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From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse
Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
While there are numerous books on art and exploitation cinema, very few attempt to examine both. Covering the first 100 years of cinematic transgressions, From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse is a collection of numerous essays representing key contributions to overlooked, forgotten, or under-analyzed...
by Michael A. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2005
This compendium of over 500 entries on the most important and relevant personalities, programs, activities, and agencies of U.S. intelligence, beginning with the Sons of Liberty before the onset of the Revolutionary War until the most recent reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, covers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
How to Thrive as a Solo Librarian is a compilation of chapters by librarians offering advice to colleagues who must work alone or with very limited help. The contributors come from schools and colleges, special and corporate archives, public libraries, and seasoned LIS faculty across the United States...
The Smallville Chronicles
Critical Essays on the Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the traditional Superman story and turned it into an American teen action drama about Clark Kent's life at high school—before he donned the famous blue tights and red cape. Instead...
Girls and Their Comics
Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy—muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. While there have been many strong representations of women throughout their history, the comics...
Beyond Babar
The European Tradition in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2006
All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial,...
The Road to Science Fiction
From Gilgamesh to Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2002
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Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Considered the 'King of Poverty Row,' Edgar G. Ulmer (1904-1972) was an auteur of B productions. A filmmaker with an individual voice, Ulmer made independent movies before that category even existed. From his early productions like The Black Cat (1934) and Yiddish cinema of the late 1930s to his final...
The Kubrick Facade
Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Many of Stanley Kubrick's films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous. Whether viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut, there is a sense in which these films resist their own audiences, creating a distance from them. Though many note the coldness of Kubrick's films, a smaller...
by Brian Stableford
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present,...
Medieval Fantasy as Performance
The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval fantasy in popular culture. He explores the act of medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the...
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction either written or published expressly for them or—if...
by Christopher R. Lew, Edwin Pak-wah Leung
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The Chinese Civil War, which lasted several years or several decades, depending on how you define it, was one of the most momentous wars of the 20th century for it determined the fate of the world’s most populous country, and was bitterly fought with millions of combatants involved and hundreds...
by Paul D. Buell
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The A to Z of the Mongol World Empire examines the history of the Mongol Empire, the pre-imperial era of Mongolian history that preceded it, and the various Mongol successor states that continued to dominate Eurasia long after the breakdown of Mongol unity.
Divided into three parts, the first...