Rutgers University Press: 415 books
The Price of Nuclear Power
Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium...
by Virginia Wright Wexman, William Luhr, Sarah Kozloff
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion’s share of the credit. Yet the movie director’s job—especially the collaborations and compromises it involves—remains little understood.
The latest volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series, this collection provides...
by Kristen Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
In the 1930s, Shirley Temple was heralded as “America’s sweetheart,” and she remains the icon of wholesome American girlhood, but Temple’s films strike many modern viewers as perverse. Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood examines her early career in the context of the history of...
Iron Dads
Managing Family, Work, and Endurance Sport Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Among the most difficult athletic events a person can attempt, the iron-distance triathlon—a 140.6 mile competition—requires an intense prerace training program. This preparation can be as much as twenty hours per week for a full year leading up to a race. In Iron Dads, Diana Tracy Cohen focuses...
A Rhetorical Crime
Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
The Genocide Convention was drafted by the United Nations in the late 1940s, as a response to the horrors of the Second World War. But was the Genocide Convention truly effective at achieving its humanitarian aims, or did it merely exacerbate the divisive rhetoric of Cold War geopolitics?
A...
Dads, Kids, and Fitness
A Father's Guide to Family Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Now more than ever, American dads act as hands-on caregivers who are devoted to keeping themselves and their families healthy. Yet, men are also disproportionately likely to neglect their own health care, diets, and exercise routines—bad habits that they risk passing on to their children.
In...
Going Viral
Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Outbreak narratives have proliferated for the past quarter century, and now they have reached epidemic proportions. From 28 Days Later to 24 to The Walking Dead, movies, TV shows, and books are filled with zombie viruses, bioengineered plagues, and disease-ravaged bands of survivors. Even news reports...
Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles
Origins to 1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but it became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language...
Hoodlum Movies
Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins, neighborhood theaters, and rundown inner city theaters....
Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country’s low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local...
Comrades in Health
U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...
Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11
Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture porn.” Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images,...
All Together Now
American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
In a hard driving society like the United States, holidays are islands of softness. Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. All Together Now considers holidays that are celebrated by American families: Easter, Memorial Day, Independence...
by Christine S. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
When a patient is diagnosed with a gynecological malignancy, she and her doctors must make urgent, high-risk decisions about her course of treatment. In selecting an appropriate plan of care, physicians must weigh the patient’s individual needs, the tumor’s specific characteristics, and the treatment’s...