By Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, author of Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Latin American Studies Association, the largest organization of Latin Americanists in the …
Read More >May Day, “International Worker’s Day,” is a curiously un-American holiday. Celebrated by labor groups and political parties outside the United States, it began in 1890 as a global day of solidarity to …
Read More >We’re delighted to announce that multiple UC Press titles are on the shortlist and longlist for the 2016 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards. The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards are the UK’s leading prizes for …
Read More >This story, written by Leah Stark, first appeared on the Stanford University website on April 18, 2016 and is cross-posted here with their kind permission. The Hellboy comics — about a demon who tries to …
Read More >To celebrate the 2016 annual conference for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, which kicks off tomorrow in Atlanta, we are pleased to offer a collection of limited-time free articles from …
Read More >We are very pleased to announce that Raina Polivka will be joining the University of California Press as our new acquisitions editor in Music and Cinema & Media Studies. Raina is currently an acquisitions editor at …
Read More >If you’re interested in learning more after this year’s Banned Books Week festivities, here are some suggestions to deepen the conversation about freedom of speech and the censorship of literature and other …
Read More >While not subject to outright ban, UC Press’ own Film Quarterly was caught up in Red Scare hysteria early in its history. Formerly known as the Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television, which …
Read More >By Mary Francis, Executive Editor, Cinema & Media Studies What’s new? That is always the biggest question in an editor’s mind going to big annual conference (right up there with, where can …
Read More >Congrats to The Last Pictures author Trevor Paglen, who was part of the Oscar-winning team behind Citizenfour, last night’s winner for Best Documentary. Paglen contributed footage of surveillance sites to director Laura …
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