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  • The Simpsons

    by John Alberti ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Television's most influential animated family and the series that changed comedy forever.There are few families more iconic than Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson. For more than three decades, The Simpsons has transformed situational comedy and animation for television through its satirical and dark humor, attention to contemporary cultural issues, and ability to adapt to shifting media ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

    Gender as Genre

    by John Alberti ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Killing

    by John Alberti ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Examines a landmark television series in its feminist rewriting of the noir police procedural.Although it lasted only four seasons and just forty-four episodes, The Killing attracted considerable critical notice and sparked an equally lively debate about its distinctive style and innovative approach to the television staple of the police procedural. A product of the turn toward revisionist ... Read more

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  • Popular Culture

    The Basics

    by John Alberti ...
    Series series The Basics
    A fast-paced and lively introduction to the most significant approaches to studying and analyzing popular culture.Opening with an introduction exploring the challenges of defining just what we mean by "popular culture," this book specifically examines the evolution of popular culture studies and the debates over popular culture from the early twentieth century until the advent of digital culture ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Transforming Harry

    The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age

    Edited by John Alberti, P. Andrew Miller ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapting the Harry Potter novels to films and media.Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Concerning the Angels

    by Rafael Alberti ...
    Translated by John Murillo ...
    In his first full-length translation, celebrated poet John Murillo (Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Four Quartets Prize) brings Rafael Alberti’s Concerning the Angels (Sobre los ángeles) to an English-reading audience. Murillo’s foreword introduces Sobre los ángeles as “a monument—albeit a severely neglected monument—of early twentieth-century literature.” Despite having “penned a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Transforming Harry

    The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, the first book in the bestselling series. In the novel, we are introduced to the Boy Who Lived and the wizarding world, which is inhabited by a range of ... Read more

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  • Love Poems

    by Pablo Neruda ...
    Translated by Donald D. Walsh ...
    Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

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  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    by Patrick Keating ...
    Series series 21st Century Film Essentials
    This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemporary cinematic trends, including serial storytelling, the rise of the fantasy genre, digital filmmaking, and collaborative authorship. With craft, wonder, and wit, the film captures the most engaging ... Read more

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  • Learn Spanish Today - Phrasebook For Beginners

    by Esteban Tarrio ...
    Our phrasebook for beginners will introduce you some of the basic phrases for use on your trip.Wifi access when abroad is problematic so rely on your ebook instead!Contents:IntroductionPronunciation— Vowels— Semi-vowels— Consonants— Nasals— Diphthongs— ExceptionsPhrase list— Basics— Problems— Numbers— Time— Days— Colors— Transportation— Money— Eating... ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter

    Edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman ...
    This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a wider range of intellectual traditions to explore the texts, including moral-theological analysis, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD