Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of the following film and media studies titles:

The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies
Edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe
Endnote by William Preston Robertson

"The essays are complex, evocative, approachable, and attentive to the film's ironies and nuances. There is something here for the slacker as well as the scholar, for all Lebowskis, big and small, for film specialists, 90s fanatics, scholars of American studies, and the ever-growing assemblage of Lebowski cultists worldwide." -Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University

512 pp., 44 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35380-1 $65.00
paper 978-0-253-22136-0 $24.95

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The Anthropology of News and Journalism
Global Perspectives
Edited by S. Elizabeth Bird

The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective-as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and ethnographic methods provide powerful insights for analyzing case studies from around the world. Essays by leading scholars explore communities of professional and nonprofessional journalists. They describe news-making processes ranging from the local to the global digital environment, as well as how news is disseminated and received in a variety of cultural settings.

344 pp., 1 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35369-6 $65.00
paper 978-0-253-22126-1 $24.95

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Italy in Early American Cinema
Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
Giorgio Bertellini

"Bertellini moves with ease through social history, art history, anthropology, and theories and histories of cinema. . . . His work offers an important and unique scholarly treatment . . . fascinating reading for Italians, Italian-Americans, and general readers interested in the history, culture, and ideology of immigration." -Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburgh

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Observational Cinema
Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life
Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz

"Grimshaw and Ravetz not only demonstrate felicitous linkages between visual and social anthropology, which is highly welcomed, but between anthropological gazes and artistic visions. We need more of these kinds of expanded multidisciplinary works for they break new ground and expand the space of imagination." -Paul Stoller, author of The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey

224 pp., 25 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35424-2 $65.00
paper 978-0-253-22158-2 $24.95

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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
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