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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.
The Films of Bong Joon Ho
By Nam Lee
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.
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.
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