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Men among the Mammoths
Inbunden, 1993
876 kr
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A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of the earth into a series of "former worlds," populated by mammoths and other prehistoric animals, and …
Setting Standards for Financial Reporting
Fasb and the Struggle for Control of a Critical Process
E-bok, 1994
1525 kr
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The book begins with an overview of how and why the present self-regulatory arrangement for setting standards for financial reporting in the private sector came about in 1973. A brief description of the new structure is followed by a discussion of the essential elements of meaningful …
Science in Popular Culture
A Reference Guide
Inbunden, 2002
927 kr
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Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? …
Rockets and Missiles
The Life Story of a Technology
Inbunden, 2004
715 kr
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Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance destruction. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern age—the exploration of space. Rockets …
Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt
Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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Throughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them. These productions range from the True-Life Adventures nature documentaries and such depictions of cutting-edge technology as Man in Space and Our …
Rockets and Missiles
The Life Story of a Technology
Häftad, 2008
365 kr
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Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern age-the exploration of space. Beginning with …
Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV since 1930
E-bok, 2011
1402 kr
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Films that dramatize historical events and the lives of historical figures-whether they are intended to educate or to entertain-play a significant role in shaping the public''s understanding of the past. In A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV since 1930 , …
Undead in the West
Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2012
1214 kr
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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay …
Undead in the West
Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2012
1324 kr
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In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which undead Westerns make the genre’s inner plagues and demons visible, and lay …
Undead in the West II
They Just Keep Coming
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2013
1285 kr
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The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror …
Undead in the West II
They Just Keep Coming
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2013
1489 kr
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The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored the unique intersection of two seemingly distinct genres in cinema: the western and the horror …
International Westerns
Re-Locating the Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2013
1666 kr
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The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and …
International Westerns
Re-Locating the Frontier
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2013
1929 kr
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The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and …
Horrors of War
The Undead on the Battlefield
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2015
1251 kr
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Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life. Supernatural tales of war told in print, on screen, and in other media depict angels, demons, and legions of the undead fighting against—or alongside—human …
Laughing Dead
The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2016
1364 kr
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Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to produce a cohesive, satisfying work. Though they date as far back as James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein …
Teaching History with Science Fiction Films
Häftad, 2017
559 kr
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Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of contemporary film, a genre …
Divine Horror
Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2017
560 kr
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From Rosemary's Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, clergy cast out evil, religious icons become weapons, holy ground becomes battleground--but all of …
Terrifying Texts
Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2018
560 kr
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From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve as timeless vessels of knowledge beyond human comprehension, while runes, summoning diaries, and …
Elder Horror
Essays on Film's Frightening Images of Aging
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as either eccentric harbingers of doom--the crone who stops at nothing to restore her youth, the ancient …
Horror Comes Home
Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2019
388 kr
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Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors …
Journeys into Terror
Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2023
620 kr
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Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and …
Dark Forces at Work
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2023
518 kr
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Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue …
What's Eating You?
Food and Horror on Screen
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Inbunden, 2017
1996 kr
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Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen—the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions …
What's Eating You?
Food and Horror on Screen
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2017
543 kr
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Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen-the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions …
What's Eating You?
Food and Horror on Screen
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
E-bok, 2017
543 kr
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Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen-the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions …
What's Eating You?
Food and Horror on Screen
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2018
518 kr
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Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen—the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions …
Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style
Av Peter Swirski, Kenneth Krabbenhoft m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
902 kr
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Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style
Nobrow, American Style
Av Peter Swirski, Kenneth Krabbenhoft m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
791 kr
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Men among the Mammoths
Häftad, 1993
358 kr
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A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of the earth into a series of "former worlds," populated by mammoths and other prehistoric animals, and …
