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  • - Misty and British Comics
    av Julia Round
    605

    Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic.

  • - The Making of a Masterpiece, Revised and Updated
    av Michael Streissguth
    1 739

    Provides a riveting account of the day Johnny Cash took the stage at Folsom Prison in California. Michael Streissguth skilfully places the concert and the album that followed in the larger context of Cash's artistic development, the era's popular music, and California's prison system, uncovering new angles and exploding a few myths along the way.

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    419

    In the twenty-two interviews included in Conversations with Neil Simon, Simon talks candidly about what it was like to write commercially successful plays that were dismissed by critics and scholars. He also speaks at length about the differences between writing for television, for the stage, and for film

  • - Interviews, Revised and Updated
     
    1 365,-

    With this new collection of interviews, readers will recognise the themes that motivate Steven Spielberg, the cinematic techniques he employs to create his feature films, and the emotional connection he has to his movies. The result is a nuanced and engaging portrait of the most popular director in American cinema history.

  • - Community and Culture
     
    419

    Presents the state of languages and of linguistic research on topics such as indigenous language documentation and revival; variation in educational opportunities in Louisiana's French varieties; current research on rural and urban dialects of English; and the struggles more recent immigrants face to use their heritage languages.

  • - New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans
    av Frank de Caro, Robin Roberts & Leslie A. Wade
    525

    Examines six unique, offbeat, Downtown celebrations. Using ethnography, folklore, cultural, and performance studies, the authors analyse new Mardi Gras's connection to traditional Mardi Gras. The narrative of each krewe's development is fascinating and unique, illustrating participants' shared desire to contribute to New Orleans's vibrant culture.

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    605

    Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in Mississippi. As a group, the essays introduce numerous new characters and conundrums into civil rights scholarship and encourage historians to pull civil rights scholarship closer toward the present.

  • - Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement
    av Bjorn F. Stillion Southard
    1 909,-

    Probes the complex issues of identity confronting free blacks who attempted to meaningfully engage in colonization efforts. From a peculiarly voiced ""Counter Memorial"" against the ACS to the letters of wealthy black merchant Louis Sheridan, Stillion Southard brings to light the intricate rhetoric of blacks who addressed colonization to Africa.

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    - Resistance and Resurgence
    av Sadhana Naithani
    435

    Explores the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Sadhana Naithani combines the study of written works, archival documents, life-stories, and conversations with folklorists, ethnologists, archivists, and historians in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius.

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    455

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not only his strong contributions to literature but also social justice. Conversations with Allen Ginsberg collects interviews from 1962 to 1997 that chart Ginsberg's intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.

  • av Roberta Seelinger Trites
    599,-

    Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyse how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism.

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    419

    Features seventeen interviews with Joan Didion, spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at Berkeley, in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage to John Gregory Dunne; and of course her writing.

  • - Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
     
    585

    This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, Indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories.

  • - Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
    av Owen W. Gilman Jr
    489

    Exploring the US experience of war in the twenty-first century, this book argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  • - Interviews
     
    419

    Collects eight of Stan Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his concept of the muse; and the key influences on his art-making.

  • - Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
     
    609,-

    Examines how Martin Luther King's life and work had a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of the United States since the civil rights era. Collectively, these pieces explore wide-ranging issues and contemporary social developments through the lens of Dr. King's perceptions, analysis, and prescriptions.

  • - Dimensions of Amazement
    av Paul V. Allen
    529 - 1 679,-

    Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, and later winning the National Book Award for her time fantasy The Court of the Stone Children.In addition, Eleanor Cameron played an often vocal role in critical debates about children's literature. She was one of the first authors to take up literary criticism of children's novels and published two influential books of criticism, including The Green and Burning Tree. One of Cameron's most notable acts of criticism came in 1973, when she wrote a scathing critique of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl responded in kind, and the result was a fiery imbroglio within the pages of the Horn Book Magazine. Yet despite her many accomplishments, most of Cameron's books went out of print by the end of her life, and her star faded.This biography aims to reinsert Cameron into the conversation by taking an in-depth look at her tumultuous early life in Ohio and California, her unforgettably forceful personality and criticism, and her graceful, heartfelt novels. The biography includes detailed analysis of the creative process behind each of her published works and how Cameron's feminism, environmentalism, and strong sense of ethics are reflected in and represented by her writings. Drawn from over twenty interviews, thousands of letters, and several unpublished manuscripts in her personal papers, Eleanor Cameron is a tour of the most exciting and creative periods of American children's literature through the experience of one of its valiant purveyors and champions.

  • - The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
    av Lynn Abbott & Doug Seroff
    815,-

    In this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music, authoritatively connecting the black vaudeville movement with the explosion of blues that followed.

  • - Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood
    av Gillian Kelly
    679,-

    Robert Taylor was a central figure of Hollywood's classical era. In Robert Taylor: Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood, Gillian Kelly investigates the initial construction and subsequent developments of Taylor's star persona across his thirty-five-year career.

  • - Essays toward a Theory of Tradition
    av Simon J. Bronner
    1 689

    Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore, author Simon Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life.

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    1 479

    Brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of William Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures; and his influence on professional historians.

  • - The Making of Roger Rabbit
    av Ross Anderson
    529,-

    Ross Anderson interviewed over 140 artists to tell the story of how, with Who Framed Roger Rabbit, they created something truly magical. Anderson describes the ways in which the Roger Rabbit characters have been used in film shorts, commercials, and merchandising, and how they have remained a cultural touchstone today.

  • - A Comprehensive Approach
    av Laurent Cugny
    1 375,-

    In this groundbreaking volume, Laurent Cugny examines and connects the theoretical and methodological processes that underlie all of jazz. Jazz in all its forms is researched and analysed by performers, scholars, and critics. This book is required reading for any serious study of jazz.

  • - War, Love, and Secrets
    av Kevin Haworth
    525

    Provides a close reading of Rutu Modan's work and examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing on archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli comics from its beginning in the 1930s, to the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of creativity that began in the 1990s and continues today.

  • - Finding Light in the Shadows
     
    525

    Neil Gaiman is one of the most critically decorated and popular authors of the last fifty years, but his work is under represented in sustained fashion in comics studies. The thirteen essays and two interviews with Gaiman and his frequent collaborator, artist P. Craig Russell, in this volume examine the work of Gaiman and his many illustrators.

  • - Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity
    av Ersula J. Ore
    599 - 1 679,-

    Investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic engagement, in effect an argument against black inclusion within the changing nation. Ersula Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today.

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    495

    Ranging from 2001 to 2016, the twenty-three interviews collected in Conversations with Colson Whitehead reveal the workings of one of America's most idiosyncratic and most successful literary minds.

  • - Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives
     
    585

    Explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Coeditors Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm reveal the graphic character of sacred narratives, imagining new vistas for both comics and religious texts.

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    419

    Presents the first collection of interviews with the renowned contemporary American author Gish Jen. Spanning more than two decades, beginning in 1991 and ending with a new, unpublished interview from 2017, these interviews provide readers a sense of Jen's development as a novelist and cultural critic.

  • - Conversations
     
    505

    Spanning the period from 1990 to 2017, Alison Bechdel: Conversations collects ten interviews that illustrate how Bechdel uses her own life, relationships, and contemporary events to expose the world to what she has referred to as the "fringes of acceptability" - the comics genre as well as queer culture and identity.

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