We are pleased to exhibit at the 2024 meeting of the Society for Film and Media Studies in Boston, MA, from March 14-17, 2024, and offer a discount on all of our new and award-winning books on film studies, comic studies, and more. Be sure to visit our table at SCMS, browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with Editor Jim Burr and Editorial Assistant Mia Uribe-Kozlovsky, and enjoy a great discount!
Apply the discount code UTXSCMS during checkout online to receive 30% off the full list price of any book for domestic orders, plus free domestic shipping. Offer valid through April 30, 2024. Free standard U.S. domestic shipping is included. Browse featured books below!
21st Century Film Essentials
Edited by Donna Kornhaber
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21st Century Film Essentials offers a lively chronicle of cinema’s second century, examining the landmark films of our ever-changing moment. Each book makes a case for the importance of a particular contemporary film for artistic, historical, or commercial reasons. The twenty-first century has already been a time of tremendous change in filmmaking the world over, and the films examined here are the ones that embody and exemplify these changes, crystallizing emerging trends or pointing in new directions. This series is a study of film history in the making. It is meant to provide a different kind of approach to cinema’s story—one written in the present tense.
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González,
and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
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The World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series includes monographs and edited volumes that focus on the analysis and interpretation of comic books and graphic nonfiction from around the world. The books published in the series use analytical approaches from literature, art history, cultural studies, communication studies, media studies, and film studies, among other fields, to help define the comic book studies field at a time of great vitality and growth.
Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century
Transgressing the Frame
Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem
How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work
D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture
Only the Names Have Been Changed
Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture
A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film
From Nationalism to Protest
Making The Best Years of Our Lives
The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
On the Island
A History of Rap and Reality
Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID
How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production
The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
National Trauma and Television Comedy
America’s Comic Book Creators and the Making of a Billion-Dollar Industry
Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema
Adaptation from Panel to Frame
The Rise of the Auteur Series
Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts
Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry
The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV
Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television
The Sexual Politics of American Television Production
Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco
Women in American Comedy
Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media
Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks
Media Convergence and a Comics Universe
Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory
Outing Latin American Film
Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots
Multiplicities in Film and Television
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino
Gender and the Horror Film
Women Comedians and Body Politics
Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
