University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Midnight at the Barrelhouse
The Johnny Otis Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer, and tireless fighter for racial equality—has had a remarkable life by any measure. In this first biography of Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a...
Of Walking in Ice
Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of walking would keep Eisner from death....
The Stray Bullet
William S. Burroughs in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures—including...
Take Back the Economy
An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the wake of economic crisis on a global scale, more and more people are reconsidering their role in the economy and wondering what they can do to make it work better for humanity and the planet. In this innovative book, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy contribute complex understandings...
Harriman vs. Hill
Wall Street’s Great Railroad War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally—five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West....
Through No Fault of My Own
A Girl’s Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” her...
From Light to Byte
Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cinema has been undergoing a profound technological shift: celluloid film is being replaced by digital media in the production, distribution, and reception of moving images. Concerned with the debate surrounding digital cinema’s ontology and the interrelationship between cinema cultures, From Light...
The Sound of Things to Come
An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
Including original readings of classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and Blade Runner, The Sound of Things to Come delivers...
Migrants for Export
How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but...
Native American DNA
Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of DNA testing has further...
Hyperobjects
Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...
The Capacity Contract
Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there has been an explosion of modern documentary narratives and fiction combining text and photography in complex and fascinating ways. However, these contemporary experiments are part of a tradition that stretches back to the early years of photography. Writers have...
Body Modern
Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A poster first printed in Germany in 1926 depicts the human body as a factory populated by tiny workers doing industrial tasks. Devised by Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (or “Man as Industrial Palace”) achieved...