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The Mechanical Horse
How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
University of Texas Press
In this lively cultural history, the journalist Margaret Guroff reveals how the bicycle has transformed American society, from making us mobile to empowering people in all avenues of life.
La India María
Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco
University of Texas Press
Drawing on extensive interviews with the late actress and other film industry professionals, this book surveys the work of performer, director, and producer María Elena Velasco and her central place in Mexploitation cinema.
Evolving Images
Jewish Latin American Cinema
Edited by Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman
University of Texas Press
With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America.
Kuxlejal Politics
Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities
By Mariana Mora
University of Texas Press
This work of activist anthropology investigates the decolonializing cultural practices that the Zapatistas of Chiapas employed to resist the racialized policies of the Mexican neoliberal state and assert their autonomy.
The Mexican Mahjar
Transnational Maronites, Jews, and Arabs under the French Mandate
University of Texas Press
Drawing extensively on French colonial archives and historical ethnography, this book offers the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Latin America and the creation of Arab, French, and Mexican transnational networks.
Hysterical!
Women in American Comedy
University of Texas Press
Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women’s comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to contemporary multimedia
Power Moves
Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston
By Kyle Shelton
University of Texas Press
Adding an important new chapter to the history of postwar metropolitan development, this book investigates how struggles over transportation systems have defined both the physical and political landscapes of Houston.
From Strangers to Neighbors
Post-Disaster Resettlement and Community Building in Honduras
By Ryan Alaniz
University of Texas Press
Presenting case studies of two Honduran resettlements that have experienced very different outcomes, this book identifies the type and quality of support that resettlements need in order to become successful communities.
REMEX
Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era
University of Texas Press
Featuring dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading of borderland and Mexican cultural production—from body art to theater, photography, and architecture—draws on extensive primary research to trace more than two decades of social and polit
Monitoring the Movies
The Fight over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century Urban America
University of Texas Press
This deeply researched history investigates how Progressive-era activists sought to encourage the creation and consumption of high-quality films while lobbying against state-supervised motion picture censorship.
Nuevo South
Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place
University of Texas Press
This unique comparative study of Latina/o and Asian immigration to the American South investigates how migrants, immigrants, and refugees—and reactions to them—are transforming regional understandings of race and place.
Framing a Lost City
Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu
By Amy Cox Hall
University of Texas Press
Drawing on science and technology studies, this book explores how photography transformed an Incan archaeological ruin into “Machu Picchu,” a world heritage site and crown jewel of Peruvian national patrimony.
Ghostnotes
Music of the Unplayed
By B+
University of Texas Press
This mid-career retrospective of the world’s preeminent hip-hop/rap photographer offers a unique visual mix tape of hip-hop artists, producers, and record dealers from the West Coast to the global African musical diaspora.
Weather in Texas
The Essential Handbook
University of Texas Press
Filled with fascinating stories and statistics, this is the essential guide for understanding all of Texas’s weather phenomena, including climate change, and staying safe during hurricanes, tornadoes, flash floods, winter storms, and heat waves.
The Independent Republic of Arequipa
Making Regional Culture in the Andes
University of Texas Press
This anthropological history traces the development of a distinctive regional culture in Peru’s second largest city, which constitutes one of the earliest central Andean examples of the emergence of a broadly mestizo identity.
Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium
Edited by Cynthia Lucia and Rahul Hamid
University of Texas Press
Collecting some of the most frequently requested articles from one of the most influential publications on film, this volume explores the paradoxical ways that digital technology and the Internet have transformed film criticism, programming, and preservat
Substance and Seduction
Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica
Edited by Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck
University of Texas Press
This interdisciplinary anthology reveals how the consumption of seductive ingestibles, such as chocolate, pulque, and peyote, illuminates key linkages between colonization and commodification in Mesoamerica.
Delirious Consumption
Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
University of Texas Press
Looking at several of the leading figures in postwar Latin American letters and art, this volume offers an enlarged understanding of the way art is produced in, and responds to, the age of consumer culture.
Under Surveillance
Being Watched in Modern America
University of Texas Press
Tackling one of today’s most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society.
Souls Against the Concrete
By Khalik Allah
University of Texas Press
This volume presents a gallery of raw and beautiful portraits created in Harlem by the acclaimed young photographer Khalik Allah, producer of the award-winning documentary Field Niggas.
Spectatorship
Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media
Edited by Roxanne Samer and William Whittington
University of Texas Press
Designed for classroom use, this anthology of influential articles from Spectator, the highly regarded film studies journal published by USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, offers historical perspectives on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and media sp
Dopers in Uniform
The Hidden World of Police on Steroids
University of Texas Press
Breaking down the “Blue Wall of Silence,” this landmark book investigates the widespread, illegal use of anabolic steroids in major urban police departments and how it contributes to excessive violence in American policing.
Street Occupations
Urban Vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1925
University of Texas Press
Offering new perspectives on informal commerce and citizenship, this history explains how the transition from slavery to freedom both empowered and constrained the poor, black, and immigrant street vendors of Rio de Janeiro.
Bad Girls of the Arab World
Edited by Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas
University of Texas Press
This interdisciplinary collection of writings by and about Arab women is the first that focuses explicitly on Arab women’s often-fraught engagement with the boundaries that shape their lives in the twenty-first century.
Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire
Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito
University of Texas Press
Using extensive and largely unpublished archival documentation, this major new work recovers the first century of artistic practice in colonial Quito, one of colonial South America’s most important artistic centers.
Every Day We Live Is the Future
Surviving in a City of Disasters
University of Texas Press
Reminiscent of Katherine Boo’s bestseller, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this vivid, cautionary tale of urban inequality and the human suffering caused by climate change recounts the true stories of two Nicaraguan families’ quests to survive in one of th
Texas Sports
Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year
University of Texas Press
With a stirring story for every day of the year, this book celebrates the athletes and teams in more than twenty-five sports that have made Texas a dynamo in the world of sports across more than a century.
William Gedney
Only the Lonely, 1955–1984
University of Texas Press
The first book on photographer William Gedney in nearly twenty years, this retrospective volume offers the only comprehensive survey of his work, including his acclaimed series on eastern Kentucky, Haight-Ashbury, India, gay pride parades, and night scene
Not Your Average Zombie
Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks
By Chera Kee
University of Texas Press
Analyzing humanized zombies in popular culture across nearly a century, this innovative book discloses how the “extra-ordinary” undead mediate our fears of losing agency in the world of the living.
Comic Book Film Style
Cinema at 24 Panels per Second
By Dru Jeffries
University of Texas Press
Emphasizing films such as Batman: The Movie that have received little scholarly attention, this book presents a new and more coherent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre.
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