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There She Goes Again
Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises
The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
Not Alone
LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985
China and the Internet
Using New Media for Development and Social Change
China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically-informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19.
Between Care and Criminality
Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare
When Cowboys Come Home
Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America
When Cowboys Come Home shows how World War II changed the ways men thought about their roles in American society. For three writers who served—James Jones, Stewart Stern, and Edward Field—the war taught that manhood didn’t have to be based on bravery and heroism, but could be defined by authenticity, sensitivity, and male camaraderie. Rebelling against the orthodoxies of their time, these veterans reimagined what roles a man could play and their work set the foundation for the revolutions of the sixties.
Watching While Black Rebooted!
The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences
Watching While Black Rebooted!
The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences
Trailer Park America
Reimagining Working-Class Communities
The Best Place
Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver
Suffering Sappho!
Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture
Self-Alteration
How People Change Themselves across Cultures
Scratchin' and Survivin'
Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions
Providing a critical history of Tandem Productions, the company behind nearly all the hit Black sitcoms of the 1970s, including Good Times, The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, and Diff’rent Strokes, Adrien Sebro explores how their sitcom plots paralleled what was happening behind the scenes, as talented African-Americans devised strategies to gain creative agency and fair financial compensation.
New Israeli Horror
Local Cinema, Global Genre
