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  • Batman’s Villains and Villainesses

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls

    by Marco Favaro, Jason DeHart, Daniel Goff, Nicholas James, Jesus Jimenez-Varea, James Taylor, Christina Knopf, Damien Picariello, Eduardo Veteri, Carl Wilson0, Justin F. Martin2, Ian J. Drake3, Matthew B. Llyod4, Francisco Miguel Ortiz Delgado5, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns6, Sean C. Hadley7, Anthony P. Spanakos8, Tosha R. Taylor9, Matthew William Brake0, John Darowski1, Nathan Miczo2, Sean Travers3 ...
    While much of the scholarship on superhero narratives has focused on the heroes themselves, Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls takes into view the depiction of the villains and their lives, arguing that they often function as proxies for larger societal and philosophical themes. Approaching Gotham’s villains from a number of disciplinary ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020

    by Sean Travers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatised protagonists and traumatic events. From traumatised superheroes in Hollywood blockbusters to apocalyptic-themed television series, trauma ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Horror

    by Brigid Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Film Studies

    by Andrew M. Butler ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This book offers a concise introduction to the appreciation and study of film. It begins with the nuts and bolts, an examination ... Read more

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  • The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Storyworlds across Media

    Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology

    Edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Prof. Jan-Noël Thon ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and society. Storyworlds across Media explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Why Horror Seduces

    by Mathias Clasen ...
    From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social sciences. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Found Footage Horror Films

    Fear and the Appearance of Reality

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

    Edited by Warren Buckland ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded.In this volume, contributors explore recent popular ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Affective Ecologies

    Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative

    by Alexa Weik von Mossner ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Culture
    Affective Ecologies: Empathy*,* Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to clarify how we interact with environmental narratives in ways that are ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Slender Man Is Coming

    Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet

    by Trevor J. Blank, Lynne S. McNeill ...
    The essays in this volume explore the menacing figure of Slender Man—the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a 2009 Photoshop contest who has appeared in countless horror stories circulated on- and offline among children and young people. Slender Man is arguably the best-known example in circulation of “creepypasta,” a genre derived from “copypasta,” which in turn derived from the phrase ... Read more

    $16.59 USD