From the Universal classics to the Aztec Mummy series, from Hammer’s versions to Mexico’s Guanajuato variations, this first-ever comprehensive guide to mummy movies offers in-depth production histories and critical analyses for every feature-length iteration of bandaged horror.
Explains why our media environments are often toxic, the effects they can have on our mental health, and steps we can take in order to practice mindful, balanced, and healthy engagement with media environments.
Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the narrative. This work examines the city, the countryside and the wilderness as places ripe with literary significance and symbolism.
Former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the Cold War and the civil rights movement, and the motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.
Filling a gap in the literature of baseball, this collection of new essays examines the history of the game in Spanish, from the... Læs mere
Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his... Læs mere
Details the most significant monastic and secular events of the Middle Ages in Western Europe, such as the fall of the Roman Catholic Church, the rise of Protestantism and... Læs mere
Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara - known as ‘The Vamp’ - was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. This book is a... Læs mere
Offers strategies, tips, and guidance on how to promote equitable student growth across content areas. The essays in this book complement the work of school board members, administrators and community stakeholders in school districts with diverse student populations.
Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network’s popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction.
Once described as ‘the best crime writer you’ve never heard of’, James Sallis is a vastly underexplored figure in contemporary American literature. This... Læs mere
Tells the story of volunteer advocates who helped a group of Vietnamese refugees on their journey to freedom. Highlighting the courage of... Læs mere