New and Upcoming Monographs

Quick roundup of three new titles at the intersection of war and media studies:

Redrobe, Karen. 2025. Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art ofWar. University of California Press.

From University of California Press: “Undead examines the visual culture of war, broadly understood, through the lens of animation. Focusing on works in which relational, intermediate, and variably paced practices of ‘inter/in/animation’ generate aesthetic tactics for thinking about, feeling, and reframing war… Undead is an interdisciplinary feminist meditation on the complex relationship between states of war and the discourses, infrastructures, and institutions through which memory, change, and understanding are made.”

Lee, Sangjoon, Darlene Espena, eds. 2024. Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas. Amsterdam University Press.

From Amsterdam University Press: “From the popularity of CIA-sponsored espionage films in Hong Kong and South Korea to the enduring Cold War rhetoric of brotherly relations in contemporary Sino-Indian co-production, cinema has always been a focal point of the cultural Cold War in Asia. Historically, both the United States and the Soviet Union viewed cinema as a powerful weapon in the battle to win hearts and minds– not just in Europe, but also in Asia… Taken together, the volume’s fifteen chapters examine film cultures and industries in Asia to showcase the magnitude and depth of the Cold War’s impact on Asian cinemas, societies, and politics.”

Richardson, Michael. 2024. Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology After the End of the World. Duke University Press.

From Duke University Press: “In Nonhuman Witnessing Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises.”