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Jane Austen on Film and Television
A Critical Study of the Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Jane Austen’s career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release...
A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
Crime, Magic and Power in the Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Edward Bulwer-Lytton—who coined the terms “the great unwashed” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”—is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan...
Versos Sencillos
A Dual-Language Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader José Martí wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal....
Class, Please Open Your Comics
Essays on Teaching with Graphic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Comics and sequential art are increasingly in use in college classrooms. Multimodal, multimedia and often collaborative, the graphic narrative format has entered all kinds of subject areas and its potential as a teaching tool is still being realized. This collection of new essays presents best practices...
Marvel Comics into Film
Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Marvel Studios’ approach to its Cinematic Universe—beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)—has become the template for successful management of blockbuster film properties. Yet films featuring Marvel characters can be traced back to the 1940s, when the Captain America serial first appeared...
The Wire and America's Dark Corners
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In post–9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire (2002–2008) focused on the dark realities of those living in America’s disintegrating industrial heartlands and drug-ravaged neighborhoods, striving against the odds in its schools, hospitals and legal system. With compelling...
Will the Real Pakistani Woman Please Stand Up?
Empire, Visual Culture and the Brown Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media. Analyzing Hollywood films, British documentaries, newspapers and mainstream U.S. magazines, the book traces sensational female figures of Pakistan—all of whom have been subject to patriarchal violence—highlighting...
Evangelicals and the Arts in Fiction
Portrayals of Tension in Non-Evangelical Works Since 1895
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century. The author argues that evangelicals are consistently seen as enemies of the arts by non-evangelical writers. The artist (typically represented by a literal artist, occasionally...
The Multiple Worlds of Fringe
Essays on the J.J. Abrams Science Fiction Series
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
With diverse contributions from scholars in English literature, psychology, and film and television studies, this collection of essays contextualizes Fringe as a postmodern investigation into what makes us human and as an examination of how technology transforms our humanity. In compiling this collection,...
War and Film in America
Historical and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
America’s chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across...
Going Scapegoat
Post-9/11 War Literature, Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat—Who can write war literature? When can they do it? This book presents a new way to closely read war narratives, questioning the idea of “combat gnosticism”—the...
Tappin' at the Apollo
The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina “Salt” Evelyn and Jewel “Pepper” Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem’s Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl “Fatha”...
by Charlene Fix
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo’s cinematic company while comparing him to tricksters from folklore, myth and legend. The book demonstrates how Harpo, the sweetest, wildest, most magical Marx brother, accomplishes the archetypal trickster’s work. Thirteen chapters...
My Avatar, My Self
Identity in Video Role-Playing Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
With videogames now one of the world’s most popular diversions, the virtual world has increasing psychological influence on real-world players. This book examines the relationships between virtual and non-virtual identity in visual role-playing games. Utilizing James Gee’s theoretical constructs...