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Book Giveaway! The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency, by Mark L. Clifford (Apr 6, 2020)
“In this well-researched and ultimately optimistic account, Mark L. Clifford makes the case that environmental policies ‘can and must be fixed’ and gives us examples of companies that have worked to find private-sector solutions. In doing so, he sheds much-needed...
Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia by Sarah Keller (Apr 5, 2020)
“Anxious Cinephilia gives us the most far-reaching theorization of cinephilia yet. This exploration of desire and anxiety as twin impulses unearths novel connections across film cultures, affective states, and moments of technological change, from early cinema to cinematic spectacle in...
New Books in Film and Media Studies from Auteur, transcript publishing, and the Austrian Film Museum (Apr 5, 2020)
No visit to the CUP tables at SCMS would be complete without a look through the exciting new titles we’ve brought from our distribution partners.  New from Auteur First up is the Auteur table, where you’ll find numerous new titles...
Ten Masterpieces of Experimental Cinema (Apr 5, 2020)
The following list by Justin Remes, author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis and the forthcoming Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing, considers ten canonical experimental films. You can also watch the films below. •  •  • ...
Q&A: Kaeten Mistry on Whistleblowing Nation (Apr 5, 2020)
In Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy, editors Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman detail the long American tradition of persecuting those who expose state misdeeds. The twenty-first century witnessed a new age...

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