Welcome to the University of Illinois Press’s virtual exhibit for the 2022 Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference! We hope you’ll step inside our virtual booth and browse […]
SCMS 2022 Virtual Exhibit
Category: media studies
Pioneering Women in Cinema and Theater Reading List
From the beginnings of silent films to the talkies we have now, women have played a pivotal role in the development of film whether it be behind the scenes or […]
SCMS Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press’s virtual exhibit for the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference! We hope you’ll step inside our virtual booth and browse new […]
Blackness in the Media: New and Essential Titles for Your Reading List
While by no means exhaustive, this list covers new and essential titles on historic and contemporary representations of Blackness in the media. From depictions of horror and violence against African […]
Q&A with Jasmine Mitchell, Author of Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media
Jasmine Mitchell answers some questions about her new book, Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? “You look exotic, […]
Karen E. Whedbee on “Reverend Billy Goes to Main Street: Free Speech, Trespassing, and Activist Documentary Film”
Karen E. Whedbee is an associate professor in the media studies program in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. She has published widely on topics related to free […]
Call for Book Proposals: Studies in Sports Media, Edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan
If sport provides a powerful lens through which social norms are produced, reproduced, and challenged, sports media compose key mechanisms through which these meanings are built and communicated. As studies […]
Q&A with Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black, authors of Mascot Nation
Andrew C. Billings is a professor and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He is the coauthor of Olympic Television: […]
Come See Us at #AEJMC18!
Beginning Monday, August 6, 2018, visit Senior Acquisitions Editor Daniel Nasset in the exhibit hall at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2018 Conference. Get University of Illinois […]
An Extraordinary Volume on Women in the Digital Arts
This summer, the University of Illinois Press is publishing an extraordinary volume chronicling the work of women in the digital arts in the Midwest. Through profiles and oral histories of nearly […]
#PressforProgress Reading List: Key Books on Women in Media
In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender […]
4 Things You Need to Know at #SCMS18
Headed to SCMS in Toronto this week? So are we! Here’s what you need to know: 1. We’re giving away 50 copies of Pink-Slipped: What Happened To Women In The Silent Film […]