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Ghostlight
By Keith Carter
University of Texas Press
A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.
Electrifying Mexico
Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
University of Texas Press
A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.
Duchess of Palms
A Memoir
University of Texas Press
A “fifties girl” tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.
The Empire of Effects
Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism
University of Texas Press
How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism.
Danger Pay
Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
By Carol Spencer Mitchell; Edited by Ellen Spencer Susman
University of Texas Press
An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there.
Shifting Sands
Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
By Xiaoxuan Lu
University of Texas Press
How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
University of Texas Press
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Super Bodies
Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact
University of Texas Press
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
University of Texas Press
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.
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