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  • On Edge

    Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

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    Honorable Mention, 2025 PCA Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women’s StudiesFinalist, 2025 Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards, Best Critical/Biographical CategoryFinalist, Bouchercon New Orleans 2025 Anthony Awards, Best Critical/Non-FictionNominated for the 2025 Macavity Awards, Best Mystery-related Nonfiction/CriticalAshley Lawson’s On Edge presents a new picture of postwar ... Leer más

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  • The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

    The South Side of Paradise

    The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise explores resonances of "Southernness" in works by American culture’s leading literary couple. At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a romance of regionalism, as the charming tale of a Northern man wooing a Southern belle. Their writing exposes ... Leer más

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  • Perplexing Plots

    Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of AmericaShortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice DomesticPosthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction AssociationNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple ... Leer más

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  • Digital Storytelling

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  • A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

    Edición de Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague ...
    The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholarsCovers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last filmDetails the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and ... Leer más

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  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    de Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Leer más

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  • The Philosophy of Horror

    Edición de Thomas Fahy ...
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  • Special Effects

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    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have ... Leer más

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  • Film Theory Goes to the Movies

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