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Introduction: Uncanny histories / Patrice Petro -- Pt. 1. The disciplinary uncanny -- Film and media in the double take of history / Priya Jaikumar -- Haunted by the body: cleanliness in colonial Manila's film culture / Jasmine Trice -- Reimagining the history of media studies through games, play and the uncanny valley / Alenda Chang -- Pt. 2. Uncanny films -- Flickering lights and mischievous stars: the uncanny feminism of my twentieth century / Hanna Goodwin -- The sublime body under the sign of developmentalism: the Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian politics and global markets / Peter J. Bloom -- Uncanny histories of transnational cinematic receptions: Eisenstein in Cuba / Masha Salazkina -- Pt. 3. Uncanny figures -- Julia García Espinosa and the fight for a critical culture in Cuba / Cristina Venegas -- The case for (re)collecting Lotte Eisner's work / Naomi DeCelles -- A widow's work: archives and the construction of Russian film history / Maria N. Corrigan -- Fiendish devices: the uncanny history of Almena Davis / Ellen C. Scott.

After Capitalism brings together leading scholars from across the academy to offer competing perspectives on capitalism's past incarnations, present conditions, and possible futures. Analyzing global trends from real estate bubbles to debt relief protests, this book also closely examines economic conditions in locales as varied as Cuba, India, and Latvia. Collectively, these essays raise provocative questions about how we should imagine capitalism in the twenty-first century

After Capitalism brings together leading scholars from across the academy to offer competing perspectives on capitalism's past incarnations, present conditions, and possible futures. Some contributors reassess classic theorizations of captialism in light of recent trends, incluidng real estate bubbles, debt relief protests, and the rise of a global creditocracy. Others examine Marx's writings, unemployment, hoarding, "capitalist realism," and coyote (trickster) capitalism. Media and design trends locate the key ideologies of the current economic moment, with authors considering everything from the austerity aesthetics of reality TV to the seductive smoothness of liquid crystal. Even as it draws momentous conclusions about global economic phenomena, it also pays close attention to locales as varied as Cuba, India, and Latvia, examing the very different ways that economic conditions have affected the relationship bewteen the state and its citizens. Collectively, these essays raise provocative questions about how we should imagine capitalism in the twenty-first century. -- Provided by publisher

Moving beyond the "main dishes" of traditional literary works, Side Dishes offers a provocative and delicious new understanding of Latin American women's authorship and activism. The book illuminates a wealth of creative and intellectual work by Latin American women--editors, directors, cartoonists, academics, performance artists, and comedians--and explores them in light of their treatment of women's sexuality. Side Dishes considers feminist pornography and literary representations of masturbation, bisexuality, lesbianism, and sexual fantasies; the treatment of lust in stand-up comedy and science fiction; critical issues in leading feminist journals; and portrayals of sexuality in four contemporary Latin American films. Melissa A. Fitch concludes with a look at the rise of women's and gender studies programs in Latin America.

Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture, including film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web.

Introduction / Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin -- Future-war storytelling : national security and popular film / Doug Davis -- Visions of security : impermeable borders, impassable walls, impossible home/lands? / Mary N. Layoun -- The origins of the danger market / Marcus Bullock -- Cold War redux / Robert Ricigliano and Mike Allen -- Popular culture and narratives of insecurity / Andrew Martin -- Fearful thoughts : U.S. television post 9/11 and the wars in Iraq / Patricia Mellencamp -- Planet patrol : satellite imaging, acts of knowledge, and global security / Lisa Parks -- Intermedia and the War on Terror / James Castonguay -- Remapping the visual war on terrorism : "U.S. internationalism" and transnational citizenship / Wendy Kozol and Rebecca DeCola -- Picturing torture : Gulf wars past and present / Tony Grajeda

Beyond Globalization highlights how mediated practices have become integral to global culture; how social practices have emerged out of computer-related industries; how contemporary apocalyptic narratives reflect the anxieties of a U.S. culture facing global challenges; and how design, play, and technology help us understand the histories and ideals behind the digital architectures that mediate our everyday actions. This provocative volume brings together the best new work of scholars within such diverse fields as history, sociology, anthropology, film, media studies, and art

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction / Petro, Patrice / Ferguson, Kennan -- Part I: Financialization, Creditocracy, Austerity -- 1. Capital, aft er Capitalism / Mann, Geoff -- 2. Restoration of the Rentier and the Turn to Lifelong Extraction / Ross, Andrew -- 3. The Subprime Subject of Ideology / Ascher, Ivan -- 4. Social Democracy and Its Discontents: The Rise of Austerity / Sommers, Jeffrey -- Part II: Media/Art -- 5. Austerity Media / Petro, Patrice -- 6. Imagining Beyond Capital: Representation and Reality in Science Fiction Film / Vint, Sherryl -- 7 Mistaken Places: Unemployment, Avant-Gardism, and the Auto-da-Fé / Bullock, Marcus -- 8. Liquid, Crystal, Vaporous: Th e Natural States of Capitalism / Leslie, Esther -- Part III: Belonging -- 9. Cuban Filmmaking and the Postcapitalist Transition / Venegas, Cristina -- 10. "Neither Eastern nor Western": Economic and Cultural Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran / Akhavan, Niki -- 11. Differentiating Citizenship / Aneesh, A. -- 12. Gaming the System: Imperial Discomfort and the Emergence of Coyote Capitalism / Perley, Bernard C. -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crypto Regs — Fear, Greed, and the Destruction of the Digital Commons -- What We Should Do and What We Should Forget in Media Studies — Or, My TV A–Z -- Hybridity -- @henryparkesmotel.com -- Is Television a Global Medium? — A Historical View -- The Land Grab for Bandwidth — Digital Conversion in an Era of Consolidation -- Posthuman Law — Information Policy and the Machinic World -- Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry -- Unsuitable Coverage — The Media, the Veil, and Regimes of Representation -- Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence — The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images -- The African Diaspora Speaks in Digital Tongues -- Some Versions of Difference — Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics -- Alternate Arrangement for Global Currents -- Notes on contributors -- Index