Archive for 'Film'
To Right These Wrongs: A Groundbreaking Project
The first few books from UNC Press’ Spring|Summer 2010 catalog made it to bookshelves this month, and many more will be debuting in the coming months. One of the books we’re excited to publish, in partnership with Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement, is Robert R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis’ To Right These [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2010 under African American History, African American Studies, American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Civil Rights, Film, History, North Carolina, Public Policy, Southern Studies, UNC Press News.
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Avatar, Southern Gateways, & Disney Princesses: Around the Internet
Happy Friday, readers! Here at UNC Press, we’re finishing up our book launch week–planning out our titles for Fall 2010. The books we plan to put on the shelves in 2010 have us very excited, and we know you’ll enjoy them.
In the meantime though, we thought it would be good to highlight some of the [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under Christian Studies, Current Events, Film, Media Studies, Native American Studies, North Carolina, Religion, Reviews, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
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Miguel Pinero: prisoner, playwright
Today we welcome a guest post from Lee Bernstein, author of America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s (forthcoming June 2010). In his book, Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic “prison art renaissance” in the 1970s, when incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2009 under American History, Film, Guest Bloggers, Literature, Theatre.
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Web 2.0, Text Wars, and Building the Better Book: How the Internet Changes Everything We Do
Today, The New York Times ran Jones County, Miss. – Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout, a report by Michael Cieply about two conflicting books and a yet-to-be greenlighted Hollywood movie. At the center of everything lies Newton Knight, a white, landowning, Confederate deserter living deep in Mississippi, who famously tried to secede and form [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2009 under African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Film, Southern Studies, The Book Biz, UNC Press Authors.
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