Bøger udgivet af University of Texas Press

This catalogue explores the innovative work of ten artists who blur the line between art and activism, contributing to conversations about the state of democracy and racial injustice in Brazil.

The story of Texas's impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.

A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.

Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terezín, Czech Republic.

An interdisciplinary group of borderlands scholars provide the first expansive comparative history of the way North American borders have been policed—and transgressed—over the past two centuries.

An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.

An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter’s independence.

An examination of director Todd Haynes and his Bob Dylan biopic.

How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder.

A detailed social history of technological change arguing that ordinary Mexicans, spurred by state electrification initiatives, became agents of scientific advance and in the process fostered a modernist political sensibility.

A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.

A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.

A "fifties girl" tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.

How a city government in central Mexico evolved from waging war on graffiti in the early 2000s to sanctioning its creation a decade later, and how youth navigated these changing conditions for producing art.

Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

This engaging study of Alfonso Cuaron's 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film captures the most engaging elements of the novel while artfully translating its literary point of view into cinematic terms that expand on the world established in the book series and previous films. In this book, Patrick Keating examines how Cuaron and his collaborators employ cinematography, production design, music, performance, costume, dialogue, and more to create the richly textured world of Harry Potter, a world filtered principally through Harry's perspective, characterized by gaps, uncertainties, and surprises. Rather than upholding the vision of a single auteur, Keating celebrates Cuaron's direction as a collaborative achievement that resulted in a family blockbuster layered with thematic insights.

A history of the American mass shooter since 1966, and an analysis of how the nation makes sense of the senseless violence.We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves.In 1966, America's first mass shooter, from atop the University of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing individual cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the shooters?and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the experiences of survivors and first responders as well as the knowledge of mental health experts, McGraw challenges the notion of the "e;good guy with a gun,"e; the idolization of guns (including his own), and the reliability of traumatized memory. Yet in this terrible history, McGraw reminds us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the dying."e;An important and extraordinary book that takes us into the mind of the mass shooter and also explores our own complicity in the numbing tragedies that have become far too routine in America. Still, Seamus McGraw manages to leave us with hope that there's a way out of the despair."e; -Perri Pelitz, director and producer, Axios on HBO"e;A meditative history of mass murder by gunfire. . . . A memorable, necessary contribution to the national conversation on gun violence."e; -Kirkus Reviews"e;[From a Taller Tower] traces the history of the American mass shooter and the troubling ways we make sense of senseless violence . . . There's a tragic timeliness to McGraw's book."e; -InsideHook"e;One of the most important books you can read this or any year. It's impossible to read this work without nodding or wincing or even crying."e; -Patrick Skinner, detective, Savannah, Georgia"e;From a Taller Tower is a careful, even cathartic, look at mass shooters and the culture that ushers them forth. McGraw dispels the myths "e;forged in gunfire"e; with a riveting examination of the before, during, and after of mass shootings."e; -Amye Archer, co-editor, If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings

The acclaimed author of Blue Desert explores life on the arid borderlands of southern Arizona in this "e;compelling and wonderfully poetic"e; essay collection (Ron Hansen, New York Times Book Review).In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling desert villages, bitter Indian feuds, and a rich history that transcends borders. He profiles notorious predators from mountain lions to drug lords and land barons. Through it all, Bowden offers prescient visions of a future in which the region's age-old dramas replay themselves long into the future."e;In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of the US-Mexican border with saints and sinners, but his enduring hero is the desert itself."e; -Kirkus Reviews

The author is joined by a retired narcotics cop as they investigate the assassination of a drug dealer and hit man outside Tucson, Arizona.One of Charles Bowden's earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edgeand decaying at its center. Bowden's quest for the literal and figurative truth behind the assassination of a murderous border-town drug dealer becomes a meditation on the glories of the desert landscape, the squalors of the society that threatens it, and the contradictions inherent in trying to save it.';At its best, Red Line can read like an original synthesis of Peter Matthiessen and William Burroughs... A brave and interesting book.' David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review';Charles Bowden's Red Line is a look at America through the window of the southwest. His vision is as nasty, peculiar, brutal, as it is intriguing and, perhaps, accurate. Bowden offers consciousness rather than consolation, but in order to do anything about our nightmares we must take a cold look and Red Line casts the coldest eye in recent memory.' Jim Harrison';The Southwest as portrayed in this Kerouac-esque odyssey betokening the death of the American frontier spirit is a landscape of broken dreams, violence, uprooted lives and fallen idols.... Miles distant from tourist-poster images of the Sunbelt, this vista of narrow greed, diminished expectations and despoilation of nature sizzles with the harsh, unrelenting glare of a hyperrealist painting.' Publishers Weekly

The renowned author explores the violent and corrupt history of America in "e;a haunted, often brilliant journey into the heart of our darkness"e; (Frederick Turner).Blood Orchid is the first volume in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of America sextet. It is a deeply personal and bracingly sharp chronicle of his quest to unearth our ugly truths. Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Bowden presents a dizzying excavation of the systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and joints, and roams through village bars and streets in the Sierra Madre mountains. In these wanderings resides a yearning for the understanding of past and present sins, the human penchant for warfare, abuse, and oppression, and the true war between humanity, the industrialized world, and the immense tolls of our shared land.

The author of Murder City and Down by the River reflects on the destructive nature of American culture.Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity's own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways in which we destroy ourselves and whether there is any way to survive. Here he confronts a murderer facing execution, sex offenders of the most heinous crimes, a suicidal artist, a prisoner obsessed with painting portraits of presidents, and other people and places that constitute our worst impulses and our worst truths. Painful, heartbreaking, and forewarning, Bowden at once tears us apart and yearns for us to find ourselves back together again.';A thrillingly good writer whose grandness of vision is only heightened by the bleak originality of his voice.' Ron Hansen, The New York Times Book Review';A major literary work of profound social consciousness... [Bowden] writes with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey... This is gutsy, soulful, pyrotechnic, significant. And transformative writing.' Donna Seaman, Chicago Tribune';A vivid, lyrical journey through the American Southwest... [but] this book is no travelogue. Rather, it is a visceral exploration of a much darker landscape, that of the human psyche.' Debra Ginsberg, The San Diego Union-Tribune';A book of absolutely furious beauty... At the height of [Bowden's] rapturous indignation, with majestic lamentations stretching out almost to the snapping point, he sounds like Walt Whitman in a very bad mood... Sweet bloody Jerusalem, when he's cooking, who can touch him?' David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle