Animating the Spirited

Edited by Tze-yue G. Hu, Masao Yokota, and Gyongyi Horvath
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Graham Barton, Raz Greenberg, Gyongyi Horvath, Birgitta Hosea, Tze-yue G. Hu, Yin Ker, M. Javad Khajavi, Richard J. Leskosky, Yuk Lan Ng, Giryung Park, Eileen Anastasia Reynolds, Akiko ...

The Last Seat in the House

By John Kane
Foreword by Ken Lopez
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: American Made Music Series

Known as the "Father of Festival Sound," Bill Hanley (b. 1937) made his indelible mark as a sound engineer at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair. Hanley is credited with creating the sound of Woodstock, ...

With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy

Edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Bart Beaty, Jenny Blenk, Ben Bolling, Peter E. Carlson, Johnathan Flowers, Antero Garcia, Dale Jacobs, Ebony Flowers Kalir, James Kelley, Susan E. Kirtley, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, John ...

Subversive Spirits

By Robin Roberts
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of ...

Graphic Novels as Philosophy

Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel “Mandel” Cabrera Jr. , David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Jeff McLaughlin, Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera, Corry Shores, and Jarkko Tuusvuori ...

Conversations with William T. Vollmann

Edited by Daniel Lukes
Categories: Popular Culture
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann’s oeuvre—which includes a “prostitution trilogy,” a septology (Seven Dreams) about encounters between first North Americans ...

Professional Wrestling

By Sharon Mazer
Categories: Popular Culture

Professional wrestling is one of the most popular performance practices in the United States and around the world, drawing millions of spectators to live events and televised broadcasts. The displays ...

The Comics of Alison Bechdel

Edited by Janine Utell
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta Howard, ...

Truth and Consequences

By Mike Miley
Categories: Literature

Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show’s reputation has remained both remarkably ...

The Supervillain Reader

Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee & Robert G. Weiner
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Jerold J. Abrams, José Alaniz, John Carey, Maurice Charney, Peter Coogan, Joe Cruz, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Stefan Danter, Adam Davidson-Harden, Randy Duncan, Stephen Graham Jones, ...