byIda Yoshinaga,Sean Guynes,Gerry Canavan
Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities de...
The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the Frenc...
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself...
byJean Genet,Barbara Bray,Ahdaf Soueif
Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself,...
byCharles Musser,Jane Gaines,Pearl Bowser
Oscar Micheaux--the most prolific African American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period--has finally found his rightful place in film h...
byMonica Dall'Asta,Julia Knight,Jane Gaines,Christine Gledhill
Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompa...
byAndrew Hoberek,Shelley Streeby,Jared Gardner,Scott Bukatman,Darieck Scott,Nicholas Sammond,Mimi Nguyen,Cathy Schlund-Vials,Frederick Aldama,Bart Beaty,Rebecca Wanzo,Blair Davis,Tahneer Oksman,Michael Chaney,Jonathan Gray,Benjamin Woo,Ian Gordon,Stacey Robinson,Frank Bramlett,Adam Kern,Yetta Howard,Brannon Costello,Charles Hatfield,José Alaniz,Gregory Steirer,Aaron Kashtan,Deborah Whaley,Alexandro Segade,Amy Nyberg,André Carrington,Anthony D’Agostino,Barbara Postema,Benjamin Saunders,Carol Tilley,Christopher Pizzino,Christopher Spaide,Cáel Keegan,Ellen Kirkpatrick,Enrique García,Ian Blechschmidt,Isabel Millán,Jessica Stark,Joo Kim,Joshua Kopin,Justin Hall,Leah Misemer,Margaret Galvan,Matt Silady,Michael Cohen,Nicholas Yanes,Osvaldo Oyola,Phil Jimenez,Sara Chaney,Sean Guynes,Susan Kirtley
Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more th...
by Fletcher, Christopher and Genet, Jean-Philippe and Watts, John,Christopher Fletcher,Jean-Philippe Genet,John Watts
How did the kings of England and France govern their kingdoms? This volume, the product of a ten-year international project, brings together specialists in late...
Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture....
Since the 1970s film studies has been dominated by a basic paradigm--the concept of classical Hollywood cinema--that is, the protagonist-driven narrative, value...
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound...
byGene Weingarten,Gina Barreca
Is God male or female? Why do women, but not men, flush public toilets with their feet? Why are men, but not women, obsessed with parallel parking? Why do women...
In Bootstrap Geologist Shinn enthusiastically shares the highs and lows of his remarkable life. Taking readers around the globe as well as below the ocean, he r...
This book provides a physics-oriented introduction to organogels with a comparison to polymer thermoreversible gels whenever relevant. The past decade has seen...
Back in the days of the first oil wells, the oilmen passed the time by spinning tall tales. One of their favorite storytellers was Gib Morgan, whose adventures ...