Ed Sikov, New York, New York, is author of seven books about films and filmmakers, including Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers; Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis; Screwball: Hollywood's ...

2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Winner: Memoir (Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy) and Finalist: Regional Non-Fiction

“James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such ...

In this book Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established ...

Sara Le Menestrel, Paris, France, is a cultural anthropologist and a research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Her research interests include the anthropology of music and ...

James Nolan is a widely published fiction writer, poet, essayist, and translator. His eleven books include the recent You Don't Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers ...

Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume shows, many national cultures have created or reimagined the idea of the superhero, while the realm of ...

Chong Chon-Smith is associate professor of English at Hunter College in New York City. He has published articles in the Journal of Cultural Research, Journal of Black Studies, Asians in America Project ...

In Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics, author Anthony Slide looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, ...

Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. ...

Jessica M. Parr, Exeter, New Hampshire, is a historian specializing in race and religion in the early modern British Atlantic world. She currently teaches at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. ...