From a ‘Printing and Stationery Committee’ in 1899 to an award-winning, independent academic publisher today – home to thousands of books, some of the world’s first subject-specific scholarly journals, and a number of impressive digital collections – Liverpool University Press has accomplished a great deal in 125 years. Innovative and adaptable, LUP remains at the … Continue reading
Halloween 2023: The LUP Reading List
This Halloween, the team at LUP have pulled together a selection of some of our spookiest books and journal articles – from ghosts in Greek tragedy to a postcolonial reading of the zombie. Find out more about our top picks across Art, Literature, History, and Culture below.
Hidden Horror Histories: Call for Proposals
Affiliated with the BAFTSS Horror Studies Special Interest Group, Hidden Horror Histories is a new series from Liverpool University Press focusing on under-explored areas of screen horror.
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image: audiovisual essays as videographic film criticism
The editors of Music, Sound, and the Moving Image are delighted to announce a new initiative: the publication of double-anonymous peer-reviewed audiovisual essays in a free to read and audioview format. We hear from them how this ground-breaking initiative came about, as they also invite contributions in this format for publication in future issues.
History and Dispossession in Dune (2021)
New on the blog: to celebrate the publication of his new book Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017, Harry Warwick revisits its arguments in the light of Denis Villeneuve's 2021 Dune adaptation, which falls outside the book's historical scope.
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