Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gregory steirer”
Skip side bar filters

  • Legal Stories

    Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

    by Gregory Steirer ...
    Tracing the emergence of what the media industries today call transmedia, story worlds, and narrative franchises, Legal Stories provides a dual history of copyright law and narrative-based media development between the Copyright Act of 1909 and the Copyright Act of 1976. Drawing on archival material, including legal case files, and employing the principles of actor-network theory, Gregory Steirer ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood

    by Alisa Perren, Gregory Steirer ...
    Series series International Screen Industries
    The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s.Perren and Steirer illustrate how the American comic book industry simultaneously ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • American Comics

    A History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big Fiction

    How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

    by Dan Sinykin ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Extended Universe

    How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

    by Vicky Osterweil ...
    A provocative history of Disney’s rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies.In The Extended Universe, Vicky Osterweil takes us on a quest to discover how Disney’s “imagineers” have made it impossible to reflect on the wonders of growing up without thinking of Disney's movies, amusement ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Fact Checker's Bible

    A Guide to Getting It Right

    by Sarah Harrison Smith ...
    These days fact-checking can seem like a lost art. The Fact Checker's Bible arrives not a moment too soon: it is the first—and essential—guide to the important but increasingly neglected task of checking facts, whatever their source.We are all overwhelmed with information that claims to be factual, but even the most punctilious researcher, writer, and journalist can sometimes get it wrong, so ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Movie-Made America

    A Cultural History of American Movies

    by Robert Sklar ...
    Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values.Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • The Smallville Chronicles

    Critical Essays on the Television Series

    Edited by Lincoln Geraghty ...
    In 2001, yet another adaptation of the Superman comic book came to television. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the traditional Superman story and turned it into an American teen action drama about Clark Kent's life at high school-before he donned the famous blue tights and red cape. Instead of depicting Superman's clashes with criminals in Metropolis, the show focused on how Clark first ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • 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

    Free

  • Of Comics and Men

    A Cultural History of American Comic Books

    by Jean-Paul Gabilliet ...
    Translated by Bart Beaty, Nick Nguyen ...
    Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Hollywood’s Copyright Wars

    From Edison to the Internet

    by Peter Decherney ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Copyright law is important to every stage of media production and reception. It helps determine filmmakers' artistic decisions, Hollywood's corporate structure, and the varieties of media consumption. The rise of digital media and the internet has only expanded copyright's reach. Everyone from producers and sceenwriters to amateur video makers, file sharers, and internet entrepreneurs has a stake ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Make Ours Marvel

    Media Convergence and a Comics Universe

    Edited by Matt Yockey ...
    The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of the comic book market. Since the 2000s, the company's iconic characters have leaped from page to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus