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Legend-Tripping Online

By Michael Kinsella
Categories: Folklore

On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers ...

Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian

Edited by Anthony Slide
Foreword by Atom Egoyan
Categories: Film Studies

"Ravished Armenia" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian ...

Wide Awake in Slumberland

Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit ...

The Origins of Comics

By Thierry Smolderen
Translated by Bart Beaty & Nick Nguyen
Categories: Comics Studies

In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic ...

Komiks

By José Alaniz
Categories: Comics Studies

José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiks—an art form much-maligned as “bourgeois” mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR—with an emphasis ...

Garden of Dreams

The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921-1985), one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the "oldest discovery" in Hollywood. After ...

The Crime Films of Anthony Mann

By Max Alvarez
Categories: Film Studies

Anthony Mann (1906–1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe ...

Quentin Tarantino

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, ...

Mama Rose's Turn

By Carolyn Quinn
Categories: Film Studies

Hers is the show business saga you think you already know--but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage ...

Africa in the American Imagination

By Carol Magee
Categories: Popular Culture

In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African ...