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Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture by Miranda Corcoran
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.99In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long... -
The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture B. Murphy 9780230218109
SciFier: £92.99The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road... -
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture Jane Iwamura 9780199738618
SciFier: £42.26Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture Barbara Jane Brickman 9781978828261
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave... -
Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture Barbara Jane Brickman 9781978828254
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.56An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave... -
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness B. Murphy 9781137353719
SciFier: £112.99The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this... -
The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness B. Murphy 9781349469727
SciFier: £77.99The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this... -
Selling Women's History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture Emily Westkaemper 9780813576329
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £25.68Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women's history seriously. But the very concept of women's history has a much longer past, one that's intimately entwined with the... -
Selling Women's History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture Emily Westkaemper 9780813576336
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women's history seriously. But the very concept of women's history has a much longer past, one that's intimately entwined with the... -
From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture Chad A. Barbour 9781496820167
RRP: £38.95SciFier: £23.20From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the... -
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater Kim Wilkins 9781474493833
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from... -
Refocus: the Films of Richard Linklater Kim Wilkins 9781474493826
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £79.99The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater Analyses both Linklater's celebrated and understudied work in dialogue with ongoing debates in film studies ... -
Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture Addie Tsai (William & Mary, USA) 9781350443563
SciFier: £88.49Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture investigates a trope proliferating throughout popular American media over the last half-century: that straight white... -
Fantastic Spaces: Irish Cinema and the Supernatural Matthew J. Fee 9780815638636
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £55.88While the connection between Ireland and the otherworldly has long been a staple of literature and the arts, it finds its most consistent and compelling expression in the medium of cinema. In the... -
Where Social Identities Converge: Latin American and Latinx Youth on Screen Traci Roberts-Camps 9780826507204
SciFier: £33.49Where Social Identities Converge examines adolescent girlhood as a metaphorical site in Latin American and Latinx film. Author Traci Roberts-Camps analyzes the work of a series of female directors... -
The Highway Horror Film Bernice M. Murphy 9781137391193
SciFier: £46.99The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered... -
Where Social Identities Converge: Latin American and Latinx Youth on Screen Traci Roberts-Camps 9780826507211
SciFier: £92.99Where Social Identities Converge examines adolescent girlhood as a metaphorical site in Latin American and Latinx film. Author Traci Roberts-Camps analyzes the work of a series of female directors... -
Film by Robert Armour
SciFier: £56.99Product information not available.Recommended for public and academic libraries as a useful selection tool and reference aid. ChoiceAbout the... -
Humphrey Bogart by Gerald Duchovnay
SciFier: £68.99More than forty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains a symbol of the Golden Age of Hollywood and a popular culture icon. His legacy has impacted American popular culture beyond the scope of... -
Animation: A Reference Guide Thomas W. Hoffer 9780313210952
SciFier: £68.99Product information not available.This book fills a very basic and useful function in its bibliographic essays surveying the literature... A comprehensive guide for lovers and students of animation... -
Too Much Of A Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon Ramona Curry 9780816627912
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.12The first examination of Mae West's meaning in American popular culture.Before Madonna, before Marilyn, there was Mae. The impact of Mae West-through her films, attitude, and aphorisms ("Too much of... -
The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television Richard A. Hall 9781440869877
SciFier: £88.49The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture. ... -
Errol Flynn by Peter Valenti
SciFier: £56.99Peter Valenti presents an objective evaluation of Flynn's impact on both American popular culture and the development of motion pictures. The book begins with a brief biography of the actor, followed... -
Mae West by Carol M. Ward
SciFier: £57.99This provocative work analyzes Mae West's long life and productive career in three major phases: the early theater years, her meteoric film career in the thirties, and her subsequent life as a... -
The Voice of the City by Robert W. Snyder
SciFier: £16.49This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of... -
Wonder Woman: 80 Years Later Vera J. Camden 9780367711740
RRP: £43.99SciFier: £40.26Through a celebration and critique of the comics character of Wonder Woman, this collection takes up the historical trends that have changed the world of comics, American popular culture, and... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521042666
SciFier: £55.99The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9780415726795
SciFier: £109.04When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where... -
The Hollywood Feature Film in Postwar Britain Paul Swann 9781138989436
SciFier: £30.73When this book was originally published in 1987, the American feature film had been colonising the world's imagination for over 75 years and the book studies that experience in Britain, where... -
Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 John Trumpbour (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9780521651561
SciFier: £106.31The global expansion of Hollywood and American popular culture in the first decades of the twentieth century met with strong opposition throughout the world. Determined to defeat such resistance, the... -
Fight Pictures by Dan Streible
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.99The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope's "Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight" (1897) became one of cinema's first major attractions, ushering in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform... -
Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film Shilpa S. Dave 9780252078934
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £20.23Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular... -
Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film Shilpa S. Dave 9780252037405
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular... -
W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway: Becoming a Comedian A. Wertheim 9781349671441
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.81W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores... -
The Films of Wim Wenders: Cinema as Vision and Desire Robert Phillip Kolker 9780521389761
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £36.19The authors trace the development of one of the most well-known directors of the New German Cinema that flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s. Examining Wim Wenders' career from his early film... -
The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War Anthony Burke Smith 9780700617166
RRP: £48.00SciFier: £40.78Examines depictions of and by Catholics in American popular culture during the period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. The author surveys the popular films, television,... -
Woody Allen by Graham McCann
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.91This book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It explores that inimitable... -
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Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom Eric Smoodin 9780415906166 [USED COPY]
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £3.01Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an... -
In a Lonely Street by Frank Krutnik
SciFier: £42.86Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a... -
Natalie Wood Rebecca Sullivan 9781844576371
RRP: £32.95SciFier: £32.29Throughout her career, Natalie Wood teetered precariously on the edge of greatness. Trained in the classical Hollywood studio style, but best mentored by Method directors, Wood was the ideal actress...