University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids
Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
During the 1990s, Austin achieved "overnight" success and celebrity as a vital place for independent filmmaking. Directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez proved that locally made films with regional themes such as Slacker and El Mariachi could capture a national audience. Their success helped...
Leavin' a Testimony
Portraits from Rural Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, Colorado County was a cotton-growing region whose population was about evenly divided between blacks and whites....
The Illusion of Inclusion
The Untold Political Story of San Antonio, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
To many observers, the 1981 election of Henry Cisneros as mayor of San Antonio, Texas, represented the culminating victory in the Chicano community's decades-long struggle for inclusion in the city's political life. Yet, nearly twenty years later, inclusion is still largely an illusion for many working-class...
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity
San Antonio, 1821-1860
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
While the flags of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the United States successively flew over San Antonio, its Tejano community (Texans of Spanish or Mexican descent) formed a distinct ethnic identity that persisted despite rapid social and cultural changes. In this pioneering study, Timothy...
Border Junkies
Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The drug war that has turned Juárez, Mexico, into a killing field that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since 2008 captures headlines almost daily. But few accounts go all the way down to the streets to investigate the lives of individual drug users. One of those users, Scott Comar, survived years...
CinemaTexas Notes
The Early Days of Austin Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students...
From a Limestone Ledge
Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
"Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." —New Yorker"Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false note in the book." —Boston Globe"Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves's native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces...
Stoppard's Theatre
Finding Order amid Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where...
Long Dark Road
Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
On a long dark road in deep East Texas, James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck one summer night in 1998. The brutal modern-day lynching stunned people across America and left everyone at a loss to explain how such a heinous crime could possibly happen in our more racially enlightened...
Weird City
Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods in its history. Wedged between homogenizing growth and a long tradition of rebellious nonconformity, many Austinites feel that they are in the midst of a battle for the city's soul.From...
by Jake Pickle, Peggy Pickle
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"My life has been given special purpose," Jake Pickle says. "Some men live to make money, drink, chase women, collect art, excel at a sport, or pursue other things that give them pleasure. The thing I got hooked on was helping people. And I've had the privilege of helping people by...
The LS Brand
The Story of a Texas Panhandle Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Sancho's Journal
Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
How do people acquire political consciousness, and how does that consciousness transform their behavior? This question launched the scholarly career of David Montejano, whose masterful explorations of the Mexican American experience produced the award-winning books Anglos and Mexicans in the Making...
by Bill Wittliff
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
The Devil’s Fork opens with the boy Papa exclaiming, “They was gonna hang my o’Amigo Calley Pearsall out there in front a’the Alamo down in San Antoneya come Saturday Noon and if I was gonna stop it I better Light a Shuck and Get on with it. And I mean Right Now.” And so Papa and his sweetheart...