Zélie Asava. Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (New York Bloomsbury, 2017). 216 pp., ISBN: 1501312456 (paperback: $35.96) Reviewed by Tru Leverette On the cusp of the twenty-first century, Danzy Senna
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Before and After Ghostcatching
Animation, Primitivism, and the Choreography of Vitality
Heather Warren-Crow
arts, which embraced primitivism in an attempt to “exorcize the interiorized structures separating [European artists] from the authenticity of their own childhoods and of the childhood of their ‘race’” ( Leighten 2013: 60 ). 4 Primitivism in animation
The Self On-Screen
Pavel Pyś Reflects on The Body Electric
Pavel Pyś
shared engagement with the body and its mediated image, raising important questions about representation, especially in terms of identity, embodiment, race, gender, sexuality, class, and belonging. Like Alice disappearing through the mirror, these artists
Reimagining Frankenstein
Otherness, Responsibility, and Visions of Future Technologies in Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad and Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein
Amal Al Shamsi
as related to gender and race, responsibility, as well as the future of humanity and literature. By analyzing their revisiting of the classic text, this article argues that in reviving a familiar story and embedding it with grimly accepted social
Elizabeth Jochum, Graeme Stout, and Brian Bergen-Aurand
Jennifer Rhee, The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018). 240 pp., ISBN: 978151790298 (paperback, $27)
Soraya Murray, On Video Games: The Politics of Race, Gender and Space (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018). xv + 315pp., ISBN: 9781786732507 (PDF eBook, $82.50)
Ari Larissa Heinrich, Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). 264 pp., ISBN: 9780822370536 (paperback, $25.95)
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Screening Transgression
Andrew J. Ball
impact of popular visual representations of Shelley's novel on contemporary works by Ahmed Saadawi and Jeanette Winterson, which emphasize concerns of otherness as related to gender and race, as well as anxieties about how the body is altered by
Jess Dorrance
W. E. B. Du Bois's album Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A. as shown in Shawn Michelle Smith's book Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture (2004). Image courtesy of the artists. The third
Andrew J. Ball
and sexuality studies, and in critical race and ethnic studies. These many disciplinary and topical elements are elegantly assembled in this issue's special section entitled “Queer Sinofuturisms.” We are particularly excited to contribute to the
Redefining Representation
Black Trans and Queer Women’s Digital Media Production
Moya Bailey
health and social needs are addressed—unlike with other types of difference, such as race—the use of such hashtags as #girlslikeus allows for a network where this information can be dispensed, even with anonymity. In addition, transitioning “vlogs” or
Peter Lurie, Antonio Sanna, Hansen Hsu, Ella Houston, and Kristof van Baarle
Alice Maurice, The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 288 pp. + 30 b&w photos. ISBN 978-0-8166-7805-1 (paperback, $25), 978-0-8166-7804-1 (hardback, $75). Reviewed