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1. Damien Pollard

Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film

"Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film is everything one might hope for: convincing, sophisticated, accessible, and a major contribution to the study of popular Italian cinema and film sound." - Robert A. Rushing, author of Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen"A long overdue examination of the vocal as a fundamental dimension of a popular genre, Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film demonstrates that, through their use of the voice, films can be seen to be embedded in and constitutive of specific social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Drawing on a wide range of new sources, Damien Pollard takes us closer to the one question truly worth asking about cinema: how does it speak to us? How, precisely, do films register and participate in the historical moment that produces them?" - Valentina Vitali, author of Capital and Popular Cinema: The Dollars Are Coming!"Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film is a highly original, intellectually stimulating, and enjoyable piece of scholarship. By inviting us to take a pause from received wisdom about this ever-popular group of films and listen to them carefully, Pollard compellingly uncovers yet more hidden depths within the already complex and multi-layered giallo." - Austin Fisher, author of Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema"In a series of meticulous and insightful case studies focused on key giallo classics, Pollard enables us to hear as well as see this cycle of Italian suspense-thrillers in new ways." - Leon Hunt, author of Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur

1. Jeremy Dauber

American Scary

From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the grisly, lingering films of Jordan Peele.

1. Haun Saussy

The Making of Barbarians

ENG Haun Saussy (born 1960) is University Professor at the University of Chicago, teaching in the department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and in the Committee on Social Thought. His work attempts to bring the lessons of anthropology and rhetoric to bear on several periods, languages, disciplines and cultures, establishing comparability as a path to mutual recognition beyond acknowledged differences. Among his books are The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (1994), Great Walls of Discourse (2001), Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (2010), The Ethnography of Rhythm (2016), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (2017), Are We Comparing Yet? (2019), The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature in Multilingual Asia (2022), and Ru zhi he: Su Yuanxi zixuanji 如之何：蘇源熙自選集 (Comparatively Speaking: Selected Essays, 2023). His current project is a study of the medical NGO Partners In Health, present in eleven sites across the world, focusing on the effects that access to high-quality free healthcare has on impoverished communities. RUS Хаун Саусси – профессор Чикагского университета, преподаватель кафедры языков и цивилизаций Восточной Азии. Автор книг The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (1994), Great Walls of Discourse (2001), Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (2010), The Ethnography of Rhythm (2016), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (2017), Are We Comparing Yet? (2019), The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature in Multilingual Asia (2022) и Ru zhi he: Su Yuanxi zixuanji 如之何: 蘇源熙自選集(2023).

1. Joshua Fogel

Maiden Voyage

ENG Joshua Fogel is professor emeritus in the History Department of York University in Toronto. He earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1980 and went on to teach at Harvard University (1981-1988) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (1989-2005), before moving to York in 2005. He has held a number of visiting appointments, among them the Mellon Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study (2001-2003) in Princeton, NJ. His work has mainly focused on the cultural dimension of Sino-Japanese relations. His publications include seventy-five book-length works (single-author monographs, edited works, and translations), among them: Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan, 1866-1934 (Harvard, 1984); The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 (Stanford, 1996); Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time (Harvard, 2009); Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Brill, 2013); and A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War (Assn. for Asian Studies, 2019). He was honored in 2024 with a Festschrift, The Sinosphere and Beyond: Essay in Honor of Joshua Fogel (De Gruyter). RUS Джошуа Фогель – заслуженный профессор исторического факультета Йоркского университета в Торонто. Публикации Фогеля включают более 70 книг, в том числе Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan, 1866-1934 (Harvard, 1984), The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 (Stanford, 1996), Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time (Harvard, 2009), Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake (Brill, 2013) и A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War (Assn. for Asian Studies, 2019).

1. Andrew Furman

Of Slash Pines and Manatees

Asks the reader should humans go about living in what is simultaneously one of the most overdeveloped and most naturally beautiful states in the USA?

1. William Richard Cathcart

Sizing Hints for the Practical Slasher-man