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  • Folio

    Essays on Australian Comics

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How are Australian comics made and read? How do changes in comics and graphic storytelling over the past forty years intersect with our changing ideas about history, culture, community, creativity and technology?In Folio: Essays on Australian Comics, interdisciplinary scholars and world-leading makers pose questions about Australian comics, including through visual essays, asking how comics move ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Saturday Night Heat: Mason

    Series Audiobook 1 - Saturday Night Heat

    Unabridged

    1 hour 13 min

    Beth has dreamed of living in the big city all her life. To achieve this goal at her age is off the charts of what her family ever expected. She's a proud businesswoman who takes charge of her own life, and there's not a person alive who could ever talk her out of leaving it behind.Mason is a seasoned firefighter with years of experience on the force. Born and raised in the big city, he finds that ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    Meet the Otis family: Mister and Missus, and their four children - Washington; the twins called Stars and Stripes; and their daughter, Virginia. They've just moved from America and into the English country manor of Canterville Chase. Though rumors persist that the house is haunted, the Otis' have none of it, and set about making the house their own. Then come the mysterious clanking chains and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Powder River - Season Six

    A Radio Dramatization

    Series Audiobook 6 - Powder River

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    In Season Six of Powder River, Etta and Jacob discover a 10-year-old boy, Levi Curtis, chopping wood at their home, acting as if he lived there. Britt soon discovers he is the sole survivor of an Indian attack on the Conestoga wagon he's traveling in with his family. Britt realizes Levi has no relatives and prepares to take him to the orphanage in Sheridan. When the telephone line arrives in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

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  • Found Footage Horror Films

    Fear and the Appearance of Reality

    As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films ... Read more

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  • Mad Men

    Dream Come True TV

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    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Family Film

    A History, from Shirley Temple to Harry Potter

    by Noel Brown ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in the 1930s to its global box-office dominance today. Noel Brown shows how, far from being an innocuous amusement for children, the family film has ... Read more

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  • Television Aesthetics and Style

    Edited by Steven Peacock, Jason Jacobs ...
    Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our viewing experience. This significant new work redresses a vital gap in Television Studies by engaging ... Read more

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  • Using film as a source

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    Series Book 3 - IHR Research Guides
    This book is a hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources. It is aimed at those who want to use film and moving image as the basis for research and offers advice on research methods, theory and methodology, archival work and film-based analysis. It draws on the disciplines of film and history to offer advice for students and researchers in these ... Read more

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  • Quality TV

    Contemporary American Television and Beyond

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