Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the blockbuster, showing how it became a complex economic and cultural machine designed to advance popular support for technological advances.

In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba-one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa-tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against inter-ethnic conflict and the arrival and installation of French colonialism.

Sharon Patricia Holland thinks through the human animal divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals and spotlighting those moments when Black people ethically relate with animals.

Drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.

James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism-a centralized and hierarchical political form based in ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions-in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics.

Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, J. Kameron Carter examines the philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to theorize religion as a central feature of settler colonialism and racial capitalism.

Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.

Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.

The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals-from yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses-that played central roles in the history of British imperial control.

Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.

Provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. This title offers a collection of reanimates and expands film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously.