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Curatorial Conversations
Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping...
Barbara Kopple
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects have ranged from labor union documentaries to fictional feature films to an educational series for kids...
Working-Class Comic Book Heroes
Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Contributions by Phil Bevin, Blair Davis, Marc DiPaolo, Michele Fazio, James Gifford, Kelly Kanayama, Orion Ussner Kidder, Christina M. Knopf, Kevin Michael Scott, Andrew Alan Smith, and Terrence R. Wandtke
In comic books, superhero stories often depict working-class characters who struggle...
by Santiago García
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers...
The Writing Dead
Talking Terror with TV'S Top Horror Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The Writing Dead features original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows. They include some of television's biggest names--Carlton Cuse (Lost and Bates Motel), Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Pushing Daisies), David Greenwalt (Angel and...
Bending Steel
Modernity and the American Superhero
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
“Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It’s Superman!” Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts...
Sitting Pretty
The Life and Times of Clifton Webb
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when leading men were supposed to be strong, virile, and brave, Clifton Webb projected an image of flip, acerbic arrogance. He was able to play everything...
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills...
Sitting in Darkness
New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal...
Peter Kuper
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Peter Kuper (b. 1958) is one of the country’s leading cartoonists. His artwork has graced the pages and covers of numerous newspapers and magazines, including Time, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and the New York Times. He is a longtime contributor to Mad magazine, where he has been writing and drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Gary Snyder (b. 1930) is one of the most distinguished American poets, remarkable both for his long and productive career and for his equal contributions to literature and environmental thought. His childhood in the Pacific Northwest profoundly shaped his sensibility due to his contact with Native...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almost six decades of conversations, the collection touches on such topics as Merwin's early influences (Robert Graves and Ezra Pound), his location within...
Vampires and Zombies
Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema, and on television. The vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone...
Japanese Animation
East Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding...