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Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations
Marvel, like other media "universes," is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow...- $49.95
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Deadlier Than the Male: Femme Fatales in 1960s and 1970s Cinema
THEY'LL LOVE YOU TO DEATH James Bond's bad girls. Wicked queens of ancient myth. Bisexual vampire women. Teenage temptresses. Deadly dinosaur dames in fanciful fur bikinis. Golden princesses of porn. And many, many more. They were the wicked women of the 1960s and 1970s....- $24.95
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Deadlier Than the Male: Femme Fatales in 1960s and 1970s Cinema (hardback)
This is the HARDBACK version. THEY'LL LOVE YOU TO DEATH James Bond's bad girls. Wicked queens of ancient myth. Bisexual vampire women. Teenage temptresses. Deadly dinosaur dames in fanciful fur bikinis. Golden princesses of porn. And many, many more. They were the wicked women...- $34.95
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Debating Disney: Pedagogical Perspectives on Commercial Cinema
With stakes in film, television, theme parks, and merchandising, Disney continues to be one of the most dominant forces of popular culture around the globe. Films produced by the studio are usually blockbusters in nearly every country where they are released. However, despite their...- $111.00
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Dracula's Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film
A collection of essays about the portrayals of female vampires through the history of film, beginning with Carl Theodore Dreyer's Vampyre and culminating with the Twilight series. The contributors to these essays will be primarily female writers/scholars on films that focus on the female...- $93.00
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Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents: The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films
Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones,...- $34.95
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From Hell To Hollywood: An Encyclopedia of World War II Films Volume 1 (hardback)
FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement...- $40.00
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From Hell To Hollywood: An Encyclopedia of World War II Films Volume 2
FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement...- $35.00
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From Hell To Hollywood: An Encyclopedia of World War II Films Volume 2 (hardback)
FROM HELL TO HOLLYWOOD: An Encyclopedia of Warld War II Films offers the most comprehensive illustrated guide ever assembled for theatrical motion-pictures, English-language and international, dealing with the conflict that consumed America and the globe during the mid-20th century. Though United States official involvement...- $45.00
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From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture
With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become shorthand for a creative work that has abandoned any controversial or substantial content to...- $28.95
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John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke
In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies,...- $19.95
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John Wayne's Way: Life Lessons from the Duke
As John Wayne's character said in The Alamo: There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film...- $18.95
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Midnight Matinees (hardback): Cult Cinema Classics (1896 to the present day)
From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush, Sunrise, The Crowd... featured the loftiest stars, most renown directors, largest budgets, garnering the strongest reviews. Most famous of them all? Gone With the...- $42.00
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Midnight Matinees: Cult Cinema Classics (1896 to the present day)
From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush, Sunrise, The Crowd... featured the loftiest stars, most renown directors, largest budgets, garnering the strongest reviews. Most famous of them all? Gone With the...- $32.00
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Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology
In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. It was followed by two sequels and three prequels, all of which became blockbusters. Comic books, novels, graphic novels, and magazines devoted...- $82.00
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Sand: or, Once Upon a Time in the Jazz Age
The birth of the roaring twenties, as young gossip columnist Louella Parsons and aged sportswriter Bat Masterson, meet to cover the 'fight of the century' in which contender Jack Dempsey hopes to become the next heavyweight champion of the world.Author: Douglas BrodeISBN-10: 1620067668ISBN-13: 9781620067666Publisher:...- $29.95
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Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars: An Anthology
In 1977, Star Wars blazed across the screen to become one of the highest grossing and most beloved movies of all time. In Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars: An Anthology, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled a provocative collection of essays...- $87.00
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Shooting Stars of the Small Screen: Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors (1946-Present)
Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy...- $39.95
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Something Wicked: Witchcraft in Movies, Television, and Popular Culture
An anthology of essays that deal with Witchcraft and the figure of the Witch, as they have been presented in motion pictures, television, and popular culture, in order to understand how, why, and when the common anti-Witchcraft/ anti-Witch attitude evolved. Mainstream tales of Witchcraft,...- $130.00
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The DC Comics Universe: Critical Essays
As properties of DC comics continue to sprout over the years, narratives that were once kept sacrosanct now spill over into one another, synergizing into one bona fide creative Universe. Intended for both professional pop culture researchers and general interest readers, this collection of...- $39.95
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The Star Trek Universe: Franchising the Final Frontier
As one of the most influential shows of all time, Star Trek continues to engage fans around the world. But its cultural impact has grown far beyond the scope of the original seventy-nine episodes. The show spawned an unprecedented progeny, beginning with Star Trek:...- $105.00
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They Went That-A-Way - 101 Forgotten Westerns to Remember
LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . . Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiven, to name a few. But how many armchair cowboys and...- $35.00
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They Went That-A-Way - 101 Forgotten Westerns to Remember (hardback)
LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . . Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiven, to name a few. But how many armchair cowboys and...- $45.00
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Virgin Vampires: Or, Once Upon a Time in Transylvania
This blend of history and dark fantasy feasts upon vampire lore, reinventing the manner in which real-life monsters were transformed into pop culture icons by two of Ireland's great writers. Dubliners Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker travel to Transylvania where they race to...- $14.99
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