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  • The Vampire Film

    Undead Cinema

    by Jeffrey Weinstock ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organised by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of this movie monster's remarkable fecundity. Among these principles are that the cinematic vampire is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition - MLA 2021 Update

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay is a task that can strike fear into a student’s heart, but performing an experiment licenses creativity and doesn’t presume that one knows the outcome from the start.The Mad Scientist’s Guide covers the kinds of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Gothic Melville

    Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart of Hawthorne’s writing – a blackness ‘ten times black’, as Melville put it, that fascinated him. Ironically, Melville has been subject to the same treatment by critics who have in large measure steered clear of Melville’s own darkness. The ... Read more

    $30.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Horror Theory Reader

    Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horrorWhy do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes—fear, dread, and disgust—are ones we typically seek to avoid, so what is the appeal of narratives and artistic representations that seek to scare, startle, shock, and repulse? In The Horror Theory Reader, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock assembles theorizations of the genre ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Gothic Things

    Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    SHORTLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPHOffering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on “ominous matter” and “thing power.” In chapters attending to ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition

    A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay is a task that can strike fear into a student’s heart, but performing an experiment licenses creativity and doesn’t presume that one knows the outcome from the start.The Mad Scientist’s Guide covers the kinds of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan

    Spoiler Warnings

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt Hills, and Katherine Fowkes, explore the Hollywood blockbusters from The Sixth Sense to The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Scare Tactics

    Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Monster Theory Reader

    Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributionsZombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

    Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor. Authored by leading experts in the field, the introduction and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Giving the Devil His Due

    Satan and Cinema

    by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Regina M. Hansen, Simon Bacon, Katherine A. Fowkes, David Hauka, Russ Hunter, Barry C. Knowlton, Eloise R. Knowlton, Murray Leeder0, R. Barton Palmer1, Carl H. Sederholm2, David Sterritt3, J.P. Telotte4 ...
    **Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (**Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in filmLucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind’s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting ... Read more

    $29.69 USD