Cinema Studies

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Down Syndrome Culture

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

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Legal Stories

Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

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

The Matter of Disability

Biopolitics, Materiality, Crip Affect

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

The Matter of Disability

Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect

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

Shipwrecked

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

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

The Imprint of Another Life

Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

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

Concerto for the Left Hand

Disability and the Defamiliar Body

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

David Mamet in Conversation

A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work

Brian Friel in Conversation

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Disenchanted Democracy

Chinese Cultural Criticism after 1989

A critical appraisal of Chinese intellectual development in the 1990s

The Animal Within

Masculinity and the Gothic

Explores notions of masculinity in Gothic film and fiction

Framed Visions

Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination

Emphasizes the fluid relationship between literature, cinema, and social life

The American Poet at the Movies

A Critical History

A timely and engaging exploration of cinema's influence on verse--a treat for poetry lovers and film buffs alike