Cinema Journal

Juhasz, Alexandra.
In Focus: The Crisis in Publishing
Cinema Journal - 44, Number 3, Spring 2005, pp. 81-82

University of Texas Press

Alexandra Juhasz - In Focus: The Crisis in Publishing - Cinema Journal 44:3 Cinema Journal 44.3 (2005) 81-82 In Focus: The Crisis in Publishing Alexandra Juhasz The news first came to me on the wind: a close friend of my mother's, a renowned and much-published senior feminist scholar, could not get her latest book published; my junior colleagues could not land book contracts and their associated promotions. Then, the crisis hit at my office door as my most recent manuscript was initially rejected because the marketing department at the press where it was under consideration deemed that my fellow editor, Jesse Lerner, and I had not included enough films with name recognition in our anthology on fake documentaries. (Slightly mainstreamed in content, it is soon to be published.)...