Cultural Studies
Post-Chineseness
Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.
Ida Rubinstein
The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.
Barcelona, City of Comics
Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.
The Godfather and Sicily
Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.
The Students We Share
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.
Unholy Trinity
Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.
Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers
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.
Perpetual Movement
Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.
Avant-Gardes in Crisis
Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.
The Left Hand of Capital
Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
Premises and Problems
Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.
Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema
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.
Sappho's Legacy
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.
The Seasons
Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.
Continental Theory Buffalo
Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.
Mexico Unmanned
Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
Enduring Critical Poses
A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.
The Ideology of Civic Engagement
Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Garbage in Popular Culture
Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
Capitán Latinoamérica
Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.
Changed Forever, Volume II
The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
Mind Reeling
Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.