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Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
Read more: Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of FranceThis interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
A History of Distributed Cognition
Distributed cognition – the idea that cognition or the mind extends across brain, body and world – is not a…
An Overview of the Media Franchise – From Jaws to the Avengers
By James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Stephen Mamber This year marks a significant turning point for a number of…
The continuing importance of Chile’s Cold War history
Earlier this year, the United States government declassified more than 40,000 documents showing the American intelligence community’s reporting on the…
Screening Youth: Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema
The initial impulse for our book, Screening Youth, originated from the observation that, while the topic of youth has informed…
Film Stardom and Film-Philosophy
By Lucy Bolton This special issue of Film-Philosophy on film stardom is designed to do two things: to demonstrate the…
Why do we call Middle Eastern dance “belly dance”?
English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…
Creative Involution – A Conversation
Professor S. E. Gontarski discusses his book Creative Involution and the series it is published in, Other Becketts, with Jacek Gutorow.
The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege
As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.
22 Things You Didn’t Know About Elizabeth Bishop
Celebrating the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Elizabeth Bishop, editor Jonathan Ellis lists 22 things you didn't know about Bishop.