University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Naomi Lindstrom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Literature in Latin America has long been a vehicle for debates over the interpretation of social history, cultural identity, and artistic independence. Indeed, Latin American literature has gained international respect for its ability to present social criticism through works of imaginative creation.In...
Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders
Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to "hold the line" against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the border seek to define and bound...
Border Odyssey
Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
"We were trying to change the vision and the conversation about border fears."Border Odyssey takes us on a drive toward understanding the U.S./Mexico divide: all 1,969 miles—from Boca Chica to Tijuana—pressing on with the useful fiction of a map."We needed to go to the place where countless innocent...
by Blenda Femenías
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Set in Arequipa during Peru's recent years of crisis, this ethnography reveals how dress creates gendered bodies. It explores why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land. Blenda Femenías argues that women's clothes are key symbols of gender identity and...
by Virginia Grise, Irma Mayorga
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Panza Monologues is an original solo performance piece based on women's stories about their panzas—tú sabes—that roll of belly we all try to hide. Written, compiled, and collected by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga and fashioned into a tour-de-force solo performance, The Panza Monologues...
Craft and the Kingly Ideal
Art, Trade, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from? In this study of craft production and long-distance...
Kinship to Kingship
Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey...
by Austin Film Festival
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.”—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization to focus on writers’ creative contributions to film and television. Its...
Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents
The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones,...
The Zoot-Suit Riots
The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Los Angeles, the summer of 1943. For ten days in June, Anglo servicemen and civilians clashed in the streets of the city with young Mexican Americans whose fingertip coats and pegged, draped trousers announced their rebellion. At their height, the riots involved several thousand men and women, fighting...
Another Steven Soderbergh Experience
Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach their work through the abstract prism of auteur theory? Mark Gallagher uses Steven Soderbergh’s career as a lens through which to re-view screen authorship...
LBJ and Vietnam
A Different Kind of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Decades later, the Vietnam War remains a divisive memory for American society. Partisans on all sides still debate why the war was fought, how it could have been better fought, and whether it could have been won at all. In this major study, a noted expert on the war brings a needed objectivity to these...
Barrio Gangs
Street Life and Identity in Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid...
Despite this Flesh
The Disabled in Stories and Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Killed by kindness, stifled by overprotection, choked by subtle if sometimes unconscious snubs, the physically handicapped are one of the world's most invisible minorities. Seeking to draw attention to the various attitudes and perceptions about the handicapped, renowned poet Vassar Miller has assembled...