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Onscreen/Offscreen
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487541774
Pub Date: February 2023
Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.
Italian Film in the Present Tense
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: February 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487544850
Pub Date: November 2022
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.
Wayward Feeling
Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487540586
Pub Date: July 2022
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.
Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487541200
Pub Date: April 2022
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
Narratology in Practice
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781442628373
Pub Date: September 2021
Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
Fashioning Spanish Cinema
Costume, Identity, and Stardom
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487509118
Pub Date: July 2021
Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.
The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487526955
Pub Date: June 2021
The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487525286
Pub Date: February 2021
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
Men Out of Focus
The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487505257
Pub Date: January 2021
Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s – and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.
Dancing Queen
Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487526795
Pub Date: November 2020
Dancing Queen takes up court ballet as a window into Marie de Médicis’s use of the performing arts as a vehicle for politically engaged queenship prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610.
Revolutionary Visions
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781487508142
Pub Date: November 2020
Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America.
Theatre of Anger
Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487507695
Pub Date: November 2020
Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.
I Was Never Alone or Oporniki
An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487588403
Pub Date: October 2020
This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.
Conspiracy Culture
Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487507374
Pub Date: September 2020
This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in post-Soviet culture, providing the first systematic, in-depth analysis of Russia’s most "paranoid" contemporary authors.

Onscreen/Offscreen
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487541774
Pub Date: February 2023
Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.
Italian Film in the Present Tense
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: February 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487544850
Pub Date: November 2022
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.
Wayward Feeling
Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487540586
Pub Date: July 2022
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South Africa.
Hope in a Collapsing World
Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487541200
Pub Date: April 2022
This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.
Narratology in Practice
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781442628373
Pub Date: September 2021
Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
Fashioning Spanish Cinema
Costume, Identity, and Stardom
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487509118
Pub Date: July 2021
Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.
The Long Century’s Long Shadow
Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487526955
Pub Date: June 2021
The Long Century’s Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487525286
Pub Date: February 2021
This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.
Men Out of Focus
The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487505257
Pub Date: January 2021
Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s – and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.
Dancing Queen
Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781487526795
Pub Date: November 2020
Revolutionary Visions
Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781487508142
Pub Date: November 2020
Revolutionary Visions traces the emergence of a growing corpus of Latin American films that explore the legacy of Jewish encounters with revolutionary political movements in 1960s and 1970s Latin America.
Theatre of Anger
Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487507695
Pub Date: November 2020
Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.
I Was Never Alone or Oporniki
An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487588403
Pub Date: October 2020
This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.
Conspiracy Culture
Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487507374
Pub Date: September 2020
This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in post-Soviet culture, providing the first systematic, in-depth analysis of Russia’s most "paranoid" contemporary authors.