Rutgers University Press imprint: 413 books
Fantasies of Neglect
Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration...
The Governors of New Jersey
Biographical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Rogues, aristocrats, and a future U.S. president. These and other governors are portrayed in this revised and updated edition of the classic reference work on the chief executives of New Jersey. Editors Michael J. Birkner, Donald Linky, and Peter Mickulas present new essays on the governors of the...
by Jon Lewis, Mark Lynn Anderson, Saverio Giovacchini
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone...
The Writers
A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson—The Writers...
Textual Silence
Unreadability and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
There are thousands of books that represent the Holocaust, but can, and should, the act of reading these works convey the events of genocide to those who did not experience it? In Textual Silence, literary scholar Jessica Lang asserts that language itself is a barrier between the author and the reader...
War Echoes
Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o...
Family Activism
Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized around...
Hidden Chicano Cinema
Film Dramas in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today...
Moment of Action
Riddles of Cinematic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single shot, an actor’s performance triggers a visceral response in the viewer?
Moment of...
Thinking in the Dark
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating,...
The American Revolution in New Jersey
Where the Battlefront Meets the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the...
Jewish Peoplehood
An American Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Winner of the 2017 American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize
Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity...
Resistance of the Heart
Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
In February 1943 the Gestapo arrested approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Berlin. Most died at Auschwitz. Two thousand of those Jews, however, had non-Jewish partners and were locked into a collection center on a street called Rosenstrasse. As news of the surprise arrest pulsed through the city,...
Challenges of Diversity
Essays on America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding...