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The American Civil War on Film and TV
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a …
Divine Horror
From Rosemary’s Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches …
Terrifying Texts
From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the …
What's Eating You?
Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen—the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about …
Religion, Politics, and American Identity
Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings …
Horror Comes Home
Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out—until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the …
Heroines of Film and Television
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of …
Echoes from the Poisoned Well
The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. …
Television and the Self
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in …
Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts
This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students …
Elder Horror
As the baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, the elderly are often eccentric harbingers of doom—the crone who seeks to …
Twin Tollans
Chichen Itza and Tula have long been conceived as "twin cities"--paired political capitals that share so many aspects of architectural plan, sculptural repertory, and …