Toby Miller

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Producing

Rutgers University Press

Producing is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the myriad roles that producers have played in Hollywood, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the present day. It introduces readers to the colorful figures who helped to define and reimagine the producer’s role, including inventors like Thomas Edison, entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, and mavericks like Roger Corman. Along the way, we get an illuminating picture of the creative, managerial, and financial decisions that producers make.

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Pretty People

Movie Stars of the 1990s

Edited by Anna Everett

Rutgers University Press

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.

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The Persistence of Violence

Colombian Popular Culture

By Toby Miller

Rutgers University Press

Why is Colombia so violent? Beyond even the horrors of the conflict between the guerrilla, the paramilitary, and the government, the history of the nation is scarred by acts of violence. It has also been marked by resistance to that history—by moments of hope.The Persistence of Violence transcends the obvious places as sources and indices of this story, delving into the complex and conflicted world of popular culture, from football to television to tourism to the environment.

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Border Rhetorics

Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier

Edited by D. Robert DeChaine; Introduction by D. Robert DeChaine; Afterword by John Louis Lucaites

University of Alabama Press

Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States

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A COVID Charter, A Better World

By Toby Miller

Rutgers University Press

Using the examples of how the U.S., Britain, Mexico, and Colombia have responded to the COVID-19 crisis, Toby Miller investigates corporate, scientific, and governmental decision-making and their effects on disadvantaged local communities. He proposes a COVID charter calling for a new world, placing human lives above corporate profits.

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The Olympics at the Millennium

Power, Politics, and the Games

Edited by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith

Rutgers University Press

The Olympics at the Millennium offers groundbreaking essays that explore the cultural politics of the Games. The contributors investigate such topics as the emergence of women athletes as cultural commodities, the orchestrated spectacles of the opening and closing ceremonies, and the alternative sport culture offered via the Gay Games. Unforgettable events and decisions are discussed: Native American athlete Jim Thorpe winning—and losing—his two gold medals in 1912. Why America was one of the few countries to actually send Jewish athletes to the “Nazi Olympics.” The disqualification of champion Ewa Klobukowska from competing as a woman, due to chromosomal testing in 1967.

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