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Visions of the Future in Comics
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors’ (and readers’) hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays...
Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality
What He Actually Did and Said
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds—using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine,...
Comedian of the Frontier
The Life of Actor/Manager Jack Langrishe, 1825-1895
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825–1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East. Langrishe provided entertainment to prospectors, miners and their families in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Idaho. He followed the expanding frontier from...
by Tom Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was chief prosecutor for what the Associated Press said was the largest murder trial in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg...
Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics’ flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death. This book discusses topics including...
A Tour of Fabletown
Patterns and Plots in Bill Willingham's Fables
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham’s Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures—Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others—as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City,...
Osage and Settler
Reconstructing Shared History through an Oklahoma Family Archive
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma. The history of white settlement and colonization is often discussed in the context of the cultural erasure of,...
by Paul Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its primetime broadcast premiere. The 1902 novel by Owen Wister had already seen four movie adaptations when Frank Price mentioned the story’s series potential to NBC. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television’s first 90-minute western series. Immensely...
Accustomed to Her Face
Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton...
Casting Might-Have-Beens
A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Some acting careers are made by one great role and some fall into obscurity when one is declined. Would Al Pacino be the star he is today if Robert Redford had accepted the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather? Imagine Tom Hanks rejecting Uma Thurman, saying that she acted like someone in a high...
Unsung Hollywood Musicals of the Golden Era
50 Overlooked Films and Their Stars, 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The most memorable Hollywood musicals of 1930s showcased the talents of stars like Fred Astaire, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing Crosby and Alice Faye. The less memorable ones didn’t. This book takes a look at the unsung songfests of the ’30s—secondary or forgotten features with short-lived or unlikely...
Coming Back to a Theater Near You
A History of Hollywood Reissues, 1914-2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios—every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years after the Silent Era, reissues were a battle between the studios, who considered old movies “found money,” and cinema owners, who often...
Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness
Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Laura Adams Armer, Peggy Pond Church and Alice Marriott
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This literary history focuses on five women writers—Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Laura Adams Armer, Peggy Pond Church and Alice Marriott—whose work appeared from around 1900 through the 1980s. All came from or lived and worked in California, Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma. The book situates them...
by Alison Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Louis XVI was a gentle and unassuming man who did not want to be king but attempted to work for the welfare of his people—until his government was engulfed by the violent upheavals of the French Revolution. Facing the rapidly changing desires of his subjects, he gave way to the policies they demanded....