Films, cinema

1. David Thomson

A Sudden Flicker of Light

The best writer on film in our time

1. Grant Bollmer
2. Katherine Guinness

The Influencer Factory

"Don't read this book if you want to learn how to become an influencer. Do read this book if you're concerned about 'the self' being reduced to a mere product circulating on an endless social media reel. As Bollmer and Guinness convincingly demonstrate, influencer culture is only about celebrity and entertainment on the surface. The real story here concerns the reorganization of capital in the 21st century, and this is a story we all need to understand as it is ultimately about how workers who once made products have become products." —Kate Eichhorn, The New School "A dazzling and organic application of cultural theory, The Influencer Factory is a lively and provocative read for anyone invested in understanding how a new, expansive, and important sector of our cultural economy works." —Michael Palm, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "At the intersection of authenticity, identity, and commerce, we find Bollmer and Guinness engaged in next-gen platform capitalism studies. The Influencer Factory nimbly combines digital media theory and political economy, with attention to the labor and infrastructure behind the corporate self." —Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College CUNY "This compelling book gives voice to the often-invisible work of influencers. From the house and car to market and warehouse, The Influencer Factory puts influencers, their work and what they reflect about contemporary media culture into context—historically, socially, and culturally." —Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University, Melbourne "I feel like this is how nineteenth century proletarians must have felt reading Marx: like it just perfectly describes every last tiny indignity of working life, even the ones you'd never fully noticed before." —Andrew Ladd, What's New "[Bollmer and Guinness] make a complex application of Marxist theory concrete as they unpack examples and offer critiques of late capitalism as evidenced in the ongoing excess and waste that mark influencer culture. Recommended."—L. McMillan, CHOICE

1. Sabina Rahman

The Outlaw Observed

This book traces how Robin Hood adaptations generate discourses of transtemporal medievalism, a co-existence of past and present in which the medieval outlaw becomes a prism through which modern surveillance cultures are refracted and interrogated.

1. Seryun Lee

Affect Theory and Translation on YouTube

Explores translation as a means of self-expression and social networking in transnational settings on YouTube.

1. Richard Jones

Sports Journalism in the UK

This book makes a critical intervention into debates about sport, journalism and the broader media industries, and reveals new insights into the working practices of sports media professionals. This book will interest sports journalism, media industry studies, media sport and sports studies.

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives.