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Below the Stars

How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

University of Texas Press

An examination of the critical influence of working actors and actors’ labor unions on industrial structures and practices in Hollywood, including film, television, and streaming.

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Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

University of Texas Press

A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist, who, despite a private life that overshadowed much of her early work, sculpted her own musical rebirth.

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Why Bushwick Bill Matters

University of Texas Press

An astute chronicle of the life and cultural significance of Bushwick Bill, who remixed spectacle as he exposed and exploited ableist and racist assumptions to become a singular voice in rap and the relentless battle over free speech in the United States.

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Poggio Civitate (Murlo)

University of Texas Press

This richly illustrated volume provides the first broad synthesis of findings at Poggio Civitate, one of the best-preserved Etruscan archaeological sites.

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The Republican Party of Texas

A Political History

University of Texas Press

From Reconstruction to the twenty-first century, a former executive director of the Republican Party of Texas presents a comprehensive history of his party and its meandering path from limited local appeal to political dominance.

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Far From Respectable

Dave Hickey and His Art

University of Texas Press

The first book on the critic and essayist Dave Hickey, Far from Respectable examines the life and work of this controversial figure, whose writing changed the discourse around art and popular culture.

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American Twilight

The Cinema of Tobe Hooper

University of Texas Press

A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country’s internal decay.

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Grandmothers on Guard

Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border

University of Texas Press

An incisive portrait of nationalism in the United States, Grandmothers on Guard tells the story of older women who found meaning and community in the Minutemen, an anti-immigrant vigilante movement.

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Vital Voids

Cavities and Holes in Mesoamerican Material Culture

University of Texas Press

An innovative study argues that in Mesoamerica, holes were conceived and produced as conduits of vital forces and material abundance, prerequisites for the emergence of life.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

University of Texas Press

This close analysis of Alfonso Cuarón’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban examines how collaborative authorship produced a thematically layered blockbuster film with a distinctively cinematic point of view.

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