Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Double Visions, Double Fictions
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif...
Global Bollywood
Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western...
Landscape of Discontent
Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved...
The Three-Minute Outdoorsman
Wild Science from Magnetic Deer to Mumbling Carp
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
There are days when, if we hunt or fish or watch birds, we just want to be alone with our thoughts. Other times, however, contemplating the great outdoors that contains so many unknowns, we may wish to learn about moaning moose . . . or mumbling carp . . . or magnetic deer. And this is where Robert M....
by Lisa Tatonetti
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, Lisa Tatonetti provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, Tatonetti offers the first overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the...
Awakening the Eye
Robert Frank's American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Until now, celebrated photographer Robert Frank’s daring and unconventional work as a filmmaker has not been awarded the critical notice it deserves. In this timely volume, George Kouvaros surveys Frank’s films and videos and places them in the larger context of experimentation in American art and...
Barnstorming the Prairies
How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon—and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond. But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer earthbound, the Midwestern landscape...
Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
The profound concentration of economic power in the United States in recent decades has produced surprising new forms of racialization. In Producers, Parasites, Patriots, Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes show that while...
Worm Work
Recasting Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Worms. Natural history is riddled with them. Literature is crawling with them. From antiquity to today, the ubiquitous and multiform worm provokes an immediate discomfort and unconscious distancing: it remains us against them in anthropocentric anxiety. So there is always something muddled, or dirty,...
Stupendous, Miserable City
Pasolini’s Rome
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini—but it’s not the classical Rome you imagine. Stupendous, Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-century Roman urban development....
Modernism's Visible Hand
Architecture and Regulation in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
What is the origin of “room temperature”? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions...
Mixed Realism
Videogames and the Violence of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of “immersion.” His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life.
Today’s wired culture...
Imagine the Sound
Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The post–Civil Rights era was marked by an explosion of black political thought and aesthetics. Reflecting a shifting horizon of expectations around race relations, the unconventional sounds of free jazz coupled with experimental literary creation nuanced the push toward racial equality and enriched...
A Good Investment?
Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate...