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  • Videogames and the Gothic

    by Ewan Kirkland ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, Videogames and the Gothic illustrates the extent to which particular tropes of Gothic culture –neo-medieval aesthetics, secret-filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of a dark past impacting upon the present – have been appropriated by and transformed within ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Children’s Media and Modernity

    Film, Television and Digital Games

    by Ewan Kirkland ...
    Throughout the modern era the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation, technology, consumerism and capitalism. Children represent a symbolic retreat from modern life, culturally aligned with fairy tales, medievalism, animals and nature. Yet children also embody the future and are often identified with the most contemporary forms of ... Read more

    $115.69 CAD

  • Gothic Mash-Ups

    Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling

    by Kelly Baron, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Chesya Burke, Matthew Costello, Stephanie Russo, Ewan Kirkland, L. N. Rosales, Julia Round, Mary Beth Tegan, Adam Whybray, Nik Taylor, Kevin M. Flanagan, Rachel M. Friars, Sandra M. Leonard, Sarah E. Maier, Xavier Aldana Reyes ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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    Edited by Warren Buckland ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that should not be so easily discounted or discarded.In this volume, contributors explore recent popular ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Weird and the Eerie

    by Mark Fisher ...
    Explore the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century literature, film, and music—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan.What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Kissing Architecture

    by Sylvia Lavin ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    An exploration of the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art from the author of Form Follows Libido.In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art—particularly multimedia installations ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Jewel-Hinged Jaw

    Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning author, an indispensable work of science fiction criticism, revised and expanded.Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in ... Read more

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  • The Gothic: 250 Years of Success. Your Guide to Gothic Literature and Culture

    by A J Blakemont ...
    “If you are looking for a clear and concise guide to all aspects of The Gothic, ranging from literature to architecture, history to visual arts, music to fashion, horror to fantasy, subculture to philosophy, and more besides, then this is for you.”John Nicholls, University of HullWhat is the Gothic? A genre, a style, a movement, a subculture? The Gothic is all of this, and so much more; it is one ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction

    by Adam Roberts ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes:a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre ... Read more

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  • Screenwriting

    Creative Labor and Professional Practice

    by Bridget Conor ...
    Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters.Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed.Chapters explore areas including:Screenwriting histories and myths of the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Gothic

    Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age.The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on:the history of Gothicgothic throughout the English-speaking world i.e. London and USA as well as the ... Read more

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