Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the uneveness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.
Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and eco...(Read More)
Was It Yesterday?
(June 2021)
Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television Matthew Leggatt - Editor
Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.
Bringing together prominent transatlantic film and media scholars, Was It Yesterday? explores the impact of nostalgia in twenty-first century American film and television. Cultural nostalgia, in both real and imagined forms, is dominant today, but what does the concentration on bringing back the past mea...(Read More)
Premises and Problems
(April 2021)
Essays on World Literature and Cinema Luiza Franco Moreira - Edited and with an introduction by
Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.
World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to criti...(Read More)
Identities in Flux
(February 2021)
Race, Migration, and Citizenship in Brazil Niyi Afolabi - Author
Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Drawing on historical and cultural approaches to race relations, Identities in Flux examines iconic Afro-Brazilian figures and theorizes how they have been appropriated to either support or contest a utopian vision of multiculturalism. Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader of a runaway s...(Read More)
Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.
Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and aesthetic issues related to the visualization of reality. In Knowing It When You See It, Patrick O...(Read More)
