Anticipated Books and Reviews

2009 Titles

2009-10-22T20:53:00.000-07:00

from Parkstone Press January 1
Shoes by Marie-Jos'phe Bossan

from Design Studio Press January 1
Tatopoulos Design: The Art and Concepts of Patrick Tatopoulos by David Queille and Patrick Tatopoulos

from Texas Tech University Press January 10
Cowboy Park: Steer Roping Contests on the Border by John O. Baxter

from Minnesota Historical Society Press January 15
Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought by David Martinez

from University of Minnesota Press January 26
Terror and Joy: The Films of Dusan Makavejev by Lorraine Mortimer

from University of Toronto Press February 11
Public Art in Canada: Critical Perspectives edited by Annie Gerin and James S. MacLean

from Palgrave Macmillan September 1
Politics and Political Culture in the Masque by James Knowles

from University of Washington Press June 30
Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costumes by Bruce J. Bourque and Laureen La Bar

from Harvard University Asia Center June 15
Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan by James Dorsey

from Palgrave Macmillan June 9
Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America edited by Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page

from University of Nebraska Press May 1
Lost Creeks: Collected Journals by Alexander Posey

from The University of North Carolina Press April 10
On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition by Ann Marie Stock

from British Museum Press March 16
Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands by Andrea Eimke and Susanne Kuchler

from Harvard University Asia Center March 15
Dry Spells: State Rainmaking and Local Government in Late Imperial China by Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke

from Oxford University Press USA
Thriving on a Riff: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film edited by Graham Lock and David Murray under review by John Smihula, University of Nevada, Reno

from University of Iowa Press March 16
Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia by Catherine A. Schuler under review by Kerrie Seymour, Clemson University

from Palgrave Macmillan March
Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West edited by Reginald Dyck and Cheli Reutter under review by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, SUNY New Paltz

from Palgrave Macmillan May 26
Carnal Inscriptions: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Disability by Susan Antebi under review by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, SUNY New Paltz

from I.B. Tauris February 17
The American Look: Sportswear, Fashion, and the Image of Women in 1930s an 1940s New York by Rebecca Arnold under review by Alexander Stingl

From Oxford University Press, February 4
Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome by William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker under review by Yves Laberge, Universite Laval, Quebec City

from University of Wales Press March 15
Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French Literature and Culture edited by Kate Griffiths and David Evans under review by Ian Miller, University College Dublin, Belfield

from Wiley; New edition January 27
Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage by Louis E. Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro under review by Rossella Ceccarini

from University of Arizona Press January 15
The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism: Challenging History in the Great Lakes by Neal Ferris under review by Irma Kreiten

from New York University Press February 1
Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness by Shari Dworkin and Faye Wachs under review by Melissa Strong, Northeastern State University
from University Of Chicago Press February 28
Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land by Steven M. Friedson under review by Michel Demyen

from Greenwood Press
Bureau Of Indian Affairs: From Broken Treaties to Casinos by Richard E. Monette under review by Kathi E.B. Ellis

from Viking Adult July 30
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat under review by Elizabeth Oliver Lee

from Berg Publishers June 30
Chinese Fashion from Mao to Now by Juanjuan Wu under review by Meredith Nash, University of Melbourne

from Oxford University Press India May 28
The Cultures of History in Early Modern India: Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal by Kumkum Chatterjee under review by Fiona Mani, West Virginia University

from University of Wisconsin Press May 15
Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650-1950 by James Emmett Ryan under review by M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo, Universidad de Alcalafrom Continuum May 2
Viewing Citizens: Film Reception, Criticism, and Culture in Cuba and the USA by Hector Amaya under review by Randy Rodriguez
from Harvard University Press April 30
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands by Katherine Benton-Cohen under review by Tiffany Noell
from Mcfarland & Company Inc Publishing March 30
Sports and Their Fans: The History, Economics and Culture of the Relationship Between Spectator and Sport by Kevin G. Quinn under review by Brad Klypchak
from Tauris Academic Studies March 17
Modern Art at the Berlin Wall: Demarcating Culture in the Cold War Germanys by Claudia Mesch under review by Victoria Harms
from Palgrave Macmillan March 17
Forgery in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde by Sara Malton under review by Agathe Brun

from Harvard University Press March 15
Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York by Donna Dennis under review by Curtis Fogel

from University Of Chicago Press March 15
The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity by Michael Camille under review by Katharine D. Walker, Virginia Commonwealth University
from Duke University Press
Displaced Allegories: Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema by Negar Mottahedeh under review by Roberta Di Carmine, Western Illinois University

from Palgrave Macmillan
A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film by Caroline Bainbridge under review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara

from Berghahn Books January 1
Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film by Christine Sprengler under review by Greta Methot, Rhode Island School of Design

from University of Nebraska Press January 1
George Washington's War on Native America by Barbara Alice Mann under review by Jeff Carlisle, Oklahoma City Community College

from Princeton University Press January 1
The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 by Kate Flint under review by Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island

from Oxford University Press, USA January 2
The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Arts edited by Graham Lock and David Murray under review by Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, University of Georgia

from Seagull Books January 6
Remembered Rhythms: Issues of Diaspora and Music in India edited by Shubha Chadhuri and Anthony Seeger under review by Nilanjana Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, India

from Palgrave Macmillan January 6
Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy: Immoral Individualism by Elizabeth A. Throop under review by Gregory Thompson, Rogers State University

from University Of Chicago Press January 15
TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television by Lynn Spigel under review by Marty Roth

from Harvard University Asia Center January 15
Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature by Tina Lu under review by Andrea Duranti, Unversity of Cagliari, Italy

from University of Illinois Press January 23
Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers by John Broven under review by Timothy J. O'Brien, University of Houston

from Headpress January 29
Trashfiend: Disposable Horror Culture of the 1960s & 1970s by Scott Stine under review by Rob Weiner, Texas Tech University

from Sussex Academic Press January 30
Visions of Aging: Images of the Elderly in Film by Amir Cohen-Shalev under review by Gladys Louise Tyler

from Cambridge University Press January 31
The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain by Guy Ortolano under review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara

from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press January 31
Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America by Jacqueline Foertsch under review by Alex Stingl

from University of Chicago Press February
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury under review by Rob Weiner, Texas Tech University

from Cambridge University Press February
Nazi Cinema's New Women by Jana F. Bruns under review by Matthew McMurray, New Jersey City University

from Palgrave Macmillan February
Sexual Difference in European Cinema by Fabio Vighi under review by Ozgur Cicek

from Oxford University Press February
From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions by Craig H. Russell under review by Courtney Elkin Mohler, California State University, Dominguez Hills

from Tuckwell Press, Ltd.; Spi edition February 1
The Fiddle in Scottish Culture: Aspects of the Tradition by Katherine Campbell under review by Elizabeth Oliver Lee

from University of Exeter Press February 1
British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years by Lawrence Napper under review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara

from University Of Minnesota Press February 2
Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film by Merrill Schleier under review by Gladys Louise Tyler

from Palgrave Macmillan February 3
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication edited by Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski under review by Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College, Pennsylvania

from Palgrave Macmillan February 3
The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930 by Yvonne Ivory under review by Daniel Farr, Randolph College

from Palgrave Macmillan February 3
Shakespeare and the Institution of the Theatre: The Best in This Kind by Erica Sheen under review by Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International University

from Picador February 3
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu under review by Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest, Romania

from Berg Publishers February 3
The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch under review by Paul Khalil Saucier, Rhode Island College

from University of Illinois Press February 4
The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa by Audrey McCluskey under review by Roberta Di Carmine, Western Illinois University

from University of Georgia Press February 15
Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television by Matthew H. Bernstein under review by Nathan G. Tipton, University of Memphis

from Liverpool University Press February 15
Idiocy: A Cultural History by Patrick McDonagh under review by Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

from University of Georgia Press February 15
The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 by James J. Lorence under review by Edward Salo

from Oxford University Press, USA February 15
Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel under review by Cynthia Miller, Emerson College, Boston

from University of California Press February 16
Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture by Eileen Luhr under review by Donna J. Drucker

from The University of North Carolina Press February 19
For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 by Lisa G. Materson under review by Jason Hostutler, Marquette University

from Boydell Press February 19
The Medieval Cook by Bridget Ann Henisch under review by Stephanie Plummer, Bowling Green State University

from Continuum February 21
Appropriation of Native American Spirituality by Suzanne Owen under review by Susan de Gaia

from Westview Press February 21
Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture by Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kicheloe under review by Douglas MacLeod, State University of New York, Albany
from Cambridge University Press February 28
Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light by Martin M. Winkler under review by Sarah Boslaugh

from Equinox Publishing (UK) February 28
The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture
edited by Christopher Partridge and Eric Christianson under review by Rob Weiner, Texas Tech University

from University of Massachusetts Press February 28
The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing by Patrick Hagopian under review by Jeremy K. Saucier, University of Rochester

from Miami University Press March
Performing Worlds Into Being: Native American Women's Theater by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong under review by Megan Burnett, Alice Lloyd College

from Columbia University Press March
The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
by Ted Striphas under review by Vicky Sue Gilpin

from Bloomsbury USA March 3
The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution by Matthew Sweeney under review by Amanda Cooley, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

from Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S. March 15
Naga Identities: Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India
by Michael Oppitz, Marion Wettstein, and Thomas Kaiser under review by Meraj A. Mubarki

from Wiley-Blackwell March 16
Queer Visibilities by Andrew Tucker under review by Nathan Tipton, University of Memphis

from Yale University Press March 17
Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America by Anne-Marie Cusac under review by Henrike Lehnguth, University of Maryland
from Seagull Books March 17
Paleoperformance: The Emergence of Theatricality as Social Practice by Tann-Pierre Montelle under review by Jerry Jaffe, Lake Erie College
from University of Illinois Press March 17
The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture by Victoria Grieve under review by Megan Burnett, Alice Lloyd College
from I. B. Tauris March 17
Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture by Feona Attwood under review by Maheswar Satpathy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

from Cambridge University Press March 31
The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity
by Dennis Kennedy under review by Lucian Gomoll, University of California, Santa Cruz

from University of Illinois Press April
Talking with Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity by Helen Wood under review by Yuya Kiuchi, Michigan State University
from Southern Illinois University Press April 6
Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema by James Kendrick under review by Sarah Boslaugh

from The University of North Carolina Press April 8
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom by Tisa Wenger under review by Bruce Bernstein, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts

from Wiley-Blackwell April 13
9/11 Culture by Jeff Melnick under review by Waleed Mahdi, University of Minnesota

from University of California Press April 13
Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States by Ari Y. Kelman under review by Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, University of Georgia

from Faber & Faber April 14
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
from University of Arizona Press April 18
A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943 by Jennifer McLerran under review by Bruce Bernstein, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts

from Rizzoli April 21, 2009
New York 1930: Architecture Between the Two World Wars by Robert A. M. Sterm, Gregory F. Gilmartin and Thomas Mellins under review by Paul Ranogajec, York College and Mercy College, New York

from Doubleday April 21
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi under review by Amarnath Amarasingam, Wilfrid Laurier University

from Cambridge University Press April 30
Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman by Cheryl A. Wilson under review by Luca Caddia

from University of Hawaii Press May
Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Cook Islands Globalization
by Kalissa Alexeyeff under review by Matthew J. Forss, Goddard College, Vermont
from University of Texas Press May 1
Dividing the Isthmus: Central American Transnational Histories, Literatures, and Cultures by Ana Patricia Rodriguez under review by Robin O'Brian, Elmira College

from Abrams May 1
Graffiti Kings: New York City Mass Transit Art of the 1970s
by Jack Stewart under review by Daniel Farr, Randolph College

from University of Nebraska Press May 1
The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola under review by Wendy Lucas Castro, University of Central Arkansas

from University of Rochester Press May 1
Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940 by John Koegel under review by Reba Wissner, Brandeis University

from Palgrave Macmillan May 12
Advertising, Subjectivity and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Dickens, Thackeray, Balzac and the Language of the Walls by Sara Thornton under review by Luca Caddia

from I.B. Tauris May 12
Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez under review by Nathan Tipton, University of Memphis

from Palgrave Macmillan May 12
Women, Feminism, and Femininity in the 21st Century: American and French Perspectives edited by Beatrice Mousli and Eve-Alice Roustang-Stoller under review by Janice M. Bogstad, University of Wisconsin

from Palgrave Macmillan May 12
Mendel's Theatre: Heredity, Eugenics, and Early Twentieth-Century American Drama by Tamsen Wolff

from ABC-CLIO May 13
African Americans in the West by Douglas Flaming under review by Theresa Napson Williams, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

from Intellect Ltd May 15
Diasporas of Australian Cinema edited by Catherine Simpson, Renate Murawska, and Anthony Lambert under review by Sarah Pinto, Monash University

from Harvard University Press May 15
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music by David Suisman under review by Timothy J. O'Brien, University of Houston

from University of California Press May 25
The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience by Jennifer M. Barker under review by Henrike Lehnguth, University of Maryland

from Oxford University Press May 28
Staging the World: Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession by Ida Ostenberg under review by Eugenia Russell

from Cambridge University Press May 31
Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1750-1850: The Indian Atlantic edited by Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings under review by Pamela Louderback, Northeastern State University

from Cambridge University Press May 31
Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland edited by Philip Connell and Nigel Leask

from Cambridge University Press May 31
Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625 by Andrew Gurr under review by Suanna Davis, Lone Star College

from Palgrave Macmillan June
Rogue Performances: Staging Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture by Peter Reed under review by Brooke Newman, University of Aberdeen

from Berghahn Books June
Colette's Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914 by Patricia A. Tilburg under review by Tatyana Shestakov, York University, Toronto

from Southern Illinois University Press June
Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective by Marguerite H. Rippy under review by Chris Pallant, Bangor University, UK

from I. B. Tauris June
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran by A. Srebeny and G. Khiabany

from Pickering & Chatto Ltd June 1
Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany by Jennifer Spinks under review by Katharine D. Walker, Virgina Commonwealth University

from University of Nebraska Press June 1
American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study by Michael C. Coleman under review by Pamela Louderback, Northeastern State University

from Berg Publishers June 9
Designing the Modern Interior: From The Victorians To Today
edited by Penny Sparke, Anne Wealleans, Trevor Keeble, and Brenda Martin under review by Paul Ranogajec, York College and Mercy College, New York

from Palgrave Macmillan June 9
Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre by Evan Darwin Winet under review by Andrea Duranti, University of Cagliari, Italy

from Intellect Ltd June 15
Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema by Elizabetta Girelli under review by Kevin M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh

from University of Exeter Press June 15
Marketing Modernity: Victorian Popular Shows and Early Cinema by Joe Kember under review by Daniel Kotzin, Medaille College
from Intellect Ltd June 15
Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance by Louise Peacock under review by Christophe Collard, Vrije University Brussel, Brussel

from University Press of Florida June 19
Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture by Paul E. Morton under review by Amarnath Amarasingam, Wilfrid Laurier University

from Oxford University Press, USA June 29
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950-1963 by Kevin Starr under review by Michael Zeitler, Texas Southern University

from University of Nebraska Press July 1
Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives by Susan Sleeper-Smith under review by Bruce Bernstein, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts

from Berg Publishers July 7
Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television by Peter McNeil, Vickie Karaminas, and Catherine Cole under review by Daniel McNeil, University of Hull
from Berg Publishers July 31
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture edited by Elizabeth Shove under review by Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island

from Pickering & Chatto August 1
The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx by William Christie under review by Eugenia Russell

from Palgrave Macmillan August 18
Gender and Policy in France by Gill Allwood and Khursheed Wadia under review by Elise M. Dermineur, Purdue University

from I.B. Tauris September 1
New Turkish Cinema: Belonging, Identity and Memory by Asuman Suner under review by Irmak Ertuna, Bingahamton University

from Berg Publishers September 1
A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilisation from the 18th to the 21st Century edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell under review by Kevin M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh

from Palgrave Macmillan September 2
Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism by Michael J. Thompson under review by Katharine D. Walker, Virgina Commonwealth University
under review by Amarnath Amarasingam, Wilfrid Laurier Universityunder review by Joseph Morgan, Brandeis Universityfrom Manchester University Press May 12
Cultures of Violence: Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South by Ivan Evans under review by Theresa Napson Williams, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
under review by Jerry Jaffe, Lake Erie Collegeunder review by Reba Wissner, Brandeis University

2009-06-25T10:02:00.001-07:00

We are now preparing reviews of several new books. If you wish to review a book for the SJC, please send your contact information and cv to Editor Brian Cowlishaw at cowlishb@nsuok.edu

2009 Titles

2009-06-25T10:01:00.001-07:00

from Temple University Press October 28
The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora by Theodore S. Gonzalves

from University of Hawaii Press November
The Arts of Kingship: Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalkaua Era by Stacy L. Kamehiro

from O Books November 25
The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson by Mark Fisher

from The MIT Press November 30
Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde by K. Michael Hays

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition November 30
Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life by Marwan M. Kraidy

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition November 30
Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great by Brian J. Boeck

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition November 30
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community by Ann Marie Yasin

from University of Nebraska Press December 1
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer

from Cambridge Scholars Publishing; New edition December 1
Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption by Johanna Pink

from Intellect Ltd December 15
Digital Radio in Europe: Technologies, Industries and Cultures edited by Brian O'Neill, Per Jauet, Marko Ala Fossi, Lars Nyre, and Stephen Lax

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition December 31
Henry VIII and His Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art edited by Mark Rankin, Christopher Highley, and John N. King

from Brepols Publishers December 31
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance by E. Gertsman

from The University of North Carolina Press October 29
Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History by John Ernest under review by Alexander Stingl

from University of Nebraska Press December 1
Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World by Susan Sleeper-Smith under review by Pamela Louderback, Northeastern State University, OK

from Texas Tech University Press November 15
I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965 edited by Kimberli A. Lee under review by Pamela Louderback, Northeastern State University, OK

from Columbia University Press November 20
Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir by Patrick Keating under review by Yves Laberge, Universitie Laval, Quebec City

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition October 12

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction by Jill L. Matus under review by Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island

from Berg Publishers October 13

The Culture of Knitting by Joanne Turney under review by Amy K. Drees, Defiance College, Ohio

from Edinburgh University Press October 15

Memory and the Moving Image: French Film in the Digital Era by Isabelle McNeill under review by Sarah Pinto, Monash University

from Liverpool University Press October 15

The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History by Bill Marshall under review by Kadji Amin, Duke University

from Manchester University Press October 27

Medieval Film edited by Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer under review by Sarah Pinto, Monash University

from Palgrave Macmillan October 27

Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris by Matthew Taunton under review by Andy Fuller, University of Tasmania, Australia

from University of California Press; 1 edition October 29

The Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture by Nadja Durbach under review by Lucian Gomoll, University of California, Santa Cruz

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition October 31

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction by Jill L. Matus under review by Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition October 31

Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial by Theodore Ziolkowski under review by Andrew Russ, University of Adelaide, Australia

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition October 31

Political Branding in Cities: The Decline of Machine Politics in Bogota, Naples, and Chicago by Eleonora Pasotti under review by Marzia Maccaferri

from Sussex Academic Press November

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture by Ryan Curtis Friesen under review by Suanna H. Davis, Lonestar College, Kingwood

from Syracuse University Press November

Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967 by Samira Aghacy under review by Andrea Duranti, University of Cagliari

from AK Press November 1

Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires, 1890-1910 by Juan Suriano under review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Penn State Altoona

from University of California Press; 1 edition November 2

Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape by Kirk Savage under review by Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

from University of California Press; 1 edition November 3

The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact by Michael V. Wilcox under review by Sandra Slater, College of Charleston, South Carolina

from Oxford University Press, USA November 5

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America by Elizabeth Fraterrigo under review by Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School

from Oxford University Press, USA November 5

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination by Elizabeth Christine Russ under review by LuElla Putnam, Oklahoma State University

from University of California Press; 1 edition November 6

1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About by Joshua Clover under review by Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School

from University of North Carolina Press November 8

We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 by William J., Jr. Bauer under review by Sharon D. Raynor, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte

from University Press of Kansas November 9

Cuttin' Up: How Early Jazz Got America's Ear by Court Carney under review by Reba Wissner, Brandeis University

from Liverpool University Press November 15

Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel up to World War II by David Seed under review by Daniel Kotzin, Medaille College

from University Press of Kentucky; 1 edition November 15

The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak under review by Katie Ellis, University of Western Australia

from Edinburgh University Press November 15

The Great War on the Small Screen: Representing the First World War in Contemporary Britain by Emma Hanna under review by Mark Celinscak, York University, Toronto

from Ashgate Pub Co November 30

Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Paul Attinello under review by Vicky Sue Gilpin, Millikin University

from University of Oklahoma Press November 30

Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic by Michael F. Steltenkamp
under review by Kathi E.B. Ellis

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition November 30

Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England by Adrian Streete under review by Suanna H. Davis, Lone Star College, Kingwood

from Wiley-Blackwell December

The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan by Perry Meisel under review by Janice M. Bogstad, University of Wisconsin

from University Of Chicago Press December 1

Whose Fair?: Experience, Memory, and the History of the Great St. Louis Exposition by James Gilbert under review by Beth Kattelman, Ohio State University

from University Of Chicago Press December 1

A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form by Karla Oeler under review by Beth Kattelman, Ohio State University

from University of Nebraska Press December 1

Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature by John Beck under review by Daniel Gerling, University of Texas, Austin

from University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition December 1

The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema by Heide Schlupmann, translated by Inga Pollmann under review by Beth Kattelman, Ohio State University

from University Press of Kentucky; 1 edition December 1

Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939-1945 by M.B.B. Biskupski under review by Matthew McMurray, New Jersey City University

from Univ of Minnesota Press December 4

Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film by Amy Herzog under review by Greta Methot, Rhode Island School of Design

from University of Texas Press December 7
Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush by David Greven under review by Sarah Pinto, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University

from Berg Publishers December 8

American Science Fiction Film and Television by Lincoln Geraghty under review by Vicky Sue Gilpin, Millikin University

from University of Virginia Press; 1 edition December 15

Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic by Eran Shalev under review by Edward Salo

from Ashgate Publishing December 15

Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750–1950 edited by Maureen Goggin and Beth Tobin under review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Pennsylvania State University

from University of Michigan Press December 28

Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity by Emily Chivers Yochim under review by Louis Moore, Grand Valley State University, Michigan

from American Literatures Initiative December 28

Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture by Anita Mannur under review by Fiona Mani, West Virginia University

from University of Virginia Press December 30

Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture by Rachel Hall under review by Katherine D. Walker, Virginia Commonwealth University

from Cambridge University Press December 31

Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s by Nicholas Daly under review by Alexander Stingl

from Brepols Publishers December 31

Sacral Geographies: Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Ireland by K. Overbey
under review by Ian Miller, University College Dublin, Belfield

from Cambridge University Press December 31

Recorded Music: Performance, Culture and Technology edited by Amanda Bayley
under review by Reba Wissner, Brandeis University

2010 Titles

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from Littman Library of Jewish Civilization January
The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau And His Contemporaries edited by Sharon Flatto

from NYU Press January 1
Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts by Jonathan Gray

from University of California Press; 1 edition January 4
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock

from Rio Nuevo Publishers January 15
Sharing the Skies: Navajo Astronomy by David Begay and Nancy C. Maryboy

from University of Texas Press January 15
Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution: Cinema and the Archive by Zuzana M. Pick

from Cambridge University Press January 31
The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641 by Brendan Kane

from University Press of Mississippi February 1
Komiks: Comic Art in Russia by José Alaniz

from Baylor University Press February 1
Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports by Shirl James Hoffman

from Palgrave Macmillan February 16
Politics and Political Culture in the Masque by James Knowles

from University of Massachusetts Press; 1 edition March 31
Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Songs: Aesthetics and Survival by Ann Morrison Spinney

from The MIT Press March 31
The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World by William Sims Bainbridge

from Indiana University Press April 13
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America by Ken Koltun-Fromm

from Black Dog Publishing August 3
Forgotten Futures: Municipal Film 1920-1980 by Elizabeth Lebas

from University of Arizona Press September 6
The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood by Fernando Santos-Grenaro under review by Courtney Elkin Mohler, California State University, Dominguez Hills

from Pennsylvania State University Press April 1
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome by Heather Hyde Minor under review by Alex Ludwig

from Springer; 1 edition February 23
The Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss edited by Mikkel Bille, Frida Hastrup, and Tim Flohr Sørensen under review by Zornitza Grekova, Sofia University, Bulgaria

from Oxford University Press, USA March 26
Television Dramatic Dialogue: A Sociolinguistic Study by Kay Richardson under review by Kerrie Seymour, Clemson University

from University of Massachusetts Press; Public History in His. Perspective ser. edition July 31
Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England by Briann G. Greenfield under review by Hilary Iris Lowe, University of Kansas

from Tauris Academic Studies May 25
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media: Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era by Tamar Ashuri under review by Zornitza Grekova, Sofia University, Bulgaria

from Wesleyan March 31
Music and Cyberliberties by Patrick Burkart under review by Alex Ludwig

from NYU Press February 1
Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom by Maria Cepeda under review by Sandra Fallon-Ludwig

from University of Minnesota Press January 12
Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space edited by Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel under review by Alexander Stingl

from Wiley-Blackwell January 7
It Happened One Night by Linda Mizejewski under review by Kerrie Seymour, Clemson University

from University of Nebraska Press January 1
Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture by Pearl James under review by Jeffrey S. Reznick, Center for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham
from University of Nebraska Press January 1
Indian Slavery in Colonial America edited by Alan Gallay under review by Susan de Gaia
from Indiana University Press January 12
Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland edited by Judith A. Byfield, LaRay Denzer, and Anthea Morrison under review by Brooke Newman, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
from University Press of Mississippi January 15
Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture edited by Trystan T. Cotten and Kimberly Springer under review by Katie Ellis, University of Western Australia

from Oxford University Press, USA January 15Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture by Naomi Cahn and June Carbone under review by Amanda Cooley, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Universityfrom University of Texas Press January 15
La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics by B. V. Olguín under review by Randy A. Rodriguez
from Dartmouth January 29The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google by Eric Gordon under review by Patrick Haughey, Northeastern University
from Dartmouth January 29The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography by Erina Duganne under review by Sharon D. Raynor, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte
from New Hampshire January 29Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism by Elizabeth A. Fay under review by Timothy M. Kovalcik, Millikin University
from Ashgate Publishing February
Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950 by Maureen Daly Goggin under review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Penn State Altoona

from University of Illinois Press February
History by Hollywood: Screening the American Past by Robert Brent Toplin under review by Greta Methot, Rhode Island School of Design
from Baylor University Press February 1
Toying with God: The World of Religious Games and Dolls by Nikki Bado-Fralick under review by Adam Park, Florida State University
from Methuen Drama February 1Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear: The Relationship Between Text and Film by Lisa Hopkins and Ian Hunter under review by Patrick Enright, Northeastern State University
from University of Georgia Press February 1Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post-World War II America by Abigail Cheever under review by Deborah Christie, University of Miami
from Wallflower Press February 1Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic by Xavier Mendik under review by Gwenola Ricordeau, University of Santo Tomas, Manille
from NYU Press February 1Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media by Isabel Molina-Guzman under review by Natchee Barnd, California College of the Arts
from Palgrave Macmillan February 2Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean edited by Flavia Laviosa under review by Julia Hudson-Richards, Penn State Altoona
from Berg Publishers February 2A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilisation from the 18th to the 21st Century edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell under review by Kevin M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh
from University of Minnesota Press February 12
Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture by Paula Lupkin under review by Edward Salo
from University of Wales Press February 15Medieval Blood by Bettina Bildhauer under review by Suanna Davis, Lone Star College, Kingwoodfrom Oxford University Press, USA February 15
Cultures of Plague: Medical thought at the End of the Renaissance by Samuel K. Cohn Jr. under review by Scott Hendrix, Carroll University
from Harvard University Press February 15
About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Sharrona Pearl under review by Scott Hendrix, Carroll University
from Pickering & Chatto Ltd March 1
Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England by Simon Naylor under review by Donna Drucker

from Cambridge University Press; 1 edition March 31

Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner by James Garratt under review by Joe Morgan

from Open University Press; 1 edition April 1

Mediating Politics: Newspapers, Radio, Television and the Internet by Neil Washbourne under review by Marzia Maccaferri

from Manchester University Press April 27

Genre and Performance: Film and Television by Christine Cornea under review by Sandra Slater, College of Charleston, South Carolina

from University of Exeter Press May 15

British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell under review by Monolina B. Ray