Prof. Jennifer Cazenave Signs Advanced Book Contract with Columbia University Press
Professor Jennifer Cazenave‘s new book Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive is now under advanced contract with Columbia University Press. The book moves from the 1930s to the 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure. One of the neglected archive the […]
Jim Carter Publishes Article in “Film Criticism”
Dr. Jim Carter recently published an article titled, “The Guilty Spectator: Sexuality, Age, Crime and Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975)” in the journal Film Criticism. An abstract is below, and you can read the full piece on the Film Criticism website. This article performs a close reading of Dario Argento’s Deep Red (1975) together with a speculative reading of how […]
Prof. Petrus Liu Co-Edits Volume “Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories” with Duke University Press
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently co-edited the volume, “Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories”, a translation of Cui Zi’en’s short stories with a critical introduction and a new interview. Duke […]
Prof. Jonathan Foltz Publishes “Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richard’s Screen Tests” with Duke University Press
Prof. Foltz, Director of Cinema & Media Studies, has recently published his his article, “Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richard’s Screen Tests” with Duke University Press, Modern Language Quarterly on November 17th, 2023. From the Abstract: “This article explores the overlapping histories of close reading and mass media by attending to the late-career film and television experiments […]
Professor Petrus Liu Publishes Book, “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus.”
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently published a book titled The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. The work, focusing mainly on geopolitical queer theory, includes […]
Prof. Schwartz Publishes Article in “Morphology and Historical Sequence”
Professor Peter Schwartz recently published an article titled, Rube Stories and Paradigmatic Crimes as Narrative Modulators at Thresholds of Cultural Change.” in Roberto Gilodi and Luigi Marfè, ed., Morphology and Historical Sequence. Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism.
Prof. Foltz Publishes Article on Film Novelizations
In the most recent issue of Modernism/modernity, Prof. Jonathan Foltz has published new research on the neglected literary genre of the film novelization. In the article, Prof. Foltz details the historical origins of the genre as a commercial product, and proceeds to consider the formal and generic questions afflicting the novelization as a distressed re-mediation […]
Prof. Lopes de Barros Publishes New Book, “Ménage Literário, Literary Menage, Ménage Literario”
“Jacques Fux’s writing is characterized by intertextuality, self-reflexiveness, and a ludic (and lucid) stance in relation to his questions about literature and life, fiction and reality. In the short story “Ménage à Trois” and the film Literary Ménage: An investigation into the Writing of Jacques Fux, directed by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Fux evokes or […]
Frederick Publishes Article in “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media”
Professor Sarah Frederick has published an article titled Girls’ magazines and the creation of ‘shōjo’ identities in the first edition of the “Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media” The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Media is a comprehensive study of the key contemporary issues and scholarly discussions around Japanese media. Covering a wide variety of forms and types from newspapers, television […]
Prof. Schwartz Publishes Article in “New German Critique”
Professor Peter Schwartz has recently published an article titled Aby Warburg and Cinema, Revisited in “New German Critique”.