Duchess of Palms
A Memoir
The Empire of Effects
Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism
Danger Pay
Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
Shifting Sands
Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Super Bodies
Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.
The Comitán Valley
Sculpture and Identity on the Maya Frontier
An exploration of the understudied sculpture of the Maya frontier.
Labors of Fear
The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work
How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film.
Resurrecting Tenochtitlan
Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City
How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.
Kainua (Marzabotto)
Why Tammy Wynette Matters
How Tammy Wynette channeled the conflicts of her life into her music and performance.
Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters
A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.
Quantum Criminals
Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan.
Channeling Knowledges
Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
How water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures.
Reclaiming the Americas
Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory
How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.
Predatory Economies
The Sanema and the Socialist State in Contemporary Amazonia
A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela.
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.