University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
The Cult Film Experience
Beyond All Reason
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
"Play it again, Sam" is the motto of cult film enthusiasts, who will watch their favorite movie over and over, "beyond all reason." What is the appeal of cult movies? Why do fans turn up in droves at midnight movies or sit through the same three-hanky classics from Hollywood's golden era? These are some...
Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots
Multiplicities in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them...
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Perspectives from the French and Francophone Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation's past and present. Through an examination of France and its colonies, multiethnic...
Your Brain on Latino Comics
From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Though the field of comic book studies has burgeoned in recent years, Latino characters and creators have received little attention. Putting the spotlight on this vibrant segment, Your Brain on Latino Comics illuminates the world of superheroes Firebird, Vibe, and the new Blue Beetle while also examining...
by Lance Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Writing successful screenplays that capture the public imagination and richly reward the screenwriter requires more than simply following the formulas prescribed by the dozens of screenwriting manuals currently in print. Learning the "how-tos" is important, but understanding the dramatic...
From Walt to Woodstock
How Disney Created the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become shorthand for a creative work that has abandoned any controversial or substantial content to find commercial...
by Gary J. Hausladen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow, an exotic, vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed, the sense of place, no less than the compelling character of the detective, is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading...
Psycho-Sexual
Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood—Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin—whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock’s depiction...
Delirio—The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel
The Buried History of Nuevo León
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo Len in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city...
Exiles and Citizens
Spanish Republicans in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Mexico was the only country to offer open refuge to the thousands of Republican emigrés who fled from Spain in 1939–1940. Exiles and Citizens is a study of these political exiles, especially those with intellectual and professional backgrounds and ambitions. It...
The Brazilians
Their Character and Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Brazil has long been a country in search of its own meaning and mission. Early in their history Brazilians began to puzzle over their surroundings and their relation to them. The eighteenth century produced an entire school of nativistic writers who, with the advent of independence, became fiery nationalists,...
by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness...
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the number...
Cinemachismo
Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men...