This important and timely collection examines the troubling proliferation of anti-feminist language and concepts in contemporary media culture.

Maria San Filippo explores Desiree Akhavan's debut feature, Appropriate Behavior (2014), as an instant classic of 2010's US indie filmmaking, a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration, and an unparalleled portrayal of bisexuality.

This book examines the ways in which contemporary filmmakers have appropriated and mobilized archival documents in the service of representing the historical past and reformulates "the archival" as an experience that the author calls the "archive effect".

The Art and Craft of TV Directing offers a broad and in-depth view of the craft of TV Directing in the form of detailed interviews with dozens of the industry's most accomplished episodic television directors.

This book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole, especially his career long pursuit of populism.

With a focus on socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century, this book explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities, create change, and bring forth social impact through new technologies and digital practices.

This book offers an in-depth academic discourse on the convergence of AI, digital platforms, and popular culture, in order to understand the ways in which the platform and cultural industries have reshaped and developed AI-driven algorithmic cultural production and consumption.