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by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet “television” series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and...
Theater of War and Exile
Twelve Playwrights, Directors and Performers from Eastern Europe and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
In what ways does political trauma influence the art arising from it? Is there an aesthetic of war and exile in theatrical works that emerge from such experiences? Are there cultural markers defining such works from areas like Eastern Europe and Israel? This book considers these questions in an examination...
Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century
Essays on New Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr.; an internationally popular BBC television series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories,...
Hip Hop Dance
Meanings and Messages
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as...
A State of Arrested Development
Critical Essays on the Innovative Television Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
One of the most critically-acclaimed television series of all time, Arrested Development is widely hailed as a cutting-edge comedy that broke the traditional sitcom mold. The winner of six Emmys, the series was canceled by Fox in 2006, only to be revived in 2013 via Netflix’s streaming service....
The Millennials on Film and Television
Essays on the Politics of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
The millennials, who constitute the largest generation in America’s history, may resist a simple definition; nevertheless, they do share a number of common traits and also an ever increasing presence on film and television. This collection of new essays first situates the millennials within their...
Thinking Through Blake
Essays in Literary Contrariety
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the...
Magic in Britain
A History of Medieval and Earlier Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Magic, both benevolent (white) and malign (black), has been practiced in the British Isles since at least the Iron Age (800 BCE–CE 43). “Curse tablets”—metal plates inscribed with curses intended to harm specific people—date from the Roman Empire. The Anglo-Saxons who settled in England...
The Science Fiction Mythmakers
Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity’s place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy. This book considers the significance of this confluence through an examination...
The Formulas of Popular Fiction
Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book creates a taxonomy for the major bestselling fictional genres: romance (e.g., authors Heyer, Cartland, Woodiwiss and Roberts), religious and inspirational (Corelli and Douglas), mystery and detective (Conan Doyle, Christie and Mankell), and science fiction, horror and fantasy (Wells, Tolkien,...
Hitchcock's Diegetic Imagination
Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt, and Hitchcock's Mise-en-Scene
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The author considers the collaboration between Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and examines the influence of Wilder’s theories of theatrical abstraction and cinematic realism on Hitchcock’s developing sense of mise-en-scène. Wilder helped Hitchcock employ mise-en-scène...
A Dune Companion
Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert's Original Six Novels
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This companion to Frank Herbert’s six original Dune novels—Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune—provides an encyclopedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the series’ underrated aesthetic integrity....
Discworld and the Disciplines
Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett’s treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict;...
An Asimov Companion
Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. While each of these narratives takes place in a different fictional universe, Asimov asserted at the end of his career that...