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Marvel Comics' Civil War and the Age of Terror
Critical Essays on the Comic Saga
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Marvel Comics has an established tradition of addressing relevant real-life issues facing the American public. With the publication of Civil War (2006–2007), a seven-issue crossover storyline spanning the Marvel universe, they focused on contemporary anxieties such as terrorism and threats to privacy...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Blake’s 7, Terry Nation’s science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be the most popular new program of the year. Instead, it was attacked as a Star Wars rip-off and canceled after a mere 17 stories. The author acknowledges the show was full of dramatic clichés and scientific inaccuracies,...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling’s classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of...
The Law for Comic Book Creators
Essential Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Since the creation of the comic book, cases of legal conflict and confusion have often arisen where concepts such as public domain, unincorporated entities and moral rights are involved. As a result, comics creators are frequently concerned about whether they are protecting themselves. There are many...
Little Horrors
How Cinema's Evil Children Play on Our Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a child with an innocent face and a diabolical stare. Cinema’s evil children attack our cherished ideas of innocence and our innocent bystander status as...
In Cobb's Shadow
The Hall of Fame Careers of Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb cast a shadow over the game with his violent behavior on the field and off. His shadow was never darker than when it fell on his teammates. Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush were three of the greatest players in baseball...
Down from the Attic
Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pictures like Bride of the Monster and The Hideous Sun Demon. Yet some genre films have fallen through the cracks. The 24 films—some elusive, some easily...
Frank Wisbar
The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
German director Frank Wisbar (1899–1967) had the misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as Hitler came to power. While critics praised his work, Nazi cultural watchdogs were scornful of his attempts to chart “the landscape of the soul” in films like Ferryman Maria (1936) and Anna...
by Susan P. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Need ideas for library displays? Here is an effective tool for designing and creating unique visual statements for library spaces. It offers practical advice on utilizing everyday materials to create lively but economical presentations on all sorts of topics including authors, world cultures, traditions,...
by Richard J. Shmelter
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
For more than 120 years, the University of Southern California Trojans have maintained a tradition of football excellence that has placed the team among the perennial elite in the collegiate ranks. Eleven national championships, 38 conference titles, 150 All-Americans, and seven Heisman Trophy winners...
Wars of Latin America, 1982-2013
The Path to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years from 1982 into mid–2013. Although the text concentrates on combat operations, matters of politics, business and international...
Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness
Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics and the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by prominent women authors, including Cristina...
by Bert Ruiz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 2000, the National Police of Colombia reported that 25,660 people met violent deaths in that country. According to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia, 170 civilians were killed in the first 18 days of 2001 in massacres and selective homicides related to that country’s...