Do Bats Drink Blood?
Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bats
The Social Life of Scriptures
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism
Homecoming Queers
Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production
Spanning multiple genres and forms, and including scholarly theory alongside performances, films, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed across these fields.
Best Years
Going to the Movies, 1945-1946
Making Reform Work
The Case for Transforming American Higher Education
Poison in the Well
Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos
Power Politics
Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
Power Politics
Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
The Prohibition Hangover
Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet
Making Room in the Clinic
Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care
The Grand Gennaro
In Sputnik's Shadow
The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America
Salt Marshes
A Natural and Unnatural History
Cultivating Health
Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform
Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government.
Racing Romance
Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples
Racing Romance
Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples
Reinventing Cinema
Movies in the Age of Media Convergence
Reinventing Cinema examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies. Spanning multiple disciplines, Chuck Tryon addresses the interaction between production, distribution, and reception of films, television, and other new and emerging media.Through close readings of trade publications, DVD extras, public lectures by new media leaders, movie blogs, and YouTube videos, Tryon navigates the shift to digital cinema and examines how it is altering film and popular culture.