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by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
John Howard Reid has written 3 books dealing specifically with American movies of the 1940s. The other two are titled "Memorable Films of the Forties" and "Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s". However, I consider this book to be the best. Admittedly, I'm a little prejudiced...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Professional Reviews: Rodney Bourke in International Movie Making: MOVIES MAGNIFICENT is truly a magnificent publication. John Howard Reid's movie books go from strength to strength. If you collect classic movies on film or DVD, or if you just enjoy reading about them, then these are the books for...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Let's go back in time for a moment and pretend we are looking in on an average neighborhood theater manager in a big city like New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh or Detroit, in the classic days when Hollywood movies were the number one entertainment choice of all the citizenry. On the one hand, our cinema...
The Horror of It All
One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead...
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff, “a passionate fan of the horror genre in all its forms,” (The New York Times) recalls a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics, and everything in between.
Horror films have simultaneously captivated and...
How He-Man Mastered the Universe
Toy to Television to the Big Screen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It’s easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel’s popular Masters of the Universe toy line quickly found...
Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality
What He Actually Did and Said
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds—using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine,...
Autobiographical Comics
Life Writing in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth.
In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth...
More Words about Pictures
Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This volume represents the current state of research on picture books and other adjacent hybrid forms of visual/verbal texts such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps, with a particular focus on texts produced for and about young people. When Perry Nodelman’s Words about Pictures: the Narrative...
by Christopher Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain and that they were often used as a way to comment on the relationship...
Cool Tokyo Guide
Adventures in the City of Kawaii Fashion, Train Sushi and Godzilla
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
**Independent Publisher Book Award winner**
Discover the city of temples, video games, manga, and cosplay with this graphic Tokyo travel guide!
Tokyo is an astonishing world unto itself—a city for lovers of Japanese culture, fashion and great food that mixes the best of old and new....
by John Nici
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made...
by Lauren Karcz
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Before they emerged as Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performed and recorded as Tom and Jerry, after the cat and mouse duo of animated comedy. The pair met at school in Queens, New York, in 1953 and shared an interest in folk revival music as it entered the popular consciousness....
Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose
And Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity-Mad Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In his first book, National Post columnist Scott Feschuk offers a hilarious, satirical take on trends in television and our peculiar obsession with the famous, the infamous, and the nature of Tom Cruise’s sexuality. Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose romps through the birth and the future of...
Popkiss
The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as "indie-pop,†? "C86,†? "cutie†?...