Category: Film Studies

• AAS 2016 Cambria Press Sinophone World Series Event

  The AAS 2016 conference was one of our best conferences yet. It was great being right in the front of the exhibit hall and across from the AAS booth. We appreciated the compliments on our 8 ft long banners from both attendees and other exhibitors. Thanks to all who stopped by! The Cambria booth had…

  Cambria Press

  April 14, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Film Studies, History, International relations, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Books, university books

  AAS 2016 Seattle, Asia warfare, Asian Studies, Association of Asian Studies AAS, Baodingshan, Buddhism, Cambria Press, Chia-rong Wu, Christopher Lupke, Cosmopolitanism in China, East Asia, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Johan Elverskog, Karil Kucera, Minghui Hu, Sinophone, Supernatural Taiwan, Thomas Drohan, Toni Tan, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema

• The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce a new publication The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion by Christopher Lupke (Washington State University). This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series headed by John Clum (Duke University).…

  Cambria Press

  March 27, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Film Studies, New Books, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, university books

  A City of Sadness, academic publisher, Cambria Press, Christopher Lupke, Cinema of Taiwan, Dust in the Wind, February 28 Incident, Flowers of Shanghai, Goodbye South Goodbye, Guomindang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Millennium Mambo, Nie Yinniang, Ozu Yasujirô, Sinophone, Taiwan, The Assassin, Victor Mair, Zhu Tianwen

• Author Interview with Christopher Lupke

  Christopher Lupke’s latest book, The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien, will be released next week at the 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Seattle. Professor Lupke is one of the few who has visited the set of Hou’s latest film, The Assassin (2015) and includes a discussion of it in his book.…

  Cambria Press

  March 26, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Culture, Film Studies, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts

  A City of Sadness, A Time to Live, A Time to Die, academic publisher, Cambria Press, Cambria Sinophone World Series, Christopher Lupke, Flowers of Shanghai, Hakka, Hoklo, Hou Hsiao-hsien, John Clum, Sinophone, Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan, The Assassin, Victor Mair

• Press Release & Promo Trailer for Transatlantic Memories of Slavery: Reimagining the Past, Changing the Future

  See the press release for Cambria Press for Transatlantic Memories of Slavery. Watch the trailer for this book from Cambria Press. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to stay posted on the release of this book. See the Cambria Press website for more books. See another related publication from Cambria Press: Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations Both…

  Cambria Press

  July 20, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Film Studies, Literary Criticism

  Cambria Press, Cambria publication, memory of slavery, slavery, Transatlantic Memories of Slavery, YouTube

• Asian Studies: AAS 2015 Program Outside Back Cover features Cambria Press Ad

  See the Cambria Press ad on the outside back cover of the AAS program and visit our booth (601) in the AAS book exhibit hall. An exciting event will be taking place on Saturday (March 28) at 2 p.m. LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook and follow Cambria Press on Twitter so you don’t miss the…

  Cambria Press

  March 18, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, China, Chinese, Film Studies, History, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, New Scholarly Books, Promotion

  AAS 2015 Chicago, Asian Studies, Association of Asian Studies, Cambria Press

• International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Authors of forthcoming Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms presenting next week

  Scholars of fantasy and science fiction studies attending next week’s International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando, will not want to miss the sessions of Dr. Helen Young (University of Sydney) and Professor Donald Riggs (Drexel University).  Dr. Young is the editor of the forthcoming book Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms:…

  Cambria Press

  March 12, 2015

  Culture, Film Studies, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books

  A Game of Thrones, academic publisher, Cambria Press, Donald Riggs, fantastic arts, Helen Young, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Isaac Asimov, Medievalism, Nickolas A. Haydock, Orlando, science fiction, Tolkien

• #Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

  An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There are also encouraging numbers from…

  Cambria Press

  January 20, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Australasian Studies, China, Chinese, Culture, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, MLA, Music, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Theatre, Women’s Studies

  Africa, African Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, Asia, Asian studie, Australia, Australian literature, Brazil, China, Chinese, Classicism, Contemporary literature, culture, Duke University, Film studies, gender politics, globalism, globalization, homosexuality, Howard University, human trafficking, humanities, Inside Higher Ed, John Clum, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Literary theory, Medievalism, Moses Ochonu, Nanyang Technological University, National Endowment for the Humanities, nationalism, NEH, Neil Murphy, Nickolas Haydock, Orientalism, Performing Arts, Román de la Campa, Sinophone, slavery, Susan Lever, theatre, Toyin Falola, University of Pennsylvania, University of Puerto Rico, University of Sydney, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, Victor Mair

• Halloween Highlight: “In the new zombie-infested world, former orders and systems of knowledge collapse …” – Andrea Wood

    In Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media Andrea Wood explained that “in the new zombie-infested world, former orders and systems of knowledge collapse and crumble overnight as survivors are left in a time and place where the familiar has become irreconcilably unfamiliar” while Jesse Stommel noted…

  Cambria Press

  October 31, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Film Studies, Literature, MLA

  academic publisher, Andrea Wood, Brandy Schillace, Cambria Press, cyborgs, Jesse Stommel, vampire, Zombie

• Cambria Press New Book! Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media

  Much has been written about gender and the monstrous, but sustained engagement with textual manifestations of cultural and unconscious fears and anxieties about “unnatural” reproduction has been limited. This fascinating book expands the current discourse on the monstrous reproductive potential of bodies—as well as minds—from a more interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework. While scholarly interest in…

  Cambria Press

  August 21, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Film Studies, Literature, MLA, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, Ambroise Paré, Andrea Wood, Angel, Apocalypse, ’ Margaret of Henneberg, Brandy Schillace, Breaking Dawn, Cambria Press, cyborg, Cyborg Manifesto, Death, Demon, Devil, Disease, Donna Haraway, Dracula, fin de siècle, Freak, gender studies, Genetic Engineering, Hypersaurus, literary criticism, media studies, monster, monstrosity, Monstrous, Monstrous Mothers, Mothering Monsters, Necronomics, Paradise Lost, Posthuman, Queering Survival, Super-virus, Syphilis, The Lamenting Lady, Transhumanism, Undead Children, vampire, Vampiric Pregnancies, Zombie

• Asian-Pacific Heritage Month Highlight – Alienglish: Eastern Diasporas in Anglo-American Tongues

  Published this year, Alienglish: Eastern Diasporas in Anglo-American Tongues by Sheng-mei Ma is the perfect book for the celebration of Asian-Pacific Heritage Month. From the book’s introduction:  “Haltingly, aliens come to speak in the Anglo-American tongue that you and I (me and you?) would understand, but what emerges is somehow skewed by accents, syntax, body language, and…

  Cambria Press

  May 30, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Culture, Film Studies, International Studies, Literature

  academic publisher, Alienglish, Anglo-American Tongues, Asian American, Asian diaspora, Asian fusion, Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, Cambria Press, Canadian Asian, Charlie Chan, Chinese diaspora, East West, Eastern Diasporas, Evelyn Lau, Fu Manchu, Great Wallpaper, Ha Jin, Japanese diaspora, Joy Kogawa, Kazuo Ishiguro, Korean diaspora, Lugosi, Mr. Moto, Orientalism, Peter Lorre, Seung-Hui Cho, Sheng-mei Ma, The Mikado, Zhang Yimou