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"Frankenstein," "Wuthering Heights," and the Oscars: Revisiting the Novels behind Today’s Film Adaptations

As new film adaptations bring Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë back into the spotlight, explore scholarship that examines the unsettling power of these nineteenth-century novels.
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Whether of Not "Sinners" Wins the Oscar, Ryan Coogler’s Genre-Bending Film Signals a New Era for Original Cinema

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino
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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
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Coming Soon

The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora

by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Editor), Lan Duong (Editor), and 1 more
Apr 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Benjamin Griffin (Editor), and 6 more
May 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), and 6 more
May 2026

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

by Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), and 7 more
May 2026

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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

by Edward William Kelting (Author)
Nov 2024
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Scripting Suicide in Japan

by Kirsten Cather (Author)
Oct 2024
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