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  • Arresting Dress

    Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

    by Clare Sears ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century’s end. Over forty U.S. cities passed similar laws ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Killing Eve

    by Clare Sears ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    A searing, incisive analysis of the show that redefined queer television for a generation.The British cat-and-mouse spy thriller Killing Eve (BBC America, 2018–22) became an international sensation, captivating fans and critics alike. In this sharp and accessible study, scholar and fan Clare Sears presents a compelling queer reading of the series, examining how it appropriated and subverted ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • How to make a magic baby

    by Clare Sear ...
    How to make a magic baby tells the story of five year old Harriet, who loves babies almost as much as she loves ice cream. One day Harriet begins to wonder where babies come from. Her mum explains to her that not all babies are made the same way and some are made using the magic of science (known as IVF).With the help of a fertility doctor and IVF science, Harriet's parents were able to have the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three ... Read more

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  • The Riddles of the Sphinx

    Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

    by Anna Shechtman ...
    "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."—New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir about anorexia and language, and history of the crossword puzzle as an ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

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  • Horror

    by Brigid Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Complex TV

    The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling

    by Jason Mittell ...
    A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for televisionOver the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the most notable impacts of these shifts is the emergence of highly complex and elaborate forms of serial narrative, resulting in a robust period of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Fan Fiction Studies Reader

    Edited by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined some of its enduring questions. Editors Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse provide cogent ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics

    Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape. Media forms and genres are proliferating as never before, from movies, computer games and iPods to video games and wireless phones. This essay collection by recognized scholars, practitioners and non-academic writers opens discussion in exciting new directions. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

    Edited by Warren Buckland ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded.In this volume, contributors explore recent popular ... Read more

    $58.99 USD