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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.
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