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Coney Island
150 Years of Rides, Fires, Floods, the Rich, the Poor and Finally Robert Moses
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Before the Civil War, Coney Island boasted a beach, a dozen small hotels with ramshackle bathhouses, some chowder stands and a few saloons. After the war, it was taken over by powerful individuals who made its 0.7 square miles a domain of the wealthy. By 1905, with the population of New York City...
"Throw the book away"
Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Children’s literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself. A major aspect of children’s literature is the importance of books and reading. Books represent adult authority. This book examines the role that...
Vampira and Her Daughters
Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul brought an entertaining blend of macabre camp...
Encyclopedia of Television Shows
A Comprehensive Supplement, 2011-2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
This is a supplement to the author’s Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925–2010. It covers 1,612 series broadcast between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2016. Major networks—ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox and NBC—are covered along with many cable channels, such as AMC, Disney, Nickelodeon, Bravo,...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Created around the world and available only on the web, internet “television” series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through crowd-funding, they are filmed with borrowed equipment and volunteer casts and...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Covering the years 1945–2018, this alphabetical listing provides details about 2,923 unaired television series pilots, including those that never went into production, and those that became series but with a different cast, such as The Green Hornet, The Middle and Superman. Rarities include proposed...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet “television” series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers. Typically financed through online crowd-funding, they are produced with borrowed equipment and volunteer...
by Vincent Terrace
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This is the first ever compilation on Internet television and provides details of 405 programs from 1998 to 2013. Each entry contains the storyline, descriptive episode listings, cast and crew lists, the official website and comments. An index of personnel and programs concludes the book. From Barry...
Resting Places
The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates,...
Social Class on British and American Screens
Essays on Cinema and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
At a time when debates about social inequality are in the spotlight, it is worth examining how the two most popular media of the 20th and 21st centuries—film and television—have shaped the representation of social classes. How do generic conventions determine the representation of social stereotypes?...
by Jon Towlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and “sex pictures,” horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational...
Jolly Good Detecting
Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of...
Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes
Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle’s stories proves as interesting as the astute detective’s constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow...
Who Is Sherlock?
Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why...