Collection: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Book Deal
Keep scrolling to browse a selection of books from our 2026 Society for Cinema and Media Studies display for our distributed publishers. Enter code SCMS2026 for a 40% discount on all books on this page!
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List of participating publishers
| Arsenal Pulp Press | Haymarket Books |
| AUC Press | Manchester University Press |
| Church Publishing Incorporated | Stanford University Press |
| Fordham University Press | Theatre Communications Group |
Discount code is valid until May 29, 2026 11:59PM CDT.
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The whale / a bright new boise
Two plays by one of America’s brightest young playwrights.
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Scared by the bible
“…Grafius’s unflinching examination of biblical horror forces readers to reckon with the uncanny and unknowable.” –Los Angeles Review of Books “The result is a wide-ranging exploration of the Bible’s strangest, scariest corners.” –Publishers Weekly“Grafius uses his extensive knowledge of horror f...
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The new lives of images
In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. Drawing upon an immense range of materials, Ivakhiv reassesses the place of imagination in cultural life, analyzing how people have interacted wi...
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Fences
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A landmark play about Troy Maxson, once a baseball star in the Negro Leagues, now fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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Work, ideology, and film under socialism in romania
Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania examines the cinematic architecture of work imaginary as developed through films produced between 1960 and 1989. This book provides rich insight into the intimate configuration of cinematic thinking of work and displays of this form of social ...
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Wendy toye
This book delves into the groundbreaking career of Wendy Toye, a trailblazing director, choreographer and creative force in British cinema and television. Through an in-depth exploration of her works, it examines her impact on post-war filmmaking, her virtuosity of movement and storytelling, and ...
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Vantage points
A provocative book by an acclaimed writer-filmmaker that combines memoir and media as seen through a trans lens Following the death of the family patriarch, a box of newly procured family documents reveals writer-filmmaker Chase Joynt's previously unknown connection to Canadian media maverick Mar...
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Unseparate
Art historian and critic Steven Henry Madoff offers a contemporary reframing of modernist art and the way it presages installation and performance art For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation—of an alienated world in pieces....
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Transmedial resonance
Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern writer In Transmedial Resonance, Robert A. Rushing addresses the remarkable and ongoing responses to the imagination of Italo Calvino, Italy’s most important modern writer. Since ...
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Thinking through data
We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today: in the predictive algorithms of the financial sector, in drones, insurance, and risk management, in smart cities, biometrics, medicine, and more. This fascinating book explores the historical contex...
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The prop
A fresh look at film through its invisible visible objects.
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The films of bigas luna
The first comprehensive English-language study of Bigas Luna's complete filmography, this book explores genre, gender representation, Iberian and Mediterranean identities, and meta-cinematic narratives. It can be read as a cohesive study of his oeuvre or as a reference for specific films.
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The extended universe
A provocative history of Disney’s rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies. In The Extended Universe, Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disney’s “imagineers” have mad...
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The economy of anonymity
We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wish to hide, experiment, and deceive. But we are anonymous in more contexts than the digital. ...
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The comedy of computation
In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in the 1950s to popular films like You've Got Mail a...
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The cinema of cecilia bartolomé
Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women’s cinema. This book places Bartolomé among other key auteurs of national Spanish, an...
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The arab national project in youssef chahine’s cinema
A rigorous examination of the work of Egypt’s best-known filmmaker, new in paperbackThis book presents a comprehensive study of the work of Youssef Chahine. Its methodological approach, and more precisely, the discussion of the theme of Arab national unity from a post-colonial point of view, emph...
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Syria, revolt and war in the digital age
An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian warNever before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and image. From the start of the Syrian revolt in 2011, several million videos were posted online by demo...
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Revolution today
Susan Buck-Morss highlights new forms of international solidarity and revolutionary subjectivity that can break the impasse of neoliberal capitalism and reactionary nationalism.
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Resurgent commons
Resurgent Commons shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes of inhabiting the earth.
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Reader bot
What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology's ability to draw, do computer coding, and especially to write. Those AI-generated essays and poems, legal briefs and responses to requests ...
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Portraits of unbelonging
A profound examination of how photographs can both sever and connect, tracing the paths of Ottoman Armenians across state and family archives. In 1896 the Ottoman sultan issued a decree that allowed Armenians—and only Armenians—to emigrate on the condition that they expatriate and never return t...
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Paranoid publics
Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.
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Of floating isles
An immersive journey into the author’s lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start again Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in ...
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Negative media
In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storage and its attendant costs. The impulse to keep everything inevitably confronts material const...
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I'm sorry you feel that way
This book is about how twenty-first century capitalism is re-making the roles of customer and customer service provider, shedding light on why consumer capitalism has come to feel so punishing for so many. In call centers, banks, airports, universities, public transport systems, hospitals, and ot...
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How to read like an anti-fascist
On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianismChildren’s author Philip Pullman famously said that “There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.” While the recent rise of fascis...
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Hotels
Exploring film through its living spaces.
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Egyptian male film stars in the nasser era
An exploration of male stardom in Egyptian cinema produced during the rule of Gamal Abdel NasserFollowing the Free Officers’ coup of July 1952, the new regime under Gamal Abdel Nasser sought to construct a new Egyptian civic identity, commensurate with the officers’ nationalist, anti-imperialist,...
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Contesting inequalities
After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy—the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particularly among rural migrant workers, and oppressive labor conditions have given rise to an incre...
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Colorblind
With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of black Iranians, many have insisted that race is not an important aspect of Iranian culture, th...
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Colonial surveillance
In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki system, in 1871. A few decades later, when Japan began to extract natural resources from and ...
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Cinema before the world
Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis across languages, regions, and media.
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Blur
Technological failure or essential element of film aesthetics? From auteur cinema to horror to experimental film, Martine Beugnet shows the powerful effects blur can produce.
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August: osage county (tcg edition)
A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama from author Tracy Letts.
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Audiofuturism
A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-...
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Arts of the border
Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.
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Art in the after-culture
Essential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.
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American medium
In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection between the concept of "America" and the medium of film. Through exemplary close readings of six fundamental American films—John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Francis Ford ...
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Ai and assembly
Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life and is now seemingly everywhere. As AI creeps into every aspect of our lives, the data grab required to power AI also expands. People worldwide are tracked, analyzed, and influenced, whether on or off their screens, inside their ho...
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A new kind of public
This engaging and original work argues that modern Hollywood was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic inequality
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A movement's promise
Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local radio, television, and uncensored journalism, theater production became the leading form of artistic expression, and Palestinian theater artists self-identified as a movement. A...
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A history of fake things on the internet
A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake...
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