Say hello to today’s team spotlight!
Meet Tandor, our marketing communications coordinator, who’s celebrating 2 years with us.
🏌️ Budding golfer
📚 Fiction fan
🌱 Garden enthusiast
👩🍳 Always baking something delicious
More team spotlights coming soon! #MeetTheTeam
On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Nico Carpentier.
Together, they discuss Nico’s academic career, the organisations he has been involved with and the ideas behind his books.
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@nicocarpentier1
Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music: The Case of Hispanic Epic Themes by Amaranta Saguar García is out now in hardback, paperback and as Open Access!
This book explores how metal's medievalizing epicism connects with pop culture and politics. Focusing on medieval Hispanic epic themes, it examines whether and how bands address the sexist, racist, nationalist and exclusionary undertones tied to medievalizing epicism and what this means for the broader metal scene.
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Meet Julieanna Preston 👋
Co-editor of Performing Punctuation, a book that invites readers and performers to reimagine and transform the rules that shape language and identity.
Julieanna Preston shares the reads, writers and ideas that continue to influence her – from All About Love to reflections on women’s history.💙
Listen to Peter Alilunas talk about The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media.
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@peteralilunas@darshanasreedhar@uchicagopress
Read an interview with Julieanna Preston and Anna Brown, editors of Performing Punctuation
This book invites readers and performers to reimagine and transform the rules that shape language and identity. It challenges the colonial legacy embedded in the English language’s use of punctuation.
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Robert Bowen and Tom Huhn discuss Bowen’s new book, which offers a radical departure from standard histories of photography and cinema.
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@brooklynrail@uchicagopress
Laura Bissell discusses her new book, Matrescence and Performance: Becoming/Unbecoming, exploring how performance can challenge and expand traditional ideas of motherhood.
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@laura_bissell_@uchicagopress
From Broadway to the Bronx edited by Veronika Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier is out now in paperback!
From Broadway to the Bronx tells the history of New York City in song from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, covering everything from early twentieth century sheet music to Broadway’s musical theatre, hip hop, disco and punk, examined from a variety of academic perspectives.
It features analysis of the work of artists with intimate connections to the city like Lou Reed, Lin-Manuel Miranda, or the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as an exclusive interview with RENT original cast member, Anthony Rapp.
So, let’s take a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line with Billy Joel … and take a trip into the musical history of New York.
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@drmittermeier@uchicagopress
Meet Anna Brown ✨
Co-editor of Performing Punctuation, a book that invites readers and performers to reimagine and transform the rules that shape language and identity.
📖 Shaped by The Bone People
🎶 Writes to Johann Sebastian Bach
💬 Inspired by Jacinda Ardern
Because how we punctuate can be just as powerful as what we say.
Listen to Darshana Sreedhar Mini talk about some of the reasons for the The Intellect Handbook of Adult Film and Media.
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@peteralilunas@darshanasreedhar@uchicagopress
Intellect is pleased to present International Journal of Disney Studies 2.1!
The International Journal of Disney Studies examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This international, peer-reviewed journal draws from a variety of academic and industrial lenses, perspectives, methods and fields, while providing a space for scholars to present new research, review current research and comment on wider Disney commodities.
Including ‘Victims or aggressors? The depiction of violence against and by women in Disney contemporary films’ by Dalila Forni and ‘Wild frontier fantasylands: Disney’s recreations of Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill and American expansionism’ by Victoria Pettersen Lantz.
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