Category: Film Studies
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…