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  • Sharks, Sharks Everywhere!

    Stories, Stories Everywhere!, #1

    by Emma Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Stories, Stories Everywhere!
    Sharks, Sharks Everywhere!Written by Emma HamiltonDive into the deep blue with this fun, rhyming, fact filled adventure for little learners!Written by an early years educator and inspired by real children's big shark obsessions, Sharks, Sharks Everywhere! introduces young readers to a variety of sharks through playful rhyme, vibrant illustrations, and a gentle message about ocean care.Perfect for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism

    Endurance of the Global Western Film

    by Hervé Mayer, David Roche, Patrick Adamson, Costanza Salvi, Marine Soubeille, Dragan Batančev, Hadrien Fontanaud, Marek Paryż, Jesús Ángel González, Alessandra Magrin Haas, Lee Broughton, Mike Phillips, Jenny Barrett, Vivian P. Y. Lee, Claire Dutriaux, Annael Le Poullennec, Emma Hamilton ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent era to present day as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Unbridling the Western Film Auteur

    Contemporary, Transnational and Intertextual Explorations

    Edited by Emma Hamilton, Alistair Rolls ...
    According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western’s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely spoken «language» for self-expression and supplemented each filmmaker’s power to express their ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Masculinities in American Western Films

    A Hyper-Linear History

    by Emma Hamilton ...
    The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West, resolving conflicts with guns and tough talk. Where did these cowboys come from? What historical trends led to their emergence on screen?This book explores the relationship between the Western, film and historical representation and the ways in ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

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    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

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  • Killing the Indian Maiden

    Images of Native American Women in Film

    by M. Elise Marubbio ...
    Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden"—a young Native woman who allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature

    Edited by Brian McHale, Len Platt ...
    The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Understanding Film Theory

    by Dr. Ruth Doughty, Christine Etherington-Wright ...
    This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers. Bringing a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to what is often perceived to be a challenging and old-fashioned area of film studies that requires time and effort to grasp, the text illustrates why theory is important and demonstrates how it ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films

    Edited by Sabine Haenni, Sarah Barrow, John White ...
    The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting films of all time. Arranged alphabetically, each entry explores why each film is significant for those who study film and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the film was produced. Ranging from Hollywood classics to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A History of Western American Literature

    Edited by Susan Kollin ...
    The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and expectations. While it is frequently imagined as a place enabling dreams of new beginnings for ... Read more

    $105.79 USD

  • Global Art Cinema

    New Theories and Histories

    Edited by Rosalind Galt, Karl Schoonover ...
    "Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the ... Read more

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  • Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space

    Edited by Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, Laura Horak ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema between the two world wars. Drawing on film archives from around the world, this volume advances the premise that silent cinema freely crossed national borders and linguistic thresholds in ways that ... Read more

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