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This lively and illuminating book explores over 100 contemporary horror films, providing insightful and provocative readings of what they mean while including numerous quotes from their creators. Some of these films, including The Babadook, The Green Inferno, It Follows, The Neon Demon, Pride and...

Revised for 2015! This essential fan guide takes members of the Colbert Nation on an encyclopedic journey through 9 years of the Colbert Report's best-known segments and obscure favorites, crammed with details only the show’s most knowledgeable fans can deliver. What was The Word modeled after? Was...

Blue Buddha Press, the publishing company behind Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows and the It Is Known series, collects all of its ebook releases into one comprehensive catalogue, including an overview and extensive sample of each title.  Even better, a number of future releases are...

REVISED, UPDATED, AND EXPANDED!The Big Bang Theory – CBS’s surprise hit sitcom – was recently renewed through 2017 after pulling in 19 million weekly viewers in its most recent season. Any fan who tunes in week to week wasn’t surprised. The quirky show does what so few shows manage to do: straddle...

“Because sometimes even if you know how something’s gonna end that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the ride” —Ted Mosby,  “Monday Night Football,” Season 2, Episode 14 The well-loved show How I Met Your Mother ended its 9-year run on TV, but its story is far from over. In...

There is no denying that Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978) deserves its title as one of the most controversial films ever made. While many condemn it as misogynistic, others praise it for raising uncomfortable issues about sexual violence. While its reputation as a cult film has undoubtedly...

Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted in Black situation comedies-from 1950's Beulah to contemporary series like Martin and Living Single.

Bullitt sigue siendo recordada por la trepidante escena del Mustang en las calles de San Francisco: Steve McQueen, como el teniente Frank Bullitt, al volante de su icónico coche mientras persigue a dos asesinos e intenta resolver un caso plagado de engaños, giros inesperados y oscuros personajes....

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs...

New African Cinema examines the pressing social, cultural, economic, and historical issues explored by African filmmakers from the early post-colonial years into the new millennium. Offering an overview of the development of postcolonial African cinema since the 1960s, Valérie K. Orlando highlights...

The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies examines the popular Comedy Central program from a rhetorical perspective to uncover the ways in which Jon Stewart, the cast, and writers critique mainstream media and politicians. This volume analyzes the nature of The Daily Show, the...

The constellation of characters and themes created in Angel, the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, are explored in this collection of essays. A vampire author, a sex expert, a TV critic, a science fiction novelist, and Buffy writer Nancy Holder provide essays examining the different issues...

Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner is now widely recognized as an undisputed masterwork of science fiction cinema and one of the most influential films released in the last forty years. Yet on its original release it was both a critical and commercial failure, criticized for its perceived prioritizing...

Do creepy, crawly critters cause you to cringe? What about alliteration? Either way, if you like movies with the inherent "ick" factor these varmints elicit, film critic Mr. Satanism has you covered. With spiders. And if 50+ movies featuring nature's least wanted aren't enough, he also takes...