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  • The American Civil War on Film and TV

    Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color

    by Rosanne Welch, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Martin Manning, Paul Haspel, Michael Wiggins, Douglas Brode, Jeanne Holland, Judith Sobré, Ray Merlock, Guerric DeBona0, Gregory Perreault1, Sue Matheson2, Biljana Oklopcic3, Scott Allen Nollen5, Peggy A. Russo6, David S. Silverman7, Beth Jane Toren8, A. Bowdoin Van Riper9, Kayla McKinney Wiggins0, Susan Aronstein1, Earl F. Mulderink2, Cynthia J. Miller3, Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson5 ...
    Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Road to Wicked

    The Marketing and Consumption of Oz from L. Frank Baum to Broadway

    by Kent Drummond, Susan Aronstein, Terri L. Rittenburg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Road to Wicked examines the long life of the Oz myth. It is both a study in cultural sustainability— the capacity of artists, narratives, art forms, and genres to remain viable over time—and an examination of the marketing machinery and consumption patterns that make such sustainability possible. Drawing on the fields of macromarketing, consumer behavior, literary and cultural studies, and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The United States of Medievalism

    Edited by Tison Pugh, Susan Aronstein ...
    The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Professor Susan Aronstein ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders, from England to France and India to China, this book uniquely examines the tales told, translated, adapted and circulated during the period known as the Middle Ages.Scholars in history, ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Carlsen-Anand 2013

    Match for the World Chess Championship

    by Karsten Müller ...
    Magnus Carlsen Becomes World Champion! It was the match that the chess world had been anticipating for several years. Norway’s wunderkind, Magnus Carlsen had qualified as the official challenger for the world chess championship. He was facing the reigning world champion, Viswanathan Anand from India. Would Anand’s enormous match experience and years at the top be enough to stop the young ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Gelfand-Anand 2012

    Match for the World Chess Championship

    by Karsten Müller ...
    An Intense Title Tilt! When World Champion Viswanathan Anand squared off in the 2012 championship match against Boris Gelfand, he was a heavy favorite to win. But, top the surprise of many worldwide, the match was a very tough fight. On paper, the world champion was a clear favorite against the challenger; his Elo rating (2791) was much higher than Gelfand’s (2727) and he had not lost to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Medievalism: Key Critical Terms

    by Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Gwendolyn Morgan, Jonathan Hsy, Juanita Feros Ruys, Kathleen Biddick, Kevin Moberly, Kevin Murphy, Laura Morowitz, Lauryn S. Mayer0, Richard Utz2, Lisa Reilly3, Louise D'Arcens4, Professor M J Toswell5, Martha Carlin6, Martin Arnold7, Matthew Fisher8, Michael A Cramer9, Nadia Altschul0, Nadia Margolis1, Nils Holger Petersen2, Amy S. Kaufman3, Pamela Clements4, Tom Shippey5, Vincent Ferre6, William Calin7, Zrinka Stahuljak8, Professor Angela Jane Weisl9, Brent Moberly0, Carol L. Robinson1, Clare A Simmons2, David Matthews3, E L Risden4 ...
    The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Beard, John Henderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Queens of the Wild

    Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation

    by Ronald Hutton ...
    A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present dayIn this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the Fairy Queen, and the Green Man all came to ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

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  • Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    by Wade Graham ...
    "An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender." — Wall Street JournalFrom the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities.Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make ... Read more

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