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Ghostlight

University of Texas Press

A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Danger Pay

Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994

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.

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Shifting Sands

Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands

University of Texas Press

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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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.

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Saeculum

Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought

University of Texas Press

How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.

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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.

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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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