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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 3h
We're thrilled to share a selection of our latest book signings! We look forward to working with these authors on their upcoming projects: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r...
News: Recent UC Press Book Signings
We're thrilled to announce a selection of our latest book signings!
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 5h
Congratulations to anthropologist and UC Press author @ievajusionyte.bsky.social on being named a 2025 #MacArthurGenius Fellow! A brilliant recognition of her vital work. www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Ieva Jusionyte
Exploring the political and moral ambiguities of border regions and historically shifting distinctions between legal and illegal practices.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 7d
UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 2d
The new October 2025 issue of "Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture," including a return of the 'Dialogues' section, is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/lalvc/issue/...
Volume 7 Issue 4 | Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture | University of California Press
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 2d
These make good weekday reads, too!
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 5d
Weekend Reads from FQ!

Showgirl - Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson

Interview with Errol Morris by Matthew Sorrento

Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael and Steven Spielberg

Plus: unlocked archives - Kael's greatest hits from FQ

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Volume 79 Issue 1 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 6d
Read about JRPC's shift in editorial direction in the new issue of the "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture" available online now. online.ucpress.edu/jrpc/issue/3...
Volume 37 Issue 2-3 | Journal of Religion and Popular Culture | University of California Press
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 6d
The essays in this new issue show us how qualitative inquiry can become a practice of creating spaces that move beyond binary thinking to cultivate solidarity across difference. online.ucpress.edu/dcqr/issue/1...
Volume 14 Issue 3 | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research | University of California Press
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 7d
For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH.

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Awards | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
Awards | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press Awards   SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize   The SCMS Gender and Feminisms ...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 7d
UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 9d
Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…
Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 9d
New from Asian Survey: "Trump 2.0 and Asia," a special issue bringing together leading scholars to analyze the impact of Donald Trump’s return on Asian countries and US-Asian relations. Articles free to read through September. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...
Trump 2.0 and Asia: An Asian Survey Special Issue
This timely collection of articles brings together leading scholars to analyze the potential impact of Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency on Asian countries.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 12d
"Journal of Popular Music Studies" co-editors @burrata.bsky.social & Alisha Lola Jones's reflect on their 1st year editing "JPMS" in the Sept issue online now. We pub JPMS in partnership with @iaspm-us.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...
Volume 37 Issue 3 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press
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Society of Architectural Historians @sah1365.bsky.social · 13d
SAH is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheila Crane as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) for the next three years. Read more: www.sah.org/about-sah/ne...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks to TIME for featuring @drsethberkley.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming book FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity (Oct), on the front cover today for his Ideas piece: time.com/7320256/vacc...
Another Pandemic Is Inevitable. Trump Is Making It More Dangerous.
Cuts to global health could trigger a pandemic worse than COVID-19.
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Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social · 14d
@ucpress.bsky.social has featured an editorial about my new book with Matt Ventresca. The piece, Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”, provides an overview of the issues we cover in Violent Impacts.

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Traumatic Brain Injury is Much Bigger than a Sports “Concussion Crisis”
Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded at...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 14d
George Gilley, the first Native Hawaiian known to lead whaling expeditions, was both a product of and participant in colonialism, as well as a decolonizing actor. PHR's biographical account is a @pcb-aha.bsky.social prize-winner. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/s...
Studying the Only Known Native Hawaiian Whaling Captain: A Q&A with Travis Hancock
Uncovering the history of Kāpena (Captain) George Gilley, the first Native Hawaiian known to lead whaling expeditions.
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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 15d
FREE RESEARCH ARTICLE! Why did writers say Lara Croft was trans? What was her actual relationship to the “male gamer”? Look out for a guest appearance by Mario, and for the author’s own trans memories from the y2k era.

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The Male Gamer and the Transness of Lara Croft
This article takes seriously two things: that Lara Croft is trans, and that I, a trans masculine games scholar and game maker, was a male gamer. Many scholars have rightly challenged the assumption th...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 15d
Check out new advance articles posted by "Music Perception." online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...
Advance Articles | Music Perception | University of California Press
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 16d
“The new Film Quarterly features a freely accessible interview with Errol Morris as well as articles on Pauline Kael and the ‘rebranding’ of Pamela Anderson,” writes David Hudson at Criterion Current!
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 19d
Chantal Ackerman @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy + MUBI + 4Columns, new Serge Daney translations @laurentktz.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, villains @thebaffler.com, MEGADOC @theguardian.com + @newyorker.com, Mira Nair @ Club Ciné …

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Pascale Salkin and Maria de Medeiros in a still from Chantal Akerman’s black-and-white I’M HUNGRY, I’M COLD (1984).
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 15d
FQ featured at 3Quarksdaily! “When Pauline Kael started writing on film in the 1950s, the study of cinema had not yet been enshrined in academia. She educated herself.” Adrian Schober on Kael in FQ's new issue (link to full article):
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Pauline Kael, Steven Spielberg, and a Romantic Film Criticism - 3 Quarks Daily
Adrian Schober at Film Quarterly:
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 18d
UC Press forthcoming author, Jacques Berlinerblau, weighs in @msnbc.com on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, and Jon Stewart's reaction. Stay tuned for more from Berlinerblau in his forthcoming book CAN WE LAUGH AT THAT?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age (March 2026): www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Jon Stewart is sticking to the script
"The Daily Show" host addressed the chilling fallout from ABC indefinitely suspending fellow comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late night show.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 20d
The new special issue 'Approaches from Latin America: Video Game Music and Sound' from the "Journal of Sound and Music in Games" (which we publish in partnership with @sssmg.bsky.social) is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/6/3
Volume 6 Issue 3 | Journal of Sound and Music in Games | University of California Press
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 20d
At the UC Press Blog, FQ editor J. M. Tyree introduces Adrian Schober’s retrospective on Pauline Kael in FQ’s latest issue!

UC Press unlocked Kael’s greatest hits for FQ, including her takedown of auteur theory.

Read “Reverse Weather Vane”:
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Reverse Weather Vane: Pauline Kael and "Film Quarterly"
Film Quarterly's editor considers the legacy of film critic Pauline Kael.
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 20d
FQ‘s new issue features free articles (link below)! 🍿
Laurie Ouellette on Pamela Anderson’s Deobjectification
Adrian Schober on Pauline Kael’s Romantic Criticism
Matthew Sorrento interviews Errol Morris
Editor J. M. Tyree on the films of the quarter
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Journal cover for Film Quarterly, Fall 2025. Image of a woman saint looking up, surrounded by glowing light (movie still from The Ten Commandments, 1925). Cover text lists the issue articles as follows: DOSSIER: CINEMA AND PLEASURE, FEATURE: PAULINE KAEL’S ROMANTIC CRITICISM, RETROSPECTIVE: JEAN-PIERRE BEKOLO’S LES ­ SAIGNANTES AT 20, REPORT: IRYNA TSILYK, INTERVIEW: ERROL MORRIS, COLUMNS: THE LAST SHOWGIRL, BABYGIRL.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 21d
We've just added new advance articles to the journal Music Perception's site. online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...
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