University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
by Cynthia Baron, Sharon Marie Carnicke
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers."
---Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University
Reframing...
Fictions of Affliction
Physical Disability in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
"Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto."
---Choice
"An absolutely stunning book that will make a significant contribution to both Victorian literary studies...
by Ronald Walters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
“In The Price of Racial Reconciliation*,* Ronald Walters offers an abundance of riches. This book provides an extraordinarily comprehensive and persuasive set of arguments for reparations, and will be the lens through which meaningful opportunities for reconciliation are viewed in the future. If...
A Century of November
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel
A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope.
"Gripping, damning, and transfixing."
---Entertainment Weekly
" . . . possesses a time-bending gravity. . . . [A]...
Staging Philosophy
Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks...
Cutting Performances
Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
"A thoughtful and engaging contribution to the field that will have a sustained and lasting impact on the way feminist performance is defined and understood, as well as on how feminist histories and historiographies continue to challenge and transform the larger field of performance."
---Charlotte...
Signifying Bodies
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a 'life worth living' for persons with disabilities. Couser's work engages these debates by exploring...
These Days of Large Things
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The United States at the turn of the twentieth century cultivated a passion for big. It witnessed the emergence of large-scale corporate capitalism; the beginnings of American imperialism on a global stage; record-level immigration; a rapid expansion of cities; and colossal events and structures like...
by Keally McBride
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines...
by Joshua Horwitz, Casey Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The NRA steadfastly maintains that the 30,000 gun-related deaths and 300,000 assaults with firearms in the United States every year are a small price to pay to guarantee freedom. As former NRA President Charlton Heston put it, "freedom isn't free."
And when gun enthusiasts talk about...
Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness
Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"Jones and McDermott restore meaning to democratic responsibility by finding that public evaluations affect Congress. In contrast to the popular depiction of the representatives controlling the represented
rampant in the political science literature, Jones and McDermott show that the people are...
Beyond Groupthink
Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-making
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and,...
Jerusalem Besieged
From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
"Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance. Cline guides us through the baffling, but always bloody, array of...
Congressional Communication
Content and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"Lipinski's impressive analysis of members' communications with constituents yields major insights about partisanship, effects on reelection prospects, and constituent evaluations."
--Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University
"The communication between representatives and their...