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Edgartown by A Bowdoin Van Riper 9781540233424
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540233424Author A Bowdoin Van RiperFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library... -
Edgartown by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9781467128636
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128636Author A. Bowdoin Van RiperFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia... -
Men among the Mammoths by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9780226849911
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.99A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of... -
Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9780801887925
Booksplease Price: €27.57Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time,... -
Teaching History with Science Fiction Films by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9781442278486
Booksplease Price: €49.72Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the... -
Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9780313318221
Booksplease Price: €79.60Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can... -
Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9780313327957
Booksplease Price: €61.53Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance destruction. At the same time,... -
Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory by A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9780226849928
Booksplease Price: €38.44A. Bowdoin Van Riper provides an account of how Victorian scientists raised and resolved the question of human antiquity. During the early part of the 19th century, scientists divided the history of... -
Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films A. Bowdoin Van Riper 9780786459575
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31Throughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them. These productions range from the True-Life... -
Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield by Cynthia J. Miller 9781442251113
Booksplease Price: €102.85Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life. Supernatural tales of war told in print, on screen, and... -
Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors by Cynthia J. Miller 9781498588577
Booksplease Price: €44.99Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger... -
Elder Horror: Essays on Film's Frightening Images of Aging Cynthia J. Miller 9781476675374
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €34.55As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elderly characters are portrayed as... -
Horror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema Cynthia J. Miller 9781476679679
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31Home, 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 home is central to... -
Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier by Cynthia J. Miller 9780810885448
Booksplease Price: €102.33In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the many tropes... -
Divine Horror: Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical Cynthia J. Miller 9781476669922
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98From 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 provide sanctuary,... -
The Laughing Dead: The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland by Cynthia J. Miller 9781442268326
Booksplease Price: €114.59Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully to... -
Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained by Lee Broughton 9781442272422
Booksplease Price: €107.85For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways to reinvigorate the genre. As Westerns continue... -
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Stefan Rabitsch 9781496836625
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic... -
Journeys into Terror: Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror by Cynthia J. Miller 9781476684352
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €36.91Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown,... -
Terrifying Texts: Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema Cynthia J. Miller 9781476671307
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98From 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 Necronomicon... -
International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier by Cynthia J. Miller 9780810892873
Booksplease Price: €139.72The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired... -
Undead in the West II: They Just Keep Coming by Cynthia J. Miller 9780810892644
Booksplease Price: €109.11The undead are back! In Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper assembled a collection of essays that explored... -
Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by Stefan Rabitsch 9781496836632
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic... -
The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color by Douglas Brode 9781498566902
Booksplease Price: €49.72Whether 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 Nation (1915) to... -
The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space by Michelle L. Evans 9780803228405
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.96With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling... -
Elvis's Army: Cold War GIS and the Atomic Battlefield by Brian McAllister Linn
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €36.22When the U.S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI. Trading in his gold-trimmed jacket for... -
Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernard
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.33Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an...