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Interview with Yiman Wang, author of "To Be an Actress"

Yiman Wang, author of "To Be an Actress," talks about the enduring legacy of actress Anna May Wong
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UC Press Becomes Publisher of Science Fiction Studies, which Releases New Special Issue on "Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream"

The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"
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Uncovering Stand-Up Comedy’s Feminist Media History

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.
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Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema

by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz (Author)
Mar 2025
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Global Movie Magazine Networks

by Eric Hoyt (Editor), Kelley Conway (Editor)
Jan 2025
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Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture

by Andrew deWaard (Author)
Sep 2024
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Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

by Darshana Sreedhar Mini (Author)
Aug 2024
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How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
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