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Media
Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
November 20, 2024
Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games …
November 18, 2024
The World According to Sound
The World According to Sound is the brainchild of two rogue audionauts who rebelled against the NPR mothership: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett. It began a…
November 17, 2024
Our Jackie
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is…
November 16, 2024
Historical Turns
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in …
November 16, 2024
Changed Men
Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual…
November 15, 2024
Occupied Words
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death…
November 14, 2024
If All the World Were Paper
In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, and p…
November 13, 2024
Wisecracks
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversa…
November 12, 2024
The Myth of Harm
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha…
November 12, 2024
Uncomfortable Television
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Y…
November 9, 2024
Routledge Handbook of Esports
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growi…
November 8, 2024
Texas Book Festival 2024
I spoke with Hannah Gabel, Literary Director of the Texas Book Festival. The Festival first began in 1995, and has since donated over $3.5 million to …
November 7, 2024
Central and Eastern European Histories and Heritages in Video Games
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histor…
November 6, 2024
Celebrating University Press Week
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 bo…
November 6, 2024
The Endless Refrain
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wit…
November 6, 2024
Performing the News
Elia Powers' book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality (Rutgers UP, 2024) explores how journalists from historically m…
November 4, 2024
Experimental Histories
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Hannah Weaver examines the mediaeval prac…
November 1, 2024
Gobsmacked!
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. Bu…
November 1, 2024
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the cr…
October 31, 2024
Digital Intimacies
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, saf…