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Out of Sync & Out of Work
History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture
By Joel Burges
Rutgers University Press
Out of Sync & Out of Work explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labor, in film and literature. This book advances its readers’ grasp of the complexities of historical time in contemporary culture, moving the study of temporality forward in film and media studies, literary studies, critical theory, and cultural critique.
Finding Einstein's Brain
Rutgers University Press
Frederick E. Lepore delves into the strange, elusive tale of what became of Einstein’s brain and what it represents for brain and/or intelligence studies. This "biography of a brain" explores how Einstein’s brain anatomy was truly exceptional, and how “found” photographs of the organ begin to explain the brain of a genius.
Destructive Sublime
World War II in American Film and Media
Rutgers University Press
In the American popular imaginary, the Second World War remains the prime example of American virtue—the country is typified by individual and collective heroism. Destructive Sublime complicates the oversimplified and commonly held view that film and video portray the war in ways that are conservative, both politically and aesthetically.
Comic Book Movies
By Blair Davis
Rutgers University Press
Comic Book Movies investigates the genre’s powerful appeal to today’s moviegoers. Examining not only superhero movies, but also adaptations of indie comics and graphic novels, Blair Davis assesses their aesthetic innovations and tells how they have transformed the film industry.
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Edited by Nanci Adler
Rutgers University Press
The contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones.
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Edited by Nanci Adler
Rutgers University Press
The contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones.
New York City Politics
Governing Gotham
Rutgers University Press
In this second edition, Bruce F. Berg updates the discussion of New York’s political system with examples from the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations as well as current public policy issues including infrastructure, housing and homelessness, land use regulations, and education.
New Jersey
A History of the Garden State
Edited by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit
Rutgers University Press
New Jersey: A History of the Garden State is a fresh and comprehensive overview of New Jersey’s history from the prehistoric era to the present. The findings of archaeologists, political, social, and economic historians are brought together to offer a new look at the ways in which the Garden State has changed over time. From its pivotal role in the American Revolution to its modern-day suburbs and cities, this book shows how the small state of New Jersey is often a bellwether for the nation.
Through the Crosshairs
War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
By Roger Stahl
Rutgers University Press
Through the Crosshairs traces the genealogy of the weaponized gaze—camera footage framed from the perspective of a military drone, a descending smart bomb, or a sniper’s telescopic sights. Tracking these images across a variety of media, including news reports, action movies, and video games, Roger Stahl explores how they have influenced public perceptions.
The Jersey Shore
The Past, Present & Future of a National Treasure
Rutgers University Press
The Jersey Shore tells the story of this famous region, from the 1600s to the present, and from Sandy Hook to Cape May, with particular attention to its history, culture, and varied landscapes. This book is an enthusiastic and comprehensive portrait by a native son, whose passion is shared by millions of beachgoers.
Politics Across the Hudson
The Tappan Zee Megaproject
Rutgers University Press
Politics Across the Hudson offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning for the new Tappan Zee Bridge, and includes a new epilogue and more photos, revealing valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies. Drawing on his own extensive experience in planning megaprojects, more than one hundred exclusive interviews with key figures (including three governors), and extensive research into government records, Philip Plotch tells the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of high-stakes battles between powerful players in the public, private, and civic sectors.
Making Sense of the College Curriculum
Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
Rutgers University Press
Over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in higher education. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a structured and coherent undergraduate education is such a vexing challenge for colleges and universities.
Outside the Limelight
Basketball in the Ivy League
By Kathy Orton; Foreword by John Feinstein
Rutgers University Press
Outside the Limelight pulls back the curtain on Ivy League basketball. At a time when college sports have become a multimillion dollar industry, Kathy Orton reminds us of why some young men chase hoop dreams—not for an NBA contract, but for the love of the game.
SportsWorld
An American Dreamland
Rutgers University Press
SportsWorld is a well-known commentator’s overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America—sports. Lipsyte's classic text, newly introduced, interweaves biographies of sports greats—including New York Jets star Joe Namath, greatest-in-the-world boxer Muhammad Ali, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and tennis pro Billie Jean King—with critical analysis of American racism, capitalism, politics, and gender.
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground.
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground.
Prelude to Hospice
Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families
Rutgers University Press
Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care, including the relationships between doctors and patients at a time when a growing number of patients began to feel emboldened to challenge medical authority, demanding information about diagnosis and treatment and participation in decision-making.
No Slam Dunk
Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change
By Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner
Rutgers University Press
No Slam Dunk provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been “No Slam Dunk.”
Walking Harlem
The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America
By Karen Taborn
Rutgers University Press
This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering 91 different historical sites. With detailed maps, informative text, and nearly 70 stunning photographs, Walking Harlem gives individuals all the tools they need to thoroughly explore a century’s worth of the neighborhood’s cultural, political, religious, and artistic heritage.
The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
By Nick Hall
Rutgers University Press
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television.
The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
By Nick Hall
Rutgers University Press
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television.
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance—many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.
The Limits of Auteurism
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood
Rutgers University Press
The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history. The Limits of Auteurism challenges many of these assumptions. The book explores how distribution and critical reception determined the parameters of the New Hollywood canon.
A Rhetorical Crime
Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
By Anton Weiss-Wendt; Foreword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson
Rutgers University Press
A Rhetorical Crime shows how, over the course of the Cold War era, genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in international propaganda battles. Through a unique comparative analysis of U.S. and Soviet statements on genocide, Weiss-Wendt investigates why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
Rutgers University Press
Historians on “Hamilton” brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America’s history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
Rutgers University Press
Historians on “Hamilton” brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America’s history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.
Standing on Principle
Lessons Learned in Public Life
By James J. Florio; Foreword by William Bradley
Rutgers University Press
This political memoir tells the remarkable story of how New Jersey’s James J. Florio, a high school dropout, went on to become an attorney, a congressman, and finally one of the nation’s most progressive governors—a passionate advocate for health care, gun control, and environmental protection.
Rest Uneasy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans’ fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.
Empowering Men of Color on Campus
Building Student Community in Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
Empowering Men of Color on Campus examines how men of color negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Success (B4US). The authors introduce the concept of educational agency, which is harbored in cultural wealth and demonstrates how ongoing B4US engagement empowers the men’s efforts and abilities to persist in college.
Monster Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters, from gigantic beasts to microscopic parasites, from grotesque demons to normal-looking serial killers. Film expert Barry Keith Grant considers what each type of movie monster might reveal about how we regard the natural, the supernatural, and the human.
Destined for Greatness
Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town
Rutgers University Press
Michael Ramirez examines the lives of forty-eight independent rock musicians who seek out non-normative choices in a renowned college music town. He explores the life course trajectories of women and men to understand the extent to which pathways are structured to allow some individuals to fashion careers in music worlds.
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
Rutgers University Press
The Douglass Century tells a powerful tale of the creativity and determination of successive generations of women who have claimed intellectual space, devised educational programs, and sustained an academic project, Douglass Residential College that has reshaped the worlds available to women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Using Servant Leadership
How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
The theory of servant leadership posits that the most effective leaders nurture the personal growth and well-being of their followers. Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how college and university faculty members can engage with administrators, students, and community members to put these principles into practice.
Prohibition Gangsters
The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
By Marc Mappen
Rutgers University Press
Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs from the 1920s and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs into sophisticated, complex syndicates.
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Edited by David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini
Rutgers University Press
At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media.
Transitive Cultures
Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
Rutgers University Press
Transitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining texts from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Canada, and the United States, this book challenges conventional expectations regarding diaspora and minority writers.
A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Rutgers University Press
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Post-Borderlandia
Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Rutgers University Press
Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory.
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Rutgers University Press
Over ninety percent of Europe’s 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust, but a tiny fragment of about 150,000 children survived. Cohen traces the postwar lives of these children, shedding new light on the way their experiences and perceptions both during and after the war shadowed and shaped their lives through adulthood.
Knickerbocker
The Myth behind New York
Rutgers University Press
Deep within New York’s compelling, sprawling history lives an odd, ornery Manhattan native named Diedrich Knickerbocker. This book invites readers into the world of Knickerbocker, the antihero who surprised everyone by becoming the standard-bearer for the city’s exceptional sense of self, or what we now call a New York “attitude.”
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