Not Just for Children

Harold E Hinds, Charles M Tatum

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books ... Lees meer

Songs of Love and Death

Michael Sevastakis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This book examines eleven horror films in-depth and their relationships to Romantic Gothic literary conventions--mainly, but not solely, found in work... Lees meer

Reading Harry Potter

Giselle Liza Anatol

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• J. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powe... Lees meer

America's Musical Pulse

Kenneth J Bindas

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular soun... Lees meer

Outsider Features

Richard K Ferncase

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise , Blood Simple , and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-wideni... Lees meer

Buckskins, Bullets, and Business

Sarah J Blackstone

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Blackstone focuses on the career of William F. Buffalo Bill Cody during the years in which he organized, promoted, and starred in his celebrated Wild ... Lees meer

Scorned Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Many works now considered classics were scorned by critics when they were first published. While some of these works received little attention when in... Lees meer

A Brand New Language

Monroe Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• In the years since World War II, what began in the United States as a shift from a wartime to a peacetime economy soon led to a massive outpouring of ... Lees meer

Noir, Now and Then

Ronald Schwartz

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's cl... Lees meer

Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films

Ray Phillips

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Motion pictures were first seen in 1894, when Thomas Edison introduced the Kinetoscope, a device for individually looking at film through a viewer. Ov... Lees meer

The Last Modernist

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Theo Angelopoulos is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers and a highly idiosyncratic film stylist. His work, from th... Lees meer

A Call to Action

Shelia Petty

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture | nr. 60
• Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1... Lees meer

Out of the Woodpile

Frankie Y Bailey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Franki... Lees meer

Imagining the Worst

Kathleen Lant, Theresa Thompson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• 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 e... Lees meer

Devouring Whirlwind

Will H Rockett

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• As the popularity of the genre increases and special effects are pushed to greater extremes of terror and cruelty, more and more people have begun to ... Lees meer

Creating the Big Game

Wiley L Umphlett

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture | nr. 34
• John W. Heisman (1869-1936) was a man of many faces whose public image has suffered from a diffused, enigmatic, and mostly misunderstood private perso... Lees meer

Personality Comedians as Genre

Wes D Gehring

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• 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 sht... Lees meer

Tarzan and Tradition

Erling B Holtsmark

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This book is a study of Burrough's first six Tarzan books, revealing intriguing parallels between Tarzan's story and the sagas of the heroes of ancien... Lees meer

S.J. Perelman

Steven Gale

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• 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 p... Lees meer

The Neutral Ground

Bruce a Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture | nr. 42
• 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... Lees meer

America's Musical Pulse

Kenneth J Bindas

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular soun... Lees meer

European Readings of American Popular Culture

John R Dean, Jean-Paul Gabilliet

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture ... Lees meer

Post-Franco, Postmodern

Barbara Morris, Kathleen M Vernon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to comman... Lees meer

Lawrence of Arabia and American Culture

Joel C Hodson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Departing from prior scholarship on T. E. Lawrence, this work examines the extent of Anglo-American cultural interplay and the popular culture machine... Lees meer