Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes-contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, ...

Brittany Powell Kennedy is senior professor of practice in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. Her work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, Intertexts, and the French ...

Elisa Pezzotta is cultore della materia of history and critique of cinema at the University of Bergamo. Her work has been published in Wide Screen, Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, and Journal ...

The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological ...

Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively ...

Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing ...

Blessed with one of the great tenor voices of all time, Mario Lanza (1921-1959) rose to spectacular heights in a film, recording, and concert career that spanned little more than a decade. Groomed at ...

Eric Ames is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He is author of Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog and Carl ...

Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its ...

Jason Edward Black is an associate professor in rhetoric and public discourse and an affiliate professor in gender and race studies at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is the coeditor of An ...