak: the Night Stalker
Publication Date: August 2022
The enduring impact of the series on current television horror continues to draw more and more individuals into its robust fanbase, and these fans continue to consume and create new narratives of their favorite monster-hunting reporter even fifty years after he first appeared.
The Good Place
Publication Date: August 2022
Television studies scholars and fans of the show will enjoy Giannini's analysis of The Good Place as they read about the show's laughs and twists and turns.
American Television During a Television Presidency
Publication Date: April 2022
Undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of film and television studies, comedy studies, and cultural studies will value this strong collection.
Mothers of Invention
Publication Date: April 2022
This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies.
The Outer Limits
Publication Date: April 2022
It will be of special interest to scholars and students of television and media studies, as well as fans of science fiction.
Woman Up
Publication Date: March 2022
Woman Upwill most appeal to students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist media studies, television studies, and cultural studies.
The Americans
Publication Date: March 2022
Everyone from scholars and students of television and media studies, genre studies, gender and sexuality studies, and popular culture, to superfans who can't believe the show is over will revel in this highly approachable and fun read.
Hawaii Five-O
Publication Date: February 2022
Faucette makes a strong argument for the series as a distinctive artifact of a time in US history that witnessed profound changes in culture, politics, and economics, one that will excite not only scholars and students of television and media studies but any die-hard fan of gripping police procedurals.
Eye of the Taika
Publication Date: October 2021
Eye of the Taika is intended for film scholars and film lovers alike.
Our Blessed Rebel Queen
Publication Date: October 2021
Longtime fans of Carrie Fisher and her body of work will welcome this smart and thoughtful tribute to a multimedia legend.
Breaking Bad
Publication Date: October 2021
Sharrett’s argument for why the show is the canniest dramatic insight of our times is worth the price of admission for scholars and students of media studies and superfans alike.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Publication Date: September 2021
Fans of the works of David Simon, as well as students and scholars of television studies and Critical Race Theory, will enjoy this enlightening book.
Resetting the Scene
Publication Date: August 2021
Intended for scholars and students of Hollywood film history, Resetting the Scene intersects with numerous fields consonant with film studies, including star studies, media industry studies, and critical race theory.
After "Happily Ever After"
Publication Date: May 2021
This volume is intended for all readers with an interest in film, media, and gender studies.
Batman: the Animated Series
Publication Date: April 2021
Batman fans, popular culture enthusiasts, and media studies scholars will find within these pages insights and ironies to provoke endless conversations.
Starring Tom Cruise
Publication Date: March 2021
Students, scholars, and readers of film, media, and celebrity studies will enjoy this deep dive into a complex Hollywood figure.
Scratching the Surface
Publication Date: March 2021
His approach is to, in a very supportive and non-threatening way, combine both introductory and advanced storytelling in one fell swoop."
New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation
Publication Date: November 2020
Scholars of cultural, gender, film, literary, and adaptation studies will find this collection innovative and thought-provoking.
V. F. Perkins on Movies
Publication Date: November 2020
Perkins on Movies gives unimpeded access to one of the most distinctive and distinguished of critical voices and will be widely welcomed by academics, students of film, and informed film enthusiasts.
Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World
Publication Date: October 2020
Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.
Stars and Silhouettes
Publication Date: October 2020
Stars and Silhouettes belongs on the shelf of every scholar, student, and reader interested in film history and star studies.
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Publication Date: October 2020
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies—which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students—considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the...
The Cinema of Ettore Scola
Publication Date: September 2020
The Cinema of Ettore Scola makes Scola accessible to English-reading audiences and helps readers better understand his film style, the major themes of his work, and the representations of twentieth-century Italian history in his films.
Embodying Hebrew Culture
Publication Date: August 2020
Students and teachers of Israel studies, performance studies, and Jewish cultural history will appreciate Embodying Hebrew Culture.
The Golden Girls
Publication Date: May 2020
Written with both superfans and scholars in mind, the book invites new, diverse ways of thinking about the show to spark future scholarship and conversation about four of the most beloved characters in sitcom history.
The Construction of Testimony
Publication Date: April 2020
Scholars and students of film studies and Holocaust studies will value this close analysis.
Twin Peaks
Publication Date: February 2020
Readers interested in film, television, pop culture, and gender studies as well as fans and new audiences discovering Twin Peaks will embrace this book.
The Twilight Zone
Publication Date: February 2020
Longtime fans of the show and new viewers of Jordan Peele’s 2019 reboot alike will enjoy this deep dive into the original series’ history, style, and significance.
Cinemagritte
Publication Date: November 2019
Students, scholars, and fans of art history and film will enjoy this thoughtful marriage of the two.
Treme
Publication Date: November 2019
Fans of the works of Simon and Overmyer, as well as television studies students and scholars, will enjoy this keen-eyed approach to a beloved show.
Birth of the Binge
Publication Date: March 2019
The book functions as a reference work, featuring an appendix of "100 Seminal Serial Seriesand a supplementary index that television fans and media students and scholars will utilize in and out of the classroom.
African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness
Publication Date: January 2019
The interdisciplinary quality of the anthology makes it approachable to students and scholars of fields ranging from film to culture to African American studies alike.
Staging Fairyland
Publication Date: December 2018
Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children's literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.
Cinematic Cryptonymies
Publication Date: November 2018
Scholars interested in postwar film and history, trauma and war, or psychoanalytic theory will all find this volume of interest.
Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Publication Date: November 2018
Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and film genre.
