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Interviews with scholars of media and communications about their new books.
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…
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…
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha…
From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Y…
The Routledge Handbook of Esports (Routledge, 2024) offers the first fully comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of esports, one of the fastest growi…
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 …
Focusing on games that examine a range of national histories and heritages from across Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European Histor…
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 bo…
Elia Powers' book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality (Rutgers UP, 2024) explores how journalists from historically m…
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wit…
In Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. Hannah Weaver examines the mediaeval prac…
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language. Bu…
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the cr…
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…
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cam…
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every …
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital …
Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old?…
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studi…
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a p…