Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.

Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.