New & Forthcoming

Brings to light Scola’s cinematic style and contextualizes his commentary on Italian society and politics.

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?

A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.

Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.

Explores the global dimension and local identity of Chile’s vibrant contemporary cinema.

Detailed textual readings evoking the archaic sensibility and modernist style of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century.

New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.

Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

Explores religious change in Orthodox Judaism, specifically the indigenous American religious culture.

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

Extensive account of the cameo’s production history and how audiences affirm their mastery of celebrity culture.

Biographies about African Americans who will inspire today’s youth.

Unveils the metaphoric and theoretical possibilities of fabric in the films of Luchino Visconti.

A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.

Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.

New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.

Describes the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit.

Detailed textual readings evoking the archaic sensibility and modernist style of Pier Paolo Pasolini.