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The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making...

British science fiction television of the 1970s and 1980s is full of Machiavellian protagonists and fatalistic endings. It presents a complex world...

Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations a...

This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters, each focused on a distinct American independent film. Screening American Independent Film present...

Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the “problem” of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa’s Perfect Co...

100 objects that capture the excitement, mystery, and mythology of Star Wars.See how these artefacts, and many more, impacted key characters and ev...

Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s t...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news...

A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemeckis, whose films include su...

This book starts from the discussion of a pornography, but does not end with pornography. Rather, it suggests that a pornographic star can be treat...

As a linguistic carrier of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization, the Yiddish language is closely bound up with immigrant pasts and haun...

With more than 100 inventive lists, charts, and timelines, The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists offers fans a creative way of looking at and celebrati...