University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Haunting Bollywood
Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a...
by Gregory Nagy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the poems at a particular moment in history? Or does the name "Homer" hide the shaping influence of the epic tradition during a long period...
Driving Visions
Exploring the Road Movie
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the visionary rebellion of Easy Rider to the reinvention of home in The Straight Story, the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide variety of film styles and contexts. Yet, within the variety, a certain generic core remains constant:...
Musical Ritual in Mexico City
From the Aztec to NAFTA
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
On the Zcalo, the main square of Mexico City, Mexico's entire musical history is performed every day. "Mexica" percussionists drum and dance to the music of Aztec rituals on the open plaza. Inside the Metropolitan Cathedral, choristers sing colonial villancicos. Outside the National Palace, the Mexican...
by David George
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Reading a play and watching it performed onstage are quite different experiences. Likewise, studying a country's theatrical tradition with reference only to playtexts overlooks the vital impact of a play's performance on the audience and on the whole artistic community. In this performance-centered...
by Dan Stanislawski
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In this book, Dan Stanislawski studies the geography of various small towns in one Mexican state. He discusses the factors—landscape, buildings, culture groups, and so forth—that create a unique personality for each of these towns.
Morning Star
surrealism, marxism, anarchism, situationism, utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
An expanded edition of revered theorist Michael Löwy's Morning Star: Marxism and Surrealism (previously published in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Greek), this masterwork collects the author's essays on the ways in which surrealism intersected with a variety of revolutionary political...
Breaking the Frames
Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave...
The Crime Novel
A Deviant Genre
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail....
Chicano Authors
Inquiry by Interview
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The need for this book became apparent to Bruce-Novoa when he first taught a Chicano culture course in 1970. His students could find no source to satisfy their curiosity about Chicano writers' backgrounds, opinions, and attitudes. Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview provides that information. Fourteen...
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not...
by David William Foster
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive...
Reframing Latin America
A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Providing an extensive introduction to cultural studies in general, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting provocative, essential readings from Latin American writers of the last two centuries, Reframing Latin America brings much-needed accessibility to the concepts of cultural...
La Pinta
Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this groundbreaking study based on archival research about Chicana and Chicano prisoners—known as Pintas and Pintos—as well as fresh interpretations of works by renowned Pinta and Pinto authors and activists, B. V. Olguín provides crucial insights into the central roles that incarceration...