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  • Monstrous Progeny

    A History of the Frankenstein Narratives

    by Lester D. Friedman, Allison B. Kavey ...
    Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth?Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Bonnie and Clyde

    by Lester D. Friedman ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) scandalised mainstream popular opinion. Part of an emerging youth and protest movement, its graphic and balletic violence was highly subversive in the context of the war in Vietnam. It spoke directly to younger audiences, who were already pitted against their more conservative elders and easily identified with the characters played by Warren Beatty (who also ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Citizen Spielberg

    by Lester D. Friedman ...
    Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle, Lester D. Friedman presents the filmmaker as a major artist who pairs an ongoing willingness to challenge himself with a widely recognized technical mastery.This new edition of Citizen Spielberg ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Sports Movies

    by Lester D. Friedman ...
    Series series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
    From Rocky to Field of Dreams, sports movies are among the most beloved of American films. Revolving around familiar narratives like the underdog story, these movies have generated modern-day legends, reinforcing and disseminating our national myths about the American Dream.In Sports Movies, Lester D. Friedman describes the traditional formulas that have made these movies such crowd-pleasers, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Hitting the Right Notes

    Film Directors and Composers in Harmony

    by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Charity Lofthouse ...
    Hitting the Right Notes: Film Directors and Composers in Harmony is a unique, multi-disciplinary volume co-authored by scholars from both media studies and music theory. The book features a chronological and systematic approach that concentrates on analyzing representative scenes from a broad spectrum of mainstream movies as exemplars. With a distinctive focus on versatile analytical tools from ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • American Jewish Filmmakers

    by David Desser, Lester D. Friedman ...
    Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of American Jewish Filmmakers, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Steven Spielberg

    Interviews, Revised and Updated

    Edited by Brent Notbohm, Lester D. Friedman ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of retiring from directing or even slowing down. Since the publication of Steven Spielberg: Interviews in 2000, the filmmaker has crafted some of the most ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Health and Media

    Edited by Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies.A unique and significant volume in an expanding pedagogical field, this diverse collection of international, original, and interdisciplinary essays goes beyond issues of representation ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Tough Ain't Enough

    New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood

    by Stephen Prince, Jonathan Kirshner, Diane Carson, David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Lucy Bolton, Alexandra Keller, Charity Lofthouse, Lester D. Friedman, David Desser1 ...
    Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Cultural Sutures

    Medicine and Media

    by Jonathan Michel Metzl, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph Turow, Otto F. Wahl ...
    Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publicize legitimate stories ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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