Excellent new titles out today!
-Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by Joshua Gooch
Looking at such films as Get Out, Drag Me to Hell, Candyman, Hereditary, The Babadook, and more, and what they illuminate about the cruelties of capitalist society.
"A book not just for fans of horror but for everyone interested in the ways films embed and communicate values, judgments, and affects." —Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
-The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by Jules O'Dwyer
A bold new study of French queer cinema, including the work of Jacques Nolot, Sébastien Lifshitz, Christophe Honoré, Vincent Dieutre, Alain Guiraudie, and others, that reimagines the relationship between sexuality and space.
"A pioneering book that interweaves French cinema, film theory, queer studies, and spatial thought." —Sarah Cooper
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