Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. […]
SCMS 2024 Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. […]
Marc Yamada, author of Kore-eda Hirokazu, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I have always loved Kore-eda’s films, but it wasn’t […]
Catherine Russell, author of The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. […]
September’s free ebook is here! Check out Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan before the month is over! By subverting […]
We are happy to announce that you will see new books coming from assistant acquisitions editor Mariah Schaefer in the near future. Mariah has been working on charting the future […]
Author, Sara E. Lampert, of Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 answers questions about her purpose for writing, book influences, and discoveries about entertainers for her book. Q: […]
Author of Werner Herzog, Joshua Lund answers questions about his motivations for writing, and dispels some myths about Herzog. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? A book […]
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of […]
Paul Thomas Anderson is George Toles‘s long-awaited dive into the works of one of today’s most beguiling filmmakers. Below we offer a three-point sampler to tantalize fans of Toles’s acclaimed film […]
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 […]
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 […]