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Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Legal Stories

Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

By Gregory Steirer
Subjects: Law, Intellectual Property, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature

How copyright law and the practice of narrative-based property development influenced each other before 1978

After Disruption

A Future for Cultural Memory

By Trevor Owens
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education, Digital Projects

How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure

Video Scholarship and Screen Composing

By Daniel Anderson
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Digital Projects
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

Recasts expectations for scholarship and explores emerging methods of composing in the media-rich, networked spaces of digital screens

Ghostly Fragments

Essays on Shakespeare and Performance

By Barbara C. Hodgdon
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Media Studies

Collects the keenly intelligent, witty essays of this revered scholar of Shakespeare & performance studies

The Matter of Disability

Biopolitics, Materiality, Crip Affect

Edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability

The Matter of Disability

Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect

Edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability

Gaming the Stage

Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater

By Gina Bloom
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Illuminates the fascinating, intertwined histories of games and the Early Modern theater

Reactivations

Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

By Philip Auslander
Subjects: Art, Art History, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media, Dance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Explores the relationship between the documentation of a live performance and the audience’s experience of it

Transgression in Korea

Beyond Resistance and Control

By Juhn Young Ahn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Challenges our understanding of transgression— its causes, goals, and motives— across a comprehensive reading of South Korean media

Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

By Dina Khapaeva
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Media Studies, History

Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race 

The Fanfiction Reader

Folk Tales for the Digital Age

By Francesca Coppa
Subjects: Media Studies, Writing, Literary Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with other storytelling traditions.

War on Autism

On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

By Anne McGuire
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges the discourses of autism awareness campaigns for the “logic of violence” they often conceal

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Conversations on Disquieting Art

By Frederick Luis Aldama & Herbert S. Lindenberger
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art Theory, Literary Studies, Media Studies

Describes and defends the centrality of discomfort for consumers of various arts—literature, architecture, visual art, music, dance, and cinema

The Media Players

Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News

By Stephen Wittek
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Media Studies, Theater and Performance

News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned

Embroidering the Scarlet A

Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

By Janet Mason Ellerby
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology

The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel

Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690

By Gerhild Scholz Williams
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Journalism, Literary Studies, European Literature

A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel

The Imprint of Another Life

Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

By Margaret Homans
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Philosophy

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

Are We There Yet?

Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

By Alison Byerly
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media

An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age

By Amy E. Earhart & Andrew Jewell
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship

Poetry's Afterlife

Verse in the Digital Age

By Kevin Stein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media

Poetry lives on in the digital age

Concerto for the Left Hand

Disability and the Defamiliar Body

By Michael Davidson
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A major new work that probes questions of disability and aesthetics across a range of  art forms, from Deaf poetry to film noir

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