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The Femme Fatale
Rutgers University Press
This book offers readers a concise look at over a century of femmes fatales on both the silver screen and the TV screen, from Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck to Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, considering how this figure embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward female ambition, independence, and sexuality.
Exhibiting Health
Public Health Displays in the Progressive Era
Rutgers University Press
This book is an analysis of the logic of production--and where possible the consumption--of visual displays for popular public health education between 1900 and 1930. It examines the power and limits of using visual displays to support public health initiatives.
Before Bemberg
Women Filmmakers in Argentina
By Matt Losada
Rutgers University Press
Before Bemberg: Argentine Women Filmmakers calls into question the historiography of Argentine women filmmakers through an examination of the six sound features directed by women before 1980, which have been forgotten by Argentine film history. It recognizes these filmmakers’ contributions at a significant moment in which movements to eliminate gender-based oppression and violence in Argentina and elsewhere are surging.
Women Make Horror
Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
Edited by Alison Peirse
Rutgers University Press
Women Make Horror studies women practitioners in the film industry and sets right the assumptions about women and the horror genre. It explores narrative and experimental cinema, short, anthology and feature-filmmaking, and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian and Australian filmmakers, films and festivals. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.
Women Make Horror
Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
Edited by Alison Peirse
Rutgers University Press
Women Make Horror studies women practitioners in the film industry and sets right the assumptions about women and the horror genre. It explores narrative and experimental cinema, short, anthology and feature-filmmaking, and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian and Australian filmmakers, films and festivals. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.
Simulating Good and Evil
The Morality and Politics of Videogames
Rutgers University Press
Simulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without inflicting real harm.
Media Culture in Transnational Asia
Convergences and Divergences
Edited by Hyesu Park
Rutgers University Press
Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences offers a comprehensive and extensive overview of the production, consumption, and exchange of media in Asia, presenting the region as a rich site for media examination and exploration.
Media Culture in Transnational Asia
Convergences and Divergences
Edited by Hyesu Park
Rutgers University Press
Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences offers a comprehensive and extensive overview of the production, consumption, and exchange of media in Asia, presenting the region as a rich site for media examination and exploration.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Higher Education brings into sharp focus the unique attributes of women leaders in the academy and adds a new dimension of analysis to the field of women’s leadership studies. Women leaders interviewed in this volume include Bernice Sandler, Juliet Villarreal García, and Johnnetta Betsch Cole.
Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Higher Education brings into sharp focus the unique attributes of women leaders in the academy and adds a new dimension of analysis to the field of women’s leadership studies. Women leaders interviewed in this volume include Bernice Sandler, Juliet Villarreal García, and Johnnetta Betsch Cole.
Gray Matters
Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life
By Ellyn Lem; Foreword by Margaret Cruikshank
Rutgers University Press
Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life examines films, literature, and art that focus on aging, often made by people who are over sixty-five. These texts are analyzed alongside recent gerontology research and extensive commentary from interviews and surveys of seniors to show how "stories" illuminate the dynamics of growing old by blending fact with imagination, giving a fuller picture of the aging process.
Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore
Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico
Rutgers University Press
This book highlights Franz Boas’s historic trip to Puerto Rico in 1915, which included the documentation of oral folklore. On that trip, a rising anthropologist involved in the project, John Alden Mason, collected one of the largest oral folklore collections from any Spanish-speaking country or territory. The stories, many of them written by rural cultural informants, the Jibaros, offer an outstanding view of an early twentieth century Puerto Rican identity.
Out of the Red
My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption
Rutgers University Press
A pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices thrust a boy into gangs, prison, and the long path of redemption as a felon in an unforgiving society. Brilliantly told through a sociological lens, Bolden’s story is vulnerable, honest, and leaves readers enlightened and moved to action.
Indie Cinema Online
Rutgers University Press
Indie Cinema Online maps out a cultural history of American independent cinema online from 1999 to the present, from Netflix and its use of online streaming to the first feature film released on YouTube to Sundance’s creation of digital shorts and web series intended for cell phone viewing.
Comics Studies
A Guidebook
Edited by Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty
Rutgers University Press
A concise introduction to one of today’s fastest-growing, most exciting fields, Comics Studies: A Guidebook outlines core research questions and introduces comics’ history, form, genres, audiences, and industries. Authored by a diverse roster of leading scholars, this Guidebook offers a perfect entryway to the world of comics scholarship.
Chinatown Film Culture
The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco’s Chinese Neighborhood
Rutgers University Press
Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Kim K. Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street into the movie theater.
Chinatown Film Culture
The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco's Chinese Neighborhood
Rutgers University Press
Chinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Kim K. Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street into the movie theater.
Blaming Teachers
Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History
Rutgers University Press
In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers’ professional legitimacy. Policymakers and school leaders understood teacher professionalization initiatives as efficient ways to bolster the bureaucratic order of the schools rather than as means to amplify teachers’ authority and credibility.
Beneath the Surface
Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary
Rutgers University Press
The Mullica Valley estuary benefits from a combination of protected watershed, low human population density, and lack of extensive development, making it the cleanest estuary in the northeastern U.S. In Beneath the Surface, Ken Able helps the reader gain insights into the kinds of habitats, the animals, and plants that live there.
The Persistence of Violence
Colombian Popular Culture
By Toby Miller
Rutgers University Press
Why is Colombia so violent? Beyond even the horrors of the conflict between the guerrilla, the paramilitary, and the government, the history of the nation is scarred by acts of violence. It has also been marked by resistance to that history—by moments of hope.The Persistence of Violence transcends the obvious places as sources and indices of this story, delving into the complex and conflicted world of popular culture, from football to television to tourism to the environment.
The Love Surgeon
A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation
Rutgers University Press
From the 1950s to 1980s, Ohio obstetrician gynecologist James Burt performed a bizarre procedure that he termed “love surgery” on hundreds of new mothers, not bothering to get their informed consent. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment.
The Films of Denys Arcand
By Jim Leach
Rutgers University Press
Denys Arcand has been making films in Quebec for nearly sixty years. The Films of Denys Arcand illuminates his films in the context of the massive changes in Quebec society during that period. It explores the work of a major director who has achieved international success and some key issues in film studies and Canadian studies.
Taste of Control
Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality under American Rule
Rutgers University Press
Taste of Control tells what happened when American colonizers began to influence what Filipinos ate, how they cooked, and how they perceived their national cuisine. Drawing from a rich variety of sources including letters, advertisements, textbooks, menus, and cookbooks, it reveals how food culture served as a battleground over Filipino identity.
Making a Mass Institution
Indianapolis and the American High School
Rutgers University Press
Indianapolis began its secondary system with a singular, decidedly academic high school, but ended the 1960s with multiple high schools with numerous paths to graduation. Making a Mass Institution describes how this process created both a distinct youth culture and a divided and unjust system, one that effectively sorted students geographically, economically, and racially.
Hebrew Infusion
Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
Rutgers University Press
“Let’s hear some ruach (spirit) in this chadar ochel (dining hall)!” Sentences like this abound at Jewish summer camps around North America, alongside Hebrew songs, games, and signs. Through insightful analysis and engaging writing, Hebrew Infusion explains the origins of this phenomenon and what it says about Jewishness in America.
Easy Living
The Rise of the Home Office
Rutgers University Press
Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times.
Deportes
The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.
Abusing Religion
Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions
Rutgers University Press
Why do Americans presume to know “what’s really going on” in marginal religions? Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American religious outsiders often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
Leading for Tomorrow
A Primer for Succeeding in Higher Education Leadership
Rutgers University Press
Using an engaging case study approach, Leading for Tomorrow provides new and emerging college and university administrators with real-world examples that will help them reflect on their own management and communication styles. It also offers practical solutions for how to deal with escalating challenges in the field of higher education, from decreasing state funding to political controversies on campus.
Beyond the Black and White TV
Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America
Rutgers University Press
Beyond the Black and White TV argues that depictions of racial harmony on variety shows between their white hosts and ethnic guests aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism during the Cold War.
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy
Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City
Rutgers University Press
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex.
Rebuilding Story Worlds
The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters
By Jan Baetens
Rutgers University Press
Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, the comics series The Obscure Cities represents one of literature’s most impressive pieces of world-building. Rebuilding Story Worlds explores both the artistic traditions from which the series emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space.
New Jersey State of Mind
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey State of Mind takes us on a journey to over twenty-five places that reveal the Garden State’s gritty charms and hidden wonders. It also introduces us to the colorful characters who live and work there, including a female craft brewer, a demolition derby driver, a Portuguese pig breeder, mural artists, and Pine Barrens guides.
Macbeth in Harlem
Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun
Rutgers University Press
Macbeth in Harlem tells the story of African American actors, playwrights, directors, and producers who worked to carve out a space for authentic black voices onstage and in every venue from the early 19th century to the dawn of the Civil Rights era. Above all, it is a testament to black artistry thriving in spite of the odds and in the face of the harshest adversity.
Lakota Hoops
Life and Basketball on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
By Alan Klein
Rutgers University Press
In Lakota Hoops, anthropologist Alan Klein looks at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to provide a vivid portrait of how the community uses basketball to assert its tribal identity. He reveals the ways that the game is a filter for traditions, pride, hopes, and tribulations that people experience daily, as well as how it bridges Lakota past, present, and future.
Desired States
Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile
Rutgers University Press
Situates the state, using Chile as a case study, in a rich and changing context of transnational and localized movements, imperialist interests, geo-political conflicts, and market forces to explore the broader struggles of desiring subjects, especially in those dimensions of life that are explicitly sexual and amorous: free love movements, marriage, the sixties’ sexual revolution in Cold War contexts, prostitution policies, ideas about men’s gratification, leaders’ charisma, and sexual/domestic violence.
Becoming Philadelphia
How an Old American City Made Itself New Again
By Inga Saffron
Rutgers University Press
Over the past two decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of Philadelphia’s transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, as she explores the tangled intersections of design, politics, and money at the heart of the city’s resurgence.
An Open Secret
The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
An Open Secret traces the history of women’s experiences with unwanted pregnancy and abortion in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia between the early 1950s and 2010. It finds that women’s personal reproductive experiences contributed to shaping policies and services in reproductive health care.
The Social Life of Biometrics
Rutgers University Press
Biometrics is a technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity, yet as a mode of determining one truth, it creates many more that mediate how individuals exist. The Social Life of Biometrics examines human experiences of biometrics and considers their histories, effects, and futures.
Talking Therapy
Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing
By Kylie Smith
Rutgers University Press
Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
Social Justice
Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from globalization and neoliberalism to the environment, this essential textbook - ideal for course use - encourages readers to question the limits of the law in its present state in order to develop fairer systems at the local, national, and global levels.
Projecting the Nation
History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen
By Eran Kaplan
Rutgers University Press
Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema. By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz, the rise of religion in Israel, the book explores the way cinema has represented and shaped our understanding of the Israeli history as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology.
Post-Communist Malaise
Cinematic Responses to European Integration
Rutgers University Press
Post-Communist Malaise examines political modernism within the context of post-communist Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It focuses on how select cinemas from the regions critique European unification and how they represent related issues like the transition from communism to free-market capitalism, the Euro crisis and austerity, and the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics.
Planet Auschwitz
Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Rutgers University Press
Planet Auschwitz explores how the Holocaust has influenced science fiction and horror film and television. These genres explore important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II.
Mediating the Uprising
Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Rutgers University Press
Based on intensive fieldwork in Damascus and Beirut, Mediating the Uprising shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform Syrian television drama with various forms of cultural and political critique. The emergence of these suppressed narratives attests to the survival of the genre despite instability, war, and bloodshed.
Losing Culture
Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
By David Berliner; Translated by Dominic Horsfall
Rutgers University Press
Around the world, you will hear complaints that people are losing their culture and their heritage. This study explores what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, to what ends this rhetoric gets deployed, and how anthropologists deal with their own feelings of nostalgia.
Diversity Regimes
Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities
Rutgers University Press
In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities’ commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called “Diversity University,” Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.
Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist
Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
By Gregg Barak
Rutgers University Press
Prominent criminologist Gregg Barak's new book, Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist, while remaining scholarly in its intent, departs from the typical academic format. This book is a a first-person account that examines the linkages between one scholar's experiences as a criminologist from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to developments in mainstream criminology.
Anthropological Lives
An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology
Rutgers University Press
Anthropological Lives introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work they do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life they lead. The book draws heavily on the experiences of twenty anthropologists interviewed by Virginia R. Dominguez and Brigittine M. French, as well as on the experiences of the two coauthors.
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