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  • Disney's Most Notorious Film

    Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South

    by Jason Sperb ...
    The Walt Disney Company offers a vast universe of movies, television shows, theme parks, and merchandise, all carefully crafted to present an image of wholesome family entertainment. Yet Disney also produced one of the most infamous Hollywood films, Song of the South. Using cartoon characters and live actors to retell the stories of Joel Chandler Harris, SotS portrays a kindly black Uncle Remus ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blossoms & Blood

    Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson

    by Jason Sperb ...
    This analysis of the films of P. T. Anderson is "a case study of how even the most self-determined directors are always borne aloft by cultural events" ( Cineaste).From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, . ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stranger from Omaha

    Travel Narratives in the Cinema of Alexander Payne

    by Jason Sperb ...
    The first in-depth analysis of the films of Alexander Payne through the lenses of authorship, tourism, and leisure.With the films Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, Nebraska, and The Holdovers, Alexander Payne has carved out an unusual role in American cinema as a bankable auteur. There is something about Payne’s neurotics and searchers, his working stiffs and disillusioned idealists—something ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Hard Sell of Paradise

    Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism

    by Jason Sperb ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai'i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.The Hard Sell of Paradise examines how mid-twentieth-century Hollywood, negotiating the rhetoric of the tourism industry, offered a complex and contradictory vision of "Hawai'i" for its audiences. From the classic studio system and elite tourism of the 1930s to a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Flickers of Film

    Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema

    by Jason Sperb ...
    Whether paying tribute to silent films in Hugo and The Artist or celebrating arcade games in Tron: Legacy and Wreck-It-Ralph, Hollywood suddenly seems to be experiencing a wave of intense nostalgia for outmoded technologies. To what extent is that a sincere lament for modes of artistic production that have nearly vanished in an all-digital era? And to what extent is it simply a cynical marketing ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Kubrick Facade

    Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick

    by Jason Sperb ...
    Many of Stanley Kubrick's films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous. Whether viewing Barry Lyndon, 2001, The Shining, or Eyes Wide Shut, there is a sense in which these films resist their own audiences, creating a distance from them. Though many note the coldness of Kubrick's films, a smaller number attempt to explore exactly how his body of work elicits this particular reaction. Fewer ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Bad Environmentalism

    Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

    by Nicole Seymour ...
    Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys. Bad ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots

    Multiplicities in Film and Television

    Edited by Amanda Ann Klein, R. Barton Palmer ...
    With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • American Film Cycles

    Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures

    by Amanda Ann Klein ...
    A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots, or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres," mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein argues that film cycles are an entity in their own right and a subject worthy of their own study. She posits that film cycles retain the marks of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • TV (The Book)

    Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time

    by Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz ...
    Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

    The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang ...
    Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: “An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.”—Jonathan SpenceHailed as “irrepressibly spirited and entertaining” (Pico Iyer, Time) and “a fascinating cultural survey” (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast) ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl

    The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    by Jeffrey Melnick ...
    With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD