Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood

The 60s produced a Baby Boom…

Henry Jenkins’ pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This title…

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now

For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable-you…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

Title: Sailing Directions for the Fiords, Ports and Anchorages of Iceland. To which is added brief instructions for the harbours, lights, tides and weather in the Faero e Islands. Compiled…

On February 11, 1972, Wanda arrived home at 11:30 p.m. She was the charge nurse at a local nursing home. What she did not know was by 3:00 a.m. February…

Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children’s video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used…

Applies the recent “return to history’ in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.