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University Press of Mississippi Van Johnson
Book SynopsisVan Johnson''s dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s he was popularized as the bobbysoxer''s heartthrob.He won the nation''s heart, too, by appearing in a series of blockbuster war films--A Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Weekend at the Waldorf, and Battleground. Perennially a leading man opposite June Allyson, Esther Williams, Judy Garland, and Janet Leigh, he rose to fame radiating the sunshine image Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer chose for him, that of an affable, wholesome boy-next-door. Legions of adoring moviegoers were captivated by this idealized persona that generated huge box-office profits for the studio.However, Johnson''s off-screen life was not so sunny. His mother had rejected him in childhood, and he lived his adult life dealing with sexual ambivalence. A marriage was arranged with the ex-wife of his best friend, the actor Keenan Wynn. During the waning years of Hollywood''s Golden A
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Bumpy Road The Making Flop and Revival of
Book SynopsisChronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of director Monte Hellman's 1971 existentialist car-racing movie. Sylvia Townsend conducts a comprehensive examination of the film, its reception, and the resurgence of interest it has more recently generated.
£77.35
University Press of Mississippi Death Disability and the Superhero
Book SynopsisThe first full-length examination of the evolution of the superhero through the lens of disability studies.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Ed Brubaker Conversations
Book SynopsisEd Brubaker has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Brubaker layers his stories with a keen self-awareness, applying his expansive knowledge of American comic book history to invigorate his work. This collection of interviews explores the sophisticated artist's work, drawing upon the entire length of the award-winning Brubaker's career.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Monsters in the Machine
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Herg233 When the Lines Are Not So
Book SynopsisAs the creator of Tintin, Hergé (1907-1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. While his style popularized what became known as the ""clear line"" in cartooning, this edited volume shows how his life and art turned out much more complicated than his method.Trade ReviewAfter five decades of critical discussions on Hergé and Tintin, is there anything left to say on the most famous French-language comics creator and his acclaimed body of work? The Comics of Hergé answers the challenge of venturing new interpretations of a classic yet endlessly inspiring corpus. Drawing from multiple fields of enquiry--philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, narratology, history, poetics, musicology, sociology, film studies, art history, myth analysis, politics, and comics theory--the contributions included in Sanders's collection re-examine the visual, ideological, and storytelling devices at play in one of the most 'iconic' creations in comics history and their influence on post-Hergéan ligne claire experimentations. The chapters with a thematic approach (appraising the recurrence of motifs ranging from the nothingness prevalent in Tintin in Tibet to the mechanical modernity and narrative acceleration of Hergé's airplanes) complement those that offer new considerations on Hergé's aesthetics (his stylistic evolution, his narrative patterns, his representation of violence, his late predilection for simulacra and reflexivity), as well as those that explore the posterity of Hergéan tropes and iconography. As a whole, this collection sheds new light on an author whose work emerges here once again not as a critical terminus, but as a source of enduring fascination.""- Fabrice Leroy, professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, comics scholar, and author of Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels
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University Press of Mississippi Forging the Past
Book SynopsisAt once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists - and perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Forging the Past offers a comprehensive account of this work and the complex interventions it makes into the past.
£44.96
University Press of Mississippi The Joker
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University Press of Mississippi Medievalist Comics and the American Century
Book SynopsisThe comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop presents a reception history of medievalist comics, setting them against a greater backdrop of modern American history. From its genesis in the 1930s to the present, Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy, but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow remains the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it was to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the Uni
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Maurice Sendak
Book SynopsisMaurice Sendak (1928-2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children''s book writer and illustrator, he did not limit himself to these areas. He saw himself first and foremost as an artist. In this collection of interviews-the first of its kind-Sendak presents himself as a writer, illustrator, set designer, and librettist. From his early work with Randall Jarrell and Ruth Krauss through his later work with Tony Kushner and Spike Jonze, Sendak worked as a collaborator with a passion for the arts.The interviews here, many of which are hard to find or previously unpublished, span from 1966 through 2011. They show not only Sendak''s shifting artistic interests, but also changes in how he understood himself and his craft. What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and irascible, sophisticated and populist. The man who showed millions of children and
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Maurice Sendak
Book SynopsisThese interviews span from 1966 to 2011. They show not only Maurice Sendak's shifting artistic interests, but also changes in how he understood himself and his craft. What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and irascible, sophisticated and populist.
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University Press of Mississippi Chris Ware
Book SynopsisJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth was the first major UK literary prize awarded for a graphic novel. In 2002 Ware was the first cartoonist included in the Whitney Biennial.Like Art Spiegelman or Alison Bechdel, Ware thus stands out as an important crossover artist who has made the wider public aware of comics as literature. His regular New Yorker covers give him a central place in our national cultural conversation. Since the earliest issues of ACME Novelty Library in the 1990s, cartoonist peers have acclaimed Ware’s distinctive, meticulous visual style and technical innovations to the medium. Ware also remains a literary author of the highest caliber, spending many years to create thematically complex graphic masterworks such as Building Stories and the ongoing Rusty Brown.
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University Press of Mississippi The Comic Book Film Adaptation
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the centre of mainstream film production.Trade ReviewBy far the most insightful look ever at superheroes in film. It's not about what's been translated from comics to the movies - it's about why it has, how it has, and why it works well enough to produce some of the most popular movies in all of cinema history. There is no better, smarter examination of the relationship between comics and film."" - Mark Waid, Eisner Award-winning writer of Kingdom Come and Daredevil.""Liam Burke takes the reader on a compelling journey through this new ‘Golden Age' of adaptation, his argument combining the rigorous, exhaustive research of a committed scholar with the energy and encyclopedic knowledge of a passionate fan. This is a serious book about comic books and their relationship with cinema; it is seriously enjoyable, and also seriously important."" - Will Brooker, author of Hunting the Dark Knight and editor of Cinema Journal.""What is all too often an overlooked form is finally given the seriousness it deserves in The Comic Book Film Adaptation. A most welcome intervention in the field of adaptation studies."" - Deborah Cartmell, coauthor of Screen Adaptation: Impure Cinema and coeditor of the journal Adaptation.""Burke presents a masterly and engaging argument regarding cultural, technological, and industry transformations, which have facilitated a shift in the comic book form - on page and on screen - from the margins to the mainstream. This excellent book is sure to become a key text in the burgeoning field of comics studies, while also having a great deal to offer film and media studies."" - Angela Ndalianis, editor of The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero and Super/Heroes: From Hercules to Superman"a fascinating read, both for aficionados of the comic book and students of modern film trends" - Barry Forshaw, Crime Time & DVD Choice
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Brian De Palmas SplitScreen A Life in Film
Book SynopsisWhat makes Brian De Palma such a maverick even when he is making Hollywood genre films? Why do his movies often feature megalomaniacs and failed heroes? Is he merely a misogynist and an imitator of Alfred Hitchcock? To answer these questions, Douglas Keesey takes a biographical approach to De Palma's cinema, showing how De Palma reworks events from his own life into his films.Trade ReviewBy cunningly projecting De Palma's life side-by-side with his films, Douglas Keesey has brought to light the hidden, deep desires of a film director previously categorized as a purely genre filmmaker. Thanks to Keesey, I can now rewatch De Palma's films with new eyes."" - Paul Duncan, film historian.""Brian De Palma's Split-Screen is an insightful and highly scholarly book. It is the best book so far on the life and works of De Palma. It is a very well researched book and provides deep analysis of De Palma's works. It should be on the university curriculum for film studies. It is a must-read for everyone interested in the life and works of Brian De Palma and cinema in general."" - The Washington Book Review
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University Press of Mississippi Reading Lessons in Seeing
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University Press of Mississippi The 10 Cent War
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Magnificent Obsession The Outrageous History of
Book SynopsisLooks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on the author's more than fifty years in the field and his personal, up-front knowledge of the subject, chapters provide unique documentation on film buffs who once created a livelihood from their hobby.
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University Press of Mississippi Comfort Food
Book SynopsisComfort Food explores this concept with examples taken from Atlantic Canadians, Indonesians, the English in Britain, and various ethnic, regional, and religious populations as well as rural and urban residents in the United States. This volume includes studies of particular edibles and the ways in which they comfort or in someinstances cause discomfort. The contributors focus on items ranging from bologna to chocolate, including sweet and savory puddings, fried bread with an egg in the center, dairy products, fried rice, cafeteria fare, sugary fried dough, soul food, and others. Several essays consider comfort food in the context of cookbooks,films, blogs, literature, marketing, and tourism. Of course what heartens one person might put off another, so the collection also includes takes on victuals that prove problematic. All this fare is then related to identity, family, community, nationality, ethnicity, class, sense of place, tradition, stress, health, discomfort, guilt, betrayal, and loss, contributing to and deepening our understanding of comfort food. This book offers a foundation for further appreciation of comfort food. As a subject of study, the comfort food is relevant to a number of disciplines, most obviously food studies, folkloristics, and anthropology, but also American studies, cultural studies, global and international studies, tourism, marketing, and public health. With contributions by: Barbara Banks, Sheila Bock, Susan Eleuterio, Jillian Gould, Phillis Humphries, Michael Owen Jones, Alicia Kristen, William G. Lockwood, Yvonne R. Lockwood, Lucy M. Long, LuAnne Roth, Rachelle H. Saltzman, Charlene Smith, Annie Tucker, and Diane Tye.
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University Press of Mississippi Comics Art in China
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject. Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present. This volume encompasses political, social, and gag cartoons, lianhuanhua, comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and humor periodicals, and donghua.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jim Shooter Conversations
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Charles Schulz
Book SynopsisCollects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied medium of newspaper comics.
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University Press of Mississippi Asian Comics
Book SynopsisGrand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, during which he traveled to Asia at least seventy-eight times and visited many studios and workplaces, John A. Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form.As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.Organized by regions of East, Southeast, and South Asia, Asian Comics provides 178 black-and-white illustrations and detailed information on comics of sixteen counTrade ReviewLent has brought comics studies into the mainstream and gone worldwide. This is an amazing feat, covering so many different cultural contexts on various continents. A particularly valuable contribution has been his journal, International Journal of Comic Art, a doughty annual which he founded in 1999, which has scoured the world, and which he puts together more or less solo. His knowledge of Asian comics, much of it gathered during tireless travel to China and elsewhere, is unparalleled."" - David Kunzle, author of numerous books on comics history, including Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips, Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer, and Gustave Doré: Twelve Comic Strips (all published by University Press of Mississippi)
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University Press of Mississippi East Meets Black
Book SynopsisEast Meets Black examines the making and remaking of race and masculinity through the racialization of Asian and black men, confronting this important white stratagem to secure class and racial privilege, wealth, and status in the postcivil rights era. Indeed Asian and black men in neoliberal America are cast by white supremacy as oppositional. Through this opposition in the US racial hierarchy, Chong Chon-Smith argues that Asian and black men are positioned along binaries brain/body, diligent/lazy, nerd/criminal, culture/ genetics, student/convict, and technocrat/athletein what he terms racial magnetism. Via this concept, East Meets Black traces the national conversations that oppose black and Asian masculinities, but also the Afro-Asian counterpoints in literature, film, popular sport, hip-hop music, performance arts, and internet subcultures. Chon-Smith highlights the spectacle and performance of baseball players such as Ichiro Suzuki within global multiculturalism and the racially
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Writing Dead
Book SynopsisFeatures original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows. The Writing Dead features thought-provoking, never-before-published interviews with the top writers and gives the creators an opportunity to delve more deeply into the subject of television horror than anything found online.Trade Review“All the interviews are excellent … Essential for any fans of modern fantastic television.” - Steve Earles, Destructive Music
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Tearing the World Apart Bob Dylan and the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisParticipates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty-first century - ""Love and Theft"" (2001), Modern Times (2006), and Tempest (2012) - along with the 2003 film Masked and Anonymous, which Dylan helped write and in which he appears as an actor and musical performer.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Oz Behind the Iron Curtain Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series
Book SynopsisIn 1939, Aleksandr Volkov published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Erika Haber demonstrates how the works of both Baum and Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR/Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored for many years.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Joe Sacco
Book SynopsisAddresses the range of Joe Sacco’s award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism. This edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Canadian Alternative Cartoonists Comics and
Book SynopsisThis 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.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
Book SynopsisWith populations aging all around the world, awareness of intergenerational relationships and associations surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media caters to this urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying insights into the connection between childhood and senescence to show that people are aged by culture.
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University Press of Mississippi Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Book SynopsisPresents twelve essays that explore this posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analysing recent works for young adults.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Bad Sixties
Book SynopsisOngoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties, Kristen Hoerl focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism in popular television and film. She shows how Hollywood has perpetuated politics deploring the detrimental consequences of the 1960s on traditional American values.
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University Press of Mississippi Mothers in Childrens and Young Adult Literature
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature is an exciting-even brilliant-collection of diverse criticism on a surprisingly under-studied topic. The thirteen astute essays chosen by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats use a wide array of theoretical approaches to investigate topics that range from innovation in an eighteenth century book for toddlers to animal mothering in picture books to the postfeminism of recent young adult novels."" - Beverly Lyon Clark, author of Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America
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University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Charles Schulz
Book SynopsisCollects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the under-studied medium of newspaper comics.Trade ReviewOver half a century after its debut, Charles Schulz's deceptively sophisticated Peanuts art continues to impact readers and cultures worldwide. Gardner and Gordon's The Comics of Charles Schulz treats Schulz's iconic property with the sophistication and care it deserves. At once insightful and enjoyable, the volume is a valuable addition not just to an understanding of Peanuts but also to comics studies, literary analysis, and beyond."" - Stephen J. Lind, author of A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz""Charles M. Schulz, many of us believe, was the greatest cartoonist of the twentieth century, but it is inarguable that the characters in his comic strip, Peanuts, have become icons of American culture. Just how powerful and influential they were can be partially measured by the lucid and thoughtful essays in this intelligently edited volume in the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series. They set a high standard for the critical analyses and scholarly appreciations sure to follow."" - M. Thomas Inge, author or editor of many volumes, including My Life with Charlie Brown and Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Neil Gaiman
Book SynopsisPresents interviews that span the length of Neil Gaimain’s career, from his first formal interview by the BBC at the age of seven to a new, unpublished interview held in 2017. They cover topics as wide and varied as a young Gaiman's thoughts on managing anger, learning the comics trade from Alan Moore, and being on the clock virtually 24/7.Trade ReviewA must have for any fans of Neil Gaiman and his works.""- Steve Earles, Hellbound
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Quentin Tarantino Poetics and Politics of
Book SynopsisCovering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention, others less so.
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University Press of Mississippi Comics and Sacred Texts
Book SynopsisExplores 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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University Press of Mississippi Alison Bechdel
Book SynopsisSpanning 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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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Expanding Art of Comics Ten Modern
Book SynopsisOffers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, before delving into more recent masterpieces.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Quentin Tarantino Poetics and Politics of
Book SynopsisCovering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention, others less so.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Dining with Madmen Fat Food and the Environment in 1980s Horror
Book SynopsisIn Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat The Making of Roger Rabbit
Book SynopsisRoss 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.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Implied Nowhere Absence in Folklore Studies
Book SynopsisTalks about things folklorists don't usually talk about. The authors ponder the tacit aspects of folklore and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated expectations placed upon people whenever they talk about folklore and how those expectations necessarily affect the folklore they are talking about.
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University Press of Mississippi The Canadian Alternative
Book SynopsisContributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek, Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J. McLaughlin, Joan Ormrod, Laura A. Pearson, Annick Pellegrin, Mihaela Precup, Jason Sacks, and Ruth-Ellen St. OngeThis 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.In contrast to the United States' melting pot, Canada has been understood to comprise a social, cultural, and ethnic mosaic, with distinct cultural variation as part of its identity. This volume reveals differences that often reflect in highly regional and localized comics such as Paul MacKinnon's Cape Breton-specific Old Trout Funnies, Michel Rabagli
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Blasian Invasion Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
Book SynopsisProbes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. Myra Washington looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Gothic for Girls Misty and British Comics
Book SynopsisToday 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.Trade Review"Julia's Gothic for Girls is a wonderful book, highly recommended by all here at Sector 13. It sets a new standard for books on british comics." - Sector 13
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University Press of Mississippi The Order and the Other
Book SynopsisIn the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young audiences. At that time, many literary critics, journalists, and educators grouped dystopian literature together with science fiction, leading to possible misunderstandings of the unique history, aspects, and functions of science fiction and dystopian genres.Though texts within these two genres may share similar settings, plot devices, and characters, each genre's value is different because they do distinctively different sociocritical work in relation to the culture that produces them. In The Order and the Other: Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Science Fiction, author Joseph W. Campbell distinguishes the two genres, explains the function of each, and outlines the different impact each has upon readers.Campbell analyzes such works as Lois Lowry's The Giver and James Dashner's The Maze Runner, placing dystopian works into the larger context of
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jeff Smith Conversations
Book SynopsisJeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry. This career-spanning collection of interviews, ranging from 1999 to 2017, enables readers to follow along with Smith's development as an independent creator, writer, and illustrator.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Posthuman Folklore
Book SynopsisOffers an overview of posthumanism as it applies to folklore studies and an investigation of ""vernacular posthumanisms"" - the ways in which people are increasingly performing the posthuman. Posthumanism calls for a close investigation of what is meant by the term ""human"" and a rethinking of this, our most basic ontological category.
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