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  • The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time

    by Christopher J. Olson, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard ...
    Reaching back to the beginnings of television, The Greatest Cult Television Shows offers readers a fun and accessible look at the 100 most significant cult television series of all time, compiled in a single resource that includes valuable information on the shows and their creators.While they generally lack mainstream appeal, cult television shows develop devout followings over time and exert ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Possessed Women, Haunted States

    Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema

    by Christopher J. Olson, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard ...
    Since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, there has been a surge of movies depicting young women becoming possessed by a demonic force that only male religious figures can exorcise, thereby saving the women from eventual damnation. This book considers this history of exorcism cinema by analyzing how the traditional exorcism narrative, established in The Exorcist, recurs across the exorcism ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Frederick Sparling

    A True Story

    by Christopher Olson ...
    The main character was a smart, intelligent, enterprising man who travelled the world finding adventure in the age of the industrial revolution. This is the story of his exploits, his family and also his father who was the prototype of the immigrant seeking the American Dream. Together, they cover the Civil War, the KKK, the politics in our capital, but mostly the pioneer struggle in the Pacific ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Cinema

    Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship

    Edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson ...
    There are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching how film spectators make sense of film texts, from the film text itself, the psychological traits and sociocultural group memberships of the viewer, or even the location and surroundings of the viewer. However, we can only understand the agency of film spectators in situations of film spectatorship by studying actual ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media

    Quieting the Madness

    Edited by Malynnda Johnson, Christopher J. Olson ...
    This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done. With studies that identify and analyze the characters, viewpoints, and experiences of mental illness across film and television, it considers the messages conveyed about mental illness and reflects on how the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • International Public Financial Management Reform

    Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges

    Edited by James Guthrie, Christopher Humphrey, Lawrence R. Jones, Olov Olson ...
    Series series Research in Public Management
    This book is intended to give readers detailed information and perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices in a variety of national settings around the world. The chapters explore the reform agenda in each nation and factors that stimulated change. Each chapter addresses the extent of the influence of "New Public Management" concepts and practices on reform implementation. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Convergent Wrestling

    Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle

    Edited by CarrieLynn Reinhard, Christopher Olson ...
    Series series The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
    This book examines how the current era of "convergence" has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance. Professional wrestling’s business practices exist at the intersection of bottom-up fan-centric strategies and strict top-down corporate control. Meanwhile, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Televisual Shared Universes

    Expanded and Converged Storyworlds on the Small Screen

    by Vincent Tran, Clare Ford, Jason Ford, Lisa Horton, Chris McGunnigle, Melina Meimaridis, Aaron Propes, Peter Soulen, Princess O'Nika Auguste, Erin K. Burrell0, Christopher A. Medjesky1, Christopher J. Olson2, Raymond I. Schuck3, David Beard4, Peter Cullen Bryan5, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard6, Mareike Spychala8 ...
    This book of empirical studies analyzes examples of televisual shared universes since the 1960s to understand how the nature of televised serial narratives and network corporate policies have long created shared storyworlds. While there has been much discussion about shared cinematic universes and comic book universes, the concept has had limited exploration in other media, such as those seen on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Film and Faith

    Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe

    by Carson Holloway, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Kirstin Carlson, J. Columcille Dever, Jennifer Frey, David McPherson, R. Michael Olson, Christopher Tollefsen, Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew J. Franck0, Francis J. Beckwith1, Micah Watson2 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion’s continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and artistically important modern films. They offer a scholarly ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Frankenstein's Monster and Scientific Methods

    Illustrated by Carlos Aón ...
    by Christopher L. Harbo, Joanne Olson ...
    Series series Monster Science
    Learning the steps of the scientific method doesn’t have to be scary. Join Frankenstein’s monster as he uncovers the importance of forming a hypothesis, conducting experiments, and communicating results. You’ll give your knowledge of scientific investigation a boost with a monster dose of humor. ... Read more

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    The Heart of Happy Hollow (Unabridged)

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    by Paul Laurence DUNBAR ...
    Narrated by Ivan Warren, Linda Madrid, Mary Olson, Christopher Cox ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 56 min

    Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, the porter, and the waiter are the society men of the town; wherever the picnic and the excursion are the chief summer diversion, and the revival the winter time of repentance, wherever the cheese cloth veil obtains at a wedding, and the little white hearse ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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