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Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
The Modern British Horror Film
Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, Steven Gerrard examines the genre’s highlights, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers’ gravest fears about the state of the nation.
Going Viral
Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World
Istanbul
Living with Difference in a Global City
Istanbul
Living with Difference in a Global City
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Technology and Engagement
Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students
Film Remakes and Franchises
From Single to Serious
Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Liberal Christianity and Women's Global Activism
The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters
Diet and the Disease of Civilization
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Exhibiting Atrocity
Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence
The Resilient Self
Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans
Unveiling Desire
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Unveiling Desire
Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine
Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Narrating Love and Violence
Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India
Demographic Angst
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s
Lesson Plans
The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher
Rock 'n' Roll Movies
Embodying the Problem
The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother
Searching for Sycorax
Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
Lady Lushes
Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America
Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges
Aligning Individual Needs and Organizational Goals
Poison in the Ivy
Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
A Dream of Resistance
The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills
Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles
A Queerly Joyful Noise
Choral Musicking for Social Justice
A Queerly Joyful Noise investigates why so many LGBTIQ people are drawn to choral music and how queer chorus members create an experience that is beautiful and politically impactful. Julia “Jules” Balén vividly conveys how queer choruses can collectively empower their singers and serve as progressive rallying calls for their listeners.
Directing
Directing
Gangsters to Governors
The New Bosses of Gambling in America
Gambling was once illegal and controlled by gangsters. But today, gambling is legal in forty-eight states. Are states now addicted to revenue from casinos, lotteries, and online gaming? Clary’s history of American gambling introduces us to the industry’s colorful kingpins while asking tough questions about the pros and cons of legal gambling.