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The Humor of the Old South by M. Thomas Inge
Booksplease Price: £40.77The humor of the Old South -- tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters -- flourished between 1830 and 1860. The... -
Comics as Culture by M. Thomas Inge 9780878054084
Booksplease Price: £28.57Comics and cartoons are ingrained in American life.One critic has called comic books ""crude, unimaginative, banal, vulgar, ultimately corrupting."" They have been regarded with considerable... -
Will Eisner: Conversations by M. Thomas Inge 9781617031267
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so... -
Will Eisner: Conversations by M. Thomas Inge 9781617031274
Booksplease Price: £24.63Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so... -
Truman Capote: Conversations by M. Thomas Inge 9780878052752
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Truman Capote once said, ""The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk ...,"" and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book. The topics are often gossip... -
Conversations with William Faulkner by M. Thomas Inge 9781578061365
Booksplease Price: £24.63When a writer passes through the wall of oblivion, he will even then stop long enough to write something on the wall, like 'Kilroy was here.'"" William Faulkner was not keen on giving interviews... -
Charles M. Schulz: Conversations by M. Thomas Inge 9781578063055
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578063055Author M. Thomas IngeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Roundhouse Publishing... -
Handbook of American Popular Literature by M. Thomas Inge 9780313254055
Booksplease Price: £66.89[The] essays are generally very well done, providing excellent and succinct overviews of such areas as Westerns, detective novels, comic books, and writing for children and young adults. Library... -
Concise Histories of American Popular Culture by M Thomas Inge 9780313233029
Booksplease Price: £29.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Each [essay] is a cogent history of some facet of U.S. popular culture, written by an academically affiliated specialist... -
Huck Finn among the Critics: A Centennial Selection by M. Thomas Inge 9780313270864
Booksplease Price: £37.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313270864Author M. Thomas IngeFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint Praeger Publishers... -
Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' by M. Thomas Inge 9781617030345
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Eco's novel is examined in... -
Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington by M. Thomas Inge 9781604733778
Booksplease Price: £29.86It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist.Yet largely because he chose to live as an expatriate far from the American mainstream,... -
The Dixie Limited: Writers on William Faulkner and His Influence by M. Thomas Inge 9781496803382
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.69Flannery O'Connor once noted, ""The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on... -
Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form by M. Thomas Inge 9780878058471
Booksplease Price: £11.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Comics by Coulton Waugh 9780878054992
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78This trailblazing survey of an art form preferred by the masses was the pioneer study of the subject. It shows the evolution and subgenres of the comics from The Yellow Kid in 1895 through the first... -
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 9780199540587
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British... -
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study of the Development of Culture in the South by 9780820334806
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £35.28Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) was a lawyer, judge, state senator, newspaper editor, minister, political propagandist, and college president. He was also a writer who published one of... -
Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods Matthew J. Smith 9780415885553
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £52.02Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for... -
Reading Susan Sontag: A Critical Introduction to Her Work by Carl Rollyson 9781566633918
Booksplease Price: £21.84Reading Susan Sontag is the first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. Carl Rollyson, Ms. Sontag's first biographer, is uniquely situated to... -
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television: Animation and the American Joke by Silas Kaine Ezell
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a... -
Comic Art in Museums by Kim A. Munson 9781496828118
Booksplease Price: £94.23Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug... -
Comic Art in Museums by Kim A. Munson 9781496828071
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug... -
Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction Randy Duncan 9780415730082
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.50This book provides student journalists, artists, designers, creative writers and web producers with the tools and techniques they need to tell nonfiction stories visually and graphically. Weaving... -
Going My Way - Bing Crosby and American Culture by Ruth Prigozy 9781580462617
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £38.10Bing Crosby's innovations as recording artist, actor, businessman, and radio and television performer. A multidisciplinary exploration, plus personal testimony from family members and colleagues. ... -
The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life by Jared Gardner 9781496818478
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68With contributions by: Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders,... -
Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Gretchen Martin 9781496804150
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and... -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts by Blake Scott Ball
Booksplease Price: £30.11Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through... -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts Associate Professor of History Blake Scott Ball 9780197836439
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.32Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through...