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  • They Went That-A-Way - 101 Forgotten Westerns to Remember

    de Douglas Brode ...
    LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . .Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiven, to name a few. But how many armchair cowboys and cowgirls are aware that thirty years previous to Clint Eastwood's film, a similarly named movie, The Unforgiven, featured two top 1950s Western stars, ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones, and Lost Continents

    The 100 Greatest Science-Fiction Films

    de Douglas Brode ...
    Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this phenomenon new. Sci-fi filmmakers and audiences have been exploring fantastic planets, forbidden zones, and lost continents ever since George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. In this highly ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Multiculturalism and the Mouse

    Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment

    de Douglas Brode ...
    In his latest iconoclastic work, Douglas Brode—the only academic author/scholar who dares to defend Disney entertainment—argues that "Uncle Walt's" output of films, television shows, theme parks, and spin-off items promoted diversity decades before such a concept gained popular currency in the 1990s. Fully understood, It's a Small World—one of the most popular attractions at the Disney theme parks ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Monument Valley or Once Upon a Time at the Movies

    de Douglas Brode ...
    The Last Picture ShowDuring the late 1960s, three men met in Monument Valley, the heart, soul, and brain of our vast southwest. One was John Ford, an aging director who over the past half-century had created the greatest body of cinematic work dealing with the frontier experience; i.e., 'westing.' His hope was to create one final epic that would serve as an epilogue to all he'd done before, ... Leer más

    $7.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • From Walt to Woodstock

    How Disney Created the Counterculture

    de Douglas Brode ...
    With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become shorthand for a creative work that has abandoned any controversial or substantial content to find commercial success.But does Disney deserve that reputation? Douglas Brode overturns the idea of Disney as ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll

    The Evolution of an American Youth Culture

    de Douglas Brode ...
    Series Libro 30 - Popular Culture and Everyday Life
    Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n’ Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults.As the entertainment industries came to realize that a ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Dream West

    Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies

    de Douglas Brode ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and the right to bear arms. Yet, as Douglas Brode argues in this paradigm-shifting book, these supposedly ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Shooting Stars of the Small Screen

    Encyclopedia of TV Western Actors, 1946–Present

    de Douglas Brode ...
    Series series Ellen and Edward Randall Series
    Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The American Civil War on Film and TV

    Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • The Twenty-First-Century Western

    New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

    de Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, Alan Lechusza Aquallo, Nicholas Blower, Henrik Bødker, Mark Brenden, John Bruni, Garret Castleberry, Lynnea Chapman King0, Jim Daems1, Ann Hetzel Gunkel2, John C. Hajduk3, Sue Matheson4, Jason McEntee5, Walter Metz6, Fran Pheasant-Kelly7, Natalie Rosiek8, David S. Silverman9, Sharon Smith0, Beth Jane Toren1, Rosanne Welch2, Nathan Wuertenberg3, Erik Heine4, Andrew Howe5 ...
    Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone

    The 50th Anniversary Tribute

    Edición de Douglas Brode, Carol Serling ...
    2009 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Twilight Zone, arguably one of the most popular television shows ever. Drawing on photographs and personal remembrances, Rod Serling's widow, Carol, gives commentary on some of the series' most memorable episodes. Veteran film historian Douglas Brode gives in-depth descriptions of these episodes and why they were so resonant with viewers. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Dracula's Daughters

    The Female Vampire on Film

    Edición de Douglas Brode, Leah Deyneka ...
    Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire—male or female—has represented the libido, a “repressed force” that consumed its victims. Early iconic representations of male vampires were seen in Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1931), but not until Dracula’s Daughter in 1936 did a female “sex vampire” assume the ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD