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  • The Rise of the Graphic Novel

    Computational Criticism and the Evolution of Literary Value

    by Alexander Dunst ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives
    Bringing digital humanities methods to the study of comics, this monograph traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection of popular and literary culture. Based on a representative corpus of over 250 graphic novels from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, it shows how the genre has built on the visual style of comics while adopting selected features of the contemporary ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • Noir Affect

    by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Paula Rabinowitz, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack0, Ignacio Sánchez Prado1, Pamela Thoma2, Kirin Wachter-Grene3 ...
    Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Madness in Cold War America

    by Alexander Dunst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Media Reception Studies

    by Janet Staiger ...
    A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass mediaMedia Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Minimal Self

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. AldridgeFaced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Writing History, Writing Trauma

    by Dominick LaCapra ...
    Series series Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
    An updated edition of a major work in trauma studies.Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies—notably Holocaust testimonies—assume in thought and in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

    by Karin Kukkonen ...
    This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experienceCarefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and ‘frames of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Signifying Bodies

    Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

    by G. Thomas Couser ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a 'life worth living' for persons with disabilities. Couser's work engages these debates by exploring the extensive number of personal narratives by or about persons with disabilities. As Couser ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Special Effects

    Still in Search of Wonder

    by Michele Pierson ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD