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by Anna Faktorovich
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
When three of Britain’s best-loved and best-selling authors each publish at least two novels with a historical rebellion theme, there might be an interesting pattern worth examining. This is a long overdue study of the previously overlooked rebellion novel genre, with a close look at the works of...
by Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Produced in Italy from the turn of the 20th century, “sword and sandal” or peplum films were well received in the silent era and attained great popularity in the 1960s following the release of Hercules (1959), starring Mr. Universe Steve Reeves. A global craze for Bronze Age fantasy-adventures...
Conversations with Bunuel
Interviews with the Filmmaker, Family Members, Friends and Collaborators
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and colleagues—including Salvador Dalí, Louis Aragon and Fernando Rey—conducted by Max Aub in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Notorious for inventing fanciful...
Alcohol in the Writings of Herman Melville
"The Ever-Devilish God of Grog"
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In early to mid-19th century America, there were growing debates concerning the social acceptability of alcohol and its consumption. Temperance reformers publicly decried the evils of liquor, and America’s greatest authors began to write works of temperance fiction, stories that urged Americans...
Roy Huggins
Creator of Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Producer-writer Roy Huggins is best known for creating the TV series, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Run For Your Life and The Rockford Files (with Stephen J. Cannell). This biography details his personal and professional life, aided by exclusive interviews with family, producers, actors...
Terror on the Air!
Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed not only in the movies, but also on the radio before television’s dominance in American homes. One of many distinct genres born of early broadcasting, terror-inspiring radio thrilled millions. Nearly 80...
by Theresa Bane
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification...
A Wider View of the Universe
Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Thoreau in his early career did not consider nature a worthy subject for his pen. Beginning with only a superficial knowledge of nature—even while living at Walden Pond—he later began to study the subject more intensely in 1849. Over the next dozen years, he applied himself especially to botany...
Through an Unlocked Door
In Walks Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
“We never lock our doors.” This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitude or belief that, despite whatever danger might prevail in public spaces, life inside our own homes remains (or at least should remain) safe, carefree, normal. This book covers 13 high-profile...
The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce
A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fèvre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient...
Genre-Busting Dark Comedies of the 1970s
Twelve American Films
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This examination of dark comedies of the 1970s focuses on films which concealed black humor behind a misleading genre label. All That Jazz (1979) is a musical...about death—hardly Fred and Ginger territory. This masking goes beyond misnomer to a breaking of formula that director Robert Altman called...
The Quick, the Dead and the Revived
The Many Lives of the Western Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States’ most fundamental doctrine—expansionism—and depicted, in a uniquely American way, the archetypal battle between good and evil. Westerns also depict a country defined and re-defined by complex crises. World War II transformed...
by Nathan Vernon Madison
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World...
by David Persuitte
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Just as a growing interest in millennialism at the turn of this century has rejuvenated religious debate and questions concerning the fate of the world, so did Mormonism develop from millennial enthusiasm early in the nineteenth century. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and a provocative, even...