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“david s silverman”

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  • Animated Mischief

    Essays on Subversiveness in Cartoons Since 1987

    Edited by Brian N. Duchaney, David S. Silverman ...
    Over the last century, the medium of animation has served as an expression of childhood as well as a method of subverting the expectations of what society has promised for the future. Separated into three parts, this work assembles various explorations of taste, culture and passion through animation.Section I features essays that outline the historical changes in art and society that gave rise to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Twenty-First-Century Western

    New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

    by Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, Alan Lechusza Aquallo, Nicholas Blower, Henrik Bødker, Mark Brenden, John Bruni, Garret Castleberry, Lynnea Chapman King0, Jim Daems1, Ann Hetzel Gunkel2, John C. Hajduk3, Sue Matheson4, Jason McEntee5, Walter Metz6, Fran Pheasant-Kelly7, Natalie Rosiek8, David S. Silverman9, Sharon Smith0, Beth Jane Toren1, Rosanne Welch2, Nathan Wuertenberg3, Erik Heine4, Andrew Howe5 ...
    Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The American Civil War on Film and TV

    Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color

    by Rosanne Welch, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Martin Manning, Paul Haspel, Michael Wiggins, Douglas Brode, Jeanne Holland, Judith Sobré, Ray Merlock, Guerric DeBona0, Gregory Perreault1, Sue Matheson2, Biljana Oklopcic3, Scott Allen Nollen5, Peggy A. Russo6, David S. Silverman7, Beth Jane Toren8, A. Bowdoin Van Riper9, Kayla McKinney Wiggins0, Susan Aronstein1, Earl F. Mulderink2, Cynthia J. Miller3, Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson5 ...
    Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    by Natan Last ...
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  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

    The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out

    by Sean P. Griffin ...
    The first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay communityFrom its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But the Walt Disney Company has also had a long and complex relationship to the gay and lesbian community that is only now ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • We See Each Other

    A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    by Tre'vell Anderson ...
    A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Writing Diverse Characters for Fiction, TV or Film

    by Lucy V. Hay ...
    We're living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more LGBT characters, more characters of color, more disabled characters, and more characters from various religions or classes. These characters also appear in genre pieces, accessible to the mainstream, instead of being hidden away in so-called "worthier" pieces, as in the past. This book discusses issues of race, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

    Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula

    by Alexandra West ...
    Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras.No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Black Women in Sequence

    Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

    by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of ... Read more

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  • How to Watch Television, Second Edition

    Edited by Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell ...
    Series Book 3 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Discussing Disney

    by Amy M Davis ...
    These scholarly essays examine Disney's cultural impact from various perspectives—including film studies, history, musicology, gender and more.The academic field of Disney Studies has evolved greatly over the years, as the twelve essays collected in this volume demonstrate. With a diversity of perspectives and concerns, the contributors examine the cultural significance and impact of the Disney ... Read more

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