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Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2026

March 26, 2026 / Chicago, IL

Come find us in the Ingram Academic booth at the 2026 SCMS conference!

We're joining you at the Ingram Academic tables in Chicago! Browse new and forthcoming titles in media studies on-site in the exhibit hall or below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Through May 7, 2026, use code SCMS26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of DeepAesthetics features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.
DeepAesthetics

Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning

Anna Munster

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Winner of the 2026 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, SCMS

Cover of Melodrama as Provocateur is black with three red triangles creating a geometric design. The title is written at an upwards diagonal in a cream all lowercase sans serif font.
Melodrama as Provocateur

Linda Williams

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Cover of Interface Frictions has a black background with iridescent pastel graphics and text. Four digital interface icons appear vertically: a sun symbol, a play button, a circular arrow, and an accessibility figure with outstretched arms.
Interface Frictions

How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies

Neta Alexander

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Cover of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy features a skyline with trees and the outline of a large industrial looking object against a grainy dark blue night sky. The black object has two red orbs on it evoking eyes.
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

Daisuke Miyao

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Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

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Cover of Indigenomicon features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in
Indigenomicon

American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd

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Cover of Insufferable Tools features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing.
Insufferable Tools

Feminism Against Big Tech

Sarah Sharma

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Cover of The New Politics of Online Feminism is dark purple. The title text is in a modern, geometric serif typeface in gradient shades ranging from light purple to orange. The author's name is below in green, in a smaller font.
The New Politics of Online Feminism

Akane Kanai

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Cover of Star Charting by Bess Matassa. Cover is sky blue. The main title is in the middle in the same script (a star replaces the dot in the i in "Charting") and the author's signature is at the bottom.
Star Charting

Bess Matassa

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Cover of Beneath the Skin of Sorrow features a black-and-white photograph of two smiling people overlaid on a pattern of purple, blue, and green ink blots.
Beneath the Skin of Sorrow

Improvisations on Loss

Nnenna Freelon

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Cover of Cisgender is a teal blue with navy blue loops and curls tangled across it. They have the texture of brush strokes.
Cisgender

Disorienting a Category

Perry Zurn

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Cover of Puto: Plays features white fabric with two faces sketched on it in navy blue. The two faces have their eyes closed, noses touching, and tongues entangled as they kiss open mouthed.
Puto

Plays

Ricardo A. Bracho

Book

Cover of Strange Tastes features hot pink plastic. Flames appear at the left border and in the top right corner melting the material. The title is aligned left central on the cover in a gradient of white to yellow to white mirroring the flames.
Strange Tastes

Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms

Monique Roelofs

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The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cov
Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression

Jacob Engelberg

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Unruly Comparison cover image
Unruly Comparison

Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

Alvin K. Wong

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The cover is solid orange red with a rectangular cut out centered right that displays part of a cinema section of a newspaper. The media shows photographs of films and blurbs as well as showtimes.
Curating Deviance

Programming the Queer Film Canon

Marc Francis

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My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio cover image
My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio

Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024

Nayland Blake

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The Aesthetic Character of Blackness cover image
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

Sounds Like Us

Jemma DeCristo

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Cover of Toward a Selected Writings, Volume 1 features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, wearing a dark suit and patterned shirt, with a calm expression.
Selected Writings, Volume 1

Toward a New African Art Discourse

Okwui Enwezor

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Cover of Selected Writings, Volume 2 features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, dressed in a dark suit and white shirt, with a neutral expression.
Selected Writings, Volume 2

Curating the Postcolonial Condition

Okwui Enwezor

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The Human in Bits cover image
The Human in Bits

Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions

Kris Cohen

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Cover of Breaking the World features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky.
Breaking the World

Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Justin L. Mann

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Cover of Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign features David Bowie on the left and Prince on the right. Between the two artists the title is written in a bold sans serif font in a gradient fading from orange to pink to purple.
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign

The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince

Daphne A. Brooks, editor

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The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

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The cover background is light beige and textured, featuring faint text blocks. The title is displayed in large, colorful letters with each word in a different vibrant hue.
Clowns in the Burying Ground

The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy

Christopher K. Coffman

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Cover of When Home Is a Photograph features a silver iridescent couch on a hardwood floor surrounded by a gallery wall of framed artwork and photographs on a white wall. The art is arranged by color to create a rainbow.
When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

Leigh Raiford

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Cover of Inventing Nadar features a sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script.
Inventing Nadar

A History of Photographic Firsts

Emily Doucet

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Negative Originals cover image
Negative Originals

Race and Early Photography in Colombia

Juanita Solano Roa

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Cover of Revolutions of Capitalism features a grainy color gradient of purple, orange, and a warm grey. The title appears at the top of the cover in white.
Revolutions of Capitalism

The Politics of the Event

Maurizio Lazzarato

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Cover of Matterphorics features a dense, colorful abstract design made of pixel‑like dots in bright green, blue, pink, orange, and black. Below the artwork, the title appears in large yellow text, with the subtitle in smaller pink text.
Matterphorics

On the Laws of Theory

Daniela Gandorfer

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Cover of Domesticating Brown has painted patches of browns and creams. A semitransparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed.
Domesticating Brown

Movements of Racial Imagination

Christopher B. Patterson

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Brutal Fantasies cover image
Brutal Fantasies

Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War

Christine Kim

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The cover photograph depicts two people dressed simply in black and white seated at a metal table and chairs in the courtyard of a glass and concrete building.
In the Mood for Texture

The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Arnika Fuhrmann

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On the right side of the cover Spoiled, a dramatic photograph shows a woman with her head tilted back. A long stream of honey pours into the woman's open mouth from above. Intense lighting highlights the woman's features.
Spoiled

Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair

Summer Kim Lee

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Total Market American cover image
Total Market American

Race, Data, and Advertising

Marcel Rosa-Salas

Book

Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen cover image
Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, editors

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Informatics of Domination cover image
Informatics of Domination

Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee, editors

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A Thousand Paper Cuts cover image
A Thousand Paper Cuts

US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

Anjali Nath

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The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

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Acoustic Colonialism cover image
Acoustic Colonialism

Acts of Mapuche Interference

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante

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Geographies of the Ear cover image
Geographies of the Ear

The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona

Tania Gentic

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The Archive and the Aural City cover image
The Archive and the Aural City

Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening

Alejandro L. Madrid

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Cover of Postcolonial Imperialism features a watercolor of a man standing on one hand, legs in a split. An orange halo circles his head.
Postcolonial Imperialism

Critique of the Society of Dazzlements

Joseph Tonda

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Decolonizing Afghanistan cover image
Decolonizing Afghanistan

Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power

Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, editors

Book

Cover of Cleansing the Nation features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background.
Cleansing the Nation

India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

Raka Shome

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Humanity′s Ruins cover image
Humanity′s Ruins

Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism

Danielle Bouchard

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COB cover image
Camera Obscura

Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lalitha Gopalan, Lynne Joyrich, Homay King, Bliss Cua Lim, Constance Penley, Tess Takahashi, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis, editors

Journal

Cover of New German Critique number 156 November 2025 featuring the NGC logo on a black background and a red banner with Rainer Werner Fassbinder followed by a list of article titles and authors related to Fassbinder and his films.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Journal Issue

LBK cover image
liquid blackness

journal of aesthetics and black studies

Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

Journal

Open-Access Publication

Cover of <I>The South Atlantic Quarterly</I>, Volume 124, Number 4, October 2025. Features the theme &ldquo;Filming Capital&rdquo; with minimalist artwork showing a black square and a tilted red square on a white background against a black and red la
Filming Capital

Journal Issue

CAI cover image
Critical AI

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, editor

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ELN 63:1 cover image
Refuge and Displacement

Solidarity, Care, Worldmaking

Journal Issue

NKA cover image
Nka

Journal of Contemporary African Art

Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu, editors

Journal

Beige cover with large red poetics today title and text listing issue theme editors and publication details.
Decentering Formalism

Social Lives of a Literary Theory

Journal Issue

TAP cover image
Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, and Thy Phu, editors

Journal

Open-Access Publication

Maroon cover with Theater title and image of stage scene featuring person in pig mask and multiple screens with similar masks
Theaters of Post-Truth

Journal Issue

TSQ 12:1 cover image
Trans Speculative Media and Fiction

Journal Issue