Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Dance in/on/with/through the Border with SDSU Press!

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

El Norte the Us-Mexican Border in Contemporary Cinema: The U.S. - Mexican Border in Contemporary Cinema -- SDSU Press

David R. Maciel is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico whose books include Aztlán: Historia del pueblo chicano and El Norte: The U.S.-Mexican Border in Contemporary Cinema. Isidro D. Ortiz is an associate professor of Mexican American studies at San Diego State University and editor of the book Chicanos and the Social Sciences 1970-1980: A Decade of Development. María Herrera-Sobek is the Luis Leal Endowed Chair and Professor of Chicano/Chicana Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.



Description 
Now back in print through a joint arrangement between the Institute 
for the Regional Studies of the Californias and San Diego State 
University Press, David R. Maciel's El Norte: The U.S./Mexico Border in Contemporary Cinema remains a pathbreaking study of cinema from and focused on both sides of the United States/Mexico border. Originally released in 1990, it is now made available again for a new generation of Latinx cinema scholars and the general public.
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  • Series: Border Studies Series
  • Paperback: 95 pages
  • Publisher: San Diego State University






Wednesday, February 05, 2020

A Direct Blog Posting FOR SDSU Press Present and Former Interns and Editorial Associates!

Saturday, February 01, 2020

SDSU Press's Psychoanalysis on the Couch Book Series: Post Freud Studies for a Post Freud World



SDSU Press's Psychoanalysis on 
the Couch Book Series 
Ralph R. Greenson's Legacy
Abi Jones 

Among 100+ publications of San Diego State University Press, you’ll find a large number of publications penned by highly noted authors. None so interesting, and overlooked, as the publications of Ralph R. Greenson. Greenson’s training seminars are edited by noted Psychoanalyst (and former director of this Press!) Harry Polkinhorn and published by SDSU Press with the "Techniques and Practice of Psychoanalysis" series title and with the Psychoanalysis on the Couch imprint.

Born on September 20th, 1911, Greenson had to travel to Switzerland to gain his education as he was not allowed to study at American universities due to anti-Semitic policies at the time. What is most remembered about Greenson in American popular culture is his affiliation with Marilyn Monroe. He was her therapist and is mentioned in various conspiracies regarding the actress's death. After his own death, Greenson’s wife opened his personal library. This library included transcriptions of his influential lectures. The transcriptions of his training sessions provide an extensive overview of psychoanalysis and are educational psychological novels that cannot be overlooked. 

We have praised the work of Sigmund Freud (he of the cigar) and Ivan Pavlov (he of the drool), critiqued and discussed the likes of Philip Zimbardo, but, then, why should we leave Ralph Greenson to the likes of Bigfoot-hunting and Flat Earth-loving conspiracy theorists. Why? Since 2006--when the first publication of these lectures were released--psychologists, students, and scholars have been able to read professional training lectures by someone who left an indelible mark on West Coast (and American) Psychoanalysis. SDSU’s published series “Techniques and Practice of Psychoanalysis” offers a new lens on classic teachings. Go out and get your own copy today!

AVAILABLE HERE → http://bit.ly/rgreenson

Friday, January 31, 2020

Drone Visions! An International Feat of 21st Century Cultural Studies Focused on Science Fiction and our Surveilled Futures!


Some pictures from the volume
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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Tijuana 1964: A Photographic and Historic View/Tijuana 1964: Una Visión Fotográfica e Histórica -- SDSU Press

Tijuana 1964: A Photographic and Historic View/Tijuana 1964: Una Visión Fotográfica e Histórica {Commemorative Edition} Paperback – 2014


Paul Ganster (Author)
David Pinera Ramirez (Author)
Antonio Padilla Corona (Author)
Ruth Ramirez/DDO Producciones (Designer)

Take a deeper look inside



Tijuana 1964: A Photographic and Historical View, was designed to present the remarkable photographs taken in Tijuana in June 1964 by Harry Crosby. The book was published in 2000 and included an essay by historians Paul Ganster, of San Diego State University, and David Piñera Ramírez and Antonio Padilla Corona, both of the Institute for Historical Research at the Autonomous University of Baja California in Tijuana, that set the context for the photographs. The book included 42 photographs in addition to the front cover and the back cover. The publication of Tijuana 1964 
was accompanied in October 2000 by an exhibit 
of selected images organized by Tijuana's Casa de la Cultura.



By 2013, the participants in the original publication, which has long been out of print, realized that the 50th anniversary of the photographs was fast approaching. Pedro Ochoa Palacio, Director General of the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT), suggested that his institution might be interested in collaborating on a new edition of Tijuana 1964 and the participants in the first edition responded enthusiastically to the proposal.


The second edition, or the Commemorative Edition, differs from the first in a number of ways. Most importantly, the new publication includes 20 additional photographs and also replaces three of the original images due to technical reasons, for a total of 23 new photographs. All of the additional photographs were made by Harry Crosby during the same two-week period in June of 1964, as those in the first edition. Also, the Commemorative Edition has a revised text that sets the context for the photographs and also provides a discussion of the changes that are evident in Tijuana after 50 years.


Saturday, January 18, 2020

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Coming January 20, 2020 from SDSU Press! DRONE VSIONS by Naief Yehya! #drone #drones #surveillanceculture

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Just in Time for Christmas for that Favorite SDSU Alum in Your Life!

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind by Noam Chomsky -- Fresh off the SDSU Press

Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind

By Noam Chomsky 

Hardcover and Paperback - 1st Edition

About the Author


Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955. Widely published, he's considered a father of modern linguistics. Chomsky spoke out against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and has continued to publicly criticize U.S. foreign policy. American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Through his contributions to linguistics and related fields, including cognitive psychology and the philosophies of mind and language, Chomsky helped to initiate and sustain what came to be known as the "cognitive revolution."


Description
Noam Chomsky uses the historical background and nature of cognitive psychology to enable us to better understand several important problems of human thought and perception and the interrelationship of the body and the mind. Chomsky also gained a worldwide following as a political dissident for his analyses of the pernicious influence of economic elites on U.S. domestic politics, foreign policy, and intellectual culture. This book brings scholars into the cognitive science mode of thinking about the logical nature of language and the discrete nature of its elements as applied to linguistic study.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

See you Thursday for MALAS's 3rd Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture featuring Carlos Kelly, Thursday at 11am, November 21, 2019, in SDSU's GMCS 333. Free and Open to the Public

See you Thursday for MALAS's 3rd Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture featuring Carlos Kelly, Thursday at 11am, November 21, 2019, in SDSU's GMCS 333. Free and Open to the Public.

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Monday, November 11, 2019

Leobardo Saravia Quiroz, Brings You, Line of Fire: Detective Stories from the Mexican Border -- SDSU Press

Line of Fire: Detective Stories from the Mexican Border (Baja California Literature in Translation) Paperback – August, 1996


 Leobardo Saravia Quiroz (Author)




An inside look: In a lecture entitled "The Detective Story," Borges observes that, "The detective novel has created a special type of reader," and adds, "If Poe created the detective story, he subsequently created the reader of detective fiction" (492)..Yet, what Borges describes... draws our attention to what appears to be an insight into the ontology of literature that detective fiction provides. For what literature is, according to Borges, is "an aesthetic event" that "requires the conjunction of reader and text" (491); and what the detective story highlights, he suggests, is the way in which the reader-any reader-forms the conditions of possibility for this "aesthetic event."


"A la pinche modernidad":Literary Form and the End of History in Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes" by Emilio Sauri, MLN (125:2). 

Emilio Sauri's words perfectly describe the worlds found in "Line of Fire: Detective Stories from the Mexican Border," edited by L. Saravia Quiroz. In addition to the editor's introduction, there are evocative stories by G. Trujillo Muñoz, H. Daniel Gómez Nieves, L. Saravia Quiroz, E. Gómez Castellanos, J. Manuel Di Bella, C. Martín Gutiérrez, F. Campbell, H. Polkinhorn, and S. Gómez Montero. From the Introduction by L. Saravia Quiroz: "It is not simply an anthology of detective stories about Baja California, but rather an effort by a group of writers to devise detective fiction that does not conform to the orthodoxy of the genre."