October 20, 2023
If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is Latinx people. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States, and the… READ MORE
October 12, 2023
THR’s list of must-read tomes — determined by a jury of more than 300 Hollywood heavyweights including Steven Spielberg, David Zaslav, Liza Minnelli and Ava DuVernay — proves there’s one… READ MORE
September 25, 2023
During his sixteen-year tenure writing issues of Uncanny X-Men, Chris Claremont revamped the X-Men franchise and lifted the mutant team to meteoric success. Even thirty years after his unprecedented run… READ MORE
August 1, 2023
The superhero genre of comic books includes image after image of hero’s bodies. These bodies are often idealized forms, but even so, comics use many art styles to tell superhero… READ MORE
July 24, 2023
In the new book Labors of Fear, edited by Jason Middleton, top and emerging media scholars analyze the concept of work in Hollywood horror films. Their essays track depictions of… READ MORE
June 20, 2023
J. P. Telotte’s new book, Selling Science Fiction Cinema, explores marketing efforts in the golden age of science fiction. As science fiction transformed the way Hollywood did business, Hollywood transformed… READ MORE
November 1, 2022
In her book Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism author Julie Turnock discusses the role of special effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)… READ MORE
October 19, 2022
It’s spooky season and we have all the scary scholarly topics that’ll keep you shakin’ in your boots! We’ve got ghost stories from classical antiquity, we’ve got a classic collection… READ MORE
March 19, 2021
From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral… READ MORE
August 13, 2018
By Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry. Revisiting early debates about TV content and censorship from industry and government perspectives, Deborah L. Jaramillo’s book recounts… READ MORE
