American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United …
Read More >By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, …
Read More >By Daniel Herbert, author of Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film Most members of the public probably don’t know anything about New Line Cinema, the movie studio …
Read More >By Jennifer S. Clark, author of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation When I started writing a book about the women’s movement and television, I imagined that it …
Read More >From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and …
Read More >With the recent loss of UC Press authors David Bordwell and Cari Beauchamp, our Film & Media Studies Editor Raina Polivka shares a reflection on their contributions and legacy in the film …
Read More >By Víctor Zúñiga, co-author of The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to Mexico Our research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in …
Read More >By Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air My new book Shackled recounts the harrowing real-life experiences of 92 individuals abused during a failed deportation flight to Somalia. …
Read More >By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, …
Read More >By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn It may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In …
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