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Diane Carson, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, editors
Multiple Voices in Feminist
Film Criticism
A comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist
scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades.
196 ISBN 0-8166-2273-6 $19.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
560 pages o 1994
Lisa Cartwright
Screening the Body
Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture
Traces the fascinating history of scientific film and shows that
early experiments with cinema are important precedents of contemporary
medical techniques.
197 ISBN 0-8166-2290-6 $17.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
198 ISBN 0-8166-2289-2 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $15.00
224 pages o 1995
Briankle G. Chang
Deconstructing
Communication
Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange
"An elegant critique of the logics of communication theory.
This valuable book makes explicit some of the key philosophical
tangles in the discipline of communication." Journal of
Communication
199 ISBN 0-8166-2645-6 $22.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
200 ISBN 0-8166-2644-8 $57.95 cloth Sale price: $12.00
280 pages o 1996
Michelle Citron
Home Movies and Other Necessary
Fictions
"Haunting and challenging, Citron's account of her life and
filmmaking exposes to the light of day the deep links between
creativity and trauma, artist and family, the self and the work."
B. Ruby Rich
201 ISBN 0-8166-3262-6 $19.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
202 ISBN 0-8166-3261-8 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $14.00
216 pages o 1998
Visible Evidence Series,
volume 4
Winner of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language,
and Gender Outstanding Book Award.
John E. Davidson
Deterritorializing
the New German Cinema
John E. Davidson takes the story of the New German Cinema beyond
its strictly German context to show its relation to the Cold War
and postcolonial politics.
203 ISBN 0-8166-2982-X $29.95 cloth/jacket Sale price:
$15.00
224 pages o 1999
Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen
Channels of Desire
Mass Images and the Shaping of American Culture
The classic revised and updated.
"Not merely a book that expands our notions about the impact
of mass communication in the twentieth century, but a work that
is a contribution to social thought in our time." Journal
of Communications
204 ISBN 0-8166-1890-9 $18.95 paper Sale price: $5.00
272 pages o 1992
John Fiske
Media Matters
Everyday Culture and Political Change
"Urgently argued and compellingly insightful, it reminds
the reader of the necessity for balance as a democratic practice
and of a commitment to the scholarly unlayering of those voices
least likely to be given forum in the raging information wars."
Patricia Williams
204 ISBN 0-8166-2463-1 $19.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
288 pages o 1996
Jane M. Gaines and Michael Renov, editors
Collecting Visible
Evidence
A redefinition of the nature of documentary film.
"Collecting Visible Evidence is a fascinating and
far-reaching collection of essays." Bomb
206 ISBN 0-8166-3135-2 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $24.00
240 pages o 1999
Visible Evidence Series,
volume 6
Harry Gamboa, Jr. and Chon A. Noriega
Urban Exile
Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.
"Urban Exile should be viewed as a primer for avant-garde
practice in the shadows of the decay and celebration that are
simultaneously pushing urban America into the new millennium."
LA Weekly
207 ISBN 0-8166-3052-6 $29.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
208 ISBN 0-8166-3051-8 $74.95 cloth Sale price: $20.00
568 pages o 1998
Herman Gray
Watching Race
Television and the Struggle for "Blackness"
"An astute commentary on the complexities of African-American
representations in the media. Watching Race will provide
controversial and insightful material for contemplation."
Film & History
209 ISBN 0-8166-2250-7 $34.95 cloth/jacket Sale price:
$8.00
224 pages o 1995
Michele Hilmes
Radio Voices
American Broadcasting, 1922-1952
Radio Voices provides an innovative and accessible history
of U.S. broadcasting that promises to inspire a new wave of critical
cultural analysis of the radio era." Journal of Communication
210 ISBN 0-8166-2621-9 $19.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
320 pages o 1997
Linda Kintz and Julia Lesage, editors
Media, Culture, and the
Religious Right
"We need to be alert to new coalitions, quick to read possibility
and astute in understanding the religious right's increasing mastery
of media channels. This volume is an invaluable aid to these ends."
Afterimage
211 ISBN 0-8166-3085-2 $19.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
212 ISBN 0-8166-3084-4 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $15.00
352 pages o 1998
Andrea Liss
Trespassing through
Shadows
Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust
"Liss sheds new light on the process by which we remember
the Holocaust, and the critical role that historical photographs
play in stirring and shaping our memory." Holocaust and Genocide
213 ISBN 0-8166-3060-7 $19.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
224 pages o 1998
Visible Evidence Series,
volume 3
David Lyon
The Electronic Eye
The Rise of Surveillance Society
Lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction
and phone call, vote, and application registers in some computer,
to show how electronic surveillance influences social order in
our day.
214 ISBN 0-8166-2515-8 $18.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
270 pages o 1994
Eric Michaels
Bad Aboriginal Art
Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons
Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with
an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention
of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community's
forays into broadcasting.
215 ISBN 0-8166-2341-4 $21.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
256 pages o 1993
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 3
Toby Miller
Technologies of
Truth
Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media
Offers an original and refreshing discussion of the media's effect
on everyday culture.
216 ISBN 0-8166-2985-4 $21.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
320 pages o 1998
Visible Evidence Series,
volume 2
Eve Stryker Munson and Catherine A. Warren, editors
James Carey
A Critical Reader
217 ISBN 0-8166-2703-7 $19.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
218 ISBN 0-8166-2702-9 $49.95 cloth Sale price: $12.00
368 pages o 1997
Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, editors
Technoculture
The contributors provide a realistic assessment of the politics-the
dangers and possibilities-currently at stake in cultural practices
touched by advanced technology.
219 ISBN 0-8166-1932-8 $19.95 paper Sale price: $4.00
220 ISBN 0-8166-1930-1 $47.95 cloth Sale price: $10.00
352 pages o 1991
Cultural Politics Series,
volume 3
Michael Renov and Erika Suderburg, editors
Resolutions
Contemporary Video Practices
"A collection of 24 essays that span the broad realm of video
today, considering practices both within and outside the territory
of fine art." Guggenheim Magazine
221 ISBN 0-8166-2330-9 $21.95 paper Sale price: $8.00
222 ISBN 0-8166-2327-9 $59.95 cloth Sale price: $22.00
448 pages o 1995
John Tagg
Grounds of Dispute
Art History, Cultural Politics, and the Discursive Field
"Tagg at once 'practices' art history while at the same time
he critiques the disciplinary apparatus by which this can be done.
Consistently brilliant, attractive, and compelling." Richard
Leppert
223 ISBN 0-8166-2132-2 $19.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
288 pages o 1992
Simon Watney
Policing Desire
Pornography, AIDS, and the Media,
Third Edition
"A far-reaching analysis of images of AIDS and homosexuality
in the media. The media actually changed its coverage of AIDS
and queer issues." Voice Literary Supplement
224 ISBN 0-8166-3025-9 $14.95 paper Sale price: $3.00
225 ISBN 0-8166-3024-0 $39.95 cloth Sale price: $12.00
160 pages o 1989
Media and Society Series,
volume 1
Winner of an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center
for the Study of Human Rights.
Ismail Xavier
Allegories of Underdevelopment
Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema
Ismail Xavier examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's
cultural memory.
226 ISBN 0-8166-2677-4 $21.95 paper Sale price: $6.00
227 ISBN 0-8166-2676-6 $54.95 cloth Sale price: $20.00
256 pages o 1997