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A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush
By Eric Draper; Introduction by George W. Bush
University of Texas Press
With an extraordinary collection of images, many never before published, Chief White House Photographer Eric Draper presents a compelling, behind-the-scenes view of the entire presidency of George W. Bush, from dramatic events such as 9/11 to relaxed, int
Twentieth Century-Fox
The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This sweeping and vivid history presents the innovative studio from its initial merger to the enormous success of The Sound of Music, combining film analysis with the interconnected histories of the studio, its executives, and the industry at large.
Queer Bergman
Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema
University of Texas Press
Foregrounding a fundamental aspect of the Swedish auteur’s work that has been routinely ignored, as well as the vibrant connection between postwar American queer culture and European art cinema, this book offers a pioneering reading of Bergman’s films as
Our House in the Clouds
Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador
University of Texas Press
This compelling memoir by the author of Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador vividly describes an American couple’s experience of making a second home in a rural Andean community in which they are the only outsiders.
David Lynch Swerves
Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire
University of Texas Press
In this paradigm-shifting book, the author of The Passion of David Lynch draws on insights into the filmmaker’s creative sources that he has never revealed before to forge a startlingly original template for analyzing Lynch’s recent films.
Amazon Town TV
An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
By Richard Pace and Brian P. Hinote
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study examines television’s impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupá, in 1983, to the present.
Writing the Story of Texas
Edited by Patrick L. Cox and Kenneth E. Hendrickson
University of Texas Press
Luminaries in Texas history pay tribute to an all-star cast of thirteen historians—from J. Frank Dobie to Américo Paredes—who preserved Texas’s past, and who were often as colorful as the historical figures they studied.
From the Republic of the Rio Grande
A Personal History of the Place and the People
University of Texas Press
Using family papers, local chronicles, and scholarly works, de la Garza tells the story of the Republic of the Rio Grande and its people from the perspective of individuals who lived in this region from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Cormac McCarthy's House
Reading McCarthy Without Walls
By Peter Josyph
University of Texas Press
Acclaimed visual artist, actor-director, and writer Peter Josyph and a cast of other interpreters and critics offer a unique appreciation of the literary genius of Cormac McCarthy through directing and acting in his works, exploring their physical setting
Classical and Modern Interactions
Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues
University of Texas Press
In this thought-provoking work, a noted classics scholar tests the ancient-modern comparison, showing what it can add to contemporary debates and what its limitations are.
The Texas Supreme Court
A Narrative History, 1836–1986
University of Texas Press
The award-winning author of Sam Houston, Passionate Nation, and Wolf: The Lives of Jack London offers a lively narrative history of Texas’s highest court and how it helped to shape the Lone Star State during its first 150 years.
Experimental Latin American Cinema
History and Aesthetics
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking exploration of experimental Latin American film applies Deleuzian theories of cinema in a comparative approach to examine multiple genres and works from the most important national cinematic traditions
Cooking Texas Style
Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State
By Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez
University of Texas Press
Thirty years and more than 40,000 copies sold since its first publication, Cooking Texas Style—available again in paperback with a new preface—is still the best source of authentic recipes for the traditional comfort foods of Texas.
The Archaeology of La Calsada
A Rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico.
Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy
University of Texas Press
This exceptional study examines the experience of Mexican workers in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), widely considered a model program by the World Bank and other international institutions despite the significant violations of l
Psycho-Sexual
Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin
By David Greven
University of Texas Press
Examining the intertextual reverberations between canonical Hitchcock films and the New Hollywood of the 1970s, this revisionist reading challenges the received opinion of misogyny, racism, and homophobia presented in male desire featured in works by Hitc
Becoming a Bilingual Family
Help Your Kids Learn Spanish (and Learn Spanish Yourself in the Process)
By Stephen Marks and Jeffrey Marks
University of Texas Press
Unique among language study aids, this book gives English-speaking parents the tools to create a bilingual home and help their kids learn Spanish in their earliest years, when children are most receptive to learning languages.
Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza
From Primordial Sea to Public Space
University of Texas Press
Extensively illustrated with detailed site plans and photographs, this architectural history of the Mexican plaza reveals why this central public space has been the heart of the community from ancient Mesoamerican times until the present.
Film Genre Reader IV
Edited by Barry Keith Grant
University of Texas Press
Newly revised and expanded nearly a decade after the third edition, Film Genre Reader is the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold.
Disney's Most Notorious Film
Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South
By Jason Sperb
University of Texas Press
Analyzing histories of film reception, convergence, and race relations over seven decades, this pioneering book undertakes a superb, multifaceted reading of one of Hollywood’s most notorious films, Disney’s Song of the South.
Corporate Crops
Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control
University of Texas Press
An eye-opening examination of four legal cases concerning genetically modified seeds in Saskatchewan and Mississippi, using the lens of political economy to make crucial connections between sociological repercussions and legal proceedings involving Monsan
Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature
By Victoria Emma Pagán; Introduction by Mark Fenster
University of Texas Press
This provocative new companion to Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History shows how viewing an array of Latin texts through the lens of conspiracy theory reveals a host of socioeconomic tensions from the Roman Republic through the age of the emperors.
Americans All
Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II
University of Texas Press
This study of the most fully developed and intensive use of “soft power” diplomacy in U.S. history explores how the U.S. government enlisted Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, and other cultural leaders and institutions to bolster inter-American cultur
The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border
By Chad Richardson and Michael J. Pisani
University of Texas Press
This first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the “off-the-books” economic systems that fuel the Laredo-to-Brownsville corridor examines the complex repercussions of these legal and illegal forms of border commerce.
Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic
By Deborah Beck
University of Texas Press
Drawing on narratology and linguistics, this first systematic examination of all the speeches in the Iliad and the Odyssey reveals a unified system of speech presentation in the Homeric epics that includes supposedly “modern” techniques such as free indir
Sancho's Journal
Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets
University of Texas Press
Completing the story of the Mexican American struggle for inclusion and equal rights that he began in Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 and Quixote’s Soldiers, Montejano presents a rich ethnography of the street-level Chicano movement.
Reclaiming Iraq
The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State
By Abbas Kadhim
University of Texas Press
An essential exploration of the pivotal rebellion whose repercussions continue to be felt throughout the West, this timely study reclaims the early twentieth-century Iraqi revolution narrative to emphasize the voices of the vanquished, who lost the battle
Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture
Ideology and Innovation
University of Texas Press
Experts explore what factors drove the emergence of scale as a defining element in ancient Italian architecture, and how these factors influenced the origins and development of Etruscan and early Roman monumental designs.
Mexican Women in American Factories
Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a rich data set of interviews with over 600 women maquila workers, this pathfinding book offers the first rigorous economic and sociological analysis of the impact of NAFTA and its implications for free trade around the world.
Desert Passions
Orientalism and Romance Novels
By Hsu-Ming Teo
University of Texas Press
Ranging from “high” literature to erotica and popular fiction, this pioneering cultural history explores the gendered societal and political purposes that have been served by tales of romance between Western women and Arab men.
A Future for Amazonia
Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics
University of Texas Press
A remarkable story of empowerment, tracing the efforts of Randy Borman, the “gringo chief” who stemmed the tide of dispossession and rainforest destruction beginning in the 1990s and helped the Cofán of Amazonian Ecuador flourish as the result of unique c
Texas Furniture, Volume Two
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880
University of Texas Press
With over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, color photographs, and a new introduction, Texas Furniture, Volume Two completes the definitive guide to the state’s rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it.
Slingin' Sam
The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game
By Joe Holley; Introduction by Peyton Manning
University of Texas Press
Paying long-overdue tribute to one of the greatest legends in football, here is a biography of the quarterback who single-handedly revolutionized the game—TCU All-American and Washington Redskins Hall-of-Famer Slingin’ Sammy Baugh.
Nic Nicosia
University of Texas Press
With lavish illustrations and an original short story by Philipp Meyer, this is the first major career retrospective of photographer and filmmaker Nic Nicosia, whose fabricated images evoke the sense of something askew or threatening within “normal” life.
Américo Paredes
Culture and Critique
University of Texas Press
A rich critical study of the literary legacies bestowed by the late Américo Paredes (1915–1999), and the intellectual paths he created as a distinguished folklore scholar and one of the forebears of Mexican American Studies.
All-American Boy
By Larzer Ziff
University of Texas Press
Offering an intriguing new approach to American cultural history through one of its enduring icons, Larzer Ziff traces the rise and flourishing of an ideal type once represented by such figures as George Washington and Tom Sawyer—a type immensely popular before antiheroes like Holden Caulfield captured our imagination.
A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove
University of Texas Press
Forty interviews with members of the cast and crew; set designs, costumes, and props from the Wittliff Collections; and candid, on-the-set photographs offer a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the book, the miniseries, and the world of Lonesome Dove.
The Surprising Design of Market Economies
University of Texas Press
Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the “free market,” this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how “the market” works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.
The Fictional Christopher Nolan
By Todd McGowan
University of Texas Press
With close readings of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Inception, this theoretically sophisticated study explores how Christopher Nolan has developed a politically engaged filmmaking that makes explicit use of cinema’s tendency toward the lie.
The Education of a Radical
An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
In the tradition of My Car in Managua, this is a wise and captivating memoir of a young leftist radical’s transformation while spending ten months as a Sandinista revolutionary in the early 1980s, and his struggle to reconcile uncomfortable truths with hi
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