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  • Never-Ending Watchmen

    Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels and Remixes

    by Will Brooker ...
    What began with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark graphic novel, Watchmen (1987) is no longer a single story, but rather a cross-platform, multi-media franchise, including a role-playing game and video game, a motion comic, a Zack Snyder movie, and a series of comic book prequels and sequels, as well as a prestige HBO TV series.Will Brooker explores the way that Watchmen expanded over time ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Batman Unmasked

    Analyzing a Cultural Icon

    by Will Brooker ...
    Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This acclaimed book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman's meaning by shining a light on the cultural ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Why Bowie Matters

    by Will Brooker ...
    A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always matter.When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the whole world was united in mourning. His greatest hits were sung tearfully in pubs up and down ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Star Wars

    by Will Brooker ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing film in the United States, and George Lucas's six-part narrative has grown into something more: a culture that goes far beyond the films themselves, with tie-in toys, novels, comics, games and DVDs as well as an enthusiastic fan community which creates ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan

    by Will Brooker, Warren Buckland, Dr. Gregory Frame, Lara Herring, Stella Hockenhull, Stuart Joy, Miriam Kent, Peter Krämer, Isabelle Labrouillère, Ben Lamb0, Todd McGowan1, Gilles Menegaldo2, Kimberly A. Owczarski3, Bernadette Pace4, Claire Parkinson5, Fran Pheasant-Kelly7 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Why Bowie Matters

    by Will Brooker ...
    Narrated by Ciaran Saward ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always matter.When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the whole world was united in mourning. His greatest hits were sung tearfully in pubs up and down ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Many More Lives of the Batman

    Edited by Roberta Pearson, William Uricchio, Will Brooker ...
    The Many Lives of the Batman (1991) was a pioneer within cultural and comic book scholarship. This fresh new sequel retains the best of the original chapters but also includes images, new chapters and new contributions from the Batman writers and editors. Spanning 75 years and multiple incarnations, this is the definitive history of Batman. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Blade Runner Experience

    The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic

    Edited by Will Brooker ...
    Since its release in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, has remained a cult classic through its depiction of a futuristic Los Angeles; its complex, enigmatic plot; and its underlying questions about the nature of human identity. The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic examines the film in a broad ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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    I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying

    Essays

    by Bassey Ikpi ...
    Narrated by Bassey Ikpi ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 12 min

    2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/CollectionsIn I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Delizia!

    The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food

    by John Dickie ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 3 min

    Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian food is city food.Delizia! is much more than a history of Italian food. It is a history of Italy told ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Woman on the Edge

    by Samantha M. Bailey ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA moment on the subway platform changes two women’s lives forever—a debut thriller that will take your breath away.A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.”She places her child in your arms. She says your name.Then she jumps…In a split second, Morgan Kincaid’s life changes forever. She’s on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tenant

    by Katrine Engberg ...
    An electrifying work of suspense from internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg—heralded as a “stunning debut” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs—follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge.When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment with an intricate pattern of lines ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook