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Citizen Power

A Citizen Leadership Manual, New Jersey Edition

Rutgers University Press

CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service

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The Thinking Woman

Rutgers University Press

Australian novelist Julienne van Loon engages with eight world-renowned female intellectuals, writers, and activists to consider what philosophy might teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships.

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The Synergistic Classroom

Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting

Rutgers University Press

Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.

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The Synergistic Classroom

Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting

Rutgers University Press

Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.

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The Boxing Film

A Cultural and Transmedia History

Rutgers University Press

As one of popular culture’s most popular arenas, sports are often the subject of cinematic storytelling. But boxing films are special. There are more movies about boxing, than any other sport,The Boxing Film explores why boxing has so consistently fascinated cinema, and popular media, by tracing how boxing films inform the sport’s meanings and uses from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.

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Stanley Kubrick

New York Jewish Intellectual

Rutgers University Press

Stanley Kubrick reexamines this internationally renowned director’s work in the context of the unique cultural milieu from which he emerged. Digging deep into rare archives to reveal insights about Kubrick’s life and times, Nathan Abrams also offers an in-depth analysis of classics like Lolita, 2001, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket.

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Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Rutgers University Press

Despite the centrality of family in both Jewish and Romani cultures, this is the first scholarly work to focus on the importance of the family in experiences of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Scholars from the US, Israel, and across Europe have contributed new research from the family perspective.

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Crossing Segregated Boundaries

Remembering Chicago School Desegregation

Rutgers University Press

Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.

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Changing on the Fly

Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians

Rutgers University Press

Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives by amplifying the voices of South Asian hockey participants.
 

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Campus with Purpose

Building a Mission-Driven Campus

Rutgers University Press

Through personal and engaging anecdotes about his experience as the inaugural chancellor at the University of Minnesota-Rochester, Stephen Lehmkuhle describes how higher education leaders can focus on campus purpose to create new and fresh ways to think about many elements of campus operation and function, and how leaders can protect the campus’s purpose from the pervasive higher education culture that is hardened by history and habit.

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Ballad of an American

A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

Rutgers University Press

This graphic biography of Paul Robeson charts his career as a singer, actor, scholar, athlete, and activist who achieved global fame. Through films, concerts, and recordings, he became a potent symbol representing the promise of a multicultural, multiracial American democracy; despite his stardom, he was denied access to many audiences.

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The Films of Bong Joon Ho

Rutgers University Press

This timely book reveals that even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as a major global auteur with works like Snowpiercer (2013) and the Oscar®-award winning Parasite (2019), his films hybridize Hollywood conventions with local realities in order to engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers.

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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.

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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.
 

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Before Bemberg

Women Filmmakers in Argentina

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.
 

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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.
 


 

 

 

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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.
 


 

 

 

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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.
 

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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.

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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.

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