University of Texas Press - Böcker

Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects. The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, yet dramas like Roma also rely on computer-generated imagery to enhance the verisimilitude of scenes. But the realism ...

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Black Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon that broke box office records. Yet it wasnt just a movie led by and starring Black artists. It grappled with ideas and conflicts cen...

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2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Northeast Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (NEPCA) In the postwar era, the police procedural series Dragnet informed Americans on the workings of the criminal justice system and instructed t...

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A unique study of an Andean communitys water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed In the dry season in the Andes, water from springs, lakes, reservoirs, and melting glaciers feeds irrigation canals that ha...

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A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics authors subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremonts run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his ...

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For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffiths profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 rel...

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The Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greeces foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English translations of selections of his writings on his lif...

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Son Jarocho was born as the regional sound of Veracruz but over time became a Mexican national genre, even transnational, genrea touchstone of Chicano identity in the United States. Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho traces a musical journey from the ...

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Son Jarocho was born as the regional sound of Veracruz but over time became a Mexican national genre, even transnational, genrea touchstone of Chicano identity in the United States. Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho traces a musical journey from the ...

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2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration...

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2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration...

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In Sean Bakers award-winning 2017 film The Florida Project, a young girl, her single mother, and her friends live in rundown motels near Disney World, the childrens summer fun contrasting with the grim conditions around them. In this book, J. J. M...

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A stirring defense of Sinad OConnors music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her. In 1990, Sinad OConnors video for Nothing Compares 2 U turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live...

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Mary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victoriesparticularly the 1990 governors race when, as campaign manager for Ann Richards, she did the impossible and put a Democratic woma...

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A fascinating book on the origins of writing. Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Ins...

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A remarkably perceptive portrait of the Lone Star State, this collection of pieces from the New Yorker, the Nation, and other publications presents highlights of bestselling author Calvin Trillin's classic writing on Texas subjects. "Yes...

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Society of Authors A Palestinian girl travels to the past in a magical quest to save the world. The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adv...

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Black Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon that broke box office records. Yet it wasnt just a movie led by and starring Black artists. It grappled with ideas and conflicts cen...

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With a range that spans the lyrical, heartfelt songs Angel from Montgomery, Sam Stone, and Paradise to the classic country music parody You Never Even Called Me by My Name, John Prine is a songwriters songwriter. Across five decades, Prine has cre...

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In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican p...

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2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. Globaliz...

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Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion documents a revealing irony in the latter sort: internal migration often is global in character, motivated by foreign affairs and inter...

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Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion documents a revealing irony in the latter sort: internal migration often is global in character, motivated by foreign affairs and inter...

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2024 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, Texas State Historical Association 2024 TCU Texas Book Prize, Friends of the TCU Library and the TCU Press A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas. Westw...

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2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths abou...

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Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for he...

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2023 SANA Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America 2023 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award NACCS Tejas Foco Award for Non-Fiction, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 2022 Nonfiction Discovery Prize, Writer...

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Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has inv...

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Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has inv...

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The digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the worlds largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual t...

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