Blur (Volume 1)
$20.95The first of four volumes collecting the complete weekly “Video Views” columns (1999-2001) by cartoonist, author, and film scholar Bissette covers the endless flow of video and DVD releases from June 1999 to March 2000.
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Green Mountain Cinema I: Green Mountain Boys
$22.95This first publication dedicated to Vermont and New England movies and video features “The Compleat Fred Tuttle Speeches, Lovin’ the Logger: Rusty DeWees, Simon Stockhausen Speaks, Jay Craven on Jonathan Brandis,” and more.
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Despair: The Screenplay
$15.95In film and television, thousands of fine scripts by established writers are never produced. The Black Coat Script Library is dedicated to presenting some of those scripts. A man survives a car crash only to find himself trapped in a private clinic at the mercy of its lunatic owner, the terrifying DOCTOR DESPAIR. The Doctor…
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The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo
$74.99THE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO by Jeremy Mark Robinson This is a book about the genius Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). Best-known for the Akira manga of 1982-90 and the Akira movie of 1988, Otomo is also an all-round artist who writes fiction, writes and directs short and feature movies, produces commercial art, and…
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Berserk: Kentaro Miura: The Manga and the Anime
$56.99B E R S E R K KENTARO MIURA: THE MANGA AND THE ANIMÉ by Jeremy Mark Robinson This is a study of the epic fantasy comic Berserk by Kentaro Miura, one of the greatest works of art in print form of any era. Berserk is a best-selling fantasy adventure manga in Japan and overseas….
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The Akira Book: Katsuhiro Otomo: The Movie and the Manga
$52.49THE AKIRA BOOK KATSUHIRO OTOMO: THE MOVIE AND THE MANGA by Jeremy Mark Robinson This is a book about Akira – the manga of 1982-90 and the movie of 1988, and about the creator of Akira, the genius artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). There are very few genuine auteurs in Japanese animation: the animation industry,…
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Voices from Krypton
$36.99Hailed as possibly the most comprehensive oral history of Superman to be committed to print, Voices From Krypton combines over 85 years of Superman’s legacy into a sweeping tale of how the champion of the oppressed became one of the world’s most recognizable pop culture icons. Not only does this epic collection include interviews with…
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The Monkey’s Paw: Resources for the intrepid classroom
$11.99What is the price of greed? What is the cost of desire? The White family have come to possess a relic of supernatural power, a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes….but at what price? How far must they journey down the path of terror to undo what they have done? Based on the short horror…
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Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood S Leading Genre
$110.00“By far the most insightful look ever at superheroes in film. It’s not about what’s been translated from comics to the movies-it’s about why it has, how it has, and why it works well enough to produce some of the most popular movies in all of cinema history. There is no better, smarter examination of…
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Superhero Reader
$35.00Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the…
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The Superhero Reader
$110.00Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the…
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Judex: The Screenplay
$20.95In 1917, silent film director Louis Feuillade and writer Arthur Bernde created the character of a mysterious avenger, wearing a slouch hat and a dark cloakNJudexNwho has sworn to mercilessly punish criminals! As the hero struggles against the villains, he falls in love with his nemesis’ daughter, the beautiful, innocent Jacqueline.
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Superhero Confidential – Volume 1
$19.95The superhero genre has exploded, with comic book heroes conquering the big screen and making massive inroads on the small. Whether well known brand names like Batman and Spider-Man, or lesser recognized characters such as Daredevil and Hellboy, the superheroes are here to stay. Superhero Confidential is the first in a series of books to…
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Blondie Goes to Hollywood: The Blondie Comic Strip in Films, Radio & Television
$30.00ndie, I Love Lucy, and The Twilight Zone all have in common? What did Chic Young, the cartoonist who created the Blondie comic strip, think of the films? Blondie Goes To Hollywood is the first and only book to answer these questions and tell the untold story of the Blondie films from their creation, their…
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Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes
$38.00An eye-opening exploration of the toxic masculinity and sexism that pervades the superhero genre.Superheroes have been exciting and inspirational cultural icons for decades, dating back to the debut of Superman in the 1930s. The earliest tales have been held up as cornerstones of the genre, looked upon with nostalgic reverence. However, enshrining these tales also…
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Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero
$110.00Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero’s unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation…