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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stephen j webley”
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  • Apocalyptic Chic

    Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

    by Alex M. Milmine, Katherine Allocco, Tanner Morrison, Maren Conrad, Casey Ratto, Daniel Schäbler, Sarah Heaton, Annika Rosanowski, Victoria Williams, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Mark Poindexter, Scott Culpepper, Christine A. Jackson, Stephen J. Webley, Alyssa Ryan ...
    This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Playful Undead and Video Games

    Critical Analyses of Zombies and Gameplay

    Edited by Stephen J. Webley, Peter Zackariasson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanations of their enduring appeal – that they embody an aesthetic that combines horror with a mindless target; that lower age ratings for zombie games widen the market; or that Artificial Intelligence routines for zombies are easier to develop – the book ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Astonishing Insight and Uncanny Argument in the Mutant X-Verse

    Edited by William Irwin, Rebecca Housel, J. Jeremy Wisnewski ...
    Series Book 11 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    X-Men is one of the most popular comic book franchises ever, with successful spin-offs that include several feature films, cartoon series, bestselling video games, and merchandise. This is the first look at the deeper issues of the X-Men universe and the choices facing its powerful "mutants," such as identity, human ethics versus mutant morality, and self-sacrifice.J. Jeremy Wisnewski (Oneonta, NY ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Death by Landscape

    by Elvia Wilk ...
    From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinctionIn this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.Wilk ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Zombies in Western Culture

    A Twenty-First Century Crisis

    by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, Filip Miscevic ...
    Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture.The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness ... Read more

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  • Spec Fic For Newbies Vol 1

    A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

    by Tiffani Angus, Val Nolan ...
    Series Book 1 - Spec Fic for Newbies
    Locus Recommended Reading List 2023BSFA for Best Non-Fiction, Shortlist 2024Tiffani Angus (Ph.D.) and Val Nolan (Ph.D.) met at the 2009 Clarion Writers' Workshop in California and since then have collaborated many times as fans and scholars on panels for SFF conventions and writing retreats.Working together on this book and combining their experience as SFF writers and as university lecturers in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    by William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • American Zombie Gothic

    The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture

    by Kyle William Bishop ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell ...
    Series series Studies in Gaming
    Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate between ludic (play) and narrative (story) paradigms remains the one that famously "never happened."This collection of new essays critically frames that debate and urges game scholars to consider it central to the field. The essayists examine various digital games, assessing the applicability of play ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Braaaiiinnnsss!

    From Academics to Zombies

    Edited by Robert Smith?, Professor Stacey Smith?, Professor ...
    In the fight against zombies, our most important weapons are our brains. It's time to unleash them. Think you know a thing or two about zombies? Think again. If you’re going to keep your wits – and your brains – about you during a zombie attack, you need expert advice. Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies gathers together an irreverent group of scholars and writers to take a serious look at ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Zombie Culture

    Autopsies of the Living Dead

    Edited by Shawn McIntosh, Marc Leverette ...
    Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing video game industry? What makes zombies such widespread symbols of horror and dread, and how have portrayals of zombies in movies changed and evolved to fit contemporary fears, anxieties, and social issues ... Read more

    $64.99 USD