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  • Cartoons in Hard Times

    The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932-1945

    by Tracey Mollet ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018Cartoons in Hard Times provides a comprehensive analysis of the short subject animation released by the Walt Disney and Warner Brothers from 1932 and 1945, one of the most turbulent periods in Unites States history. Through a combination of content analysis, historical understanding and archival research, this book sheds new light on a hitherto unexplored area ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale

    Once Upon an American Dream

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book charts the complex history of the relationship between the Disney fairy tale and the American Dream, demonstrating the ways in which the Disney fairy tale has been reconstructed and renegotiated alongside, and in response to important changes within American society. In all of its fairy tales of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Walt Disney studios works to sell its audiences ... Read more

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  • Investigating Stranger Things

    Upside Down in the World of Mainstream Cult Entertainment

    Edited by Tracey Mollet, Lindsey Scott ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores the narrative, genre, nostalgia and fandoms of the phenomenally successful Netflix original series, Stranger Things. The book brings together scholars in the fields of media, humanities, communications and cultural studies to consider the various ways in which the Duffer Brothers’ show both challenges and confirms pre-conceived notions of cult media. Through its ... Read more

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  • Quality TV

    Contemporary American Television and Beyond

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  • Uncovering Stranger Things

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  • Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots

    Multiplicities in Film and Television

    With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes seems as if Hollywood is incapable of making an original film or TV show. These textual pluralities or multiplicities—while loved by fans who flock to them in droves—tend to be dismissed by critics and scholars as markers of the death of high culture. ... Read more

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  • City of Nets

    A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

    "With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village VoiceIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Film Studies

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  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

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