In January, an international group of mathematicians started a boycott against Dutch publishing behemoth Elsevier over high journal subscription prices as well as policies preventing free access to research. Since […]
The current debate over the mandate for employers to cover contraception in health insurance plans harks back to earlier confrontations between the Catholic Church and family planning advocates. From the early […]
Mary Wiles, a lecturer in cinema studies at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, is the author of Jacques Rivette, the latest volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. […]
The February 18, 2012, issue of the The Wall Street Journal features a review of John Caps’s new book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “As a composer of scores for television and […]
Finished copies of Aniko Bodroghkozy’s book Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement just arrived from the printer and will be officially published on March 12, 2012. Equal Time […]
Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th […]
The Christian Science Monitor appraises Woody Guthrie’s place in American culture. “Guthrie derived his songs from the downtrodden lives of those he encountered on road journeys during the nation’s roughest […]
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has honored former University of Illinois Press Executive Editor Judy McCulloh with the 2011 Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings. From the ARSC site: After […]
June 1, 2012, is the next application deadline for the NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. From the NWSA press release: The National Women’s Studies Association and the University […]
In December 2011 the University of Illinois Press published Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship by Yvonne Daniel, professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College. Here Professor […]
Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field, has released its list of nominees for the 42nd annual Locus Awards. Jonathan Eller’s critically acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury has […]
Following Scripting Hitchcock‘s nomination for an Edgar Award, authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick discuss their interest in Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, and reveal their favorite Hitchcock films. Q: Scripting Hitchcock focuses on […]