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  • Anthroposcreens

    Mediating the Climate Unconscious

    by Julia Leyda ...
    Series series Elements in Environmental Humanities
    Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural and film studies—such as debates over Black representation—to provide readings of the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Reframing Todd Haynes

    Feminism’s Indelible Mark

    Edited by Theresa L. Geller, Julia Leyda ...
    Series series a Camera Obscura book
    For three decades, award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider perspective. Today, Haynes is widely known for bringing women’s stories to the screen. Analyzing Haynes’s films including Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far from Heaven (2002), and Carol (2015), as ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness

    Edited by Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Julia Leyda, Diane Negra, Anthony McIntyre ...
    Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity. Rejecting superficial assessments that would deem the ever-expandingplethora of cute texts trivial, The Aesthetics ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Todd Haynes

    Interviews

    Edited by Julia Leyda ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    A pioneer of the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes (b. 1961) is a leading American independent filmmaker. Whether working with talking dolls in a homemade short (Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story) or with Oscar-winning performers in an HBO miniseries (Mildred Pierce), Haynes has garnered numerous awards and nominations and an expanding fan base for his provocative and engaging work.In all his films ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Extreme Weather and Global Media

    Edited by Julia Leyda, Diane Negra ...
    In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identity and citizenship for both locally affected populations and widespread spectator communities. This timely collection pinpoints the features of an often overlooked yet rapidly expanding category of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Popular Culture

    A User's Guide

    by Imre Szeman, Susie O'Brien ...
    Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culturesuitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • Fueling Culture

    101 Words for Energy and Environment

    by Jennifer Wenzel, Patricia Yaeger ...
    How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another—from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next—transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Climate Change as Social Drama

    Global Warming in the Public Sphere

    by Philip Smith, Nicolas Howe ...
    Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs Smith and Howe use the perspective of cultural sociology and Aristotle's timeless theories about narrative and rhetoric to explore this ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Environmentalism in Popular Culture

    Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural

    by Noël Sturgeon ...
    In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Noël Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts social inequities as “natural” and how our images of “nature” interfere with creating solutions to environmental problems that are just and fair for all. Why is it, she wonders, that environmentalist messages in popular culture so often “naturalize” themes ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Cli-Fi and Class

    Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction

    by Lisa Ottum, Martín Premoli, B. Jamieson Stanley, Jessica Cory, Jennifer Horwitz, Professor Jennifer Schell, PhD, Kimberly Bain, Andrew Milner, Jeffrey M. Brown, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Magdalena Maczynska, Teresa Goddu, Adam Trexler ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, climate fiction—or cli-fi—has concerned itself as much with economic injustice and popular revolt as with rising seas and soaring temperatures. Indeed, with its insistent focus on redressing social disparities, cli-fi might reasonably be classified as a form of protest literature. As environmental crises escalate and inequality intensifies, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

    Edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Seán Cubitt ...
    This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research.Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores ... Read more

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  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

    $18.79 USD