A comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. It contains 175 entries on all aspects of the... Læs mere
By reviewing the canon and definitions of horror, historical significance may point to influences for present and future implications of diversity,... Læs mere
Although countless books and articles address body image, the personal psychology and the universal, entangled and lifelong meaning of hair have been missing. This... Læs mere
Explores the stories of several high-profile cases of women on trial for murdering their husbands with poison. Lust, money and power were often... Læs mere
Explores a dozen unique examples of side-by-side burials over the course of US History. In each story, the authors begin by describing each of the protagonists’ final chapters, before spooling out the tales and significance of their actual journeys to such interwoven endpoints.
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