Forwarded by Jeremy Butler. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- PMC CALL FOR REVIEWS -- DEADLINE AUGUST 25 REPLY TO: [log in to unmask] _Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs, plays, TV Shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions, conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the September 1995 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines, which are available from the _PMC_ review editor. Reviews should be submitted by August 25. A selection will be made at that time, and authors whose reviews are published will be invited to choose two books from _PMC_'s library of recent titles. All correspondence will be answered and all submissions will be given careful consideration. A selective list of recent titles follows this announcement, but many other texts and events could be appropriate material for review in _Postmodern Culture_. Send reviews, proposals, or queries to Jim English at: [log in to unmask] IBM-compatible diskettes containing ASCII, Word, or WordPerfect files may be mailed to Jim English, 119 Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Phila PA 19104-6273. SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS Allison, Anne. _Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club_. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1994. Apter, David E., and Tony Saich. _Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Repuublic_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994. Bammer, Angelika, ed. _Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question_. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. Baudrillard, Jean. _Simulacra and Simulation_. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Michigan UP, 1995. Blanchot, Maurice. _The Work of Fire_. Trans. Charlotte Mandeli. Stanford UP, 1995. Bobrow, Daniel G., ed. _Artificial Intelligence in Perspective_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. Booker, Keith M. _Llosa Vargas Among the Postmodernists_. Gainesville, UP of Florida, 1994. Bourdieu, Pierre, et al. _Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professional Power_. Trans. Richard Teese. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. Boym, Svetlana. _Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia_. Harvard UP, 1995. Brent, Bill, ed. _The Black Book_. 1994 Edition. San Francisco: Black Book, 1993. Brewer, Maria Minich. _Claude Simon: Narrativities Without Narrative_. Nebraska UP, 1995. Brunette, Peter and David Wills, eds. _Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture_. Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994. Bryson, Norman et al. eds. _Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations_. Hanover: UP of New England, 1994. Calvet, Louis-Jean. _Roland Barthes: A Biography_. Bloomington. Indiana UP, 1995. Cancalon, Elaine D., and Antoine Spacagna, eds. _Intertextuality in Literature and Film_. Selected Papers from the 13th Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Carson, Diane, Linda Dittmar, and Janice R. Welsch, eds. _Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Chanady, Amaryll, ed. _Latin American Identity and Constructions of Difference_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Chapple, Richard L., ed. _Social and Political Change in Literature and Film_. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Childers, Joseph, and Gary Hentzi, eds. _The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism_. Columbia UP, 1995. Cixous, Helene. Manna: For the Mandelstams for the Mandelas. Trans. Catherine A. F. MacGillivray. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. Cohen, Tom. _Anti-Mimesis: From Plato to Hitchcock_. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Comnes, Gregory. _The Ethics of Indeterminacy in the Novels of William Gaddis_. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Copjec, Joan. _Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. Debord, Guy. _The Society of Spectacle_. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1994. Delany, Samuel R. _Flight from Neveryon_. Hanover and London: Wesleyan UP, 1994. Delany, Samuel R. _Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics_. Hanover and London: Wesleyan UP, 1994. De Lauretis, Teresa. _The Pracice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire_. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. _What is Philosophy?_. European Perspectives. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Derrida, Jacques. _Points...Interviews, 1974-1994_. 1992. Trans. Peggy Kamuf and others. Ed. Elisabeth Weber. Stanford UP, 1995. Doan, Laura, ed. _The Lesbian Postmodern_. Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Downing, John, Ali Mohammadi, and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, eds. _Questioning the Media: A Critical Edition_. 2nd Edition. London: Sage, 1995. Druckrey, Timothy, ed. _Iterations: The New Image_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Epstien, Jonathon, S. ed. _Adolescents and Thier Music: If It's Too Loud You're Too Old_. New York: Garland, 1994. Epstein, Mikhail. _After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture_. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1995. Erickson, Jon. _The Fate of the Object: From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign in Performance, Art, and Poetry_. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. Fornas, Johan, and Goran Bolin, eds. _Youth Culture in Late Modernity_. London: Sage, 1995. Frow, John. _Cultural Studies and Cultural Value_. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Gallop, Jane, ed. _Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation_. Bloominton: Indiana UP, 1995. Garry, Patrick. _Scrambling for Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment_. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh UP, July 1994. Godzich, Wlad. _The Culture of Literacy_. Cambridge and London: Harvard UP, 1994 Grewal, Inderpal, and Caren Kaplen, eds. _Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, eds. _Materialities of Communication_. Trans: William Wholbrey. Writing Science series. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. Haggerty, George E., and Bonnie Zimmerman, eds. _Professions of Desire_. Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature. MLA Press, 1995. Halton, Eugene. _Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for its Renewal_. Chicago UP, 1995. Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. _Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Heide, Margaret J. _Television Culture and Women's Lives: thirtysomething and the Contradictions of Gender_. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995. Hite, Shere. _Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change_. Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1994. Holzman, Steven R. _Digital Mantras: the Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Ismael, Tareq Y., and Jaczueline S. Ismael, eds. _The Gulf War and the New World Order: International Relations of the Middle East_. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Jackson, Peter, and Jan Penrose, eds. _Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Jasanoff, Sheila, ed. _Learning from Disaster: Risk Management after Bhopal_. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994. Jones, Amelia. _Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp_. Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994. Joyce, Michael. _Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy, and Poetics_. Michigan UP, 1995. Kristeva, Julia. _New Maladies of the Soul_. Trans. Ross Buberman. Columbia UP, 1995. Limon, Jose E. _Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas_. Wisconson: U of Wisconson P, 1994. Lingus, Alphonso, _Abuses_. Berkeley: U California P, September 1994. Lull, James. _Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach_. Columbia UP, 1995. Lyon, David. _The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. MacCannell, Juliet Flower and Laura Zakarin eds. _Thinking Bodies_. Irvine Studies in the Humanities series. Stanford, Stanford UP, 1994. MacDonald, Scott. _Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers. California UP, 1995. Messerli, Douglas, ed. _From the Other Side of The Century: A New American Poetry 1960-1990_. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1994. Moore, Henrietta L. _A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropolgy and Gender_. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. Nancy, Jean-Luc. _The Experience of Freedom_. Trans. Bridget McDonald. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. Oboler, Suzanne. _Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. Ossman, Susan. _Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City_. Berkeley: U of California P, November 1994. Outhwaite, William. _Habermas: A Critical Introduction_. Stanford UP, 1995. Pacteau, Francette. _The Symptom of Beauty_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994. Palumbo-Liu, David, ed. _The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. Perloff, Marjorie and Charles Junkerman, eds. _John Cage: Composed in America_. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1994. Pietropaolo, Laura, and Ada Testaferri, eds. _Feminisms in the Cinema_. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. Price, Richard, and Sally Price. _Equatoria_. New York: Routledge, 1995. Quinby, Lee. _Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Rand, Erica. _Barbie's Queer Accessories_. Duke UP, 1995. Reid, David, ed. _Sex, Death, and God in L.A._. Berkeley and London: U of California P, 1994. Reynolds, Simon, and Joy Press. _The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll_. Harvard UP, 1995. Rehg, William. _Insight and Solidarity: The Discourse Ethics of in the Work of Jurgen Habermas_. Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994. Reid, David, ed. _Sex, Death, and God in L.A._. Berkeley and London: U of California P, 1994. Richards, Barry. _Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture_. Free Association Books, 1994. Richter, David H. _Falling Into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature_. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1994. Rojek, Chris. _Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory_. London: Sage, 1995. Ronell, Avital. _Finitude's Score: Essay for the End of the Milenium_. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1994. Roth, Michael S., ed. _Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche_. Cultural Sitings series. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. Ruppert, Jeanne, ed. _Gender: Literary and Cinematic Representation_. Selected Papers from the 11th Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Sanchez, Rosaura. _Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. Scarry, Elaine. _Resisting Representation_. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. Searle, John. _The Rediscovery of the Mind_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Segal, Lynne. _Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure_. Berkeley: U of California P, December 1994. Serra, Richard. _Writings Interviews_. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1994. Serres, Michel, with Bruno Latour. _Conversations on Science, Culture and Time_. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. Serres, Michel. _The Natural Contract_. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995. Shank, Barry. _Dissonant Identities: The Rock'n'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas_. Music / Culture. Hanover and London: Wesleyan UP, 1994. Shepheard, Paul. _What is Architecture? An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines_. Cambridge: MIT, 1994. Shohat, Ella, and Robert Stam. _Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multicultualism and the Media_. New York: Routledge, 1995. Shoptaw, John. _On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry_. Harvard UP, 1995. Simons, John D., ed. _Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension_. Selected Papers from the 15th Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994. Steele, Jonathan. _Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, September 1994. Szasz, Andrew. _EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Tanaka, Yukiko. _Contemporary Portraits of Japanese Women_. Praeger, 1995. Tonglin, Lu. _Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction_. Stanford UP, 1995. Tschumi, Bernard. _Architecture and Disjunction_. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. Turner, Stephen. _The Social Theories of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions_. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1994. Ulmer, Gregory L. _Heuretics: The Logic of Invention_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. Varadharajan, Asha. _Exotic Parodies: Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. Visweswaran, Kamala. _Fictions of Feminist Ethnography_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1994. Walters, Suzanna Danuta. _Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory_. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995. Weatherill, Rob. _Cultural Collapse_. Free Association Books, 1994. Whitebook, Joel. _Perversion and Utopia: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory_. MIT P, 1995. Wiley, Norbert. _The Semiotic Self_. Chicago UP, 1995. Winant, Howard. _Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994. Wolin, Richard. _The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism_. Columbia UP, 1995. Young, Robert. _Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race_. New York: Routledge, 1995. Zavarzadeh, Mas'ud and Donald Morton. _Theory as Resistance: Politics and Culture after (Post)structuralism_. Critical ------------------END OF CALL FOR REVIEWS---------------------- ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]