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American Television during a Television Presidency
Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency.
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Woman Up
Invoking Feminism in Quality Television
Critically analyzes the discursive relationship between cultural value and popular feminism in American television.
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Our Blessed Rebel Queen
Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia
Exploration of Carrie Fisher as star, author, comedian, and iconic personification of Princess Leia.
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ISBN: 9780814346853
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ISBN: 9780814346860
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ISBN: 9780814346877
After "Happily Ever After"
Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.
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ISBN: 9780814346730
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ISBN: 9780814346747
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ISBN: 9780814346754
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space
Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales
Examines how popular fairy tales collapse narrative borders and reimagine the genre for the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9780814348277
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ISBN: 9780814343838
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ISBN: 9780814343845
Batman: The Animated Series
A deep dive into the wildly successful 1990s animated series Batman.
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ISBN: 9780814345405
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ISBN: 9780814345412
New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation
An innovative collection that emphasizes the relevance of adaptation studies in the current transmedia climate.
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ISBN: 9780814346242
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ISBN: 9780814346259
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ISBN: 9780814346266
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Fairy-Tale Film Truths
Exploration of fairy-tale movies that blur the line between reality and magic.
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ISBN: 9780814347829
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ISBN: 9780814342220
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ISBN: 9780814342237
The Golden Girls
A feminist approach to America’s four best friends.
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ISBN: 9780814345641
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ISBN: 9780814345658
Twin Peaks
Examines Twin Peaks’s history and representations of female trauma and agency.
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ISBN: 9780814346228
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ISBN: 9780814346235
Justice on Demand
True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era
Explores the proliferation of true crime audiovisual texts across multiple media platforms.
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ISBN: 9780814347201
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ISBN: 9780814340639
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ISBN: 9780814340646
Treme
Explores the urban context of post-Katrina New Orleans with which the TV show engages.
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ISBN: 9780814341513
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ISBN: 9780814341520
Birth of the Binge
Serial TV and the End of Leisure
A deep-dive into the practice and execution of contemporary television viewing.
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ISBN: 9780814345979
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ISBN: 9780814345269
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ISBN: 9780814345276
Transforming Harry
The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapting the Harry Potter novels to films and media.
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ISBN: 9780814344910
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ISBN: 9780814342862
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ISBN: 9780814342879
Parables of the Posthuman
Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience
A philosophical reading of video gaming that focuses on what it means to be a player.
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ISBN: 9780814334881
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ISBN: 9780814341445
Knots Landing
Examines Knots Landing in its industrial and political contexts and from fresh aesthetic and theoretical perspectives.
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ISBN: 9780814340332
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ISBN: 9780814340349
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Channeling Wonder
Fairy Tales on Television
Investigates a wide range of fairy tales on television, stretching into the twenty-first century and across the world.
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ISBN: 9780814339220
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ISBN: 9780814339237
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Grimms' Tales around the Globe
The Dynamics of Their International Reception
A systematic study of various factors in the international reception of Grimms’ fairy tales.
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ISBN: 9780814339206
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ISBN: 9780814339213
Documenting the Documentary
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition
Essays on important documentary films from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives.
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ISBN: 9780814339718
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ISBN: 9780814339725
Cinema and Community
Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema.
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ISBN: 9780814337257
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ISBN: 9780814337264