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The Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL!, Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical aspects relate to the audience, their influence on filmmaking, and the cultural impact of the franchise

Takes the topic of budgeting and makes it exciting, and not just for political junkies. Instead of focusing on numbers, this book looks at the policymakers responsible for the budget. Brian Pugh provides a historical perspective on the decisions and actions of legislators and governors going back more than a century.

K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul, Crystal Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself.

Offers the first full-length study of key autobiographies of white jazz musicians. Outside and Inside features insights into the development of jazz styles and culture in the urban meccas of twentieth-century jazz in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

Many works of American film history only skim the surface of the 1941 investigation of Hollywood. In Hollywood Hates Hitler!, Chris Yogerst examines the years leading up to and through the Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda, detailing isolationist senators' relationship with the America First movement.

While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools to portray the horrors of this nightmare.

In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception.

Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theatre. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry is the first volume to collect all of her substantive interviews in one place.

The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinityasks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention.

In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception.

The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinityasks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention.

Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. This translation is based on L.G. Barag and N.V. Novikov's edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. It includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number.

Presents a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area with a fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students.

Offers the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Glen Donnar examines the impact of ""terror-Others"", from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of turmoil.

Explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.

Using clothing as a point of departure, these essays imagine the South's centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the South, often by immigrant merchants.

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera published an Abakua phrasebook that is still the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. Now translated into English, Cabrera's lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first "insider's" view of this African heritage.

As a group the interviews in John Jennings: Conversations give a picture of a black man forging a way where comic books have afforded him a means to carve out an important space for people of colour.

The first collection of interviews with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene.

Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Joanna Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. This book presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing.

Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Joanna Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. This book presents eighteen interviews that span two decades and are as much about the process of reading as they are about writing.

A refugee from post-World War II Europe who emigrated to the US in 1949, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became one of America's foremost champions of independent cinema and one of its most innovative filmmakers. This collection of eighteen interviews covers almost sixty years of the filmmaker's career.

The first collection of interviews with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene.

Mississippi has produced outstanding writers in numbers far out of proportion to its population. Their contributions to American literature, including poetry, rank as enormous. This book showcases forty-five poets associated with the state and assesses their work with the aim of appreciating it and its place in today's culture.

The first interview collection with this esteemed writer. The book includes eighteen interviews that reflect on nearly five decades of work, from his first book, Long Lankin, to his novel Mrs. Osmond and memoir, Time Pieces.

A collection of eight essays by Toni Morrison scholars, that offer a nuanced and insightful analysis of the novel God Help the Child, interpreting it in relation to Morrison's earlier work as well as locating it within ongoing debates in literary and other academic disciplines engaged with African American literature.

Goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen proposes a consistent trend can be found in movies adapted from children's and young adult books.

Examines the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women's writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores. The works explored in this volume draw attention to the racialization and sexualization of black women's bodies and continue the legacy of narrating black women's long-standing contestation of systems of oppression.

Provides a survey of food's function in children's texts, showing how the sociocultural contexts of food reveal children's agency. Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard examine texts that vary from historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of genres, formats, and audiences.

Presents twelve essays that explore posthumanism's relevance in young adult literature. Contributors explore the democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analysing recent works for young adults.