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  • Christianity and Comics

    Stories We Tell about Heaven and Hell

    by Blair Davis ...
    The Bible has inspired Western art and literature for centuries, so it is no surprise that Christian iconography, characters, and stories have also appeared in many comic books. Yet the sheer stylistic range of these comics is stunning. They include books from Christian publishers, as well as underground comix with religious themes and a vast array of DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse titles, from ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Movie Comics

    Page to Screen/Screen to Page

    by Blair Davis ...
    As Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the “comic book movie” is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Comic Book Women

    Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

    by Peyton Brunet, Blair Davis ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture Award (Honorable Mention), Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)2023 Peter C. Rollins ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Desegregating Comics

    Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

    by Qiana Whitted, Qiana Whitted, Ian Gordon, Nicholas Sammond, Andrew J. Kunka, Rebecca Wanzo, Chris Gavaler, Monalesia Earle, Blair Davis, Eli Boonin-Vail0, Carol L. Tilley1, Brian Cremins2, Mora Beauchamp-Byrd3, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham4, Jacque Nodell5, Julian C. Chambliss6, Mike Lemon7 ...
    **Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book PrizeShortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner AwardHonorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies from the Popular Culture Association**Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Other 1980s

    Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade

    by Maaheen Ahmed, José Alaniz, Jonathan Alexandratos, Peter Cullen Bryan, Jeremy Carnes, Blair Davis, Andrew Hoberek, Robert Hutton, Aaron Kashtan, Meg King, Andrew J. Kunka, Shiamin Kwa, Isabelle Licari-Guillaume, Rachel Miller, Alex B. Smith, Paul Williams, Daniel F. Yezbick, James Zeigler ...
    Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Art Spiegelman, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. The Other 1980s offers a more ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rashomon Effects

    Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies

    Edited by Blair Davis, Robert Anderson, Jan Walls ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life’s work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese films ever made, and continues to be discussed and imitated more than 60 years after its first screening ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Blacker the Ink

    Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

    by Frances Gateward, John Jennings, Daniel F. Yezbick, Sally McWilliams, Patrick F. Walter, Nancy Goldstein, Robin Means Coleman, William Lafi Youmans, Consuela Francis0, Andre Carrington1, Reynaldo Anderson2, Blair Davis3, Kinohi Nishikawa4, Qiana Whitted5, Craig Fischer6, Hershini Bhana Young7, James J. Zeigler8, Rebecca Wanzo9 ...
    Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkWinner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture AssociationWinner of the 2016 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureWhen many think of comic books the first thing that comes to ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema

    Traces of a Lost Decade

    by Paul Corupe, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Peter Marra, Rick Trembles, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, Cory Legassic, Ian Olney, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes ...
    The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Comic Book Movies

    by Blair Davis ...
    Series series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
    Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman’s Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we willing to go when fighting terror? How can we resist a dystopian state?Film scholar Blair Davis also ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Comic Book Women

    Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

    by Peyton Brunet, Blair Davis ...
    Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers' studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books were born ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Superhero Reader

    Edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood

    Edited by Lincoln Geraghty ...
    With its sprawling celebrity homes, the Walk of Fame and the iconic sign on the hill, Hollywood is truly the land of stars. Glamorous and larger-than-life, many of the most memorable motion pictures of all time have emanated from its multimillion-dollar film industry, which exports more films per capita than that of any other nation. Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood lays out the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD