University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
School Choice Tradeoffs
Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and...
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Though small among its woodpecker relatives, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker poses a huge dilemma for its human neighbors. Uniquely adapted to live in the old-growth pine forests of the southeastern United States, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker has nearly disappeared as the forests have been cleared for agricultural,...
After Revolution
Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution (1979-1990) initiated a broad program of social transformation to improve the situation of the working class and poor, women, and other non-elite groups through agrarian reform, restructured urban employment, and wide access to health care, education, and social services....
Make Ours Marvel
Media Convergence and a Comics Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of the...
Power Moves
Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Since World War II, Houston has become a burgeoning, internationally connected metropolis—and a sprawling, car-dependent city. In 1950, it possessed only one highway, the Gulf Freeway, which ran between Houston and Galveston. Today, Houston and Harris County have more than 1,200 miles of highways,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
From reviews of the third edition:
"Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology's consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as...
The Solaris Effect
Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's represent the apparent oppositions between nature and culture, wild and tame? Steven Dillon's intriguing new volume...
New Maricón Cinema
Outing Latin American Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and empathic relationship with queer identities. Referring to these films as New Maricón Cinema, Vinodh...
Blossoms and Blood
Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker’s evolving aesthetic and its...
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Steven Spielberg once said, "I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, it's going to make a pretty good movie." Spielberg's comment embodies the essence of the high concept film, which can be condensed into...
Becoming a Bilingual Family
Help Your Kids Learn Spanish (and Learn Spanish Yourself in the Process)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Would you like your children to grow up bilingual, even if you aren't yet? Then speak to your kids in Spanish as you learn the language along with them. Becoming a Bilingual Family gives English-speaking parents the tools to start speaking Spanish with their kids in their earliest years, when children...
Senhora
Profile of a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
"It is a truth universally acknowledged . . ." that a single woman in possession of a good character but no fortune must be in want of a wealthy husband—that is, if she is the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel. Senhora, by contrast, turns the tables on this familiar plot. Its strong-willed, independent...
by Elena Garro
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Miss Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright,...
Birds without a Nest
A Novel: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"I love the native race with a tender love, and so I have observed its customs closely, enchanted by their simplicity, and, as well, the abjection into which this race is plunged by small-town despots, who, while their names may change, never fail to live up to the epithet of tyrants. They are no other...