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  • David Lynch’s American Dreamscape

    Music, Literature, Cinema

    by Mike Miley ...
    How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes beyond cinema and visual art to explore how Lynch's work engages with literary and musical works that have ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Truth and Consequences

    Game Shows in Fiction and Film

    by Mike Miley ...
    Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show’s reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on game shows concerns itself primarily with the history and aesthetics of the form, and few works assess the influence the format has had on American ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Steve Erickson

    Edited by Matthew Luter, Mike Miley ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving prestigious honors, Erickson has remained a subterranean literary figure, receiving effusive praise from his fans, befuddled or cautious assessments from reviewers, and scant scholarly attention. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century

    by Joan Hawkins, Alex Wermer-Colan ...
    This definitive book on Burroughs' decades-long cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century, including previously unpublished works.William S. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy ( The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone

    Essays on the Television and Film Franchise

    Edited by Ron Riekki, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. ...
    More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new essays offers a roadmap through a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Scholars, writers, artists and contributors to the 1980s series ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • But What If We're Wrong?

    Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Storytellers

    Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors

    by Mark Rubinstein ...
    Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Telling True Stories

    A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

    Edited by Mark Kramer, Wendy Call ...
    Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD