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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.
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