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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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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.

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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.

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Calling Memory Into Place

Rutgers University Press
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