Available for the first time in English, these previously unavailable essays introduce readers to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century.
Adaptation was cen...
By Kaveh Askari, author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit
Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. I examine film circulation and its effect ...
For #SCMS22, we’re pleased to offer free online content from Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, Representations, Afterimage, and more.
In Film Quarterly‘s new March issue,
Diana Flores Ruíz considers the works of filmmaker Sky Hopinka, a Ho-Chunk Nation national and des...
By Annie Berke, author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television
At a recent book event– co-hosted with Liz Clarke, author of The American Girl Goes to War– one participant asked: “How did you decide what to put in the book and what to leave out?”
Having relie...
By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. F...
UC Press is excited to share with you some new publications and recent highlights from the University of California Press’s Film and Media Studies list. UC Press has the oldest scholarly cinema studies list in the country, which has always emphasized the history of cinema as an art fo...
Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and the author of several books, including Traumatic Imprints and Nollywood Stars. He is also a first-generation scholar.Cinematic Indepen...
By Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: “The Great Escape” in American Film and Culture
I had long wanted to revisit the 1963 classic The Great Escape, ever since seeing it as a kid at a drive-in re-release in the mid-60s. Like many young American boys of the time, I imagine, I went...
We’re proud to announce that Brian Jacobson, editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments has won the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award!
We reached out to Jacobson as part of our #SCMS2021 virtual conference series to d...