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Mickey Rourke
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 9.99Mickey Rourke: Wrestling With Demons is an intimate and revealing portrait of a complex man who happens to be one of the most intriguing actors of our time. Written with passion, insight and expertise by respected entertainment journalist Sandro Monetti, this is the compelling story of how Mickey Rourke wrestled his demons and won. Diner, Rumble Fish,... more...
Staging and Performing Translation
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 85.00This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices. more...
Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00Works of fiction offer complex and layered social realities that can be deconstructed and creatively theorized through the analytic languages of criminology and sociology. Frauley argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis and argues for a "craft-enterprise" approach to theoretic practice. In developing... more...
Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power. more...
Arthurian Literature XXVI
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 99.00The Arthurian material collected in this volume ranges widely in time and space, from a Latin romance based on Welsh sources to the post-Christian Arthur of modern fiction and film. It begins with a tribute to the late Derek Brewer, a reprinting of the cl more...
When Last on the Mountain
Holy Cow! Press 2010; US$ 9.99Sometimes humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching, this gathering of new work by writers over fifty is always honest. more...
Life Is Not a Stage
Center Street 2011; US$ 9.99For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television. Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco... more...
The Fairy Tale and Anime
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00Over the last few decades, anime has consistently come into fruitful contact with themes, images and symbols associated with the fairy tale tradition. This critical text focuses on the ways in which fundamental principles of the fairy tale tradition are deployed, and hence come to manifest themselves narratively and cinematographically, in anime. Topics... more...
Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00Throughout 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 Adventures nature documentaries and such depictions of cutting-edge technology as Man in Space and Our Friend the Atom, to wartime propaganda shorts (Education... more...
Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 133.00The etymological affinity between ?criticism? and ?crisis? has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises. But what is the role of literary... more...









