Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship with to the poet Georg Trakl.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

Drawing on a range of sources in philosophy and literature, but with particular reference to the work of Heidegger, makes a compelling case for the importance of place in philosophical discourse.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

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.

Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

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

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

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

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

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

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

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

First English translations of a novel and two play excerpts based on tales of the goddess Chen Jinggu, an eighth-century shaman and present-day cult deity.

Examines the rising power of China and Chinese foreign policy through a revisionist analysis of Chinese civilization.

Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.