University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
by Susan Schaller
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old...
Go West, Young Women!
The Rise of Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angeles became a destination. Women flocked to the growing town to join the film industry as workers and spectators, creating a "New Woman." Their...
Norman Granz
The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential,...
Wine Politics
How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
After reading this intriguing book, a glass of wine will be more than hints of blackberries or truffles on the palate. Written by the author of the popular, award-winning website DrVino.com, Wine Politics exposes a little-known but extremely influential aspect of the wine business—the politics behind...
Sewing Hope
How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent...
Arts, Inc.
How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it enriches our lives here at home while spreading...
Someplace Like America
Tales from the New Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness....
Hollywood 1938
Motion Pictures' Greatest Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a spate of bad films, industry executives decided that...
At the Jazz Band Ball
Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—"I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of jazz’s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been...
Precocious Charms
Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shirley...
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy...
Speaking Truths with Film
Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
How do issues of form and content shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary’s arguments about the world we live in? In what ways do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectations? Are mockumentaries a form of subversion? Can the documentary...
Backstory 5
Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers—Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carrière, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth,...
by Yehuda Amichai
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K....