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  • Perry Mason

    by Thomas Leitch ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    An exploration of the enduring popularity of the television series Perry Mason and its universal reputation as the most formulaic program in the history of broadcast television.Perry Mason was one of the most successful television programs from the 1950s and remains one of the most influential crime melodramas from any period. The show's influence goes far beyond its nine-year tenure (1957–66), ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engagements with Adaptation

    by Thomas Leitch ...
    Series series Routledge Engagements with Literature
    Engagements with Adaptation invites students both to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the urgent questions they raise about literary canons; the media industry; the relations between different kinds of media; the nature of national, political, and cultural identities; and the ways in which contemporary digital and social media have complicated the roles of producers and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Scandal of Adaptation

    Edited by Thomas Leitch ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation. Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined in the texts they adapt, because their composition or reception raises scandalous possibilities those adapted texts had repressed ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

    From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ

    by Thomas Leitch ...
    Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation.Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The History of American Literature on Film

    by Thomas Leitch ...
    Series series The History of World Literatures on Film
    From William Dickson's Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann's big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like Moby-Dick, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Wikipedia U

    Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age

    by Thomas Leitch ...
    Series series Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
    Explores the battle between the top-down authority traditionally ascribed to experts and scholars and the bottom-up authority exemplified by Wikipedia.Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies

    Edited by Thomas Leitch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in adaptation, scholars in allied fields, and general readers, it hearkens back to the foundations of adaptation studies a century and more ago, surveys ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edited by Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague ...
    The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholarsCovers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last filmDetails the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

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    Edited by Barry Keith Grant ...
    From reviews of the third edition:“Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” ... Read more

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  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    by Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Understanding Film Theory

    by Dr. Ruth Doughty, Christine Etherington-Wright ...
    This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers. Bringing a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to what is often perceived to be a challenging and old-fashioned area of film studies that requires time and effort to grasp, the text illustrates why theory is important and demonstrates how it ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation

    Edited by Deborah Cartmell ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena. Featuring a range of theoretical approaches, and chapters on the historical, ideological and economic aspects of adaptation, the volume reflects today’s acceptance of intertextuality as a vital and ... Read more

    $52.00 USD