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  • Alfa Romeo Giulia GT Coupe

    1963 to 1976

    by Keith Booker ...
    Series series The Essential Buyer's Guide
    A small investment in this book could save you a fortune. With the aid of this book's step-by-step expert guidance, you will discover all you need to know about the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT Coupe you want to buy. The unique point system will help you to place the car's value in relation to condition. Buying a classic Alfa Romeo is an important investment - don't buy one without this book's help. Keith ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Future Folk Horror

    Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures

    by M. Keith Booker, Vicky Brewster, Garret L. Castleberry, Lauryn E. Collins, Stephanie Ellis, Tracy Fahey, Gemma Files, Phil Fitzsimmons, Sandra García Gutiérrez, Danielle Garcia-Karr, Kit Hawkins, Howard David Ingham, Paul A. J. Lewis, Kingsley Marshall, Conner McAleese, Jimmy Packham, James Rose, Brandon R. Grafius, Stephen Butler, Dr Reece Goodall, David Norris ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Mad Men

    A Cultural History

    by M. Keith Booker, Bob Batchelor ...
    Series series The Cultural History of Television
    "A comprehensive examination of the ways in which [the series] uses American cultural memory . . . to shape . . . characters' developments and the narrative arc." — Journal of American CultureFrom the opening credits that feature a silhouette falling among skyscrapers, Mad Men transcended its role as a series about the Madison Avenue advertising industry to become a modern classic. For seven ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Star Trek

    A Cultural History

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    Series series The Cultural History of Television
    First airing in 1966, with a promise to “boldly go where no man has gone before,” Star Trek would eventually become a bona fide phenomenon. Week after week, viewers of the series tuned in to watch Captain Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of the USS Enterprise as they conducted their five-year mission in space. Their mission was cut short by a corporate monolith that demanded higher ratings, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Coen Brothers' America

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like No Country for Old Men, and black comedies such as Fargo, the filmmakers have offered brilliant takes on a variety of film genres. One of the most distinctive features of their movies is their skewed ... Read more

    $37.29 USD

  • American Noir Film

    From The Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    A deep dive into classic noir films and how filmmakers today are refreshing and updating the genre for new generations. Publishers Weekly praises the book, noting, "Cinephiles will be enthralled” and Library Journal **says it's a "well-written introduction to noir films and how the genre has continued to thrive as times changed.”**Booklist calls it a "riveting history of ... ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Tony Soprano's America

    Gangsters, Guns, and Money

    by M. Keith Booker, Isra Daraiseh ...
    Widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is also considered one of the most significant achievements in contemporary American culture. IThe series spearheaded the launch of a new wave of quality programming that has transformed the way people watch, experience, and talk about television. By chronicling the life and crimes of a New Jersey mobster, his ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    In the years since Georges Méliès’s Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) was released in 1902, more than 1000 science fiction films have been made by filmmakers around the world. The versatility of science fiction cinema has allowed it to expand into a variety of different markets, appealing to age groups from small children to adults. The technical advances in filmmaking technology have ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Colonial Power, Colonial Texts

    India in the Modern British Novel

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    Half a century after the Raj, India retains a major place in the British imagination. In Colonial Power, Colonial Texts, M. Keith Booker examines a number of British novels that deal with colonial rule in India in the first half of the twentieth century. The works discussed -- by authors such as Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Paul Scott, and J. G. Farrell -- date from both the ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of American Cinema

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry itself, which is in many ways a microcosm of the history of American society.Historical Dictionary of American Cinema, Second Edition contains a ... Read more

    $247.09 USD

  • Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition

    Toward a Comparative Cultural Poetics

    by M. Keith Booker ...
    Literary studies of James Joyce, perhaps more so than those of any other author, have been enriched by important developments in literary theory in the last twenty-five years. Noting a curious gap in this scholarship, M. Keith Booker brings the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, unquestionably one of the most important literary theorists of this century, to bear on Joyce's relationship to six of his ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films

    by Prof. M. Keith Booker ...
    This work is a wide-ranging survey of American children's film that provides detailed analysis of the political implications of these films, as well as a discussion of how movies intended for children have come to be so persistently charged with meaning.Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films provides wide-ranging scrutiny of one of the most lucrative American entertainment ... Read more

    $46.99 USD