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A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Rutgers University Press
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Post-Borderlandia
Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Rutgers University Press
Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory.
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Rutgers University Press
Over ninety percent of Europe’s 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust, but a tiny fragment of about 150,000 children survived. Cohen traces the postwar lives of these children, shedding new light on the way their experiences and perceptions both during and after the war shadowed and shaped their lives through adulthood.
Knickerbocker
The Myth behind New York
Rutgers University Press
Deep within New York’s compelling, sprawling history lives an odd, ornery Manhattan native named Diedrich Knickerbocker. This book invites readers into the world of Knickerbocker, the antihero who surprised everyone by becoming the standard-bearer for the city’s exceptional sense of self, or what we now call a New York “attitude.”
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Edited by Anthony E. Ladd
Rutgers University Press
In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions.
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
Rutgers University Press
LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race.
The Modern British Horror Film
Rutgers University Press
Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, Steven Gerrard examines the genre’s highlights, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers’ gravest fears about the state of the nation.
Going Viral
Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World
Rutgers University Press
From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Going Viral analyzes why outbreak narratives have infected our public discourse and how they have affected the way Americans view the world.
Istanbul
Living with Difference in a Global City
Rutgers University Press
The contributors to Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term.
Istanbul
Living with Difference in a Global City
Rutgers University Press
The contributors to Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term.