California Press: 1495 books
Where the World Ended
Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 1999
When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied...
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...
The Fifty-Year Rebellion
How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the “riot” brought about...
Golden Holocaust
Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to...
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....
Storming the Gates of Paradise
Landscapes for Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees...
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue
Eight Reflections on Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s—L’avventura, La Notte, L‘eclisse—are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance...