Facing Uncertain Futures

By Cristina Rhodes
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures challenges the notion that the futures of Latinx youth are predetermined. While systemic inequities persist, author ...

Hot Equations

By Jesse S. Cohn
Categories: Popular Culture

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds ...

Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism

Edited by Aaron X. Smith
Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Taharka Adé, Molefi Kete Asante, Alonge O. Clarkson, John P. Craig, Ifetayo M. Flannery, Kofi Kubatanna, Lehasa Moloi, M. Ndiika Mutere, and Aaron X. Smith

In the twenty-first century, ...

Cloverfield

By Steffen Hantke
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Reframing Hollywood

Upon its release in 2008, Matt Reeves’s Cloverfield revitalized the giant creature, a cinematic trope that had languished for over a decade. The film addressed the attacks of September 11, 2001, trading ...

Imperiled Whiteness

By Penelope Ingram
Categories: Film Studies

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 FRANK LUTHER MOTT/KAPPA TAU ALPHA JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AWARD

In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white ...

Visions of Invasion

By Michael Lechuga
Categories: Race And Ethnicity
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional ...

Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

Edited by Isiah Lavender III
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science ...

Equipping Space Cadets

By Emily Midkiff
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the 2023 Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Book Award
2022 Longlist Nominee for the Best Non-Fiction Award from the British Science Fiction Association

Equipping Space Cadets: Primary ...

Fantastic Cities

Edited by Stefan Rabitsch, Michael Fuchs, and Stefan L. Brandt
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel ...

Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction

Edited by Anita Tarr & Donna R. White
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna ...