Rutgers University Press imprint: 413 books

by John Wills
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017

Over the past century, Disney has grown from a small American animation studio into a multipronged global media giant. Today, the company’s annual revenue exceeds the GDP of over 100 countries, and its portfolio has grown to include Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC, and ESPN. With a company so diversified,...

Gangsters to Governors

The New Bosses of Gambling in America

by David Clary
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Generations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and America’s governors sit at the head of the gaming table. But have states become addicted to the...
by Dawn R. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016

Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional...

Movie Migrations

Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema

by Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015

As the two billion YouTube views for “Gangnam Style” would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the nation’s film industry has long been a hub for transnational exchange, producing movies that put...

Militant Visions

Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema

by Elizabeth Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw black men, for the first time presenting African Americans as vital and integrated members of the nation. In the process, Elizabeth Reich reveals how...

Selling Women's History

Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture

by Emily Westkaemper
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017

Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture.    Selling Women’s...

The Blacker the Ink

Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

by John Jennings, Daniel F. Yezbick, Sally McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged....

A Queerly Joyful Noise

Choral Musicking for Social Justice

by Julia "Jules" Balén
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group...

A Dream of Resistance

The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki

by Stephen Prince
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

Celebrated as one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Kobayashi Masaki’s scorching depictions of war and militarism marked him as a uniquely defiant voice in post-war Japanese cinema. A pacifist drafted into Japan’s Imperial Army, Kobayashi survived the war with his principles intact and created...
by Paul Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016

2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success story, doubling its sales within three years. Lawyer by day and costumed vigilante by night, the...

Borrowed Voices

Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination

by Jennifer Glaser
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with...

Movie Comics

Page to Screen/Screen to Page

by Blair Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

As Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the “comic book movie” is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of...

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack

Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

by Frances R. Botkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017

The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels.  A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...
by David Sterritt
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017

Rock ‘n’ Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent biopics to animated shorts to performance documentaries. Acclaimed film critic David Sterritt considers...
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