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by Jon Towlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and “sex pictures,” horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational...
Jolly Good Detecting
Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of...
Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes
Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle’s stories proves as interesting as the astute detective’s constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow...
Who Is Sherlock?
Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why...
by Audrey Isabel Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip’s lyrical other-worlds analyzes her characters, environments and legends and their...
Will Cuppy, American Satirist
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s–early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884–1949)....
Opera in the Media Age
Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety...
James Joyce
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Though he published just a handful of major works in his lifetime, James Joyce (1882–1941) continues to fascinate readers around the world and remains one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. The complexity of Joyce’s style has attracted—and occasionally puzzled—generations...
Stars of '90s Dance Pop
29 Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
The 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the decade was among the genre’s most successful in terms of energy, sales and global popularity. In this retrospective, 29 singers, songwriters, producers, DJs and industry professionals who enjoyed stardom on...
Egyptomania Goes to the Movies
From Archaeology to Popular Craze to Hollywood Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
“Egyptomania,” the West’s obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, literature and the performing arts. But the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922, by a sensation-hungry world newly united by mass media, created...
That's Me, Groucho!
The Solo Career of Groucho Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Groucho Marx’s career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting...
by Ed Andreychuk
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio serial hero through a highly-rated television series (1949–1957) to a 2013 feature film. Created by script writer Fran Striker and radio station owner George W. Trendle, the character was...
Gale Storm
A Biography and Career Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name—“Gale Storm.” One of the United States’ most beloved...
George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison
An Alliance That Began the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
George Washington and the Half-King Chief Tanacharison details the events in western Pennsylvania that precipitated the French and Indian War. It describes the interpersonal relationship between 22-year-old, inexperienced, but self-assured George Washington and the 54-year-old wily Iroquois Chief...