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  • Monsters vs. Patriarchy

    Toxic Imagination in Global Horror Cinema

    by Patricia Saldarriaga, Emy Manini ...
    Series series Global Media and Race
    Across the globe, the violent effects of patriarchy are manifest. Women, trans people, gender-nonconforming people, and the racialized Other are regularly subjected to physical danger, beginning with the denial of vitally important health care, and, in its most horrific form, rape, trafficking, and murder. Monsters vs. Patriarchy links these real-world horrors to the monstrification and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Infected Empires

    Decolonizing Zombies

    by Patricia Saldarriaga, Emy Manini ...
    Series series Global Media and Race
    Given the current moment--polarized populations, increasing climate fears, and decline of supranational institutions in favor of a rising tide of nationalisms-- it is easy to understand the proliferation of apocalyptic and dystopian elements in popular culture. Infected Empires examines one of the most popular figures in contemporary apocalyptic film: the zombie. This harbinger of apocalypse ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Fear of Black Consciousness

    by Lewis R. Gordon ...
    Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopherIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Performance

    by Diana Taylor ...
    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • There's a Disco Ball Between Us

    A Theory of Black Gay Life

    by Jafari Sinclaire Allen ...
    In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Horror

    A Companion

    Edited by Simon Bacon ...
    Series Book 3 - Genre Fiction and Film Companions
    What is Horror?Horror is an inherently sensational and popular phenomenon. Extreme violence, terrifying monsters and jarring music shock, scare and excite us out of our everyday lives. The horror genre gives shape to the particular anxieties of society but also reveals the fundamental nature of what it is to be human.This volume provides an introduction to horror in compact and accessible essays, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Lesley Shipley, Mey-Yen Moriuchi ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it looks towards the future.The book is a resource for multiple fields, including art activism, socially ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Vampires and Zombies

    Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations

    Edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Monika Mueller ...
    The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone significant transformations in global culture, proliferating as deviant representatives of the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Wandering Games

    by Melissa Kagen ...
    A thought-provoking analysis of wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death—with examples from The Last of Us Part II and others.Wandering in games can be a theme, a formal mode, an aesthetic metaphor, or a player action. It can mean walking, escaping, traversing, meandering, or returning. In this book, game studies scholar Melissa ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Magical/Realism

    Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

    by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal ...
    **Longlisted for the National Book AwardLonglisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismShortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for NonfictionShortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in MemoirA brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to excavate and reimagine what has been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Zombies in Western Culture

    A Twenty-First Century Crisis

    by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, Filip Miscevic ...
    Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus