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Fascist Lizards from Outer Space
The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson's V
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
When Kenneth Johnson’s science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Yet the 2009 V reboot was cancelled in its second season, despite a robust...
by John T. Soister, Henry Nicolella, Steve Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the “boy meets girl, boy loses girl” theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom...
Camp Cooke and Vandenberg Air Force Base, 1941-1966
From Armor and Infantry Training to Space and Missile Launches
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an internationally recognized missile and rocket base renamed...
The First Marine Captured in Vietnam
A Biography of Donald G. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to earn the Medal of Honor while in captivity; and the first Marine POW to have a U.S. Navy ship named in his honor, the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75). On December 31, 1964, while serving as...
Classics Illustrated
A Cultural History, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
A significant expansion of the critically acclaimed first edition, Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2d ed., carries the story of the Kanter family’s series of comics-style adaptations of literary masterpieces from 1941 into the 21st century. This book features additional material on the...
Mysteries Unlocked
Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover...
Lillian Gish
A Life on Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality,...
Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age
Interdisciplinary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical levels of postcolonial studies. By studying film, literature,...
Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention...
by J. Anne Funderburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime—outrageous stories of America’s most...
The Man Who Made the Jailhouse Rock
Alex Romero, Hollywood Choreographer
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Choreographer Alex Romero created Jailhouse Rock, the iconic Elvis Presley production number, but never received screen credit for his contribution. This book tells his story. The son of a Mexican general, Romero escaped the Mexican Revolution, joined his family’s vaudeville dance act and became...
A Wonderful Heart
The Films of William Wyler
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902–1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, with such classics as Dead End, Wuthering Heights, The Little Foxes, Roman Holiday and Ben-Hur. He won three directing Oscars and elicited over a dozen Oscar-winning...
by David Kalat
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This thoroughly updated and revised critical account of the Godzilla movie franchise explores the fascinating story behind Japan’s most famous movie monster and its development from black-and-white arthouse allegory to international commercial juggernaut. Reviled by critics but boasting a dedicated...
The Kaiju Film
A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the “big monsters stomping on cities” motif. Since the seminal King Kong 1933) and the archetypal Godzilla (1954), kaiju has mined the subject matter of science run amok, militarism, capitalism,...