Now available from Indiana University Press: The B Word Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television Maria San Filippo "In The B Word . . . Maria San Filippo turns her razor-sharp intellect on the representation of bisexuality in modern media, where it still remains somewhat unspoken, often overshadowed by the hard-won visibility of gays and lesbians. Placing bisexual desire center stage, San Filippo¹s book is a much-needed addition to the field of queer media studies." ‹Next Magazine Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen culture, establishing its importance in representation, marketing, and spectatorship. By examining a variety of media genres including art cinema, sexploitation cinema and vampire films, "bromances," and series television, San Filippo discovers "missed moments" where bisexual readings of these texts reveal a more malleable notion of subjectivity and eroticism. San Filippo's work moves beyond the subject of heteronormativity and responds to "compulsory monosexuality," where it's not necessarily a couple's gender that is at issue, but rather that an individual chooses one or the other. The B Word transcends dominant relational formation (gay, straight, or otherwise) and brings a discursive voice to the field of queer and film studies. 294 pp., 26 b&w screen grabs cloth 978-0-253-00879-4 $75.00 paper 978-0-253-00885-5 $25.00 ebook 978-0-253-00892-3 $21.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806905 -------------- Trash African Cinema from Below Kenneth W. Harrow "Reading these films in this manner becomes a metaphor of how one must understand African nations in a global context . . . . highly original and deeply historicized." ‹Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have depicted the globalized world. Rather than focusing on topics such as national liberation and postcolonialism, he employs the disruptive notion of trash to propose a destabilizing aesthetics of African cinema. Harrow argues that the spread of commodity capitalism has bred a culture of materiality and waste that now pervades African film. He posits that a view from below permits a way to understand the tropes of trash present in African cinematic imagery. 344 pp., 44 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00744-5 $85.00 paper 978-0-253-00751-3 $30.00 ebook 978-0-253-00757-5 $25.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806653 -------------- Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations Joshua Malitsky "A splendid and highly readable book which imbues a suggestive comparison of cinema in the early years of the Soviet and Cuban revolutions with fresh insights." ‹Michael Chanan, author of Cuban Cinema In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a liberated people. Joshua Malitsky examines nonfiction film and nation building to better understand documentary film as a tool used by the state to create powerful historical and political narratives. Drawing on newsreels and documentaries produced in the aftermath of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Cuban revolution of 1959, Malitsky demonstrates the ability of nonfiction film to help shape the new citizen and unify, edify, and modernize society as a whole. Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film not only presents a critical historical view of the politics, rhetoric, and aesthetics shaping post-revolution Soviet and Cuban culture but also provides a framework for understanding the larger political and cultural implications of documentary and nonfiction film. 290 pp., 19 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00764-3 $80.00 paper 978-0-253-00766-7 $28.00 ebook 978-0-253-00770-4 $23.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806662 Related Russian film/media titles: Soviet Animation and the Thaw of the 1960s http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806755 Blockbuster History in the New Russia http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806589 Laura Baich Electronic Marketing Manager Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org