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Samurai Assassins
"Dark Murder" and the Meiji Restoration, 1853-1868
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Assassination—in Japanese, ansatsu or “dark murder”—was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun’s military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and moral philosophy of the men behind the...
The Figure of the Detective
A Literary History and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago....
Second Takes
Remaking Film, Remaking America
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Second Takes presents the history of English language cinema by focusing on cinematic remakes and on how cinema has been replaced by new forms of “media.” Remakes, with their innate plurality, offer the most substance for concentrated cultural analysis of how movies reflect and shape American...
by John Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals—some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries,...
The Trojan War
Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then, starting with Homer’s epics, people have been writing, painting, sculpting and creating music about this event and its participants. This book starts with an overview of the Bronze Age when the Trojan War occurred, and then follows a...
The Subversive Zombie
Social Protest and Gender in Undead Cinema and Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dramatically. The undead are fast and ferocious in 28 Days Later… (2002) and World War Z (2013). In Warm Bodies (2013) and In the Flesh (2013–2015), they...
The Linguistics of Stephen King
Layered Language and Meaning in the Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Stephen King, “America’s Favorite Boogeyman,” has sold over 350 million copies of his books, becoming in effect the face of horror fiction. His influence on popular culture has drawn both strong praise and harsh criticism from reviewers and scholars alike. While his popularity cannot be overstated,...
Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women’s cyberpunk in the larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews the critical reactions and outlines the ways in which women’s cyberpunk advances points of view...
Muses India
Essays on English-Language Writers from Mahomet to Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
With Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, V.S. Naipaul and Kiran Desai winning prestigious awards for their literary output, Indian English literature has gained a voice of its own. Yet, as most readers of criticism of it agree, there is a dearth of serious examination of its authors and...
The Pleasures of Computer Gaming
Essays on Cultural History, Theory and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media technologies, and items of visual culture that are...
by Emmett Early
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The veterans’ culture in postwar eras from World War I to the present is examined in this book, with specific attention to the historic events of each era as they influence veterans, and the literature and movies produced about veterans and by veterans. The intention is to highlight the reciprocal...
The Mexican Cinema of Darkness
A Critical Study of Six Landmark Horror and Exploitation Films, 1969-1988
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Following the national and international upheaval and tragedy in 1968, Mexican “trash cinema” began to shift away from the masked wrester genre and towards darker, more explicit films, and disturbing visions of the modern world: films which can be called “avant-exploitation.” This work covers...
August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle
Critical Perspectives on the Plays
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945–2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author’s ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career—a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow “Africans in America.”...