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  • Remaking the Monster

    Transmedia Adaptations of Frankenstein’s Creature

    by Alissa Burger ...
    Series series Villains and Creatures: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Tropes
    In Remaking the Monster, Alissa Burger adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the continued influence of Frankenstein's Creature on popular culture, demonstrating through close readings the necessity of reconsidering its role and meaning as it has changed over time.Since the Creature's introduction to the horror genre's canon, proliferating and evolving for over a century across a variety ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Wizard of Oz as American Myth

    A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007

    by Alissa Burger ...
    Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatrical producers have been retelling and reinventing this uniquely American fairy tale. This volume examines six especially significant incarnations of the story: Baum's original novel, the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), Sidney Lumet's African American film musical The Wiz (1978), ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Quest for the Dark Tower

    Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series

    by Alissa Burger ...
    A sprawling epic that encompasses many worlds, parallel and alternate timelines, and the echoes between these disconnects, Stephen King's Dark Tower series spans the entirety of King's career, from The Gunslinger (limited edition 1982; revised in 2003) to The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012). The series has two distinctive characteristics: its genre hybridity and its interconnection with the larger ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Down the Road and Back Again

    Critical Approaches to The Golden Girls

    Edited by Jill E. Anderson, Alissa Burger ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies
    This is the first book‑length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award‑winning seasons from 1985 to 1992 and produced two spin-offs.Through a cultural studies approach, this collection examines a wide range of topics, including race, sexuality, queerness, memory, familial mythmaking, aging, health, and financial precarity. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • A Critical Companion to Tim Burton

    by Kyle Alkema, Alissa Burger, Florent Christol, Elsa Colombani, Christopher M. Cuthill, Maria Dicieanu, Orsolya Karácsony, Siobhan Lyons, Trip McCrossin, Renee Middlemost, Donna Mitchell, Radoslaw Osinski, Brent Peters, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Sabine Planka, Andrew S. Powell, Nicole R. Pramik, Carl Sobocinski, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Unlike anything currently available, A Critical Companion to Tim Burton is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of one of the world's most renowned directors and artists. Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, and literature, all chapters of this book illuminate for both scholars and fans alike the entire artistic ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom

    Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement

    Edited by Alissa Burger ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right. From fictional stories to non-fiction works such as biography/memoir, history, or critical textbooks, graphic narratives provide students a new way to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage

    by Dr Nitasha Sharma, Müjde Bidec, Geraldine Anne Tan, Luke Howie, Dr Danielle Johannesen, Dr Boža Grafenauer, Dr Lea Kužnik, Katheryn Wright, Nuša Basle, Alissa Burger, Angela Carr, Donna Comtesse, Janna R. Caspersen, Matthew Cook, Scott K. Esplin, Julie Hartley-Moore, Jennifer Hayes, Brian J. Hill, Jacie L. Jones, Kathy Knox, Sonja Sibila Lebe, Cecelia R. Lewis, Sonia Mileva, Dane Munro, Stephen Newton, Lidija Pliberšek, Jodi M. Thesing-Ritter, Nicholas J. Walkowiak, Peter J. Ward, Yachen Zhang, Alexandra Coghlan, Joseph Donica, Dr Nigel Bond ...
    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • The Lovecraftian Poe

    Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

    by Michael Cisco, Dan Clinton, Brian Johnson, John Langan, Juan L. Pérez de Luque, Miles Tittle, Robert H. Waugh, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Ben Woodard, S.T. Joshi, Slawomir Studniarz, Alissa Burger, Murray Leeder ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary relationship ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Animals in Narrative Film and Television

    Strange and Familiar Creatures

    by Karin Beeler, Stan Beeler, Georgia Aitaki, Jessica Bay, Jessica Gibson, David Hipple, Katsuya Izumi, Jonathan Osborn, MK Pinder0, Catherine Pugh1, Heather Rolufs2, Monica Sousa3, Sumor Ziva Sheppard4, Alissa Burger5 ...
    This book explores fictional representations and narrative functions of animal characters in animated and live-action film and television, examining the ways in which these representations intersect with a variety of social issues. Contributors cover a range of animal characters, from heroes to villains, across a variety of screen genres and formats, including anime, comedy, romance, horror, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

    Hell’s Under New Management

    by Cori Mathis, Stephanie A. Graves, Melissa Tyndall, Alice Capstick, Katie E. Cline, Lisa Delacruz Combs, Tp Coughlin, Laura Davidel0, Diana Celeste Etain1, Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza2, Farhana Irshad3, Nicole Neifert4, Daria Romanova5, Shannon Hughes Spence6, Maggie Webster7, Lori Bindig Yousman8, Alissa Burger9, Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero0, David Rosen1 ...
    This book presents interdisciplinary perspectives on Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, situating the series within contemporary discourses of genre, form, historical place, ideology, and aesthetics. The essays in this collection argue that the series’ unique blend of horror, the Gothic, and melodrama offers a compelling approach to the coming-of-age narrative and makes CAoS a significant ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • A Critical Companion to James Cameron

    by Adam Barkman, Antonio Sanna, Carl Sobocinski, Christian Jimenez, Elsa Columbani, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Ian Thomas Malone, Jonathan Fischer0, Michael Versteeg1, Patrick Zwosta2, Racheal Harris3, Sabine Planka4, Siobhan Lyons5, Alissa Burger6, Carol Donelan7, Mauritzia Natali8, Paul Johnson9, Russell P. Johnson0 ...
    This book offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of James Cameron, whose films include successful productions such as the first two Terminator films (1984-91), Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009), but also lesser known films such as Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981), The Abyss (1989), and True Lies (1994), and a series of documentaries on the depths of the ocean ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Classroom on the Road

    Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel

    by Nicholas Artman, Joshua Azriel, Jeff Birkenstein, Patricia English-Schneider, Irina Gendelman, Darlene M. Hantzis, Mat Hardy, Christine Holtz, Ann D. Jabro0, Jeannine Jones1, Shana Kopaczewski2, Igor Krasnov3, Sally Totman4, Jana Mathews5, Jamie Olson6, Heather Pinson7, Karen Link Rosenflanz8, Emily Russell9, Douglas Strahler0, Phillip A. Voight1, Robin Canfield2, Raymond Blanton3, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett4, Tracy Everbach5, Alissa Burger6, Kelli Stiles7, Michelle Fukuyama8, Cord A. Scott9, Kathleen M. Vandenberg0 ...
    Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world, out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism. Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be responsible and thoughtful ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD