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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Imaginaries The Legacy of Romanticism
Book SynopsisEngaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Maaheen Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Imaginaries The Legacy of Romanticism
Book SynopsisEngaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Maaheen Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels.
£26.78
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of Alison Bechdel From the Outside In
Book SynopsisIn a definitive collection of original essays, scholars cover the span of Alison Bechdel's career, placing her groundbreaking early work within the context of her more well-known recent projects. Contributors provide new insights on major themes in Bechdel's work, such as gender performativity, lesbian politics, trauma, and queer theory.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with William T. Vollmann
Book SynopsisAcross fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann's oeuvre is ambitious as it is dazzling. Conversations with William T. Vollmann collects twenty-nine interviews, from early press coverage in Britain where his career first took flight, to in-depth visits to his writing and art studio in Sacramento, California.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Professional Wrestling
Book SynopsisProfessional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. The displays of violence, simulated and actual, may be the obvious appeal, but that is just the beginning. Fans debate performance choices with as much energy as they argue about their favorite wrestlers. The ongoing scenarios and presentations of manly and not-so-manly characters--from the flamboyantly feminine to the hypermasculine--simultaneously celebrate and critique, parody and affirm the American dream and the masculine ideal.Sharon Mazer looks at the world of professional wrestling from a fan's-eye-view high in the stands and from ringside in the wrestlers' gym. She investigates how performances are constructed and sold to spectators, both on a local level and in the 'big leagues' of the WWF/E. She shares a close-up view of a group of wrestlers as they work out, get their face
£76.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Beyond the Blockbusters Themes and Trends in
Book SynopsisWhile critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. This volume offers a remedy, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked.
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi Nerds Goths Geeks and Freaks
Book SynopsisAddresses questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens.
£77.35
University Press of Mississippi Nerds Goths Geeks and Freaks
Book SynopsisContributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe García McCall, Domino Renee Pérez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim WadhamIn Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner-city teens.Contributors also grapple with how young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd, or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings of what constitutes cultural identity.Included
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Graphic Indigeneity Comics in the Americas and Australasia
Book SynopsisAcclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces for articulating more complex histories, and narratives of self.
£76.50
University Press of Mississippi Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Book SynopsisContributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna R. WhiteFor centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal, autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophical approach, posthumanism, has questioned these assumptions, asserting that being human is not a fixed state but one always dynamic and evolving. Restrictive boundaries are no longer in play, and we do not define who we are by delineating what we are not (animal, machine, monster). There is no one aspect that makes a being human--self-awareness, emotion, artistic expression, or problem-solving--since human characteristics reside in other species along with shared DNA. Instead, posthumanism looks at the ways our bodies, intelligence, and behavior connect and interact with the environment, technology, an
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Graham Swift
Book SynopsisThe first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview from 2016 that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the collection spans Swift's more than thirty-five-year career as a writer.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with John Banville
Book SynopsisThe first interview collection with this esteemed writer. The book includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Directions in Comics Studies
Book SynopsisIn this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception.
£78.20
University Press of Mississippi Critical Directions in Comics Studies
Book SynopsisContributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia WysockiRecent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root--assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its 'system' works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics.In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation
£26.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi See Hear Cut Kill Experiencing Friday the 13th
Book SynopsisThe Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL!, Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical aspects relate to the audience, their influence on filmmaking, and the cultural impact of the franchise
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi See Hear Cut Kill
Book SynopsisSean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. To date, it includes twelve movies, a television show, comic books, and video games, among other media. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing 'Friday the 13th,' Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical aspects relate to the audience, their influence on filmmaking, and the cultural impact of the franchise.Clayton looks at how perspective is established and communicated within the Friday the 13th films, which is central to the way the audience experiences and responds emotionally to these movies. Then he considers how each sequel gives viewers, whether longtime fans or new audiences, a 'way in' to the continuous story that runs through the series. Clayton also argues that the series has not developed in isolation. These films relate to contemporary slasher films, the modern horror genre, and critically suc
£26.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Medievalist Comics and the American Century
Book SynopsisIntrinsically modernist paragons of pop-culture ephemera, American comics have ironically continued to engage with the European Middle Ages. Chris Bishop illuminates some of the ways in which we use an imagined past to navigate the present and plots some possible futures as we valiantly shape a new century.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and
Book SynopsisArgues that the themes that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture - queer visibility, risk taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, and the promise that ""It Gets Better"" and the threat that it might not - challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people's media.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and
Book SynopsisArgues that the themes that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture - queer visibility, risk taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, and the promise that ""It Gets Better"" and the threat that it might not - challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people's media.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Slave Revolt on Screen The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Book SynopsisAnalyses how films and video games from around the world have depicted slave revolt, focusing on the Haitian Revolution. In analysing films and games on the revolution, the book calls attention to the ways that economic legacies of slavery and colonialism warp pop-culture portrayals of the past and leave audiences with distorted understandings.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Lost in the Dark A World History of Horror Film
Book SynopsisStarting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, zombies, and critical reception of modern horror.
£19.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Lost in the Dark A World History of Horror Film
Book SynopsisStarting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, zombies, and critical reception of modern horror.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of R. Crumb Underground in the Art
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of R. Crumb Underground in the Art
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rebirth of the English Comic Strip A
Book SynopsisExplores an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humour is marvelously rich in pictorial narratives of all kinds. Author David Kunzle calls this period a ‘rebirth’ because of the preceding long hiatus in use of the new genre.
£63.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Politics in the Gutters American Politicians and
Book SynopsisConsiders the political myths, moments, and mimeses, in comic books - from nonfiction to science fiction, superhero to supernatural, serious to satirical, golden age to present day - to consider how they represent, re-present, underpin, and/or undermine ideas and ideals about American electoral politics.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi At Arms Length A Rhetoric of Character in
Book SynopsisWritten in accessible language and of interest and use to undergraduates and seasoned critics, At Arm's Length provides a broad analysis of stories for the young child and young adult, in book, film, and television. Throughout, Mike Cadden touches on important topics in children's literature studies.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics World Comic Books Graphic Novels and
Book SynopsisExamine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. The volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi The Films of Fred Schepisi
Book SynopsisFred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company. Unlike some directors, he derived from this experience a sure sense of the commercial aspects of filmmaking, as well as its aesthetic considerations. The volume also considers stories of his early education in a Catholic seminary, which he drew on in his semiautobiographical film, The Devil''s Playground, the success of which launched him as an exciting new feature director. The volume expands on Schepisi''s success story to chart his development as a director in demand in other countries, notably in the US and the UK, as well as continuing to make major films in Australia. Brian McFarlane argues that Schepisi''s career is symptoma
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Films of Fred Schepisi
Book SynopsisFred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Taking a Stand Contemporary US StandUp Comedians
Book SynopsisDraws together essays that contribute to the analysis of the stand-up-comedian-as-public intellectual since the 1980s. The chapters explore stand-up comedians as contributors to and shapers of public discourse via their live performances, podcasts, social media presence, and political activism.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Taking a Stand Contemporary US StandUp Comedians
Book SynopsisDraws together essays that contribute to the analysis of the stand-up-comedian-as-public intellectual since the 1980s. The chapters explore stand-up comedians as contributors to and shapers of public discourse via their live performances, podcasts, social media presence, and political activism.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Black Panther Interrogating a Cultural
Book SynopsisBlack Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Artful Breakdowns
Book SynopsisContributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent Worcester A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited volume tracing Art Spiegelman''s exceptional trajectory from underground rebellion to mainstream success, Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman reveals his key role in the rise of comics as an art form and of the cartoonist as artist. The collection grapples with Spiegelman''s astonishing versatility, from his irreverent underground strips, influential avant-garde magazine RAW, the expressionist style of the comics classic Maus, the illustrations to the Jazz Age poem The Wild Party, and his response to the September 11 terrorist attacks to his iconic cover art for the New Yorker, his children''s books, and various cross-media collaborations. The twelve chapters cut across Spiegelman''s career
£78.40
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Dave Eggers
Book SynopsisThe interviews contained in Conversations with Dave Eggers suggest the range of Eggers's pursuits - a range that is reflected in the variety of the interviews themselves. To read the interviews in sequence is to witness Eggers's rapid evolution.
£22.46
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. This book 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.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Ghost Channels Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of TwentyFirstCentury America
Book SynopsisDespite the high number of programs and their evident popularity, paranormal reality television has to date received little critical attention. This volume provides an overview of the paranormal reality television genre, its development, and its place in television history, conducting in-depth analyses of over thirty paranormal television series.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Ghost Channels Paranormal Reality Television and
Book SynopsisDespite the high number of programs and their evident popularity, paranormal reality television has to date received little critical attention. This volume provides an overview of the paranormal reality television genre, its development, and its place in television history, conducting in-depth analyses of over thirty paranormal television series.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Bandits Misfits and Superheroes Whiteness and
Book SynopsisEven the most celebrated figures of the comics industry, such as Stan Lee and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions. This book provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Bandits Misfits and Superheroes Whiteness and
Book SynopsisEven the most celebrated figures of the comics industry, such as Stan Lee and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions. This book provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Films of Delmer Daves Visions of Progress in
Book SynopsisArgues that the Delmer Daves’ work warrants sustained scholarly attention. Examining all of Daves’ films, his screenplays, scripts that were not filmed, and personal papers, Douglas Horlock argues that Daves was a serious and enlightened filmmaker whose work confronts the general conservatism of Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jeff Lemire Conversations
Book SynopsisIn the interviews collected in Jeff Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jeff Lemire Conversations
Book SynopsisIn the interviews collected in Jeff Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Open at the Close Literary Essays on Harry Potter
Book SynopsisAddresses Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. Contributors interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: What is it about these books?
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Contagious Imagination The Work and Art of Lynda
Book SynopsisThe essays in Contagious Imagination study the pedagogy of Lynda Barry’s work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry’s career and work from the point of view of research-creation, the book applies Barry’s unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Contagious Imagination The Work and Art of Lynda
Book SynopsisThe essays in Contagious Imagination study the pedagogy of Lynda Barry’s work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry’s career and work from the point of view of research-creation, the book applies Barry’s unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume.
£26.96
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with George Saunders
Book SynopsisBesides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in this volume, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author provides insight into his writing process and craft, alongside nuanced interpretations of his own work.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Harry Potter and the Other Race Justice and
Book SynopsisA timely anthology that examines, interrogates, and critiques representations of race and difference across various Harry Potter media, including books, films, and official websites, as well as online forums and the classroom.
£19.96
