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Tuning In The Great Gildersleeve
The Episodes and Cast of Radio's First Spinoff Show, 1941-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
When Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve bade farewell to Fibber McGee and Molly and left Wistful Vista on a train in 1941, no one could have predicted that he would be riding the airwaves with his own new show until 1957. But when one listens to episodes of radio’s first spinoff, it becomes clear the...
by Geoff Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From their heyday in the 1910s to their lingering demise in the 1950s, American film serials delivered excitement in weekly installments for millions of moviegoers, despite minuscule budgets, nearly impossible shooting schedules and the disdain of critics. Early heroines like Pearl White, Helen Holmes...
by Sheree Homer
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Ricky Nelson (he later preferred “Rick”) was 8 years old when he began his career in show business. After a successful run on radio, his family’s situation comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet enjoyed a 14 year television tenure. On the April 10, 1957, episode, “Ricky the Drummer,”...
Mastering the Game of Thrones
Essays on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO’s acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this...
Television Horror Movie Hosts
68 Vampires, Mad Scientists and Other Denizens of the Late-Night Airwaves Examined and Interviewed
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra’d corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, “Good evening, I am Vampira.” Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie...
Arthurian Animation
A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This is an exploration of the potent blend of Arthurian legend, cartoon animation, and cultural and artistic trends from 1933 to the present. In more than 170 theatrical and televised short cartoons, televised series and specials, and feature-length films from The Sword in the Stone to Shrek the Third—all...
We Rise to Resist
Voices from a New Era in Women's Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
With a compilation of information that has never before been available in one source, this exhaustive reference work provides complete published election returns for all popular Congressional elections, including special elections, in the United States--over 36,000 since 1788. For all candidates,...
Funny Thing About Murder
Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by...
by Sudie Doggett Wike
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. On the orders of General Washington, some were hired as nurses for $2 per month and one full ration...
Stephen Shoemaker
The Paintings and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
North Carolina artist Stephen Shoemaker and writer Janet Pittard have teamed up to present a selection of Shoemaker’s paintings and drawings and the stories behind them. Known for his dramatic railroad paintings and scenes of life in the Blue Ridge mountains, Shoemaker shares the thought processes...
An Illustrated History of Trigger
The Lives and Legend of Roy Rogers' Palomino
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Among certain fans, Roy Rogers’ golden Palomino Trigger was more popular than the King of the Cowboys himself. Some are still infatuated by the horse decades after his death in 1965—and no wonder. Trigger is the most famous movie horse of all time. But in truth, “Trigger” was a composite of...
The Ore Knob Mine Murders
The Crimes, the Investigation and the Trials
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crime and drugs, and the old copper mine itself become a dumping ground for the dead? In 1982, two bodies had been chipped from an icy grave and brought up from...
Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy
Outstanding Essays from the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature—long held at the University of California, Riverside—have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in...
Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis
The Seminal 1951 Thesis with a New Introduction and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
James Gunn—one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching—wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master’s thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable. Here in its first full publication,...