Rutgers University Press: 415 books

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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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Walking Harlem

The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America

by Karen Taborn
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018

With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York’s most distinctive neighborhoods; it’s also one of the most walkable.  This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering ninety-one different historical...
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Queering Marriage

Challenging Family Formation in the United States

by Katrina Kimport
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

Over four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage, these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage, as some hope, challenges heterosexual privilege or, as...
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Producing Excellence

The Making of Virtuosos

by Izabela Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

Driven by a passion for music, for excellence, and for fame, violin soloists are immersed from early childhood in high-pressure competitions, regular public appearances, and arduous daily practice. An in-depth study of nearly one hundred such children, Producing Excellence illuminates the process...
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The Great White Way

Race and the Broadway Musical

by Warren Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

Broadway musicals are one of America’s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation? The Great White Way is the first book...
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Hollywood Exiles in Europe

The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture

by Rebecca Prime
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions, their...
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Designing Sound

Audiovisual Aesthetics in 1970s American Cinema

by Jay Beck
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

The late 1960s and 1970s are widely recognized as a golden age for American film, as directors like Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese expanded the Hollywood model with aesthetically innovative works. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, those filmmakers were blessed with...
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Disaster!

Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

by Alan A. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

By every measure, Hurricane Sandy was a disaster of epic proportions. The deadliest storm to strike the East Coast since Hurricane Diane in 1955, Sandy killed thirty-seven people and caused more than $30 billion in damages in 2012 to New Jersey alone. But earlier centuries experienced their own catastrophes.  In...
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Prohibition Gangsters

The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation

by Marc Mappen
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition era—men born in the quarter century span from 1880 to 1905—who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment. On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution went into...
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Law and the Gay Rights Story

The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy

by Walter Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014

For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and...
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At War

The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

by David Kieran, Edwin A. Martini, Sahr Conway-Lanz
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial...
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by Walter Richmond
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the Ottoman Empire. At least 600,000 people lost their lives...
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A Professor at the End of Time

The Work and Future of the Professoriate

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

A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.
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by Mattias Frey, Greg Taylor, Cecilia Sayad
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have...
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