Category Archives: author commentary

March 29, 2013

Q&A with Rob White, author of Contemporary Film Directors book Todd Haynes

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The Contemporary Film Directors series presents engagingly written commentaries on the work of living directors from around the world. Todd Haynes author Rob White was Commissioning Editor of Books at the British Film Institute, 1995–2005, and Editor of Film Quarterly, … Continue reading →

March 5, 2013

Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole

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Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. Q: What is the Wheeler-Lea Amendment that was … Continue reading →

February 27, 2013

Q & A with author L. Andrew Cooper on horror film director Dario Argento

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L. Andrew Cooper is an assistant professor of film and digital media at the University of Louisville and the author of the new book in the University of Illinois Press Contemporary Film Directors Series, Dario Argento. Q: How does Dario … Continue reading →

February 21, 2013

Q & A with One Woman in a Hundred author Mary Sue Welsh

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Mary Sue Welsh is a former executive director of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, where she worked with its chair Edna Phillips.  She answered our questions about her new University of Illinois Press book One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips … Continue reading →

February 20, 2013

Q&A with Lisa Phillips, author of A Renegade Union

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Lisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.  She answered our questions about her new book A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. Q: What is the “renegade union” of the book’s title? Phillips: Local then … Continue reading →

February 15, 2013

Jad Smith Q&A on SciFi author John Brunner

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Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934–1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. Jad Smith, an associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, has written a book on … Continue reading →

February 7, 2013

Albert Figone discusses gambling and game fixing in college sports

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Albert J. Figone is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and a former head baseball and assistant football coach at Humboldt State University.  He answered our questions about his new book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in … Continue reading →

February 4, 2013

Q&A with Organized Crime in Chicago author Robert M. Lombardo

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Robert M. Lombardo is an associate professor of criminal justice at Loyola University Chicago and a former Chicago Police officer. He answered our questions about his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia. Q: What is your definition … Continue reading →

January 4, 2013

Robert Lombardo discusses organized Crime in Chicago on PBS

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Robert Lombardo discusses his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.

December 13, 2012

Beethoven’s Creativity

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Was Beethoven the creator of masterpieces defined by a strict text or musical blueprint? New research into his creativity shows that Beethoven explored a range of artistic options, and as a tireless improviser he was hardly ever completely satisfied by … Continue reading →