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Uncanny Histories in Film and Media

Edited by Patrice Petro
Rutgers University Press

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media probes the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors challenge our inherited narratives to reveal a disturbance of what was once familiar in the histories of our field.
 

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Post-Communist Malaise

Cinematic Responses to European Integration

Rutgers University Press

Post-Communist Malaise examines political modernism within the context of post-communist Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It focuses on how select cinemas from the regions critique European unification and how they represent related issues like the transition from communism to free-market capitalism, the Euro crisis and austerity, and the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics.
 

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At Translation's Edge

Rutgers University Press

Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and education among others.

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Global Cinema Networks

Rutgers University Press

Global Cinema Networks brings together internationally acclaimed film scholars to investigate the evolving forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection examines shifting sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction, amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence. 

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Global Cinema Networks

Rutgers University Press

Global Cinema Networks brings together internationally acclaimed film scholars to investigate the evolving forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twenty-first century. The collection examines shifting sites of global filmmaking in an era of digital reproduction, amidst new modes of circulation and aesthetic convergence. 

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