...Curtis Marez Marez’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” which finds in Chavez’s store of graphics, photos, films, and videos from the 1940s to the 1990s evidence of farm workers’ appropriation of visual technologies to project social alternatives...

...Jeffrey Shandler Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List ; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah...

...Steve Anderson Anderson’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Chaos and Control: The Critique of Computation in American Commercial Media (1950-1980),” which examines the critiques of computing culture posed by TV and movies during the mainframe computer age by looking closely at...

...Jentery Sayers Sayers’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Making the Perfect Record.” This project unpacks the often ignored, pre-1940s history of magnetic recording, with particular attention to how—through an interweaving of print fiction, sound transduction, storage media...

... Prize, awarded annu- ally by the Don D. Walker Prize Committee and the Western Literature Asso- ciation for the best essay published on western American literature in the previous year. Curtis Marez was awarded an honorable mention for “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” a Scalar project...

... in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed to make it easy for...

... interested in submitting a more experimental piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed to make it easy for authors to write long-­form...

... authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed to make it easy for authors to write long-­form scholarship online. The platform particularly facilitates work that engages visual materials. For more information about Scalar, please see scalar.usc.edu/anvc. Special issue editors will be Wendy H. K...

...–1980)” (Scalar project), DOI 10.1215/00029831 -2370221. Scalar Project Author Statement: “Chaos and Control,” 815–16. Blum, Hester. Review: Elmer, On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sover- eignty in the New World, 591–93. Review: Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in...

... likely, are reading online as PDFs) and the four Scalar projects that reside on our website address their core questions through histori- cism and transnational American studies (Marez, Shandler, So); close reading and comparative media analysis (Anderson, Jagoda, Scheible); surface reading and...

... acknowledgement of interdependency, a gesture of care for self and one’s intimate circle but also for distant others and populations vulnerable to infection. A similar scalar logic is at work at the end of The Overstory , which finds Nick Hoel—his surname an expression of both completion and emptiness—finishing...

... crime is not a flaw in the text but rather an attempt to account for the actions of his character in a more realistic fashion. His novel might therefore be seen to exemplify a “trans-scalar imaginary” that assists us in developing a fuller picture of reality.9 As new materialism suggests...

... that is of a piece with the planet. Janie’s nearest access to her antipodal and hypothetical island-space arrives through the novel’s dedication to the type of geographically scalar play that earlier permitted her to look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. Now, as the hurri- cane...