Activism and the Olympics
Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
American Hybrid Poetics
Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
Cinematography
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos
Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
Abortion in the American Imagination
Before Life and Choice, 1880-1940
War Echoes
Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Inside Newark
Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
Anatomy of a Robot
Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People
Childhood in a Sri Lankan Village
Shaping Hierarchy and Desire
Feminism as Life's Work
Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars
Sacred Divorce
Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships
Sacred Divorce
Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships
Kids in the Middle
How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families
Conceiving Cuba
Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era
Modern Motherhood
An American History
Finding the Right Psychiatrist
A Guide for Discerning Consumers
Genocide as Social Practice
Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas
Framing the Rape Victim
Gender and Agency Reconsidered
Feminism and Popular Culture
Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique
Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán
From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement
Shaping the Future of African American Film
Color-Coded Economics and the Story Behind the Numbers
Gender and Violence in Haiti
Women’s Path from Victims to Agents
Gender and Violence in Haiti
Women's Path from Victims to Agents
Worried Sick
How Stress Hurts Us and How to Bounce Back
Defining Student Success
The Role of School and Culture
Defining Student Success
The Role of School and Culture
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Salvadoran Imaginaries
Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
Salvadoran Imaginaries
Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
Mining Coal and Undermining Gender
Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West
Holocaust Memory Reframed
Museums and the Challenges of Representation
Managing Madness in the Community
The Challenge of Contemporary Mental Health Care
Cinematic Canines
Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film
Treating AIDS
Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention
American Melancholy
Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma
How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
Dream Nation
Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
War and Disease
Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century
A massive undertaking, the antimalarial program was to biomedical research what the Manhattan Project was to the physical sciences.
A volume in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series, edited by Rima D. Apple and Janet Golden.
The History of Modern Japanese Education
Constructing the National School System, 1872-1890
Saving Sickly Children
The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970
Disaster!
Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
In Disaster!, Alan A. Siegel brings readers face-to-face with twenty-eight of the deadliest natural and human-caused calamities to strike New Jersey between 1821 and 1906. Accounts of fires, steamboat explosions, shipwrecks, train wrecks, and storms are told in the words of the people who experienced the events firsthand, lending a sense of immediacy to each story. These and many other stories of forgotten acts of courage in the face of danger will make Disaster! an unforgettable read.
Television in the Age of Radio
Modernity, Imagination, and the Making of a Medium
Television in the Age of Radio is a unique account of how television came to be, not just from technical innovations or institutional struggles, but from cultural concerns that were central to the rise of industrial modernity. A major revision of the history of television, it provides investigations of the values of early television amateurs and enthusiasts, the passions and worries about competing technologies, and the ambitions for programming that together helped mold the medium.
Television in the Age of Radio
Modernity, Imagination, and the Making of a Medium
Television in the Age of Radio is a unique account of how television came to be, not just from technical innovations or institutional struggles, but from cultural concerns that were central to the rise of industrial modernity. A major revision of the history of television, it provides investigations of the values of early television amateurs and enthusiasts, the passions and worries about competing technologies, and the ambitions for programming that together helped mold the medium.
Wired TV
Laboring Over an Interactive Future
Wired TV looks at the post–network television industry’s experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling that took place from 2005 to2010 as broadband was introduced into the majority of homes and the use of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter soared. Essays address such issues as the networks’ sporadic efforts to engage fans using transmedia storytelling, production inefficiencies, and the effect of corporate conglomeration on entrepreneurial creativity. The television franchises discussed include Lost, The Office, Entourage, and Battlestar Gallactica.
Tainted Earth
Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
Thoroughly grounded in extensive archival research, Tainted Earth traces the rise of public health concerns about nonferrous smelting in the western United States, focusing on three major facilities: Tacoma, Washington; El Paso, Texas; and Bunker Hill, Idaho. It documents the response from community residents, public health scientists, the industry, and the government to pollution from smelters and the long road to protecting public health and the environment.
Tainted Earth
Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
Thoroughly grounded in extensive archival research, Tainted Earth traces the rise of public health concerns about nonferrous smelting in the western United States, focusing on three major facilities: Tacoma, Washington; El Paso, Texas; and Bunker Hill, Idaho. It documents the response from community residents, public health scientists, the industry, and the government to pollution from smelters and the long road to protecting public health and the environment.
Shtetl
A Vernacular Intellectual History
By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship. He traces the trajectory of writing about these towns, by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists, and others, to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and Jewish studies.
Hollywood Exiles in Europe
The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture
Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions. The book offers a compelling argument for the significance of these blacklisted expats to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War relations.
Faith, Family, and Filipino American Community Life
This ground-breaking book draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. It illustrates the powerful ways these forces structure and animate not only how first-generation Filipino Americans think and feel about their community, but how they are compelled to engage it over issues deemed important to the sanctity of the family.
Faith, Family, and Filipino American Community Life
This ground-breaking book draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. It illustrates the powerful ways these forces structure and animate not only how first-generation Filipino Americans think and feel about their community, but how they are compelled to engage it over issues deemed important to the sanctity of the family.