May 1, 2024
‘May the 4th Be With You’ … WGN9 Chicago spoke to local professor Carmelo Esterrich, who teaches a class about Star Wars fandom and American culture at Columbia College Chicago….. READ MORE
April 30, 2024
“Focusing on the complexities behind Caribbean mediascapes, Jossianna Arroyo’s Caribes 2.0 represents an important and timely contribution to Caribbean, Latin American, Latinx, Afro-diasporic, media, and cultural studies. This provocative study does not… READ MORE
April 23, 2024
“Shut out of the locker rooms, young Wellesley grad and Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was constantly missing the quotes that she needed to get the story. Locker Room Talk is the gripping first-hand… READ MORE
April 16, 2024
“Closter, NJ-Raised Muppeteer’s short but remarkable life chronicled in [Funny Boy]…The book explores the many facets of Hunt’s life and work as a member of the original team of Muppet… READ MORE
January 25, 2017
Erin Hill for Lenny Letter: In the golden age of Hollywood, as “script girls,” negative cutters, researchers, inkers, painters, seamstresses, secretaries, and so on, women could be found in nearly… READ MORE
December 30, 2016
It’s been a rough year. Rather than dwell on the low points, we’ve decided to focus on the bright spots. With that in mind, here’s a lengthy, by no means… READ MORE
December 2, 2016
Laura Horak’s Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 was selected as one of Huffington Post‘s best film books of 2016. From the article: These two titles, both… READ MORE
November 7, 2016
What makes three of our all-time greatest filmmakers—Kubrick, Welles and Hitchcock—so great? The Extraordinary Image (Rutgers University Press) by film scholar Robert P. Kolker takes readers on a fascinating journey… READ MORE
August 8, 2016
THE PARADE PREVIEW: WHAT TO WATCH, RENT OR BUY AUG. 8 – AUG. 14 Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kavey’s Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives is featured in… READ MORE
