Asian art history in the twenty-first century; edited by Vishakha N. Desai. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2007. 253p $24.95 (Clark studies in the visual arts)
These essays, originally presented at a 2006 conference held at the Clark Institute and at New York’s Asia Society, focus on the current state of Asian art historiography and museum exhibition, while examining the achievements of Asian artists past and present.
ISBN 978-0-931102-73-8 (Clark); 978-0-300-12553-5 (Yale); LCCN 2007-31443

Beyond the soundtrack: representing music in cinema; edited by Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard Leppert. University of California Press, 2007. 324p $60.00; $24.95 (pa)
The use of music in motion pictures is the topic of these essays, including both newly-composed film scores, and adaptations of music already familiar from recordings and concerts. Of particular interest are several essays on the history of musical accompaniment in the silent film era.
ISBN 978-0-520-25069-7; 978-0-520-25070-3 (pa); LCCN 2006-25494

Carpenter, Cari M. Seeing red: anger, sentimentality, and American Indians. Ohio State University Press, 2008. 177p $39.95
The author examines the expression of anger in the works of three Native American writers: S. Alice Callahan, E. Pauline Johnson, and Sarah Winnemucca. Writing in the nineteenth century, these women presented a new kind of literary voice, articulating not only feminine expressions of anger but also legitimate grievances against the Native American policies of the federal government.
ISBN 978-0-8142-1079-6; LCCN 2007-48957

The Catholic Church and the Jewish people: recent reflections from Rome; edited by Philip A. Cunningham, Norbert J. Hofmann, Joseph Sievers. Fordham University Press, 2007. 267p $45.00
These essays by Catholic and Jewish scholars, including Vatican officials, rabbis, and diplomats, address the nature of Christian-Jewish relations in modern times, in particular since the calamitous events of World War II. A key document of Vatican II, Nostra aetate, which outlines the Church’s relationships with non-Christian religions, is an important part of the theological discussions.
ISBN 978-0-8232-2811-9; LCCN 2007-39797

DeGroot, Gerard J. The sixties unplugged: a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade. Harvard University Press, 2008. 508p $29.95
The author examines the world as it was in the 1960s (rock music, political assassinations, wars, students strikes, civil unrest, widespread drug use) in an attempt to discover the truly significant events, movements, and personalities that shaped and defined the decade.
ISBN 978-0-674-02786-2; LCCN 2007-39919

Eisenhauer, Robert. After romanticism. P. Lang, 2008. 210p $69.95 (Studies on themes and motifs in literature, v98)
The influence of European romantic ideology upon modern authors and filmmakers is the focus of this work. Among the topics discussed are: the works of Truman Capote, particularly his unfinished novel Answered prayers; the use of abusive names in the two film versions of Terence Rattigan’s play The Browning version; and, Federico Fellini’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Never bet the devil your head in the film Spirits of the dead.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0352-0; LCCN 2008-9335

Elfriede Jelinek: writing woman, nation, and identity: a critical anthology; edited by Matthias Piccolruaz Konzett and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 317p $57.50
These essays explore the literary work of Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2004.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4154-5; LCCN 2007-5481

Falling for science: objects in mind; edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle. MIT Press, 2008. 318p $24.95
The relation between physical objects, science, and the imagination of young people is the focus of these essays. The influence of commonplace items (maps, toys, foods) on the imaginative and creative development of future scientists and scholars is examined through individual case studies.
ISBN 978-0-262-20172-8; LCCN 2007-20843

From bananas to buttocks: the Latina body in popular film and culture; edited by Myra Mendible. University of Texas Press, 2007. 323p $65.00; $24.95
The image of Latina women in American popular culture is the subject of these essays. Topics include the film work of Latin and Hispanic film stars, such as Lupe Velez, Selma Hayek, and Jennifer Lopez, as well as the more dubious activities of individuals such as Lorena Bobbitt (who attained notoriety by grievously wounded her sleeping husband) and the female relatives of the young Cuban exile Elian Gonzalez.
ISBN 978-0-292-71492-2; 978-0-292-71493-9 (pa); LCCN 2007-4543

Hawthorne and Melville: writing a relationship; edited by Jana L. Argersinger and Leland S. Person. University of Georgia Press, 2008. 378p $69.95; $26.95 (pa)
The personal friendship of American novelists Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, and its influence on the literary works of both (particularly Melville) is the focus of these essays.
ISBN 978-0-8203-2751-8; 978-0-8203-3096-9 (pa); LCCN 2007-44586

Medium cool: music videos from soundies to cellphones; Roger Beebe and Jason Middleton, editors. Duke University Press, 2007. 351p $84.95; $23.95 (pa)
The visual aspects of popular music are explored in these essays, from the “soundies” (the jukeboxes that played a video image along with the song), to the creation of MTV, to the current computer and cellphone music videos.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4139-0; 978-0-8223-4162-8 (pa); LCCN 2007-9341

Meehan, Sean Ross. Mediating American autobiography: photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman. University of Missouri Press, 2008. $39.95
The invention of photography, which could capture an ephemeral moment while hinting at a substantial permanent reality, influenced the thinking of many writers in the mid-19th century, particularly in the area of autobiographical writing. The awareness of photography in the writings of four authors is examined in this work: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman.
ISBN 978-0-8262-1792-9; LCCN 2007-47083

Mining the home movie: excavations in histories and memories; edited by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann. University of California Press, 2008. 333p $60.00; $24.95
These essays examine the world of home moviemaking, and explore the historical and cultural significance of privately made amateur film. The authors have used primary research, the investigation of archival resources, and interviews with the filmmakers themselves in the preparation of this volume.
ISBN 978-0-520-23087-3; 978-0-520-24807-6 (pa); LCCN 2006-35372

Mooney, Susan. The artistic censoring of sexuality: fantasy and judgment in the twentieth-century novel. Ohio State University Press, 2008. 321p $49.95
The author examines four modern novels that challenged the prevailing obscenity laws and greatly influenced free expression in literature, both in their own time and afterwards: Ulysses by James Joyce, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Time of silence by Luis Martin-Santos, and Russian beauty by Viktor Erofeev.
ISBN 978-0-8142-1082-6; LCCN 2007-32766

Muldoon, Paul. The end of the poem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 406p $30.00; $17.00 (pa) (The Oxford lectures)
Irish poet Paul Muldoon analyzes and comments upon seventeen modern poems by various authors, including “The literary life” by Ted Hughes, “Poetry” by Marianne Moore, and “Homage to Clio” by W.H. Auden.
ISBN 978-0-374-14810-2; 978-0-374-53100-3 (pa); LCCN 2005-28125

New territories, new perspectives: the religious impact of the Louisiana Purchase; edited with an introduction by Richard J. Callahan, Jr. University o0f Missouri Press, 2008. 242p $44.95
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the size of the United States, and added an indigenous population that had long been under the influence of French and Spanish Catholic missionaries. The addition of many Native Americans and blacks to the general population increased the racial diversity of the growing nation. The religious confrontation of the Protestants of the United States with the Catholics in the newly-acquired territories and the struggle to establish a national identity in the midst of religious and racial diversity is the focus of these essays.
ISBN 978-0-8262-1784-4; LCCN 2007-52623

Queering straight teachers: discourse and identity in education; edited by Nelson M. Rodriguez & William F. Pinar. P. Lang, 2007. 328p $99.95; $34.95 (pa) (Complicated conversations, v22)
The authors of these essays explore the need for heterosexual teachers to understand and appreciate their gay counterparts, and to develop a gay sensibility so that they may communicate more fully with faculty and students in a multicultural world in which the defining of sexual identity is more complex than in the past.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0048-2; 978-0-8204-8847-9 (pa); LCCN 2006-23014

Redeeming truth: considering faith and reason; edited by Laurence Paul Hemming and Susan Frank Parsons. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 206p $30.00
This is a collection of essays by eleven scholars on the relationship between faith and reason, written with reference to Pope John Paul II’s 1998 encyclical Fides et ratio.
ISBN 978-0-268-03105-3; LCCN 2007-37683

Representing France and the French in early modern English drama; edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer. University of Delaware Press, 2008. 247p $57.50
The representation of the French people and French nation in early modern English drama is the subject of these essays. Of particular interest is the dramatic work of William Shakespeare, in whose plays (such as Love’s labour’s lost and Henry V) the French nation is prominently featured.
ISBN 978-0-87413-000-3; LCCN 2007-28311

Thelma & Louise live!: the cultural afterlife of an American film; edited by Bernie Cook. University of Texas Press, 2007. 227p $55.00; $24.95 (pa)
These essays examine the artistry and sociological aspects of the 1991 motion picture Thelma and Louise, a film in which two women choose to face death rather than prison for a murder that they felt was necessary to commit.
ISBN 978-0-292-71465-6; 978-0-292-71466-3 (pa); LCCN 2007-5589

Tobias Smollett, Scotland’s first novelist: new essays in memory of Paul-Gabriel Bouce; edited by O.M. Brack, Jr. University of Delaware Press, 2007. 320p $63.50
The fiction and historical writings of 18th century Scottish author Tobias Smollett are examined in these essays. Among the topics are: Smollett’s influence upon English gothic novelists; Smollett’s activities as a translator of the literary works of French and Spanish authors; and, Smollett’s continuation of David Hume’s monumental History of England.
ISBN 978-0-87413-988-4; LCCN 2007-5846

Twenty-first-century perspectives on nineteenth-century art: essays in honor of Gabriel P. Weisberg; edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Laurinda S. Dixon. University of Delaware Press, 2008. 287p $45.00
The authors examine the achievements of 19th century artists from the vantage point of the 21st century. Among the topics are: salon painting in the late 19th century; Goya’s painting Saturn; and, the pre-Raphaelite movement and modernism.
ISBN 978-0-87413-011-9; LCCN 2007-37437

Vargas Llosa, Mario. Wellsprings. Harvard University Press, 2008. 202p $17.95
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa discusses authors and works that have shaped his own thinking and creative work, including Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote, the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, and the political writings of Isaiah Berlin.
ISDBN 978-0-674-02836-4; LCCN 2007-38664

Violence, the arts, and Willa Cather; edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 320p $61.50 (The Willa Cather series)
The life and works of American novelist Willa Cather are explored in this collection. Among the topics are: gender roles in Cather’s depiction of pioneer women in O pioneers! and My Antonia; her investigative reporting of The Christian Science movement and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy; and, the influence of the works of Henry James upon her literary style.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4157-6; LCCN 2007-889

Wetherbee, Winthrop. The ancient flame: Dante and the poets. University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. 304p $35.00
The author examines the influence of the Roman epic poets upon the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in his writing of the Divine comedy. Among the Roman epics discussed are Virgil’s Aeneid, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Lucan’s Pharsalia, and Statius’ Thebiad.
ISBN 978-0-268-04412-1; LCCN 2008-420