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Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Rutgers University Press
Writing America takes readers on an eclectic tour of historic sites that have been pivotal to the making of American literature, reflecting the true diversity of the nation and its authors. Profusely illustrated, it is the literary gift book for 2015.
American Girls and Global Responsibility
A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War
Rutgers University Press
American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together Cold War culture studies, girls’ studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship. Jennifer Helgren shows the particular ways that girls’ identities and roles were configured, thus shaping their sense of responsibilities as citizens.
New African Cinema
Rutgers University Press
New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers in the new millennium by offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema as it has evolved since the 1960s into the new medium, known as “new African cinema,” it is today.
Digital Music Videos
Rutgers University Press
In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro surveys a wide range of music videos, highlighting some of their most striking innovations. In sampling and reworking a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts, these videos create a whole new digital world for the music industry that offers a plethora of visions and sounds never before encountered.
My City Highrise Garden
Rutgers University Press
Nearly four decades ago, when best-selling author Susan Brownmiller first planted her garden in an apartment terrace twenty stories above street level in the borderland between Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and the Meatpacking District, she could little imagine the struggles and triumphs she and her plants would experience over the years. Filled with humor and candor, My City Highrise Garden tells the story of how she managed to carve out a little home for the natural world in a seemingly inhospitable big city.
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions
Programs, Policies, and Social Justice
Edited by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney
Rutgers University Press
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions
Programs, Policies, and Social Justice
Edited by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney
Rutgers University Press
Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.
Zombie Cinema
By Ian Olney
Rutgers University Press
The zombie apocalypse is here! The living dead have been lurking in popular culture since the 1930s, but they are now ubiquitous. Presenting a historical overview of zombies in film and on television, Zombie Cinema also explores this globalized phenomenon, examining why the dead have captured the imagination of twenty-first-century audiences worldwide.
Disney Culture
By John Wills
Rutgers University Press
The Walt Disney Company has grown into a diversified global media giant, but is it still possible to identify a coherent Disney ethos? Examining everything from theme parks to merchandising to animation to live-action films, Disney Culture proposes that they all follow a core corporate philosophy dating back to the 1920s.
A Professor at the End of Time
The Work and Future of the Professoriate
By John Best
Rutgers University Press
A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.
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