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Refrigeration
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
For thousands of years, humans coped with heat by harvesting and storing natural ice and devising natural cooling systems that utilized ventilation and evaporation. By the mid 1800s, people began developing huge refrigeration machines to manufacture ice. By the early 1900s, engineers developed electric...
Soul of the Dark Knight
Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character’s longevity is largely due to the medium’s unique formal qualities. It argues that Batman’s core appeal is his mythic nature which allows him to transcend changes in reader tastes,...
by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. The adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the changing tastes of readers, with...
America Toons In
A History of Television Animation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Animation has been part of television since the start of the medium but it has rarely received unbiased recognition from media scholars. More often, it has been ridiculed for supposedly poor technical quality, accused of trafficking in violence aimed at children, and neglected for indulging in vulgar...
The Ages of the Justice League
Essays on America's Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
The first superhero team from the Silver Age of comics, DC’s Justice League has seen many iterations since its first appearance in 1960. As the original comic book continued and spin-off titles proliferated, talented writers, artists and editors adapted the team to appeal to changing audience tastes....
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen! This expanded and updated edition of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers important developments in the popular genre; adds new shows such as Heroes and Zoom; includes the latest films featuring...
Fascist Lizards from Outer Space
The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson's V
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
When Kenneth Johnson’s science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Yet the 2009 V reboot was cancelled in its second season, despite a robust...
by John T. Soister, Henry Nicolella, Steve Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the “boy meets girl, boy loses girl” theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom...
Camp Cooke and Vandenberg Air Force Base, 1941-1966
From Armor and Infantry Training to Space and Missile Launches
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an internationally recognized missile and rocket base renamed...
The First Marine Captured in Vietnam
A Biography of Donald G. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to earn the Medal of Honor while in captivity; and the first Marine POW to have a U.S. Navy ship named in his honor, the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75). On December 31, 1964, while serving as...
Classics Illustrated
A Cultural History, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
A significant expansion of the critically acclaimed first edition, Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2d ed., carries the story of the Kanter family’s series of comics-style adaptations of literary masterpieces from 1941 into the 21st century. This book features additional material on the...
Mysteries Unlocked
Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover...
Lillian Gish
A Life on Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality,...
Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age
Interdisciplinary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical levels of postcolonial studies. By studying film, literature,...