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Undead Ends
Stories of Apocalypse
By S. Trimble
Rutgers University Press
Framing modern British and American apocalypse films as sites of interpretive struggle, Trimble argues that contemporary apocalypse films aren’t so much envisioning The End of the world as the end of a particular world; not The End of humanness but, rather, the end of Man.
The Cat Men of Gotham
Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York
By Peggy Gavan
Rutgers University Press
This book tells the stories of the tender-hearted men who adopted stray cats from the cruel streets of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York. Its forty-two profiles introduce us to an array of remarkable men and extraordinary cats, including sports team mascots, artists’ muses, and presidential pets.
Phonographic Memories
Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Rutgers University Press
Phonographic Memories is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean popular music in the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide poetics that attends to the centrality of Caribbean music in retrieving and replaying personal and cultural memories, Hamilton offers a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization.
Parcels
Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Rutgers University Press
Anastario investigates the social memories of rural Salvadorans from an area that was heavily impacted by the Salvadoran Civil War, which fueled a mass exodus to the U.S. By working with travelers who exchanged parcels containing food, medicine, photographs and letters, Anastario tells the story behind parcels and illuminates their larger cultural and structural significance.
Intersectionality and Higher Education
Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.
Intersectionality and Higher Education
Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art
Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Rutgers University Press
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art offers an innovative and systematic analysis of contemporary Caribbean art practices in the Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. Focusing on a broad range of artistic projects, the book assesses the potential of visual creativity to outline a unique approach to Caribbean visual practices based on individual and collective agency.
You're Doing it Wrong!
Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise
Rutgers University Press
You’re Doing it Wrong! investigates the storied history of medical expertise directed at mothers in the media, from nineteenth-century publications to today’s parenting websites and private Facebook groups. Exploring potential health crises from infertility treatments to “better baby” contests, it provides a provocative look at two centuries of expertise on health decisions during the stages of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and infant care.
Toxic Exposures
Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Exposures tells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to mustard gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. Drawing from once-classified government records, military reports, scientists’ papers, and veterans’ testimony, Susan L. Smith assesses the poisonous legacies of these experiments, including scientific racism and environmental degradation. In addition, she reveals their surprising impact on the origins of chemotherapy as cancer treatment and the development of veterans’ rights movements.
Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Edited by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan
Rutgers University Press
This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those propagated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.
Weighty Problems
Embodied Inequality at a Children’s Weight Loss Camp
Rutgers University Press
By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.
Weighty Problems
Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp
Rutgers University Press
By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children. Weighty Problems finds that embodied inequality is constructed and negotiated through a number of interactional processes including resocialization, stigma management, social comparisons, and attribution.
The Instruction Myth
Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It
By John Tagg
Rutgers University Press
The Instruction Myth argues that higher education can only be saved if universities are willing and able to abandon one of their key assumptions: that education revolves around instruction. In its place, he presents a powerful new model of a university centered upon student learning, offering concrete plans for its implementation.
Soccer
By Jean-Philippe Toussaint; Translated by Shaun Whiteside
Rutgers University Press
Combining an intellectual’s keen mind and a sports fan’s heart, acclaimed novelist Jean-Philippe Touissant reflects upon what a lifetime love of soccer has taught him about life and the passage of time itself. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part philosophical essay, Soccer is entirely unique, a thrilling departure from the usual clichés of sports writing.
Forging Arizona
A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West
Rutgers University Press
In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S. Southwest, this book recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide are only as stable as the narratives that define them.
Destructive Desires
Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality
Rutgers University Press
Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how R&B culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities.
Impure Migration
Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina
By Mir Yarfitz
Rutgers University Press
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina. Yarfitz examines how thousands of Eastern European Jewish women and men migrated to Latin America and engaged in organized sex work to escape from the difficult conditions in their home countries.
When the Air Became Important
A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries
Rutgers University Press
Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. She contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.
TV Family Values
Gender, Domestic Labor, and 1980s Sitcoms
Rutgers University Press
During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Alice Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.
Serial Selves
Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics
Rutgers University Press
Serial Selves considers how female, queer, disabled, and minority artists use autobiographical comics to make their experiences not only legible, but visible as well. Fusing methods from literary and visual studies, it explores how these artists on the margins challenge both the narrative conventions of autobiography and the norms of pictorial self-representation.
EC Comics
Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Rutgers University Press
EC Comics recounts how, in the 1950s, EC published many sensationally-titled comics with serious, socially progressive themes—such as “Hate!,” “The Guilty!,” and “Judgment Day!”—and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, anticommunist hysteria, and other forms of prejudice in America.
Criminalization/Assimilation
Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film
Rutgers University Press
Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns.
Transgender Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Transgender Cinema reveals the scope of how trans people have been depicted on screen, starting with Charlie Chaplin’s comic drag scenes and culminating in current hits like Transparent and A Fantastic Woman. It analyzes classic Hollywood movies, indie films, documentaries, world cinema, television, and trans filmmakers and actors.
The Burden of Choice
Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture
Rutgers University Press
The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. With its cultural studies and humanities-driven methodologies focused on close readings, historical research, and qualitative analysis, this book models a promising avenue for the study of algorithms and culture.
The Arc of Abstraction
Rutgers University Press
The Arc of Abstraction is lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images of works by a broad array of abstract artists including Ad Reinhardt, Phillip K. Smith, III, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, Romare Howard Bearden, Stuart Davis, Louise Nevelson, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Melvin Edwards, and Joaquín Torres-García. Expert commentary by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Gabriel Dawe, Jalena Louise Jampolsky, Marela Zacarias, Tarin Fuller, William L. Coleman, Souleo, Tricia Laughlin Bloom, and Kay WalkingStick provides important insights to help readers understand the nature and significance of the artwork.
Native Artists of North America
Rutgers University Press
Lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images, this book includes original art and artifacts from the distant past as well as modern work by Native American artists from a vast array of tribes — including Cherokee, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Lakota, Zuni, Pueblo, Yup’ik, Huron, Ojibwa, Arapaho, and Nez Perce. Works included are clothing (such as robes, shoes, and hats), everyday items (such as blankets, pots, jugs, and baskets) and artwork (such as paintings on animal hide and colorful figurines).
L.A. Private Eyes
Rutgers University Press
L.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930’s through the present day. This book explores the metamorphosis of the solitary detective figure and the many facets of the genre itself.
The Jews’ Indian
Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America
Rutgers University Press
The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. This book is the first history to analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.
Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles
Origins to 1960
Rutgers University Press
Historically, Los Angeles has been central to the international success of Latin American cinema and became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. This book examines the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema.
Animation
Edited by Scott Curtis
Rutgers University Press
The last installment of the acclaimed Behind the Silver Screen series, Animation explores the variety of technologies and modes of production throughout the history of American animation. Drawing on archival sources to analyze the relationship between production and style, this volume provides also a unique approach to understanding animation in general.
Watching Our Weights
The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the “Obesity Epidemic”
Rutgers University Press
Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.
The Movies as a World Force
American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination
Rutgers University Press
The Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era’s most prestigious film genre, the historical crowd epic.
Some Kind of Mirror
Creating Marilyn Monroe
Rutgers University Press
Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united the contradictory discourses about women’s roles in 1950s America. Amanda Konkle explores how Monroe drew from the techniques of Method acting and finely calibrated her performances to reflect her audience’s anxieties and desires.
Ethics and Law for Neurosciences Clinicians
Foundations and Evolving Challenges
Rutgers University Press
Science and technology are advancing more rapidly than regulations or the law can interpret and integrate them into a supportive or regulatory framework. This book is written for all clinicians in the neurosciences specialties who need to examine and re-examine the ethical and legal implications of advances in clinical neurosciences.
Divergent Paths to College
Race, Class, and Inequality in High Schools
Rutgers University Press
Megan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures.
There Has to Be a Better Way
Lessons from Former Urban Teachers
Rutgers University Press
There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the teachers themselves. Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with former teachers, the authors identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why teachers so often willingly leave the classroom.
Digital Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Stephen Prince offers a clear, concise account of how digital cinema both extends longstanding traditions of filmmaking and challenges fundamental assumptions about film. In the process, he raises provocative questions about the emergence of virtual reality, the future of film preservation, and the status of realism in digital cinema.
Unwatchable
Rutgers University Press
With over 50 original essays by leading critics and scholars, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.
Hollywood on Location
An Industry History
Edited by Joshua Gleich and Lawrence Webb
Rutgers University Press
Hollywood on Location is the first comprehensive history of location shooting in the American film industry, showing how this mode of filmmaking changed Hollywood business practices, production strategies, and visual style from the silent era to the present. The contributors explore how major studios came to embrace location shooting as a standard procedure.
Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
By Amy Brainer
Rutgers University Press
In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Amy Brainer provides an in-depth look at queer and transgender family relationships in Taiwan. Brainer is among the first to analyze first-person accounts of heterosexual parents and siblings of LGBT people in a non-Western context.
The Worlds of William Penn
Edited by Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski
Rutgers University Press
William Penn—political thinker, activist for liberty of conscience, and colonial founder—was instrumental in the early modern movement for religious toleration and political liberty. As we approach the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death, the time is right for a reexamination and reconsideration of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious freedom.
The Worlds of William Penn
Edited by Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski
Rutgers University Press
William Penn—political thinker, activist for liberty of conscience, and colonial founder—was instrumental in the early modern movement for religious toleration and political liberty. As we approach the 300th anniversary of Penn’s death, the time is right for a reexamination and reconsideration of Penn’s importance both in his own time and to the ongoing campaign for political and religious freedom.
The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians
Stories of Change from the School for Peace
Rutgers University Press
In The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, scholar and activist Nava Sonnenschein shares a collection of twenty-five powerful interviews she conducted with Palestinian and Jewish Israeli alumni of peacebuilding courses, showing the potential for a sustainable path to peace with equality in Israel and Palestine.
The Indecent Screen
Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century
Rutgers University Press
The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, the Federal Communications Commission, the TV industry, and audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on decency debates since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which have called into question the roles of family and government, and the value of free speech.
Milking in the Shadows
Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland
Rutgers University Press
Julie Keller takes an in-depth look at a population of undocumented migrants working in the American dairy industry to understand the components of this labor system. This book offers a framework for understanding the disjuncture between the labor desired by employers and life as an undocumented worker in America today.
The Politics of Fame
By Eric Burns
Rutgers University Press
The Politics of Fame is a provocative and entertaining look at the lives and afterlives of America’s most beloved celebrities, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley to Oprah Winfrey. It raises important questions about what celebrity worship reveals about the worshippers—and about the state of the nation itself.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Annotated Bilingual Edition
Edited by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado; By Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora; Translated by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Rutgers University Press
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Annotated Bilingual Edition
Edited by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado; By Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora; Translated by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Rutgers University Press
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
Guys Like Me
Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Rutgers University Press
Guys Like Me introduces us to five ordinary veterans from different generations who have done extraordinary work as peace activists. Michael A. Messner reveals how the horror and trauma of the battlefront motivated onetime warriors to reconcile with former enemies, crusade for justice, and heal themselves and others.
Liberating Hollywood
Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry.