Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
Film as Religion
Myths, Morals, and Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and values to confront it. Lyden contends that approaches which interpret films only...
Making Womens Histories
Beyond National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women’s history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women’s and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography...
East Main Street
Asian American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to “faux Asian” fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural...
Interracial Encounters
Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the...
by Thomas L. Dumm
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
In A Politics of the Ordinary, Thomas Dumm dramatizes how everyday life in the United States intersects with and is influenced by the power of events, on the one hand, and forces of conformity and normalcy on the other. Combining poststructuralist analysis with a sympathetic reading of a strain of...
Black Gay Man
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
At turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, Black Gay Man will spoil our preconceived notions of not only what it means to be black, gay and male but also what it means to be a contemporary intellectual. Both a celebration of black gay male identity as well as a powerful...
Sacred Subdivisions
The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
In an era where church attendance has reached an all-time
low, recent polling has shown that Americans are becoming
less formally religious and more promiscuous in their religious
commitments. Within both mainline and evangelical
Christianity in America, it is common to hear of secularizing
pressures...
Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American...
Passing
Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Passing for what you are not--whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely...
Playing War
Military Video Games After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The culture that made military shooter video games popular and key in understanding the War on Terror. No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn...
Sing Sing Sing
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Sing, Sing, Sing is unlike any recent first collection by an American poet. It goes against the grain of contemporary fashion by replacing prosaic narrative with a lyricism both symbolic and mysterious. This poet can appreciate experience as "the open/End of a bag fill/With ordinary things,"...
Unofficial Ambassadors
American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
As thousands of wives and children joined American servicemen stationed at overseas bases in the years following World War II, the military family represented a friendlier, more humane side of the United States' campaign for dominance in the Cold War. Wives in particular were encouraged to use their...
Circuits of Visibility
Gender and Transnational Media Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Circuits of Visibility explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that underwrite globalization. Tracking the ways in which gendered subjects are produced and defined in transnationally networked, media saturated environments,...
Sounds of Belonging
U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
How Spanish-language radio has influenced American and Latino discourse on key current affairs issues such as citizenship and immigration.
Winner, Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Latino Studies Best...