Resultaten gefilterd op "Popular Press"

Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich in American Magazines, 1923-1939

Michael Zalampas

• Paperback | Engels
• The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions w... Lees meer

In the Eye of the Beholder

Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T Marsden, John G Nachbar

• Paperback | Engels
• Film and television are subjects of intense study throughout higher education today. Popular culture has undergone a revolution during the last genera... Lees meer

Yardbird Suite

Lawrence O Koch

• Hardcover | Engels
• A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical material ... Lees meer

You Know My Method

J K Van Dover

• Paperback | Engels
• You Know My Method surveys the century following Edgar Allan Poe's invention of the fictional detective in 1841. The same century saw the development ... Lees meer

The Wonder Team

Leo Trachtenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Sports & Culture
• The Wonder Team describes in detail the year 1927, when the New York Yankees became the Wonder Team--probably baseball's best team ever. That club inc... Lees meer

Dissecting Stephen King

Heidi Strengell, John Langdon

• Paperback | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Books (Paperback)
• Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable ... Lees meer

Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848-1948

Patricia Ward D'Itri

• Hardcover | Engels
• This study portrays individuals, organizations, and events that contributed to the development of the world movement for women's rights between 1848 a... Lees meer

The Controversial Sholem Asch

Ben Siegel

• Hardcover | Engels
• This study is the first critical biography in English of Sholem Asch, who did little in his lifetime to make such a task an easy one. Asch was not a "... Lees meer

Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights

Robert A Baker, Michael T Nietzel

• Paperback | Engels
• Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended t... Lees meer

Murder on the Reservation

Ray B Browne

• Hardcover | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Book
• In Murder on the Reservation , Ray B. Browne surveys the work of several of the best-known writers of crime fiction involving Indian characters and re... Lees meer

American Theatrical Film

John C Tibbetts

• Hardcover | Engels
• The H H Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in the small town of Link Lake, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlo... Lees meer

Nancy Drew and Company

Inness

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Gender, & Girls'
• This intriguing anthology brings together a broad range of critical essays on girls' series fiction from established scholars such as Chamberlain, Joh... Lees meer

Skinheads Shaved for Battle

Jack Moore

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book describes who American skinheads are, how they have developed within larger youth group scenes, their ideas and activities, the role of musi... Lees meer

Girls Who Went Wrong

Laura Hapke

• Hardcover | Engels
• The period 1885 to 1917 saw thousands of American crusaders working hard to "save the fallen women," but little on the part of American social protest... Lees meer

In the Zone

Peter Wolfe

• Hardcover | Engels
• In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to explore the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before his time. The works he produce... Lees meer

The Originals

Murry Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades
• Was there really professional basketball before the NBA? Indeed there was. It was a rugged game but one that continued to evolve swiftly from its inve... Lees meer

Guide to United States Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels
• "To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must als... Lees meer

Goddesses and Monsters

Jane Caputi

• Hardcover | Engels | Ray and Pat Browne Books (Hardcover)
• The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, ... Lees meer

John Dickson Carr

S T Joshi

• Hardcover | Engels
• John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the "locked-room" mystery--the "impossible crime." But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays,... Lees meer

Stage Blood

Roxana Stuart

• Paperback | Engels
• The vampire originally took on its characteristics in the public imagination from a series of plays written and performed by some of the most importan... Lees meer

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Robert Sampson

• Paperback | Engels | Yesterday's Faces | nr. 3
• More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Raf... Lees meer

Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives

• Paperback | Engels
• After twenty-one years of military dictatorship, Brazil returned to democratic rule in 1985. Yet over the following two decades, the country largely i... Lees meer

Age of Sex Crime

Jane Caputi

• Hardcover | Engels
• The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such ... Lees meer

The Gateway Arch

W Arthur Mehrhoff

• Paperback | Engels
• Like the nation that it symbolizes, the bold arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial poses enormous contradictions. It is a simple, classica... Lees meer