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  • Medievalism in <I>A Song of Ice and Fire</I> and <I>Game of Thrones</I>

    by Shiloh Carroll ...
    One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, and by extension its HBO television adaptation, Game of Thrones, is its claim to historical realism. The author, thedirectors and producers of the adaptation, and indeed the fans of the books and show, all lay claim to Westeros, its setting, as representative of an authentic medieval world. But how ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman

    From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty

    by Shiloh Carroll ...
    Narrated by Petrea Burchard ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life, religion, literature, and mythology.Readers love to sink into Gaiman's medieval worlds—but what ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman

    From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty

    by Shiloh Carroll ...
    Neil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his “compost heap” approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life, religion, literature, and mythology.Readers love to sink into Gaiman’s medieval worlds—but what ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture

    Edited by Elyce Rae Helford, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Michael R. Howard II ...
    Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Elyce Rae Helford, Michael R. Howard II, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, Tosha Taylor, Katherine A. Wagner, and Rhonda V. WilcoxAlthough the last three decades have offered a growing body of scholarship on images of fantastic women in popular culture, these studies ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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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

    $29.59 USD

  • From Mouse to Mermaid

    The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture

    Edited by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells ...
    A collection of essays that explicate Disney ideology through fifty-five years of feature films, including Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, and more.From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stories about Stories

    Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

    by Brian Attebery ...
    Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domains

    Edited by William L. Svitavsky, Daniel Fandino, Julian C. Chambliss ...
    The Marvel Cinematic Universe--comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts--has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots. Beyond considerable box office achievements, the success of Marvel's movie studios has opened up dialogue on social, economic and political concerns that challenge established values ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Medieval Hero on Screen

    Representations from Beowulf to Buffy

    Edited by Martha W. Driver, Sid Ray ...
    Few figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle Ages, the medieval hero on film serves many purposes.This collection of essays about the medieval hero on ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • King Arthur in Popular Culture

    Edited by Elizabeth S. Sklar, Donald L. Hoffman ...
    The legend of King Arthur is embedded in British and American culture. Contemporary America, in particular, is a rich breeding ground for the Arthurian mythos, not only in films, novels, short stories, and fantasy and science fiction, but in other areas of popular and mass culture as well.This work is a collection of 18 previously unpublished essays that demonstrate the impressive extent to which ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • An Introduction to Fantasy

    by Matthew Sangster ...
    Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current flourishing. It pays especial attention to Fantasy's engagements with histories and traditions, its manifestations across media and its dynamic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Medieval Literature: The Basics

    by Angela Jane Weisl, Anthony Joseph Cunder ...
    Series series The Basics
    Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses ... Read more

    $33.99 USD