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(Routledge, 2025).

According to the publisher, “This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.

(Del Rey Publishing, 2025).

The New York Times bestselling fantasy author returns to the world of Shannara, delving deep into the origin story of the Elven leader Galaphile Joss.

(Lexington Books, 2024).

The volume, co-edited with Marzia Caporale and Habib Zanzana from the University of Scranton, is the first to investigate post-2000 French banlieue (periurban) cinema through an intersectional lens. Some interpretive axes and areas of critical investigation include toxic masculinity, hypermasculinity, female identity at the intersection of gender, age, race, and socioeconomic status, queer identities and spaces, sexual politics, patriarchal dominance, and artistic expression as a form of resistance.

Sticking Place Books, 2024).

            MacDonald is the author of five volumes of A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers and more than two dozen other books. Named an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences in 2011, he says about this work:

“The goal of virtually all my writing has been to bring attention to cinematic (and, early on, literary) accomplishments that have not received the careful attention, or the audiences, they deserve. I’m hoping that this new collection might create awareness of cultural achievements that have remained underserved or are in danger of fading from cultural memory. Collecting essays for Publication as Autobiography, which is organized chronologically, has allowed me to consider how successive decades have transformed my writing and how recent developments are transforming the field of cinema and media studies.

(Polyverse Publishing, 2024).

A retired professor, Sangster is a self-described news junkie and fan of crime novels and Law and Order on TV. So it wasn’t a stretch for him to write a novel about a college professor who gets wrapped up in the legal system.

Oscar-winning documentarians, filmmakers, a cine-historian and video-essayist, the list goes on. Throughout this volume, which completes MacDonald’s “avant-doc trilogy,” readers will find interviews and essays that “model a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, prioritizing remarkable cinematic accomplishments that can get lost within our overwhelming modern mediascape.”

Winner of the 2023 Bunny chapbook contest, Naughton’s slim book of poetry describes debt as something intensely private, yet significantly interconnected with global systems of power.

Through a series of compelling conversations with Lassoe, a psychotherapist, a woman named Diane shares the story of how she overcame significant hardships and abuse with unwavering resilience. Her intimate memories as a white woman who spends most of her life in an African American community also offer a fascinating perspective on race relations.

By trade, Worden is a lawyer who focuses on helping people and corporations reach fair settlements in high-stakes lawsuits. In this book he shares several surprising stories about individuals and events that led to the three pivotal American wars.

This collection features 12 stories (11 of which have been previously published in literary magazines) set in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. Also included is the first chapter of one of two novels the author has written in the last six years.