The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
The Boxing Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, than any other sport,The Boxing Film explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema, and popular media, by tracing how boxing films inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Stanley Kubrick
New York Jewish Intellectual
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Crossing Segregated Boundaries
Remembering Chicago School Desegregation
Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.
Changing on the Fly
Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians
Campus with Purpose
Building a Mission-Driven Campus
Ballad of an American
A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
This graphic biography of Paul Robeson charts his career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through films, concerts, and recordings, he became a potent symbol representing the promise of a multicultural, multiracial American democracy; despite his stardom, he was denied access to many audiences.
The Films of Bong Joon Ho
This timely book reveals that even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as a major global auteur with works like Snowpiercer (2013) and the Oscar®-award winning Parasite (2019), his films hybridize Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers.
The Femme Fatale
Exhibiting Health
Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era
Before Bemberg
Women Filmmakers in Argentina
Women Make Horror
Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
Women Make Horror
Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
Simulating Good and Evil
The Morality and Politics of Videogames
Simulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without inflicting real harm.