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This Land
An American Portrait
By Jack Spencer
University of Texas Press
Created across thirteen years, forty-eight states, and eighty thousand miles, this startlingly fresh photographic portrait of the American landscape shares artistic affinities with the works of such American masters as Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Mark Rothko, and Albert Bierstadt.
The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory
University of Texas Press
Using examples from all of the Athenian orators, this innovative book considers forensic speeches as one of the premier performance genres of Classical Athens, in which vision and visuality played a central role in convincing a jury.
Picturing Childhood
Youth in Transnational Comics
University of Texas Press
Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.
Haunting Bollywood
Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
By Meheli Sen
University of Texas Press
The first wide-ranging look at horror and the supernatural in Bollywood films made since 1949, this interdisciplinary study examines how gender and genre intersect in cinematic tales of unproductive love, abominable creatures, and unspeakable appetites.
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.
Blood of the Earth
Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
University of Texas Press
Spanning the 1920s to the presidency of Evo Morales, this history traces how resource nationalism has pitted ordinary Bolivians against conservative Bolivian leaders, US officials, and foreign investors in a struggle to control the country’s natural wealt
Mano Dura
The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador
By Sonja Wolf
University of Texas Press
A preeminent authority on El Salvador’s street gangs reports on three nongovernmental organizations that, advocating for human rights, have attempted to reform the country’s gang policy—only to be stifled by sweeping, politically popular Mano Dura (Iron F
Cattle in the Backlands
Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics
University of Texas Press
Bringing much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the impacts of ranching in the tropics, this book explores how cattle raising transformed a remote region of Brazil economically, socially, and environmentally.
At the Crossroads
Diego Rivera and his Patrons at MoMA, Rockefeller Center, and the Palace of Fine Arts
University of Texas Press
Offering a unique look at the controversies surrounding Diego Rivera’s mural Man at the Crossroads, this book examines how Rivera’s artwork represented conflicting ideas during the 1930s and how art is leveraged to enact change.
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
University of Texas Press
Learning from Bogotá illuminates how a former “drug capital” has been transformed into a “pedagogical city,” where redesigned public spaces teach residents how to reconnect with one another and become more engaged citizens
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