6 × 9 inches, 176 pages, hardcover with 12.5 × 18 inch poster
ISBN 978-1-941753-69-9

Design by Omnivore
Co-published by Inventory Press & ONE Archives at the USC Libraries

LOW STOCK / Exempt from promotions

“Wrapped in luxe maroon cloth and stamped golden cover art, Sci-fi, Magick, Queer LA as an object is as sumptuous and sensual as its contents.” —Jasmine Weber, Hyperallergic

“Much of the show’s visual matter—mystical paintings, ritual costumes, sexology journals, sci-fi fanzines—has been off practically everyone’s radar for decades. Altogether it makes for a trippy package.” —Holland Cotter, the New York Times

Alien worlds, alter-egos, and Pleasure Domes–Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation explores the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to U.S. queer history.

Science fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ movement by providing a place for individuals to meet, imagine, and create a life less restricted by societal norms. Focusing on Los Angeles from the late 1930s through the 1950s, this reader follows the lives of artists, writers, publishers, early sci-fi enthusiasts, and progressive communities, from Kenneth Anger, Lisa Ben, and Jack Parsons to the L.A. Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) and Ordo Templi Orientis at the Agape Lodge (O.T.O.).

Spanning sci-fi fandom, aerospace, queer history, and the occult, Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A. reveals how visionary artists, filmmakers, scientists, science-fiction writers and fans worked together to build a world of their own making. Featuring copious illustrations of salacious pulps, ritual paintings, and archival materials, authors Joseph Hawkins, Joan Lubin, Alexis Bard Johnson, Ben Miller, Judith Noble, Kelly Filreis, and Susan Aberth tell the interconnected stories behind the underground communities of early Los Angeles. This publication is made possible with support from Getty through its PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative.

Us
4.25 × 7 inches, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-33-0

Get Out

4 1/4 × 7 inches, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-28-6

Design by IN-FO.CO

A limited-edition two-volume set that includes the two complete annotated screenplays by Jordan Peele: Us (2024) and Get Out (2019).

Jordan Peele (born 1979) is an American writer, director and producer. Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out (2017), earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. In 2012, Peele founded Monkeypaw Productions, which amplifies traditionally underrepresented voices and unpacks contemporary social issues, while cultivating artistic, thought-provoking projects across film, television and digital platforms, including the critically acclaimed horror epics, Us (2019), and Nope (2022).

4.25 × 7 inches, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-33-0

Design by IN-FO.CO

A limited-edition two-volume set that includes the annotated screenplays Us (2024) and Get Out (2019) is available here

ePub edition available via
“A colossal cinematic achievement” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

A masterpiece of identity horror and a dark reflection on America’s past and present, this companion paperback to the critically-acclaimed film Us features Oscar®-winning director Jordan Peele’s screenplay illustrated with over 150 stills from the motion picture; deleted scenes; an introduction by the filmmaker; and in-depth annotations. These include texts by hannah baer, Theaster Gates, Jamieson Webster, Jared Sexton, Mary Ping, Shana Redmond, and Leila Taylor, alongside excerpts from Naomi Klein, Coleson Whitehead, Maggie Nelson, Carol J. Clover, Michael Harrington, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and a constellation of images, definitions, and inspirations that extend the themes of the film.

Jordan Peele (born 1979) is an American writer, director and producer. Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out (2017), earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. In 2012, Peele founded Monkeypaw Productions, which amplifies traditionally underrepresented voices and unpacks contemporary social issues, while cultivating artistic, thought-provoking projects across film, television and digital platforms, including the critically acclaimed horror epics, Us (2019), and Nope (2022).

4.25 × 7 inches, 208 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-28-6

Introduction by Tananarive Due
Design by IN-FO.CO

A limited-edition two-volume set that includes the annotated screenplays Us (2024) and Get Out (2019) is available here

ePub edition available via Kindle or Apple Books

"An exhilaratingly smart and scary freak out about a black man in a white nightmare." — Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Jordan Peele’s powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? for the age of Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered white liberal pieties at the same time. Rather than rely on popular archetypes, Peele weaves together the material realities and daily manifestations of horror with sociopolitical fears and elements of true suspense, and combines them with pitch-perfect satire and timely cultural critique.

This companion paperback to the film presents Peele’s Oscar®-winning screenplay alongside supplementary material. Featuring an essay by author and scholar Tananarive Due and in-depth annotations by the director, this publication is richly illustrated with more than 150 stills from the motion picture and presents alternate endings, deleted scenes and an inside look at the concepts and behind-the-scenes production of the film. Continuing in the legacy of 1960s paperbacks that documented the era’s most significant avant-garde films—such as Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin/Feminin and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura—Get Out is an indispensable guide to this pioneering and groundbreaking cinematic work.

Jordan Peele (born 1979) is an American writer, director and producer. Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out (2017), earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. In 2012, Peele founded Monkeypaw Productions, which amplifies traditionally underrepresented voices and unpacks contemporary social issues, while cultivating artistic, thought-provoking projects across film, television and digital platforms, including Peele’s follow-up to Get Out, the critically acclaimed horror epic, Us (2019).

6.75 × 9 inches, 96 pages, softcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-54-5

Edited and Designed by Martin Beck

Rare / Last Available Copies

American artists James Benning (b. 1942) and Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964) often cite each other’s films as an influence on their own work. Benning and Lockhart have each made careers of investigating the structure of film itself and rethinking the use of duration and sound. Both artists’ work illustrates the importance of close observation and the evolving urban landscape.

Over Time pairs works from both Benning and Lockhart with a collaborative, almost stream-of-consciousness text. The result is a profound conversation between two accomplished artists that highlights how slow, studied examination and reflection can deepen and enrich often overlooked, everyday experience.

6 × 9.25 inches, 216 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-941753-07-1
Design by Project Projects
Co-published by Zachęta—National Gallery of Art

Inspired and provoked by the title character in Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo, two artists and a curator decide to revisit his mad plan of bringing opera to the tropics. In an attempt to undercut Fitzcarraldo’s colonial romanticism, they decide to confront a set of particular historical and sociopolitical realities by staging Halka, considered to be Poland’s “national opera,” in the seemingly unlikely locale of Cazale, Haiti, a village inhabited by the descendants of Polish soldiers who fought for the Haitian Revolution in the early 1800s.

On February 7, 2015, a one-time-only performance of Halka was presented to a rapt local audience on a winding dirt road. A collaboration between Polish and Haitian performers, the event was filmed in one take to be presented later as a large-scale projected panorama in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

This volume provides both a multifaceted conceptual framework for the project and a detailed record of this remarkable endeavor. With an introduction by the project’s curator and an interview with the artists, the book also features three newly commissioned essays—from literary scholar Katarzyna Czeczot, diplomat Géri Benoît, and anthropologist Kacper Pobłocki—alongside Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s seminal reflection on the global silencing of the Haitian Revolution. Also included are questionnaires completed by the project’s Haitian and Polish participants, translated selections from the opera’s libretto, extensive photographic documentation of the rehearsals, and stills from the film itself.