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  • Projected Fears

    Horror Films and American Culture

    by Kendall R. Phillips ...
    A revised and expanded edition of this popular book that traces the cultural history****of the American horror film by focusing on individual films that helped to define or redefine the genre from Dracula (1931) to Get Out (2017).This book examines thirteen films that redefined the notion of cinematic horror and influenced the films that followed: Dracula (1931), T**h... ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence

    by David Baumeister, Vernon W. Cisney, Tober Corrigan, Rick Elmore, Jonathan Elmore, Luis Favela, Eric Godoy, Josh Grant-Young, Sydney Lane, Eunah Lee, Brian Onishi, Chandler Rogers, Kendall Phillips, Robert Sinnerbrink ...
    Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of dark specter of interdependence and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations. The contributors interrogate the question of interdependence through ... Read more

    $94.79 USD

  • Kolchak: the Night Stalker

    by Kendall R. Phillips ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Revisiting a televised narrative that focused not on the monster, but on the monster hunter.Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, a world-weary Chicago newspaper reporter with a cheap, seersucker suit and a penchant for uncovering monsters lurking in every corner. Kolchak first appeared on American screens in the 1972 ABC television movie The Night Stalker, which ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Place of Darkness

    The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema

    by Kendall R. Phillips ...
    "An illuminating history . . . it's clear that the right story can still terrify us; A Place of Darkness is a primer on how the movies learned to do it." — NPRHorror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term "horror film" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters To The King

    by Kendall N Phillips ...
    Dr. Sophie Lennox is a brilliant Architectural Historian with a broken heart and loss of faith in her profession following a break up with one of her colleagues. Although being the premier historian in her specialty, her recent slump has found her resigning to taking on a teaching position and finding comfort in isolation. It isn't until she's called upon to restore a 15th century school, that she ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Framing Public Memory

    by Stephen Howard Browne, Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips, Bradford Vivian, Amos Kiewe, Barry Schwartz, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Edward S. Casey, Charles E. Scott, Rosa A. Eberly, Professor Barbara Biesecker, Professor Barbie Zelizer ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Michael Moore and the Rhetoric of Documentary

    by Christine Harold, Brian L. Ott, Susan A. Sci, Thomas Rosteck, Thomas S. Frentz, Edward Schiappa, Daniel Ladislau Horvath, Peter B. Gregg, Davis W. Houck, Joseph Delbert Davenport, Kendall R. Phillips, Assistant Professor Jennifer L. Borda ...
    Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, Moore has established a unique voice of radical nostalgia for progressivism, and in doing so has become ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Cinema of Hopelessness

    The Rhetoric of Rage in 21st Century Popular Culture

    by Kendall R. Phillips ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system. Framing the question of public sentiment through the lens of rhetorical studies, this book traces the circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Memoryscapes

    Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age

    by G. Mitchell Reyes, Christine Lavrence, Ekaterina V. Haskins, Cynthia D. Cervantes, Kristin Sorensen, Margaret A. Lindauer, Zeynep Turan, Urvashi Butalia, Katherine Elizabeth Mack0 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and how it changes when collective memories are no longer grounded within the confines of the traditional nation-state. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Conceit of Context

    Resituating Domains in Rhetorical Studies

    Edited by Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips ...
    Series Book 46 - Frontiers in Political Communication
    This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material. The Conceit of Context explores the often invoked—indeed a central term in the history of rhetorical studies—but less often engaged concept of context. In this volume, we center the notion of context as ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

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  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Action Movies

    The Cinema of Striking Back

    by Harvey O'Brien ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD