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Lever Press is a collaborative #openaccess scholarly publisher driven by the values, ambitions, and imagination of the top liberal arts colleges. leverpress.org

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sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · last mo.

Have you ever wanted to write about *every* *single* *minute* of a film? Well our incredible film|minutes series at @leverpress.bsky.social lets you do just that. The first three volumes in the series are beautiful, brilliant examples of how to do this kind of hyper-close reading:

Cover of Shane Denson's "Bride of Frankenstein"Cover of Jiri Anger's "Daleka cesta"Cover of Dan Hassler-Forest's "Texas Chain Saw Massacre"
sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm not sure if I've said this here before, but starting later this year @leverpress.bsky.social has will be publishing the edited collections that spin out of the Domitor conferences on early cinema. Here's a look at the cover of the first volume we're doing on copyright and early cinema:

Cover of "Copy/Rights and Early Cinema," a yellow cover with a black-and-white photo of some early film folks being silly.
Jan Süselbeck@jansueselbeck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We analyze this old strategy in our forthcoming volume “Fascist Fantasies?”, edited by @tobiashof.bsky.social and me for @leverpress.bsky.social: To gain cultural hegemony, the far right has used to spark such debates about blockbuster films like #StarWars. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is Elon Musk so threatened by the casting of The Odyssey? | Arwa Mahdawi

The world’s richest man can’t stop posting about how Lupita Nyong’o was chosen to play an imaginary woman

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sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're also interested in films from global Asian diasporas. And I, for one, would love to see some proposals on Asian American cinema. Would gladly see someone pitch, say, Crazy Rich Asians or Eat a Bowl of Tea or The Oath of the Sword or The Curse of Quon Gwon. My inbox is always open!

sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're publishing the first book in our groundbreaking CINEMAS OF ASIA series this fall. Books in this series offer a sustained study of a single film, like BFI's Film Classics. The first book, by series co-editor Andy Jackson, looks at Lee Kwang-mo’s 1998 film Spring in My Hometown (아름다운 시절).

Cover of Andrew David Jackson's book "Spring in My Hometown" about the film of the same name, with the Korean title beneath the English title, and an image from the film (a woman and a child) in a circle on the cover.
sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We acquire broadly in the humanities and social sciences, but especially in history, literary studies, film and media studies, popular culture studies, women's and gender studies, Asian studies, African studies, pedagogy and education studies, and musicology. And b/c it's me: sff studies.