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Robert Pierpoint
A Life at CBS News
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This is the first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow, hired by him to cover the Korean War for CBS. He went on to cover the White House, through six presidents. In more than 40 years with the network, he covered the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Nixon’s...
Projecting Britain at War
The National Character in British World War II Films
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives. Several chapters look at films made during and immediately...
Leslie Fiedler
Critic, Provocateur, Pop Culture Guru
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917–2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an early proponent of queer theory. This book traces the evolution of this larger-than-life figure through an extensive examination of his works. Beginning with his homoerotic reading of the relationship...
Chaucer's Afterlife
Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This study explores Chaucer’s present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Presenting some of the best work from the 2017 Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection highlights the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, from the “practical...
The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio
Exploring Their Parallel Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children's literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and...
by Klara Szmańko
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Author Toni Morrison stressed the need to analyze race in American literature by white authors by shifting focus “from the racial object to the racial subject.” Representations of whiteness in certain works by Asian American authors reveal what happens when the visual dynamics of ethnography are...
Rumrunners
Liquor Smugglers on America's Coasts, 1920-1933
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
In 1920, the 18th Amendment made the production, transportation and sale of alcohol not merely illegal—it was unconstitutional. Yet no legislation could end the demand for alcohol. Enterprising rumrunners worked to meet that demand with cunning, courage, machineguns and speedboats powered by aircraft...
by John Cullen Gruesser
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book highlights detection’s malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe’s works through the...
George Stevens
The Films of a Hollywood Giant
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
“George Stevens could do anything,” said veteran Hollywood producer Pandro S. Berman, “break your heart or make you laugh.” Winner of two Best Director Oscars—for A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956)—Stevens excelled in a range of genres, gave luster to some of Hollywood’s brightest...
The Sentimental Mode
Essays in Literature, Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical consensus seems to maintain that Americans engaged in a turn-of-the-century refutation of the sentimental...
Robert Rossen
The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This book calls for a re-evaluation of the films of Robert Rossen. Over a 30-year period, he was the most accomplished writer and director who was also a longtime member of the Communist Party, but his achievement has not been recognized, his films have been belittled or ignored, his legacy denied....
by Paul Leggett
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Sir Christopher Lee (1922–2015) was one of the most beloved actors of the past sixty years. He appeared in more than 200 feature films—from Hammer Horror and James Bond thrillers to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—and more than 100 made-for-televison movies. A versatile performer, he played...
The Infamous Burke and Hare
Serial Killers and Resurrectionists of Nineteenth Century Edinburgh
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo...