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March 2023
Screening Nature
Cinema beyond the Human
Pick, A. & Narraway, G. (eds)

March 2023
Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Hales, B. & Weinstein, V. (eds)
Film and Television Studies-Related Journals

Projections
The Journal for Movies and Mind
ISSN Print: 1934-9688
ISSN Online: 1934-9696

Screen Bodies
The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology
ISSN Print: 2374-7552
ISSN Online: 2374-7560
Latest Film and Television Studies Blog Articles
AUTHOR ARTICLE: Continental encampment?
“Could,” ask Are John Knudsen and Kjersti Berg, “refugee camps, as traditionally understood, be scaled up to embrace a region hosting millions of refugees and migrants?” Here they discuss their new book, CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: GENEALOGIES OF HUMANITARIAN CONTAINMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPE, which explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of […]
AUTHOR ARTICLE: Weary Warriors: Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers (Open Access)
As the paperback edition of their acclaimed Weary Warriors volume is published, Pamela Moss and Michael J. Prince have kindly written this exclusive look at the issue it tackles, the profound distress and disorders experienced by military personnel. They also discuss how these effects of service have been represented by different generations in novels, television […]
Essential Reading in Environmental History from Berghahn
We are excited to have a selection of titles at the American Society for Environmental History conference, March 22-26, in Boston, Massachusetts. If you are attending in-person come browse some of our titles at the Ingram Academic stand in the book exhibit area! We are excited to offer a 35% discount on all Environmental History titles through […]
TERRORISM AND THE PANDEMIC: WEAPONIZING OF COVID-19 (Open Access)
By Rohan Gunaratna and Katalin Pethő-Kiss The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? Terrorism and the Pandemic is OPEN ACCESS and can […]
Arran J. Calvert on Life With Durham Cathedral
Arran J. Calvert has published on the topics of space, time, singing and LEGO building. Here he tells us about his new book, Life with Durham Cathedral: A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building, and how at Durham Cathedral the only constant is change. ‘Are you here for morning prayer or Antiques Roadshow?’ These were the […]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Angela Rong Yang Zhang on At Home in a Nursing Home
ANGELA RONG YANG ZHANG received the Australian Government Postgraduate Award and Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference Bursary in 2015 and is currently Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grant supported researcher at College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Zhang is also an Adjunct Fellow to School of Social Sciences at […]
Author interview (PART 2): ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH on A MAGPIE’S TALE
In the concluding part of our discussion of her new book A Magpie’s Tale, Anna tells us about the family she stayed with for the best part of a year – with sometimes as many as ten people in their small, two-room house – and how dramatic economic and political changes drastically changed the lives […]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW(part 1): Anna Odland Portisch on A MAGPIE’S TALE
ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Brunel University. In her new book A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia she recounts her time living with a Kazakh family in a small village. It’s fascinating (“Can you imagine a stranger showing up on […]
Remembering the Holocaust
In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we would like to present a list of new and recent Holocaust and Genocide Studies titles, as well as free access to related journal articles. “A meticulous and shattering investigation of eight horrific pictures…”—L’Arche ON THE DEATH OF JEWSPhotographs and HistoryNadine FrescoTranslated from the French by Sarah CliftWith […]
BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY
To mark this year’s Australia Day we present a selection of our latest titles on aspects of in Australia. Here are paperbacks, eBooks, and hardbacks on everything from health care for the elderly to film and song, the lives and struggles of the indigenous population, and how the nation has faced its colonial legacies. AN […]
Series: Film Europa

Peter Lilienthal
A Cinema of Exile and Resistance
Claudia Sandberg

Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema
Edited by Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein

Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Leila Mukhida

East German Film and the Holocaust
Elizabeth Ward

Cinema of Collaboration
DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Mariana Ivanova

Screening Art
Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
Seán Allan

German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Edited by Larson Powell and Robert R. Shandley

Cinema in Service of the State
Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Edited by Lars Karl and Pavel Skopal

Imperial Projections
Screening the German Colonies
Wolfgang Fuhrmann

The Emergence of Film Culture
Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945
Edited by Malte Hagener

Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema
Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity
Maria Fritsche

Postwall German Cinema
History, Film History and Cinephilia
Mattias Frey

Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Edited by Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel

Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Sarah Thomas

Screening the East
Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989
Nick Hodgin

Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory
Visible Man and The Spirit of Film
Béla Balázs
Translated by Rodney Livingstone
Edited by Erica Carter
Published in association with Screen

Dismantling the Dream Factory
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
Hester Baer

Willing Seduction
The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture
Barbara Kosta

Michael Haneke's Cinema
The Ethic of the Image
Catherine Wheatley

Destination London
German-Speaking Emigrés and British Cinema, 1925-1950
Edited by Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli

A Foreign Affair
Billy Wilder's American Films
Gerd Gemünden

Framing the Fifties
Cinema in a Divided Germany
Edited by John Davidson and Sabine Hake

Between Two Worlds
The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933
S. S. Prawer†

International Adventures
German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s
Tim Bergfelder

The Concise Cinegraph
Encyclopaedia of German Cinema
General Editor: Hans-Michael Bock, CineGraph Hamburg
Associate Editor: Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton
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