University Of California Press: 1479 books
Hollywood Vault
Film Libraries before Home Video
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and...
Concrete Jungle
New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world’s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both the...
Drift
Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
“This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.”
In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation...
Crossing the Kingdom
Portraits of Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could...
Last Weapons
Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial...
Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate
The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises,...
In the Clutches of the Law
Clarence Darrow's Letters
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This volume presents a selection of 500 letters by Clarence Darrow, the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Randall Tietjen selected these letters from over 2,200 letters in archives around the country, as well as from one remarkable find—the kind of...
Signing the Body Poetic
Essays on American Sign Language Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars...
Writing about Music
A Style Sheet
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Where do you place the hyphen in "Beethoven" if it breaks between two lines? How do you cite John Coltrane’s album A Love Supreme? Is it "premiere" or "première"? The answers and much more can be found in this definitive resource for authors, students, editors, concert...
Visions of Japanese Modernity
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined,...
The Pastoral Clinic
Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape—northern New Mexico’s Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts,...
Sensational Movies
Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination...
by Henrietta Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...