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  • Horror and Indigeneity

    Literature, Film, and Television

    Edited by Murray Leeder, Gary D. Rhodes ...
    A collection of essays about Indigeneity and horror in cinema, literature, and beyond.How did Indigeneity come to be horrifying? Think of the “Indian burial ground” trope, a staple of 1970s horror cinema, not to mention decades of Western films and fictions that made “savage Indians” the face of fear in popular culture. Can horror do something else in the hands of Indigenous people? Creators such ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema

    by Murray Leeder ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the skeletons of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Horror Film

    A Critical Introduction

    by Murray Leeder ...
    Series series Film Genres
    Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core. Horror Film: A Critical Introduction, the newest in Bloomsbury's Film Genre series, balances the discussions of horror's history, theory, and aesthetics as no introductory book ever has. Featuring studies of films both obscure ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Son of Thunder

    Forgotten Realms

    by Murray Leeder ...
    Series series The Fighters
    It was the best thing that ever happened to him.It was his god’s blessing.It was hell.Vell was content to be a mere warrior in the Thunderbeast tribe, staying behind on the hunt to guard the camp.But then something alien awakened deep within him, the spirit of a behemoth that he could not control. With it came attacks from the sky, visitors from far lands, and a mysterious command from their ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Disney Gothic

    Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse

    by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Murray Leeder, Terry Lindvall, Jay Bamber, Carl H. Sederholm, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Gwyneth Peaty, Kevin J. Wetmore0, J.S. Mackley1, Nancy Johnson-Hunt2, Antonio Sanna3, Christy Tidwell4, Joan Ormrod5, Angelique Nairn6, Simon Bacon7, Blair Speakman8 ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds ... Read more

    $105.99 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

    $28.49 USD

  • The Lovecraftian Poe

    Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

    by Michael Cisco, Dan Clinton, Brian Johnson, John Langan, Juan L. Pérez de Luque, Miles Tittle, Robert H. Waugh, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ben Woodard, S.T. Joshi, Slawomir Studniarz, Alissa Burger, Murray Leeder ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary relationship ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Prestige Television

    Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America

    by Seth Friedman, Amanda Keeler, David R. Coon, Murray Leeder, Catherine Martin, Javier Ramirez, Justin O. Rawlins, Andrew J. Bottomley, Wyatt D. Phillips0, Josie Torres Barth1 ...
    Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Cinematic Ghosts

    Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era

    Edited by Murray Leeder ...
    In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema "the Kingdom of Shadows." In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly. Cinematic Ghosts is the first collection devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms.Cinematic Ghosts ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • ReFocus: The Films of William Castle

    Edited by Murray Leeder ...
    Series series ReFocus: The American Directors Series

    $31.99 USD

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    by Jess Lebow ...
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    A series focusing on the popular character class Fighters!The first title in a new Forgotten Realms series focusing on the popular Dungeons & Dragons® game character class of Fighters. Each title will feature characters with a different exotic style of fighting. ... Read more

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  • Bladesinger

    Forgotten Realms

    by Keith Strohm ...
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    They are the half-bloods, the broken, the unforgiven.They failed themselves and their people.They are outcasts.Then, in the bitter wilds of Rashemen, they receive a desperate plea they alone can answer.If they succeed, it could mean their redemption. But if they fail, a troubled past will be the least of their problems.About the AuthorKeith Francis Strohm is the current Chief Operating Officer of ... Read more

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