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Li'l Abner by Arthur Asa Berger
RRP: $44.41SciFier: $43.44Southwest literary humor and Yiddish humor collided in the ever-popular comic strip ""Li'l Abner,"" From 1936 to 1977, when it ceased publication, this comic strip entertained, annoyed, riled, and... -
Comic Book Culture by Matthew J. Pustz
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $47.83What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes their zeal? What do the denizens of this pop-culture world have in common?This book provides good... -
The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America Douglas Horlock 9781496838858
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $47.83Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his... -
A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617038235
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor--in a variety of forms--to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This... -
The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball
RRP: $62.54SciFier: $54.44The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both... -
Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Marc Singer 9781617031366
RRP: $56.18SciFier: $47.83One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular... -
Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II Jimmy Kugler 9781496842817
SciFier: $192.90Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: $173.84SciFier: $154.65Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his... -
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Charles Hatfield 9781617031779
RRP: $231.08SciFier: $155.04Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics... -
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Charles Hatfield 9781617031786
RRP: $56.18SciFier: $47.83Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics... -
Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia by Brian Cremins
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $61.46Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says,... -
Openness of Comics by Maaheen Ahmed
RRP: $61.37SciFier: $47.83Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich... -
Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated Robert E. Kapsis 9781617036637
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $43.12Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other... -
Hollywood Unknowns by Anthony Slide
RRP: $90.10SciFier: $59.64Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781496857965
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $41.26Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society... -
Samuel Fuller: Interviews Gerald Peary 9781496857996
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, without formal art training, produced works that astonished not only the... -
D. W. Griffith by Anthony Slide
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the... -
D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews Keith Beattie 9781628462029
RRP: $88.93SciFier: $71.55This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (b. 1925) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s to the present day, D. A... -
A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617030062
RRP: $231.08SciFier: $193.96A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This... -
Samuel Fuller: Interviews Gerald Peary 9781617033063
RRP: $84.69SciFier: $58.15In the early twentieth century, the art world was captivated by the imaginative, totally original paintings of Henri Rousseau, who, seemingly without formal art training, produced works that... -
Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated Robert E. Kapsis 9781617036620
RRP: $231.08SciFier: $193.96Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other... -
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide
RRP: $90.10SciFier: $60.02The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as... -
Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman Dan Callahan 9781617031830
RRP: $84.69SciFier: $58.49Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes... -
Dave Sim: Conversations Eric Hoffman 9781617037818
SciFier: $192.90In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004... -
Dennis Hopper: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781617036569
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.64The legendary Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) had many identities. He first broke into Hollywood as a fresh-faced young actor in the 1950s, redefined himself as a rebel director with Easy Rider in the late... -
Brian De Palma's Split-Screen: A Life in Film Douglas Keesey 9781628466973
RRP: $231.08SciFier: $154.65Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes (The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and the most high-profile failures (The... -
Whose Improv Is It Anyway? by Amy E. Seham
SciFier: $61.46On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With... -
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives Masao Yokota 9781628461794
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in... -
Visual Vitriol by David A. Ensminger
RRP: $84.69SciFier: $57.20Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781617036606
RRP: $71.97SciFier: $58.15Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society... -
Martin Scorsese by Peter Brunette
RRP: $52.89SciFier: $41.26From the moment he captured the film world's attention with Mean Streets (1973), a portrait of life at the fringes of the Mob, it was clear that a dazzling cinematic talent had arrived on the scene... -
Conversations with Steve Martin by Robert E. Kapsis
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.64Conversations with Steve Martin presents a collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four decades in show... -
Stan Lee by Jeff McLaughlin
SciFier: $59.34Stan Lee (b. 1922), co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, and The Uncanny X-Men, is one of the most successful writers and publishers of comics. During the... -
Howard Chaykin: Conversations Brannon Costello 9781604739756
SciFier: $154.65One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics... -
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840721
RRP: $192.92SciFier: $153.17On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822338
RRP: $63.49SciFier: $42.17Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even... -
Cajun Mardi Gras Masks by Carl Lindahl
RRP: $74.09SciFier: $61.46Every winter a handful of Cajun Louisiana folk artists assembles unlikely mixtures of material to shape masks for their Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations. They use window screens, chicken feathers, yarn,... -
Alan Moore by Annalisa Di Liddo
RRP: $49.82SciFier: $31.33Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books... -
Last Man Standing by James Curtis
RRP: $84.69SciFier: $60.02On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a... -
Howard Chaykin: Conversations Brannon Costello 9781628461770
RRP: $66.78SciFier: $41.26One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics...