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Hyperbole
Books
"Buy
the Hype!"
An imprint of San
Diego State University Press
Launched January 1, 2021
Cultural Studies in
the Digital Age
An Anthology of
Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Postulations, and
Findings
Advance word on CULTURAL STUDIES IN
THE DIGITAL AGE:
Cultural Studies in the
Digital Age is a remarkable collection that
defines the
cutting edge of Cultural Studies. With essays that
range from
photography to emotion, from digitality to
architecture, it should be
required reading for all students of culture…Cultural
Studies in the Digital Age contains great
work, and it suggests great work lies ahead."
Michael
P. Ryan
Professor Emeritus
Temple University
Author of Literary Theory:
An Anthology
 hat
is Cultural Studies!? Oh, we know all about Stuart
Hall and his
landmark work and we are hip to the tune of Marshall
Blonsky, Marshall
McLuhan, Susan Sontag, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and
John Berger. But what
will Cultural Studies look like after AI, after
COVID, after the next
new wave of next-generation developments in computer
science. One might
think: “The algorithms will write future essays.”
But that means tenure
for algorithms? Surely not! In this collection you
will find essays on
Disney, video games, fashion photography, and
more—the traditional
fodder of cultural studies; but you will also find
deep meditations on
memes, Instagram, social media, the border, Mexico,
and more. Sit back
and get ready to read some of the more provocative
musings on both
sides of the Atlantic by up-and-coming stars of
Ethnic Studies,
Literature, Linguistics, and more. Contributors
include: Frederick
Aldama, Brian Frastaci, Federico Tarquini, Antonio
Rafele, Tito Vagni,
Gwendolyn Kurtz, Kristal Bivona, Luca Acquarelli,
William Nericcio,
Katie Waltman, Massimo Cerulo, Lorenzo Bruni,
Alberto Abruzzese,
Jennifer Carter, Ralph Clare, Nello Barile, Katlin
Marisol Sweeney,
Bonnie Opliger, Matteo Treleani, Vanni Codeluppi,
Guerino Bovalino,
Agnese Pastorino, Carlos Kelly, and Antonio Rafele.


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Watch
Here For Ordering Info January 1, 2021
Now
Available! Our Latest Title by
Mexican Cultural Critic, Naief Yehya
'Is our future a thing of
the past?' asks a character in Sleep Dealer, Alex
Rivera’s sci-fi premonition of
neuro-jacked Mexicans who toil in
maquiladoras of the mind. In Drone
Visions, the Mexican film critic Naief
Yehya excavates the nightmare logic of
our times in the trash-heaps of
Hollywood’s tomorrows. Reading between
the frames of canonical cyberpunk texts
like Blade Runner, Alien, and The
Terminator; “video-game” footage of
smart-bomb strikes in the Gulf War; and
documentary interviews with cubicle
warriors who call their long-distance
kills 'bugsplats,' Yehya tracks the
predatory technologies
that have stalked us in our dreams ever
since Frankenstein."
Mark
Dery |
cultural critic


Now Available!

Proust in
Black
Los Angeles: A
Proustian Fiction
by Fanny Daubigny
Translated from
the original French by Bruce Whitehead
Amatl Comix!
A new Hyperbole Books/
SDSU Press imprint!!!

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Painting for More
Than Money, by Claudia
Dominguez
Latest
Hyperbole Books Title!
  
Latinx Comic Book
Storytelling:
An Odyssey by Interview
edited by Frederick Luis
Aldama
Prologue by Ricardo Padilla
Foreword by Héctor Fernández
L’Hoeste
Afterword by Christopher
González
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Hyperbole
Books, an imprint
of SDSU Press; 1st edition
(2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1938537920
ISBN-13: 978-1938537929
retail: $24.95

Buy it NOW at the
SDSU Press Amazon Outlet Mall
This outstanding new
collection edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
represents the cutting edge in Latinx graphic
literature! A must have for researchers in Comics,
Sequential Art Studies, Visual Studies, American
Literature, Latinx Studies!
Includes interviews
with and full color art by Lalo Alcaraz, José
Cabrera, Jaime Crespo, Frank Espinosa, Eric Garcia,
Jason González, John González, Raúl Gonzalez the
Third, Jaime Hernandez, Javier Hernandez, Andrew
Huerta, Alberto Ledesma, Liz Mayorga, Rhode Montijo,
Alex Olivas, Daniel Parada, Jimmy Portillo, Jules
Rivera, Cristy C. Road, Fernando Rodriguez, Grasiela
Rodriguez, Hector Rodriguez, Jason Rodriguez,
Octavio Rodriguez, Rafael Rosado, Carlos Saldaña,
Wilfred Santiago, Serenity Sersecion, Sam Teer, and
Lila Quintero Weaver.

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Now Available in General Release!
Laughing Matters:
Conversations on Humor
by Frederick Aldama and Ilan Stavans
On SALE
now!

Other Hyperbole Books titles...
Representations
of Fashion
The Metropolis and Mediological Reflection
Between the 19nth and 20th Century
by Antonio Rafele

Our catalogue of exotic theory also
includes the following distinct titles:
Secession
by AMY SARA CARROLL

Learning for Revolution
The Work of
Kathy Acker
by SPENCER DEW

The Hurt
Business
Oliver Mayer's Early Works +
edited by William A. Nericcio

and
more...
  
Hyperbole Books, Our Backstory
Buy the Hype |
Christened
in 2004 as an imprint of San Diego State
University Press, Hyperbole Books is dedicated
to publishing cutting-edge, over-the-top
experiments in critical theory, literary
criticism and graphic narrative. Imagine some odd, bastard child of
SEMIOTEXT[e],
Taschen, and
Fantagraphics
Books raised in the dumpster behind
Powells, and you'll
begin to feel the vibe that defines
Hyperbole Books. Remember, "Buy the
Hype."
HYPERBOLE
Books maintains the "scholarly" editorial
quality associated with major U.S.
University Presses, while advocating as
well, a brasher, harsher, more strident
editorial policy: think of a rant with
footnotes; a harangue with a bibliography;
a scream with an index. Hyperbole Books
volumes will be available in print in
special trade paperback editions.
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Handcarved Graphics genius, Michael
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Bill
Nericcio, Editor
HYPERBOLE
BOOKS
An
imprint of San Diego State University
Press
619.594.1524 |
bnericci@mail.sdsu.edu


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