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  • Natural Born Celebrities

    Serial Killers in American Culture

    by David Schmid ...
    This account of how serial killers impact society is a "compelling examination of the media phenomenon of the 'celebrity criminal' in American culture" (Joyce Carol Oates).Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-for-TV movies and mass-market paperbacks alike. But why do we find such luridly transgressive and horrific ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

    A World of Crime

    Edited by David Schmid, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Violence in American Popular Culture

    [2 volumes]

    Edited by David Schmid ...
    This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.Few topics are discussed more broadly today than violence in American popular culture. Unfortunately, such discussion is often unsupported by fact and lacking in historical context. This two-volume work aims to remedy that through a series of ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Zombie Talk

    Culture, History, Politics

    by David A. Reilly, David Castillo, David Schmid, John Edgar Browning ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

    by Jon Towlson ...
    Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

    Edited by Catherine Ross Nickerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and ... Read more

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  • Viewing America

    Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

    by Christopher Bigsby ...
    Something has happened in the world of television drama. For the last decade and a half America has assumed a dominant position. Novelists, screenwriters and journalists, who would once have had no interest in writing for television, indeed who often despised it, suddenly realised that it was where America could have a dialogue with itself. The new television drama was where writers could engage ... Read more

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  • Martin Scorsese's America

    by Ellis Cashmore ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.Scorsese has often described his films as sociology and he has a point: his storytelling condenses complex information into comprehensible ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Hard-Boiled Sentimentality

    The Secret History of American Crime Stories

    by Leonard Cassuto ...
    Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Screens of Blood

    A Critical Approach to Film and Television Violence

    by Gregory Desilet ...
    Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life can be righted with a fist or a gun or a bomb. Cultural mythology lags reality and continues to send the message of regeneration through violence. But the transition to a healthier mythology is already underway and can be seen in the strength of an ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Projections of Passing

    Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960

    by N. Megan Kelley ...
    A key concern in postwar America was “who's passing for whom?” Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an important theme in Hollywood movies, one that lasted throughout the long 1950s, as it became a metaphor to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A History of American Crime Fiction

    Edited by Chris Raczkowski ...
    A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal ... Read more

    $118.09 USD