Rutgers University Press: 415 books
Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies
American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding...
by John Wills
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Over the past century, Disney has grown from a small American animation studio into a multipronged global media giant. Today, the company’s annual revenue exceeds the GDP of over 100 countries, and its portfolio has grown to include Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC, and ESPN. With a company so diversified,...
Gangsters to Governors
The New Bosses of Gambling in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Generations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and America’s governors sit at the head of the gaming table. But have states become addicted to the...
by Dawn R. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless—at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional...
Movie Migrations
Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
As the two billion YouTube views for “Gangnam Style” would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the nation’s film industry has long been a hub for transnational exchange, producing movies that put...
Militant Visions
Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw black men, for the first time presenting African Americans as vital and integrated members of the nation. In the process, Elizabeth Reich reveals how...
Selling Women's History
Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture.
Selling Women’s...
The Blacker the Ink
Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged....
A Queerly Joyful Noise
Choral Musicking for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group...
A Dream of Resistance
The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Celebrated as one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Kobayashi Masaki’s scorching depictions of war and militarism marked him as a uniquely defiant voice in post-war Japanese cinema. A pacifist drafted into Japan’s Imperial Army, Kobayashi survived the war with his principles intact and created...
by Paul Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a tepid-selling comic into an industry-wide success story, doubling its sales within three years. Lawyer by day and costumed vigilante by night, the...
Borrowed Voices
Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with...
Movie Comics
Page to Screen/Screen to Page
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
As Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the “comic book movie” is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of...
Thieving Three-Fingered Jack
Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial...