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Very Special Episodes
Televising Industrial and Social Change
Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst
Rutgers University Press
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
Ties That Enable
Community Solidarity for People Living with Serious Mental Health Problems
By Teresa L. Scheid and S. Megan Smith
Rutgers University Press
Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity.
The Reimagined PhD
Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education
Rutgers University Press
Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have begun to shed this singular sense of mission. The Reimagined PhD normalizes the multiple career paths open to PhD students, while providing practical advice geared to help students, faculty, and administrators incorporate professional skills into graduate training, build career networks, and prepare PhDs for a range of careers.
Star Wars Multiverse
Rutgers University Press
Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, television, children’s books, and fan films, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home on such topics as authoritarianism, colonialism, xenophobia, sexuality, and gender norms.
Special Admission
How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes
Rutgers University Press
Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide an avenue for upward mobility. Kirsten Hextrum reveals the dynamic relationship between the state, elite groups, private entities, educational institutions, and athletic organizations that concentrate opportunities in white suburban communities. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their advantages through admission to elite universities.
Robin and the Making of American Adolescence
Rutgers University Press
Holy adolescence, Batman! This book offers the first character history and analysis of the most famous superhero sidekick, Robin. It partners up comics studies and adolescent studies as a new Dynamic Duo, revealing the Boy (and sometimes Girl!) Wonder as a complex figure through whom mainstream culture has addressed anxieties about American teens.
Movie Minorities
Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, and today films about political prisoners, undocumented workers, and people with disabilities attract mainstream attention. Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across these and other identity-based categories.
Micro Media Industries
Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
Micro Media Industries explores the media of Hmong Americans, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. It argues that micro media industries provide models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media.
Memories before the State
Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion
Rutgers University Press
Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion, a national museum in Peru that memorializes the country’s internal armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s. Joseph P. Feldman analyzes forms of authority that emerge as an official institution seeks to incorporate and manage diverse perspectives on recent violence.
Indigenous Peoples Rise Up
The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism
Edited by Bronwyn Carlson and Jeff Berglund
Rutgers University Press
Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to mobilize Indigenous peoples to build coalitions across the globe and to stand in solidarity with one another. Including examples like Idle No More in Canada, Australian Recognise!, and social media campaigns to maintain Maori language, Indigenous Peoples Rise Up serves as one of the first studies of Indigenous social media use and activism.
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