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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.
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.
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.
Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
By Anthony Tuck
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.
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.
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.
American Twilight
The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
Edited by Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson
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.
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.
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.
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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