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Volume 78, Issue 4 of Journal of Film and Video is out now on Project MUSE! Articles in this issue discuss Chinese film ...
01/10/2025

Volume 78, Issue 4 of Journal of Film and Video is out now on Project MUSE! Articles in this issue discuss Chinese film aesthetics, film depictions of the wilderness, Nollywood's reimagining of the automobile, and Iranian surveillance cinema. Access the full issue here or read more about some of the articles below: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53467

📑 “From Self-Promotion to Demystification: Self-Reflexivity and Realism in Chinese Cinema”
✍️ by Ting Luo
🗨️ This essay offers an alternative perspective on Chinese film aesthetics by combining historical background with close readings of specific films from transformative historical periods. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939562

📑 “The Omnipresent Gaze: Exploring Surveillance in Amir Naderi's Goodbye Friend (1971)”
✍️ by Javad Nematollahi and Alireza Sayyad
🗨️ Here, the authors analyze how films such as "Taxi Driver: Oko Ashewo" and "Tokunbo" embody New Nollywood's strategy of reimagining the automobile. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939565

"These schools recognized that Notre Dame’s football success helped to integrate American Catholics into the mainstream,...
01/10/2025

"These schools recognized that Notre Dame’s football success helped to integrate American Catholics into the mainstream, and they believed that it could help strengthen their own faith communities and evangelize to non-believers."
--Hunter M. Hampton (), author of THE GRIDIRON GOSPEL: Faith & College Football in 20th-Century America (Fall 2025), writing for 's Made by History

Football can help integrate religious groups into the American mainstream and strengthen faith communities.

01/10/2025

Debbie J. Goldman will discuss her new book, DISCONNECTED: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age, with Gabriel Winant. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion at the .

01/09/2025

This special issue of American Literary Realism (Vol. 57, Iss. 2) presents new ways of thinking about climate offered by late-nineteenth-century regionalist fiction. In approaching regionalism as an archive of “cli-fi” the guest editors and contributors aim to deepen conversations about the challenges of representing and responding to the unfolding climate catastrophe happening within the fields of literature and environmental humanities. Read on Project MUSE

January 9, 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state. 🎉 Celebrate CT statehood with our blog post dedicated to Connecticu...
01/09/2025

January 9, 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state. 🎉 Celebrate CT statehood with our blog post dedicated to Connecticut and featuring free-to-read articles (This month check out “General Affections: Griffin Alexander Stedman and Romantic Friendships During the Civil War” by Stephen Arel-Klein).

Today is National Connecticut Day! To celebrate the long history of the fifth state to join the union, we’re highlighting some articles from Connecticut History Review. The following articles include [...]Read More

01/08/2025

Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 58, Iss. 3, is on Project MUSE ! Check out "Art and Life" by David Carr, "The Silent Teacher: Aesthetic Education According to Ursula K. Le Guin" by
Brad Tabas, "Unsettling Art and Its Psychological Impact" by Bjarne Sode Funch and Sabrina Hougaard, and more.

Weaving eyewitness history through US history, FORMING THE PUBLIC reveals what understanding the journalism landscape ca...
01/08/2025

Weaving eyewitness history through US history, FORMING THE PUBLIC reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us about the nature of journalism’s own interests in race, gender, and class while tracing the factors that shaped the contours of dominant American culture.

New book out now!
http://go.illinois.edu/f24durham

"Monkey on a Stick," a feature-length documentary exposé of the criminal activity that took place in the Hare Krishna mo...
01/08/2025

"Monkey on a Stick," a feature-length documentary exposé of the criminal activity that took place in the Hare Krishna movement in the West in the 1970s & ‘80s, adapted from Nori Muster's BETRAYAL OF THE SPIRIT (https://go.illinois.edu/s01muster), is now streaming.

📽️ TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieUVbplApfM

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MONKEY ON A STICK : MURDER, MADNESS AND THE HARE KRISHNASIn theaters October 18th, 2024Directed by Jason LapeyreMonkey on a Stick is a feature-length documen...

In Utah Historical Quarterly Vol. 92, Iss. 3:- Noel Carmack delves into the history of another survey, an 1868 project s...
01/08/2025

In Utah Historical Quarterly Vol. 92, Iss. 3:
- Noel Carmack delves into the history of another survey, an 1868 project sponsored by the Union Pacific Railroad to determine the feasibility of routes around, or even across, the Great Salt Lake.
- David Lunt recounts how a high-profile, international gymnastics showcase ended up in Cedar City in 1987.
- Hope Eggett and Sarah Langsdon wrap up these themes of railroads and community pride with a photo essay celebrating the centennial of Ogden's Union Station.
& more, including book reviews! cc: Utah Historical Society

Utah Historical Quarterly | 92 | 3 | July 2024

Congratulations to GerShun Avilez, author of BLACK Q***R FREEDOM (http://go.illinois.edu/f20avilez), on being appointed ...
01/08/2025

Congratulations to GerShun Avilez, author of BLACK Q***R FREEDOM (http://go.illinois.edu/f20avilez), on being appointed Dean of the at the !

Dr. Avilez's background includes teaching and academic leadership appointments with the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Yale University. His scholarship focuses on Black Diasporic literature and visual culture.

Check out Vol. 51, Iss. 2 of Journal of Sport History on Project MUSE! It’s a special issue on concussions that was gues...
01/07/2025

Check out Vol. 51, Iss. 2 of Journal of Sport History on Project MUSE! It’s a special issue on concussions that was guest edited by Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond, Stephen Townsend, and Rebecca Olive. Check out some of the articles below or access the full issue here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53464

📑 “Punch-Drunk Murderer: Boxing, Brain Trauma, and the Murder of Hilda Meek”
✍️ by Stephen Townsend
🗨️ This article examines the earliest known recorded case of sporting brain trauma being used to account for a crime: in 1935, Raymond Henry Bousquet murdered his girlfriend Hilda Meek and at trial, he claimed he was legally insane at the time due to brain trauma from boxing. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939484

📑 “A Swann's Song: The NFL's War on Violence and a Concussion Crisis Averted in the 1970s”
✍️ by Steven E. B. Lechner
🗨️ This article uses the experiences of wide receiver Lynn Swann, then a rising star with the Pittsburgh Steelers, to historicize the issue of concussions in American football. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939481

📑 “Concussions in NCAA Football: A History of Rule Changes, Public Relations, and Ongoing Research”
✍️ by Theresa Walton-Fisette
🗨️ Early critics were placated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's continual tinkering with the rules and promises to increase the game's safety, which ultimately has resulted in millions of dollars of research focused on sport-related traumatic brain injuries. This essay discusses that history. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939478

01/07/2025

It's Utah History Month! Check out a clip from the UPside podcast with Utah Historical Quarterly editor, Holly George; Assistant Editor, Mark Melville; and Utah Historical Society Public Historian, Wendy Rex-Atzet about the major events in Utah’s history that happened in the month of January.
🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://soundcloud.com/press-marketing/interview-celebrating-utah-history-month
💻Access the episode transcript here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/interview-celebrating-utah-history-month/
📑Learn more about Utah Historical Quarterly here: go.illinois.edu/UHQ

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