University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
The Suburban Church
Modernism and Community in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a...
George Cukor
A Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time, George Cukor was nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Director. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the “women’s director” for guiding the most sensitive leading ladies to immortal performances, including Greta Garbo,...
Dharma Lion
A Biography of Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
With the sweep of an epic novel, Michael Schumacher tells the story of Allen Ginsberg and his times, with fascinating portraits of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs, among others, along with many rarely seen photographs.
Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds
The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero—psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human...
Beginning to See the Light
Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
From the New Yorker’s inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock ’n’ roll, sexuality, and above all, freedom. Here Ellen Willis assuredly...
Feminine Endings
Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The...
Marlene Dietrich
Life and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From the stages of Berlin to anti-Nazi efforts and silver-screen stardom, Steven Bach reveals the fascinating woman behind the myth surrounding Marlene Dietrich in a biography that will stand as the ultimate authority on a singular star.
Based on six years of research and hundreds of interviews—including...
by Albert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that “the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so...
by Stig Dagerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time....
Shelter
Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In her search for land to call her own—among tall pines and on a lake—newly single mom Sarah Stonich seeks a sense of permanence, a legacy for her son, and a connection to her heritage. Along this way, Stonich recalls family lore, meets remarkable characters, considers another go at love, and, finally,...
by Mikhail Bakhtin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.
Hybrid Cultures
Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical...
Aspirational Fascism
The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
This quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with...
Cinema Approaching Reality
Locating Chinese Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in Shanghai and Hong Kong from the 1920s through 1940s. His point of departure is a term popularly employed by Chinese film critics...