Rutgers University Press: 415 books
The Limits of Auteurism
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for its stylistic boldness, thematic complexity, and the unshackling of directorial ambition. The Limits of Auteurism aims to challenge many of these assumptions....
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
Styling Masculinity
Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet...
by Stephen Prince
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Digital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking’s analog era. In the process, it raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a pixel-generated digital medium whose scenes often defy...
by J. Madison Davis, Mark Eaton, Jon Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.” Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives...
Public Interests
Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA)
Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation’s...
The War of My Generation
Youth Culture and the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted...
The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos
Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Hidden lives, hidden history, and hidden manuscripts. In The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos, Marie-Theresa Hernández unmasks the secret lives of conversos and judaizantes and their likely influence onthe Catholic Churchin the New World.
The terms converso and judaizante are often used...
War Is Not a Game
The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
War Is Not a Game tells the story of this new soldiers’ antiwar movement, showing why it was born, how it quickly grew, where it has struggled, what it accomplished, and how it continues to resonate in the national conversation about our military and our wars. Nan Levinson reveals the individuals...
Selling Science
Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen...
American Girls and Global Responsibility
A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together insights from 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 argues that a new internationalist...
by Charlene Galarneau
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The factions debating health care reform in the United States have gravitated toward one of two positions: that just health care is an individual responsibility or that it must be regarded as a national concern. Both arguments overlook a third possibility: that justice in health care is multilayered...
Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze...
by William H. Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood. Yet, it is easy to forget how adaptable Hammett’s work was, fitting into a variety of genres and inspiring generations of filmmakers.
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers the first comprehensive...