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To Keep the Republic
Thinking, Talking, and Acting Like a Democratic Citizen
The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.
The Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel
Headstrong art historian Leyla is expecting a baby with feckless computer technician Pablo. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. But when the writings by utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella unlocks the secret of a painting and a mystical gateway to 17th-century Naples, Leyla and Michael embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life.
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
Creating the Hudson River Park
Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed
China's Left-Behind Children
Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles
Born of War in Colombia
Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
Politicizing Islam in Austria
The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century
Politicizing Islam in Austria is a comprehensive examination of the influence of the far right on the Austrian political landscape and the impact its anti-Muslim agenda has had in a country whose longstanding state recognition of the Muslim community dates to as early as 1912.
Glory
The Gospel of Judas, A Novel
Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age
Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
In this groundbreaking ethnographic study of the transnational Third Temple and Children of Noah movements, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age highlights the intimate effects of political theologies in motion, new forms of digital missionizing, and the birth of a new Judaic faith.
Making History Move
Five Principles of the Historical Film
Funny Boy
The Richard Hunt Biography
This biography tells the story of Muppet performer Richard Hunt, who created a colorful range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock, and crammed an extraordinary career into only 40 years of life. Funny Boy is about a man who used humor, joy and resilience to adapt to life’s surprises while entertaining millions.
Christianity and Comics
Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell
Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd edition, Revised and Expanded
Queer Newark
Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community
Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
Queer Newark
Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community
Queer Newark charts an alternate history of LGBTQ life in America where working-class people of color are the central actors. Uncovering the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches, these essays reveal how violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire.
Korea Letters in the William Elliot Griffis Collection
An Annotated Selection
Destroy Them Gradually
Displacement as Atrocity
Destroy Them Gradually reframes forced displacement as an annihilatory process, rather than as an event that precedes an atrocity. Displacement crimes are defined as the unique fusion of forced displacement with systemic deprivations of vital daily needs to destroy populations.
Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, Revised and Expanded
Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence
The Politics of Potential
Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Strictly Observant
Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Happy Days
Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
Forbes Burnham
The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader
Checkbook Zionism
Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship
Being Human
Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
Transpacific Cartographies
Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
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
Forgotten Bodies
Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
Bolsonarismo
The Global Origins and Future of Brazil’s Far Right
When Things Happen
A Novel
Ways of Belonging
Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality
The Truth That Never Hurts 25th anniversary edition
Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
The Sounds of Furious Living
Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS
The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the 19th and 20th centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the 20th century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the 21st century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.