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Book Giveaway! Film Studies (Feb 17, 2020)
The award season may have come to an end, but we are still mulling over the best films and their directors. Our Wallflower imprint and its Directors’ Cut series highlights the production and reception of the cinema’s most significant contemporary works and filmmakers....
Book Excerpt! The Outside Thing, By Hannah Roche (introduction) (Feb 14, 2020)
“This theoretically sophisticated reading of three lesbian writers—Stein, Hall, and Barnes—is at once playful and serious. Roche’s insistence on the queerness of desire, romance, and love between women takes feminist modernist studies in an exciting new direction.” ~Laura Doan, author...
Alfred Wallace’s Problem: Can the Theory of Evolution Explain Language? By Herbert S. Terrace (Feb 14, 2020)
“With characteristic clarity, [Terrace] gives a convincing account of language evolution in Darwinian terms, without appeal to miracles. This is an important new approach to an old and vexed problem.​” ~Michael Corballis, author of The Truth About Language: What It...
“Not cinema”?: Joker (2019) and the State of the (Superhero) Nation in 2020 By Terence McSweeney and Rebecca Cohen (Feb 14, 2020)
Joaquin Phoenix claimed the Oscar for best actor for his performance in Joker, solidifying the movie’s position at the forefront of current cinema. Terence McSweeney, author of Avengers Assemble!: Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a forthcoming volume...
Book Excerpt! Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, By Mao Xiang and Yu Huai, translated and edited by Wai-yee Li (Feb 13, 2020)
“Wai-yee Li’s translations of these famous Chinese memoirs of romantic brio and pathos from the seventeenth century are a marvel of precision, elegance, and wit—a perfect match for the book’s sensual, tragic contents. Her brilliant annotations and supplemental translations help...

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