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  • Wizards vs. Muggles
    Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the nature of human identity. 'Potter Studies' is developing into a vibrant interdisciplinary field of scholarship. This collection of new essays examines issues surrounding race, class, gender, sexual orientation and personal virtue, both in the wizarding world and in our own. The contribu...
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    42,78 €

  • New Atlantis
    Brian Stableford
    The second volume of this narrative history of scientific romance covers the period from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Great War, including detailed discussions of the definitive contributions made to the genre by such writers as H. G. Wells, George Griffith, M. P. Shiel, Charles Howard Hinton, Fred T. Jane, Robert Cromie and William Hope Hodgson, and the major themes of the...
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    18,72 €

  • New Atlantis
    Brian Stableford
    The third volume of this narrative history of scientific romance covers the period between two world wars, examining the legacy of the Great War of 1914-18 in terms of its effect on futuristic hopes and fears, as reflected in the works of such new recruits to the genre as Olaf Stapledon, John Gloag, Neil Bell J. Leslie Mitchell, S. Fowler Wright, Katharine Burdekin and Muriel J...
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    18,55 €

  • New Atlantis
    Brian Stableford
    The final volume of this narrative history of scientific romance tracks the fading away of the genre as it was gradually overtaken and absorbed into the genre of science fiction, in spite of continued work by such practitioners and Olaf Stapledon and J. D. Beresford, and new recruits such as Gerald Heard and Edward Hyams. It also includes a chronology of the major works and an ...
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    18,48 €

  • Richard Matheson’s Monsters
    Anthony J. Fonseca / Anthony JFonseca / June M. Pulliam / June MPulliam
    This volume chronicles and examines all aspects of the writing career of Richard Matheson, including thematic concerns, authorial techniques, and genre tropes, as well as the influence on contemporaries and later writers. ...
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    129,03 €

  • Manga in America
    Casey Brienza
    Japanese manga comic books have attracted a devoted global following. In the popular press manga is said to have 'invaded†? and 'conquered†? the United States, and its success is held up as a quintessential example of the globalization of popular culture challenging American hegemony in the twenty-first century. In Manga in America - the first ever book-length study of the hi...
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    154,37 €

  • Inspector Morse
    Paul Taylor
    ’A magisterial, beautifully presented, splendidly researched companion to the life of the late Chief Inspector’- Colin Dexter.Paul Taylor has provided the most detailed account of the habits, opinions, loves and hates of Inspector Morse from all the available written sources. While fictional television programmes may be marvellously produced, directed, scripted, and acted they ...
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    26,49 €

  • Walt Kelly and Pogo
    James Eric Black
    One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly’s Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow’s radar. The strip’s satire was so biting, it was often relegated to newspaper editorial sections at a time when artists in other media were blacklisted for far less. Pogo was ...
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    51,46 €

  • Michael Moorcock
    Mark Scroggins
    Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central figure of the 'New Wave' in science fiction, and has won numerous awards for hi...
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    42,92 €

  • Monstrous adaptations
    The first book devoted to the study of horror film and adaptation. Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this anthology includes analyses of such under-examined films as Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein, John Barrymore’s Jekyll and Hyde, Jean Epstein’s La chute de la maison Usher, Gus van Sant’s Psycho and Guillermo de Toro’s Cronos ...
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    29,44 €

  • Men with stakes
    Julia M Wright / Julia Wright
    Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself. ...
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    157,74 €

  • Dangerous bodies
    Marie Mulvey-Roberts
    A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture. ...
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    157,44 €

  • Espectros
    Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma, affect in visual and material culture, and the economic and social p...
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    119,37 €

  • A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
    David Huckvale
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms 'the great unwashed' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword'--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. His radicalism was applauded by...
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    57,31 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
    Matthew Bevis
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    64,92 €

  • The Ages of the Incredible Hulk
    The Incredible Hulk is one of the earliest Marvel Comics superheroes. Through the decades, the character and his narrative elements--the causes of Bruce Banner’s transformations, the Hulk’s strength, intelligence and skin color, the stories’ tone, theme and sources of conflict--have been continually reinvented to remain relevant. This collection of new essays explores Marv...
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    28,34 €

  • From Here to Hogwarts
    The social relations, societal structures and existential conundrums in the world of Harry Potter novels reflect our own. When the authoritarianism of Hogwarts falls upon Harry, it is an echo of disciplinary practices in real-world high schools. The economic inequities of the wizarding world mirror those of modern societies. The art, literature and mass media of wizard socie...
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    42,83 €

  • Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes
    Nadine Farghaly
    From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle’s stories proves as interesting as the astute detective’s constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow seems both superfluous and essential. While Conan Doyle does not depict Holmes ...
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    42,71 €

  • Dark Discoveries - Issue #33
    Laird Barron / Aaron JFrench / Mary ATurzillo
    All new Fiction by: Cameron Price, John Palisano, Max Booth III, MP Johnson, Mary A. Turzillo and Shane McKenzie Interviews with: Laird Barron, Hal Duncan and Thom Metzger Articles on: 'Bizarro Punk' by David Agranoff, 'Bizarro World Got Me Dirty and Wet' by L. Andrew Cooper, 'Coffee - Bootlegging - Labyrinths' by Aaron J. French and Bizarro Comic by Phil Differ and Gavin Boy...
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    15,53 €

  • Social Seduction
    SHARON TETILA COX
    The stories in this book are about ordinary everyday human beings as we are each challenged and often socially seduced biologically, psycho-socially, spiritually, and economically as biopsychosocial and spiritual beings. These are also riveting true stories of the biopsychosocial and spiritual being who demonstrates the courage to stand strong during challenges of social seduct...
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    37,10 €

  • Social Seduction
    SHARON TETILA COX
    The stories in this book are about ordinary everyday human beings as we are each challenged and often socially seduced biologically, psycho-socially, spiritually, and economically as biopsychosocial and spiritual beings. These are also riveting true stories of the biopsychosocial and spiritual being who demonstrates the courage to stand strong during challenges of social seduct...
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    20,68 €

  • Dark Assemblages
    Kay Pritchett
    In Dark Assemblages, Kay Pritchett, after surveying the novelistic production of celebrated Neo-Gothic writer Pilar Pedraza (1951-),focuses on the relevance of the Spanish author's fiction to contemporary social concerns. Pedraza's Gothic stories of development reveal the power of conventional representations (fixed images) to undermine personal growth, bringing identit...
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    112,64 €

  • The Algerian War in French-Language Comics
    Howell / Jennifer Howell
    The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity analyzes representations of the Algerian War in French-language comics published since 1982. Throughout this book, Howell investigates the ways in which marginalized memory communities resist, rewrite, and/or repair institutionalized history in popular culture. This is achieved by applyin...
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    141,50 €

  • New Atlantis
    Brian Stableford
    The first volume of this narrative history of scientific romance includes an introduction to the prehistory of the genre in philosophical fictions, travelers’ tales and utopian fantasies, and tracks early literary celebrations of scientific achievement. The authors whose contributions to the genre are discussed included Erasmus Darwin, Percy Shelley, Humphry Davy and Robert Hun...
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    18,44 €

  • The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales
    Everett
    This volume collects critical essays that provide a broader understanding of the magazine Weird Tales and its authors, artists, readers, and editorial practices, as well as the larger impact that the periodical had on popular culture and genre fiction. In particular, these essays explain why Weird Tales deserved its subtitle “The Unique Magazine” and why works by some of its au...
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    129,03 €

  • Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers
    Rebecca Munford
    Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter’s feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. ...
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    28,36 €

  • Dragon Ball Z 'It’s Over 9,000!' When Worldviews Collide
    Derek Padula
    Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball is the world's most recognized anime and manga series, having entertained millions of fans across the globe. The legendary rivalry of the last two full blooded Saiya-jins, Goku and Vegeta, is the iconic example of a lifelong conflict that inspires fans to burst through their own personal limits.With a foreword by Ryo Horikawa, the Japanese v...
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    18,10 €

  • Marvel Comics’ Civil War and the Age of Terror
    Marvel Comics has an established tradition of addressing relevant real-life issues facing the American public. With the publication of Civil War (2006-2007), a seven-issue crossover storyline spanning the Marvel universe, they focused on contemporary anxieties such as terrorism and threats to privacy and other civil liberties. This collection of new essays explores the Civil...
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    43,99 €

  • Germany
    Laurence A. Rickels / Laurence ARickels
    In I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick, Laurence A. Rickels investigated the renowned science fiction author’s collected work by way of its relationship to the concept and condition of schizophrenia. In Germany: A Science Fiction, he focuses on psychopathy as the undeclared diagnosis implied in flunking the empathy test. The switch from psychosis to psychopathy as an organizing limit ...
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    21,95 €

  • Tethered
    David Faroz Precht
    Tethered is an existentialist zombie original graphic novel created by writer David Faroz Precht and artist Danny Luckert with lettering by Lindsay McComb.The story centers around two 20-somethings in Colorado “living” after a zombie apocalypse as “souls” tethered to their zombie bodies, experiencing the horror that their former bodies exact. ...
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    24,87 €


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