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Village of Immigrants
Latinos in an Emerging America
Rutgers University Press
A timely contribution to the national dialogue on immigration, Village of Immigrants illustrates the revitalization of American small towns by waves of immigrants no longer settling in big coastal cities. The book documents the contributions the Hispanic immigrants have made to the life of Greenport, New York, even as it explores the dark realities that shape the immigrant experience.
Hoodlum Movies
Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972
Rutgers University Press
Hoodlum Movies focuses on why and how these films were made, who they were made for, and how the cycle developed through the second half of the 1960s. Despised by critics, but welcomed by exhibitors denied first-run films, these cheaply and quickly produced movies were produced to appeal to audiences of mobile youths until 1972.
Turning the Page
Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media
Rutgers University Press
Turning the Page introduces readers to three nonprofit organizations that have each positively transformed the queer media landscape, helping to produce and distribute authentic stories while nurturing the next generation of LGBTQ filmmakers. It demonstrates how this queer media has the potential to empower individuals, strengthen communities, and motivate social justice activism.
Landscapes of Activism
Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
Rutgers University Press
AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. Reed shows that in Africa, superimposing a Western idea of what activism should look like actually hampers the success of these groups.
Constituting Central American–Americans
Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation
Rutgers University Press
Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity.
Querying Consent
Beyond Permission and Refusal
Rutgers University Press
Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the contributors address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today.
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal
Rutgers University Press
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history in graphic novels. The book explores the multi-layered relation between the graphic novel as a popular medium and war as a pivotal recurring experience in human history.
Transforming Contagion
Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations
Rutgers University Press
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provocatively expose contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control.
Transforming Contagion
Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations
Rutgers University Press
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion. The contributors provocatively expose contagion to be as full of possibilities for revolution and resistance as it is for the descent into madness, malice, and extensive state control.
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods
Rutgers University Press
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods and rural life.
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil
Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
Rutgers University Press
This book explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women’s narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and marriage expectations associated with modernization and globalization influence the intimate lives and the health and well being of women in Northeast Brazil.
Tough Ain't Enough
New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood
Edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser
Rutgers University Press
Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this late point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular and respected—though controversial—filmmakers. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars who explore the actor-director’s extensive career.
Tough Ain't Enough
New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood
Edited by Lester D. Friedman and David Desser
Rutgers University Press
Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this late point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular and respected—though controversial—filmmakers. Tough Ain’t Enough offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars who explore the actor-director’s extensive career.
Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture
Rutgers University Press
This is the first and only book to position what are called “Soundies” within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. Examining the dynamics between Soundies’ short musical films, the Panoram’s film-jukebox technology, their screening spaces and their popular discourse, Kelley provides an integrative approach to historic media exhibition.
Forever Suspect
Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror
By Saher Selod
Rutgers University Press
Saher Selod shows how a specific American religious identity has acquired racial meanings, resulting in the hyper surveillance of Muslim citizens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans, she investigates how Muslim Americans are subjected to racialized surveillance in both an institutional and social context.
Out of Sync & Out of Work
History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture
By Joel Burges
Rutgers University Press
Out of Sync & Out of Work explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labor, in film and literature. This book advances its readers’ grasp of the complexities of historical time in contemporary culture, moving the study of temporality forward in film and media studies, literary studies, critical theory, and cultural critique.
Finding Einstein's Brain
Rutgers University Press
Frederick E. Lepore delves into the strange, elusive tale of what became of Einstein’s brain and what it represents for brain and/or intelligence studies. This "biography of a brain" explores how Einstein’s brain anatomy was truly exceptional, and how “found” photographs of the organ begin to explain the brain of a genius.
Destructive Sublime
World War II in American Film and Media
Rutgers University Press
In the American popular imaginary, the Second World War remains the prime example of American virtue—the country is typified by individual and collective heroism. Destructive Sublime complicates the oversimplified and commonly held view that film and video portray the war in ways that are conservative, both politically and aesthetically.
Comic Book Movies
By Blair Davis
Rutgers University Press
Comic Book Movies investigates the genre’s powerful appeal to today’s moviegoers. Examining not only superhero movies, but also adaptations of indie comics and graphic novels, Blair Davis assesses their aesthetic innovations and tells how they have transformed the film industry.
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Edited by Nanci Adler
Rutgers University Press
The contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones.
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Edited by Nanci Adler
Rutgers University Press
The contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones.
New York City Politics
Governing Gotham
Rutgers University Press
In this second edition, Bruce F. Berg updates the discussion of New York’s political system with examples from the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations as well as current public policy issues including infrastructure, housing and homelessness, land use regulations, and education.
New Jersey
A History of the Garden State
Edited by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey: A History of the Garden State is a fresh and comprehensive overview of New Jersey’s history from the prehistoric era to the present. The findings of archaeologists, political, social, and economic historians are brought together to offer a new look at the ways in which the Garden State has changed over time. From its pivotal role in the American Revolution to its modern-day suburbs and cities, this book shows how the small state of New Jersey is often a bellwether for the nation.
Through the Crosshairs
War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
By Roger Stahl
Rutgers University Press
Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of the weaponized gaze—camera footage framed from the perspective of a military drone, a descending smart bomb, or a sniper’s telescopic sights. Tracking these images across a variety of media, including news reports, action movies, and video games, Roger Stahl explores how they have influenced public perceptions.
The Jersey Shore
The Past, Present & Future of a National Treasure
Rutgers University Press
The Jersey Shore tells the story of this famous region, from the 1600s to the present, and from Sandy Hook to Cape May, with particular attention to its history, culture, and varied landscapes. This book is an enthusiastic and comprehensive portrait by a native son, whose passion is shared by millions of beachgoers.
Politics Across the Hudson
The Tappan Zee Megaproject
Rutgers University Press
Politics Across the Hudson offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning for the new Tappan Zee Bridge, and includes a new epilogue and more photos, revealing valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies. Drawing on his own extensive experience in planning megaprojects, more than one hundred exclusive interviews with key figures (including three governors), and extensive research into government records, Philip Plotch tells the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of high-stakes battles between powerful players in the public, private, and civic sectors.
Making Sense of the College Curriculum
Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
Rutgers University Press
Over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in higher education. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a structured and coherent undergraduate education is such a vexing challenge for colleges and universities.
Outside the Limelight
Basketball in the Ivy League
By Kathy Orton; Foreword by John Feinstein
Rutgers University Press
Outside the Limelight pulls back the curtain on Ivy League basketball. At a time when college sports have become a multimillion dollar industry, Kathy Orton reminds us of why some young men chase hoop dreams—not for an NBA contract, but for the love of the game.
SportsWorld
An American Dreamland
Rutgers University Press
SportsWorld is a well-known commentator’s overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America—sports. Lipsyte's classic text, newly introduced, interweaves biographies of sports greats—including New York Jets star Joe Namath, greatest-in-the-world boxer Muhammad Ali, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and tennis pro Billie Jean King—with critical analysis of American racism, capitalism, politics, and gender.
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground.
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