Author: Barry K. Grant
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: screen, decades, variations, themes, cinema, 1960s, american
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813542197
ISBN-13: 9780813542195

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with increasing and violent resistance. The Cold War heated up and the Vietnam War divided Americans. Civil rights, women’s liberation, and gay rights further emerged as significant social issues. Free love was celebrated even as the decade was marked by assassinations, mass murders, and social unrest. At the same time, American cinema underwent radical change as

Author: Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: american, cinema, culture, decades, 1950s, screen
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-10-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0813536731
ISBN-13: 9780813536736

From cold war hysteria and rampant anticommunist witch hunts to the lure of suburbia, television, and the new consumerism, the 1950s was a decade of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. In the face of these social, political, and cultural conditions, Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department, which pressed for big film companies to divest themselves of their theater holdings; from the middle class, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the filmgoing audience; and from the House Un-American

Author: Kavita Phili
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: colonial, south, india, modernity, resources, natures, race, civilizing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0813533600
ISBN-13: 9780813533605

Kavita Philip unravels unexpected relationships between science, technology, and administrative systems in colonial India from the 1850s to the 1930s, deepening our perspective on continuing conflicts over race, resources, and empire. This is a story about the construction of nature in southern India that is deeply local and irreducibly global. Through detailed case studies, Kavita Philip shows how race and nature are fundamental to understanding colonial modernities. Through its insightful combination of methodologies from both the humanities and the social sciences, Civilizing Natures casts

Author: Jessica Field
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: rutgers, series, childhood, studies, inequality, social, lessons, sex, education, risky
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-08-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0813543355
ISBN-13: 9780813543352

Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of sex education are seldom as clear-cut as either side of the debate suggests."Risky Lessons" brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools

Author: Bert Hanse
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: images, media, popular, attitudes, america, mass, history, medical, progress, pasteur, polio, picturing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0813545765
ISBN-13: 9780813545769

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio offers a refreshing portrait of an era when the public excitedly anticipated medical progress and research breakthroughs. This unique study with 130 archival illustrations drawn from newspaper sketches, caricatures, comic books, Hollywood films, and LIFE magazine photography analyzes the relationship between mass media images and popular attitudes. Bert Hansen considers the impact these representations had on public attitudes and shows how media portrayal and popular support for medical research grew together and reinforced each other.

Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: workers, stories, subway, bus, new, york, transit
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813525772
ISBN-13: 9780813525778

This testimony to working life illuminates the stories, adventures, and wisdom of New York transit workers. More than 100 transit workers were interviewed to discover just what goes on behind the scenes of public transportation. The challenges are legion: the danger of working next to high-voltage power lines in a system that operates 24 hours a day for 7 days a week; workers risking their own lives to save others, an act that often leaves them as witnesses to pain and death. In their testimonies, workers express the importance of bonding with their colleagues for protection as well as compani

Authors:Linda Dittmar, Gene Michaud,
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: american, film, war, vietnam, hollywood, hanoi
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 1990-12-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0813515874
ISBN-13: 9780813515878

Examines American films dealing with the Vietnam War and era, and the power these films possess in delivering political messages.