Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Gaming the System
Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions—put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Žižek—can help us explore...
Mexicanos, Third Edition
A History of Mexicans in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Responding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexicanos provides a relevant and contemporary consideration of this vibrant community. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact...
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
The Politics of Materiality in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, Hungary’s...
Locating the Moving Image
New Approaches to Film and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new...
Tomorrow's Air Force
Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
“A bold and courageous clarion call from a highly respected serving officer that should be read and heeded by anyone interested in the future of the US Air Force.” —Everett Dolman, School of Advanced Airpower Studies
Looking ahead to future airpower requirements, this engaging and groundbreaking...
Everyday Life in Central Asia
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety...
by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, Ron Becker
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Thought-provoking and “undeniably interesting” essays on this cultural institution of comedy and what it says about our society (Booklist).
Since 1975, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular...
The Flaherty
Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is the inspiring story of The Flaherty, one of the oldest continuously running nonprofit media arts institutions in the world, which has shaped the development of independent film, video, and emerging forms in the United States over the past 60 years. Combining the words of legendary independent...
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Into the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The waves of change sweeping the MENA compel social scientists and anthropologists in particular to move beyond local specificities and images of ‘untouched’ communities or Middle East exceptionalism to consider wider patterns of social and cultural change.... [The essays in this volume] reflect...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised...
Screens and Veils
Maghrebi Women's Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various...
Racial Imperatives
Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects? She analyzes anti-miscegenation law, statutory definitions of race, and the rhetoric surrounding the phenomenon of racial passing to provide critical...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This elegantly translated collection of Heidegger’s private later writings is “illuminating to some of his most difficult discussions.” (Phillip Braunstein, Loyola Marymount College).
Martin Heidegger’s The Event offers the most in-depth articulation of his later work’s most foundational...
The B Word
Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen culture,...