Librarians who work with readers will find this well-loved guide to be a treasure trove of information. With descriptive annotations of thousands of genre titles mapped by genre and subgenre, this is the readers advisors go-to reference....Loe edasi...
Unique among other books about Godzilla, this work concentrates on the original 1954 version of the film. It explores the subtler, culturally determined motives of its director, writers, and characters including ancient Japanese myth, Buddhism, Shin...Loe edasi...
Sari: Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009502221)
TransGenre is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. Using four genre sites (the road novel, the mourning novel, the chosen family novel, and the archival novel), this Element...Loe edasi...
TransGenre is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. Using four genres, this Element considers how the minoritized becomes the minoritarian through deterritorializing generic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jan-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781835538807)
What are the sourcesand the effectsof the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? By oversupplying the pleasurable sense of knowledge and the illusion of predictive power that genre confers, these works play with readerly expectation in or...Loe edasi...
Rosie writes romance novels and listens to Taylor Swift on loop. Aiden is a literary fiction writer who doesnt believe in happy endings. Theyre about to write a book together—what could go wrong?The Hating Game meets Beach Read...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814215746)
Demonstrates how women writers, especially Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett, made significant contributions via genre writing to the postwar American literary marketplace, merging literary realism with fantastical or exaggerat...Loe edasi...
Science fiction cinema has had a dramatic effect on how science is perceived by the general population. At first, science fiction and science may seem diametrically opposed, and in some cases they certainly are, but after a closer analysis, man...Loe edasi...
Sari: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683404583)
Exploring works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, this book shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region’s hist...Loe edasi...
Sari: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683404828)
Exploring works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, this book shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region’s hist...Loe edasi...
Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Networks popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction....Loe edasi...
Babylon 5 revolutionized genre television. First aired in 1993, the space opera series is highly respected for everything it was trying to achieve on television at a time when Star Trek was king. Its use of story arcs and long-for...Loe edasi...
Much has been written about the aesthetics of the television series Hannibal and its devoted fans, and some have discussed its philosophical ideas and its Gothic characteristics, but until now there has been no in-depth reading of the sh...Loe edasi...
Throughout the long running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone, traveling with both female and male companions. The companion is essential to Doctor Who because he or she is a stand-in for the audience, prov...Loe edasi...
Once dismissed as a fading genre with little to say to contemporary audiences, the giant monster movie genre roared back to life in the new millennium. In one of modern cinemas most surprising turnarounds, a wave of 21st-century kaiju films ha...Loe edasi...
Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, Hermione-Approved MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse author...Loe edasi...
Through its six-season run, televisions Grimm used the extraordinary to illuminate the complexity of the ordinary. Drawing on the Brothers Grimm folklore, the series crafted an enchanted present to illuminate social and ethical challenges facing We...Loe edasi...
More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new...Loe edasi...
The start of a thrilling and glamourous Hollywood series from million copy bestselling author Shari Low and TVs Ross King.When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us... Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, th...Loe edasi...
The start of a thrilling and glamourous Hollywood series from million copy bestselling author Shari Low and TVs Ross King.When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us... Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, th...Loe edasi...
