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Not Just for Children
The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s
Av Harold E. Hinds, Charles M. Tatum
E-bok, 1992
1280 kr
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This pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books of the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the popular superhero, adventure, humor, romance, political, detective, and Western comic books are described and …
Noir, Now and Then
Film Noir Originals and Remakes (1944-1999)
E-bok, 2001
1241 kr
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This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity and concluding with Jim McBride's Breathless . In-depth analysis of the films explain the qualities and characteristics of …
Parody as Film Genre
Never Give a Saga an Even Break
E-bok, 1999
1241 kr
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Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic parody components, which better define the genre and …
Cowboy Way
The Western Leader in Film, 1945-1995
Av Robert J. Higgs, Ralph L. Turner
E-bok, 1999
1202 kr
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Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as Red River , Shane , Unforgiven , The Wild Bunch , Wyatt Earp , and Dances with Wolves , this work examines traditional leadership theories as reflected in the western film genre. The western vividly portrays a variety of leadership styles, …
Strange TV
Innovative Television Series from the Twilight Zone to the X-Files
E-bok, 2002
1373 kr
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In the years since World War II, commercial television has become the most powerful force in American culture. It is also the quintessential example of postmodernist culture. This book studies how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks , and The X-Files display many of the central …
Outsider Features
American Independent Films of the 1980s
E-bok, 1996
963 kr
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In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise , Blood Simple , and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's award-winning sex, lies, and videotape . This film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's top award …
Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film
From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings
Av Samuel J. Umland, Rebecca A. Umland
E-bok, 1996
1241 kr
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This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on the love triangle; conservative propaganda, …
Reading Harry Potter
Critical Essays
E-bok, 2003
896 kr
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J. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powers on the morning of his eleventh birthday. The books' incredible popularity, and the subsequent likelihood that they are among this generation's …
Out of the Woodpile
Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction
E-bok, 1991
1315 kr
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Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Frankie Y. Bailey identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found …
Shaman or Sherlock?
The Native American Detective
Av Gina Macdonald, Andrew F. Macdonald
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Fictional depictions of Native American concepts of justice, crime, and the investigation of crime are explored in this original work. Shaman or Sherlock explores depictions created by Native American authors themselves, as well as those created by outsiders with mainstream agendas. The most …
Behold the Mighty Wurlitzer
The History of the Theatre Pipe Organ
Av John Landon
Inbunden, 1983
1748 kr
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John W. Landon, himself a theatre pipe organist, has written the first history of the theatre pipe organ. He traces its development from church organ to a theatrical instrument that took the place of a piano. Landon also discusses the pipe organ's later emergence as a solo instrument, its use in …
Sport and Society in Latin America
Diffusion, Dependency, and the Rise of Mass Culture
Av Joseph L. Arbena, Joseph L. Arbena
Inbunden, 1988
852 kr
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A very exciting collection that explores sport in itself and also as a cultural phenomenon. In unexpected ways, bicycles are linked to modernization in Mexico, baseball takes on socialist overtones in the Yucatan, and the political outlook in Cuba and Nicaragua is explained in terms of their …
National Styles of Humor
Inbunden, 1988
1223 kr
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This volume represents a first in its analysis of historical trends in the humor of eight Western countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, the United States, and Yugoslavia. In each country, the authors surveyed and assessed the national humor in a way designed to …
S.J. Perelman
A Critical Study
Av Steven Gale
Inbunden, 1987
818 kr
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Filling a void with his critical study of an important American humorist, Steven H. Gale has provided a comprehensive description of S.J. Perelman's prose, plays, and screenplays, along with a biographical portrait which emphasizes his connections to other writers of his time. The work is …
Sleuth and the Scholar
Origins, Evolution, and Current Trends in Detective Fiction
Av Barbara A. Rader, Howard G. Zettler
Inbunden, 1988
983 kr
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Is the detective novel popular fiction or serious literature? This collection of essays examines the historical, literary, and critical aspects of the genre. Three interrelated aspects of detective fiction are addressed: the mystery story as a vehicle for social criticism, women crime writers, and …
Personality Comedians as Genre
Selected Players
Inbunden, 1997
1067 kr
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The success of clown comedy is dependent on the comic or comics who take center stage. These comics are usually identified with a specific comedic shtick, physical or visual humor, and their underdog status. This study by film scholar Wes Gehring presents a brief, historical overview of major …
Out of the Woodpile
Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction
Inbunden, 1991
1227 kr
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Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Frankie Y. Bailey identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found …
America's Musical Pulse
Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society
Av Kenneth J. Bindas, Kenneth J. Bindas
Inbunden, 1992
880 kr
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Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular sound. Whether jazz, blues, swing, country, or rock, the music, the impulse behind it, and the reaction to it reveal the attitudes of an era or …
Freaks of Genius
Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
Av Louisa May Alcott, Joel Myerson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1227 kr
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Famous for her classic novel Little Women, and regarded as America's best-loved author of juvenile fiction, Louisa May Alcott is not readily identified with page-turning thrillers and sensational tales. Freaks of Genius, however, presents a collection of previously unknown sensational narratives by …
Post-Franco, Postmodern
The Films of Pedro Almodovar
Av Barbara Morris, Kathleen M. Vernon
Inbunden, 1995
1063 kr
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The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through close readings of the director's 10 …
Radical Visions
American Film Renaissance, 1967-1976
Av Glenn Man
Inbunden, 1994
1063 kr
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Radical Visions discusses an important period in American film history: Films such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, and Taxi Driver challenged the narrative structure and style of the classical Hollywood paradigm, transformed its conventional …
Neutral Ground
The Andre Affair and the Background of Cooper's The Spy
Av Bruce A. Rosenberg, Geroge Bryan
Inbunden, 1994
1227 kr
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John Andre was captured in September 1780, outside British lines, and was hanged as a spy. Forty years later, he was still so highly regarded that, in 1821, his body was exhumed and reburied in the Heroes' Corner of Westminster Abbey. This book argues that James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The …
European Readings of American Popular Culture
Av John R. Dean, Jean-Paul Gabilliet m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1067 kr
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Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the …
Lawrence of Arabia and American Culture
The Making of a Transatlantic Legend
Inbunden, 1995
1129 kr
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Departing from prior scholarship on T. E. Lawrence, this work examines the extent of Anglo-American cultural interplay and the popular culture machinery involved in the manufacture of the Lawrence of Arabia legend. Although not recognized as such, the Lawrence legend was as much an American product …
Writing Horror and the Body
The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice
Av Linda Badley
Inbunden, 1996
980 kr
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In this sequel to Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, Badley examines horror fiction as a fantastic genre in which images of the body and the self are articulated and modified. Badley places horror fiction in its cultural context, drawing important connections to theories of gender and sexuality. …
Imagining the Worst
Stephen King and the Representation of Women
Av Kathleen Lant, Theresa Thompson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1227 kr
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Stephen King has been hailed as a writer of the late 20th century Everyman, yet his representations of women remain debatable. These essays not only explore his portrayal of female characters, they illuminate Stephen King's own psychology and that of our culture's fears, anxieties, and feminine …
Call to Action
The Films of Ousmane Sembene
Av Shelia Petty, Shelia Petty m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1132 kr
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Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1992), Sembene has developed a political and aesthetic project that has deeply influenced the evolution of African filmmaking. This project, with its …
Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction
Av Jerome H. Delamater, Ruth Prigozy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1227 kr
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Combining theoretical and practical approaches, this collection of essays explores classic detective fiction from a variety of contemporary viewpoints. Among the diverse perspectives are those which interrogate the way the genre reflects important social and cultural attitudes, contributes to a …
Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films
A History to 1896
Av Ray Phillips
Inbunden, 1997
880 kr
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Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Over the next three years, Edison manufactured almost 1,000 Kinetoscopes and produced some 250 films to show in them. A million people worldwide first …
Last Modernist
The Films of Theo Angelopoulos
Inbunden, 1997
880 kr
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Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from the early 1970s to The Beekeeper, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stalk and the recent Cannes prize-winner Ulysses' Gaze, demonstrates …
