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December 1, 2015

$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday

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For the month of December 2015, to coincide with Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, we have lowered the e-book list price of When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male […]

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October 29, 2015 (October 29, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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You can’t spell “books” without “boo” and UIP publishes many tomes of knowledge eldritch and/or arcane. Can you use these books and journals to cast spells? To revive octopus-faced gods in […]

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August 24, 2015

Tami Williams receives UWM Research in the Humanities Award

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Tami Williams has received the 2015 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research in the Humanities Award for her book Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations. The UWM Office of Research & Graduate School, in announcing the […]

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July 30, 2015 (July 28, 2015)

Bigger than life: Sinatra’s image at 100

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Today our 1915: Whatta Year! series turns to pop culture colossus Frank Sinatra, born on December 12 of that storied year in Hoboken, New Jersey. “Ol Blue Eyes” made his name with his voice, […]

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July 28, 2015 (July 28, 2015)

U press moguls

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The third in our series of posts on how university presses and other small publishing concerns can enjoy greater financial security by creating new revenue streams. The introductory post is here. The second […]

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July 20, 2015

The power of the portrayal of the press

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Seeing, for many, is believing. Authors Matthew C. Ehrlich and Joe Saltzman have taken a look at how we see news gatherers and the news business in television, film, radio, […]

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July 8, 2015 (July 14, 2015)

Q&A with The Magic World of Orson Welles author James Naremore

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James Naremore is Chancellors’ Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He answered some questions about the new Centennial Anniversary Edition of his touchstone work The Magic World of Orson Welles. Q: […]

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June 22, 2015

Strange Natures wins ecocriticism book award

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We are pleased to announce that Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination by Nicole Seymour has received the 2015 ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award from the Association for […]

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May 8, 2015 (May 7, 2015)

Orson Welles Week: When Orson met Papa

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The recent Hollywood Issue of Vanity Fair features a long story by Josh Karp on Orson Welles’s Quixotic quest to finish The Other Side of the Wind, referred to ever after as […]

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May 7, 2015 (May 6, 2015)

Orson Welles Week: The Book(s) of Orson

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From wunderkind to auteur to pop culture curiosity, Orson Welles traveled fame’s full arc. It is a credit to his genius that, despite a marriage to Rita Heyworth and a […]

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May 6, 2015 (May 5, 2015)

Orson Welles Week: It was 100 years ago today

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orson Welles. The pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles dropped into life as the son of inventor-wagon factory owner Richard Welles […]

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May 5, 2015 (May 6, 2015)

Orson Welles Week: Bully for you, chilly for me

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Orson Welles spent his declining years as a pop culture man of all seasons. Hounded by the IRS, desperate to fund the numerous films on his artistic agenda, the director […]

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