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Kyoto Animation
A Critical Study and Filmography
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Kyoto Animation, a studio with very humble beginnings, has gained recognition the world over as a uniquely inspired and inventive enterprise. This book examines Kyoto Animation’s philosophy and creative vision with close reference to its anime. It focuses on the studio’s choice of genres, themes...
Gustav Klimt
A Critical Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) expressed in his work a fascination with the liminal worlds that underpin his figures and landscapes. His art echoes different styles and traditions yet he has no obvious predecessors or disciples. Offering a critical reappraisal of Klimt, the...
Southeast Asian Cartoon Art
History, Trends and Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight essays provide historical and contemporary examinations of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore,...
Creature Features
Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This work offers a critical, colorful and informative examination of different types of monster movies, spanning the silent period to today. Chapter One focuses on dragons, dinosaurs, and other scaly giants from films like 1953’s The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, an impressive stop-motion production...
Al Pacino
In Films and on Stage, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
One of our most passionate and gifted actors, Al Pacino has been riveting audiences for decades with performances in everything from The Godfather to Angels in America to Danny Collins. He has also appeared on the stage, tackling such difficult roles as Richard III, King Herod and Shylock, along with...
Big Mama Thornton
The Life and Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
You ain’t nothing but a “Hound Dog” ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit “Hound Dog” before Elvis Presley and who wrote “Ball & Chain,” the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden...
by Bill Mesce
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran on gut instinct—film schools, audience research departments and seminars on screenwriting were not yet de rigueur. Today the standard is the analytical approach, intended to demystify filmmaking and guarantee success (or at least minimize failure)....
Dark Romance
Sexuality in the Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
The darkly handsome man gazes deeply into her eyes. She finds him irresistible, wants to experience the passion of the moment. He grins—the movie audience can see his lengthened lateral incisors—and bends to her neck. The eroticism is horrible, and compelling.
Audiences are drawn to horror...
The New Academic Librarian
Essays on Changing Roles and Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
The new essays on today’s academic librarians examine above all their functions and responsibilities—since these have greatly changed just in recent years, especially in matters of technology. These librarians/essayists step away from yesterday’s stereotypes and explain at length their new roles....
Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads
The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre–Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three...
Bud Moore
Memoir of a Country Mechanic from D-Day to NASCAR Glory
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
One of NASCAR’s pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport’s early rough and tumble days. In almost four decades as a car owner, he was victorious at the Daytona 500, the Southern 500—three times—and at dozens of other NASCAR events, and won three Grand National Division championships,...
Dig That Beat!
Interviews with Musicians at the Root of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Disc jockey Alan Freed coined the term “rock and roll” in the 1950s. Rooted in rockabilly, rhythm and blues, country and western, gospel, and pop, the genre was popularized by performers like Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Rock and roll’s originators and revivalists...
The Battle for Vella Lavella
The Allied Recapture of Solomon Islands Territory, August 15-September 9, 1943
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces. After their victory on Guadalcanal, Americans advanced into the New Georgia Group with horrendous casualties. Admiral Halsey then implemented an “island hopping” strategy, bypassing...
Flying Cars, Amphibious Vehicles and Other Dual Mode Transports
An Illustrated Worldwide History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It wasn’t very long after the first commercially viable automobiles came on the scene that ambitious engineers began to dream of vehicles that could travel not only on land but also in the air, or by water. For a century, talented designers have created unique dual purpose vehicles for land, water...