University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
Understanding Indian Movies
Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Indian movies are among the most popular in the world. However, despite increased availability and study, these films remain misunderstood and underappreciated in much of the English-speaking world, in part for cultural reasons.In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis...
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song
MPB, 1965-1985
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song is a critical study of MPB (música popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials.
Men and Popular Music in Algeria
The Social Significance of Raï
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Ra music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Ra is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in political strife, and in economic inequality. In a ground-breaking study, anthropologist Marc Schade-Poulsen...
Shakin' Up Race and Gender
Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences between...
Mouse Morality
The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Kids around the world love Disney animated films, and many of their parents trust the Disney corporation to provide wholesome, moral entertainment for their children. Yet frequent protests and even boycotts of Disney products and practices reveal a widespread unease with the sometimes mixed and inconsistent...
Beautiful TV
The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society should...
Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution
Cinema and the Archive
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del Río and Tina Modotti, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists in revolutionizing Mexico's twentieth-century national iconography. Investigating the convergence...
Madonnaland
And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna—and her own ambivalence about, maybe even jealousy...
Homer in Performance
Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the...
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie palace, or even to a suburban multiplex with the latest high-tech projection capabilities, many people's first stop is now the neighborhood video store. Indeed, video rentals and sales today generate more...
Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door
A Big Bend Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a 23-foot travel trailer in tow, she anticipated no more than a civilized camping trip between her old home in Ohio...
The Nutshell Technique
Crack the Secret of Successful Screenwriting
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Veteran script consultant Jill Chamberlain discovered in her work that an astounding 99 percent of first-time screenwriters don't know how to tell a story. These writers may know how to format a script, write snappy dialogue, and set a scene. They may have interesting characters and perhaps some clever...
Blues for Cannibals
The Notes from Underground
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity’s own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles...
by Roderic Ai Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not...