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“alison peirse”

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  • After Dracula

    The 1930s Horror Film

    by Alison Peirse ...
    After Dracula tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea Islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that survey the outskirts of contemporary Paris and travel back in time to ancient Egypt. Alison Peirse argues that Dracula (1931) has been canonised to the detriment of other innovative and original 1930s horror films in Europe and America. By ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Rewriting Television

    by Alison Peirse ...
    Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don’t want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches, and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. This book offers a new model for doing television (or film or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Women Make Horror

    Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

    by Alison Peirse, Alicia Kozma, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Martha Shearer, Katia Houde, Tosha R. Taylor, Dahlia Schweitzer, Laura Mee, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Maddison McGillvray0, Molly Kim1, Donna McRae2, Erin Harrington3, Lindsey Decker4, Valeria Villegas Lindvall5, Janice Loreck6, Amy C. Chambers7, Sonia Lupher8 ...
    Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSSWinner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-FictionFinalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionRunner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards“But women were never out there making horror films, that’s why they are not written about – you can’t include ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Edgar G. Ulmer

    Detour on Poverty Row

    by Stephen Broomer, Kevin Heffernan, David Hogan, Reynold Humphries, Chris Justice, Scott Loren, Hugh S. Manon, Alison Peirse, Claudia Pummer, Marlisa Santos, Robert Singer, Tony Tracy, Dion Tubrett, Yannis Tzioumakis, Tony J. Williams, Graeme Harper, Steffen Hantke, Phillip Sipiora ...
    Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors of Poverty Row B-movies.Structured in four sections, Part I examines various contexts important ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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    Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp ... Read more

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  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

    by John Lennard ...
    An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both ... Read more

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  • Writing Creative Writing

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    Edited by Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal ...
    Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting ... Read more

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  • Fandom, Second Edition

    Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

    by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington ...
    A completely updated edition of a seminal work on fans and how fandom shapes the culture, social relations, economic models, and politics of our age.We are all fans. Whether we follow our favorite celebrities on Twitter, attend fan conventions such as Comic Con, or simply wait with bated breath for the next episode of our favorite television drama—each of us is a fan.Recognizing that fandom is not ... Read more

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  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Hollywood Gothic

    The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

    by David J. Skal ...
    A fully updated edition of "the ultimate book on Dracula "—an interdisciplinary approach to the perennial blockbuster attraction from a horror authority ( Newsweek ).The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can r... ... Read more

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  • Doctor Who in Time and Space

    Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012

    by Gillian I. Leitch ...
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    This collection of fresh essays addresses a broad range of topics in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, both old (1963-1989) and new (2005-present). The book begins with the fan: There are essays on how the show is viewed and identified with, fan interactions with each other, reactions to changes, the wilderness years when it wasn't in production. Essays then look at the ways in ... Read more

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  • Literature into Film

    Theory and Practical Approaches

    by Linda Costanzo Cahir ...
    For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD