Rutgers University Press imprint: 413 books
by Tison Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage,...
Television in the Age of Radio
Modernity, Imagination, and the Making of a Medium
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, television haunted the modern imagination. During the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. television was a topic of conversation and speculation. Was it technically feasible?...
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills
Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world—a...
Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine
Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil—developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV)—was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing...
Labor of Love
Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid...
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman
Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
The feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is credited with creating significant changes in the healthcare industry and bringing women’s health issues to public attention. Decades later, women’s health issues are more visible than ever before, but that visibility is made possible...
Reel Inequality
Hollywood Actors and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Why do actors of color, despite exhibiting talent and bankability,...
by Valérie K. Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valérie K. Orlando highlights...
Imperial Affects
Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering...
Through the Crosshairs
War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed by the crosshairs of a sniper’s gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But how did this weaponized gaze become the norm for depicting war, and how has it influenced public perceptions?
Through...
Reel Vulnerability
Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cultural imagination? What can they tell us about the female body in action or in pain? Reel Vulnerability explores the way American popular culture thinks...
Hollywood on Location
An Industry History
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until now, the industrial and artistic development of this production practice has been scattered across the margins of larger American film histories. Hollywood...
by Victoria Duckett, David Sterritt, Julie Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Screen performances entertain and delight us but we rarely stop to consider actors’ reliance on their craft to create memorable characters. Although film acting may appear effortless, a host of techniques, artistic conventions, and social factors shape the construction of each role.
The...
Exhibiting Atrocity
Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the...