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  • The Outer Limits The Outer Limits
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    The Outer Limits

    In this TV Milestone, author Joanne Morreale highlights the differences of The Outer Limits (ABC 1963-65) from typical programs on the air in the 1960s. Morreale argues that the show provides insight into changes in the television industry as writers...
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    Scorpion Tales

    The monologues in this volume are designed to be performed in intimate venues and classrooms.All but one (Mary) are completely self contained and require minimum staging. They are adaptable to any environment and can be performed anywhere. That is the...
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  • Landis Landis
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    Landis

    At the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bill Landis. While other magazines were concerned with behind-the-scenes information, tributes, and SFX tutorials, Landis' Sleazoid Express was one part film...
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  • Memoirs of an Artist Memoirs of an Artist
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    Memoirs of an Artist

    "Billy Selesnick tells all (well, almost all) in Memoirs of an Artist, the meandering story of his life. While outlining his artistic growth, his druggie lifestyle, and sexual peccadillos, Selesnick doesn't shy away from talking about his old pal Chuck...
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  • Lost (and Found) in Space 2 Lost (and Found) in Space 2
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    Lost (and Found) in Space 2

    LOST (AND FOUND) IN SPACE2: BLAST OFF INTO THE EXPANDED EDITION - Revised and Expanded Pictorial Memoir by Angela Cartwright and Bill Mumy (TV siblings Penny and Will Robinson from the original Lost in Space science fiction adventure series). The new...
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    Bruce Lee Special Collectors Extended Edition Vol 2 No 5

    Bruce Lee Special Collectors Extended Edition Vol 2 No 5This latest issue dives deep into the world of Bruceploitation, exploring the phenomenon sparked by Bruce Lee's legacy and the many imitators he inspired. From Bruce Lee himself to the countless...
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  • Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War
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    Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War

    George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO's Game of Thrones series depict a medieval world at war. But how accurate are they? The author, an historian and medieval martial arts expert, examines in detail how authentically Martin's...
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  • Film Noir Fate Vs The Working Stiff Film Noir Fate Vs The Working Stiff
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    Film Noir Fate Vs The Working Stiff

    In his film noir second volume, Bernie Dowling reviews films about ordinary jobs in a greedy crime-ridden society. Fate Vs The Working Stiff explores an ignored noir sub-genre in five pictorial essays and hundreds of photos.The 2023 extended Hollywood...
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  • Breaking Up In Balwyn Breaking Up In Balwyn
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    Breaking Up In Balwyn

    The world's first play set and performed on a Yarra riverboat. The audience are invited as the very best friends of  divorcee Samantha Hart Byrne. They arrive on the boat to help her celebrate her recent separation from husband Michael. The...
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  • Generation Zombie Generation Zombie
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    Generation Zombie

    Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity today, zombies are epidemic. Their presence is pervasive, whether they are found in video games, street signs, hard drives, or even international politics. These eighteen original...
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  • The Empire Triumphant The Empire Triumphant
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    The Empire Triumphant

    George Lucas's first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism. Recent entries in the Star Wars saga--The Phantom Menace (1999) and Attack of the Clones (2002)--are...
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  • Lipshtick Lipshtick
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    Lipshtick

    In this hilarious series of incisive essays. NPR writer Gewn Macsai gives you some lip on chin hairs, bad boys, sagging breasts, going to the bathroom in twos, and many other rites of womanhood...
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  • Eye of the Taika Eye of the Taika
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    Eye of the Taika

    Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and...
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  • Meta Television Meta Television
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    Meta Television

    This book explores the ways in which the current metatextual turn, in both the usual genres in which it appears and its movement into drama and sitcom, represents the next turn in television's inherent self-awareness.
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  • Mike Bartlett Mike Bartlett
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    Mike Bartlett

    Offering the first extensive examination of the plays and television series written by award winning playwright Mike Bartlett, this volume provides analysis of some of Bartlett's best-known works, and includes new interviews with Bartlett and some of his...
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  • Robin Wood on the Horror Film Robin Wood on the Horror Film
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    Robin Wood on the Horror Film

    Robin Wood-one of the foremost critics of cinema-has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted...
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  • Battles on Screen Battles on Screen
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    Battles on Screen

    The Second World War was one of the defining historical events of the Twentieth Century. This global conflict was responsible for enormous trials and great heroism, and the horrors and gallantry that it inspired have formed the basis of some of the most...
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  • A European Television Fiction Renaissance A European Television Fiction Renaissance
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    A European Television Fiction Renaissance

    This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories...
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  • Kolchak Kolchak
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    Kolchak

    Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, a world-weary Chicago newspaper reporter with a cheap, seersucker suit and a penchant for uncovering monsters lurking in every corner. Kolchak first appeared on...
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  • Storming St. Kilda By Tram Storming St. Kilda By Tram
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    Storming St. Kilda By Tram

    The world’s second play set and performed on board a typical Melbourne tram as it makes its way from the St. Kilda terminus to the City and back. An audience gathers at the terminus where the tram soon arrives carrying a conductress and a sleeping...
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  • Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media
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    Reimagining History in Contemporary Spanish Media

    This book offers a new perspective via visual culture of the reimagining of history for contemporary Spanish media audiences. It gives close readings of major recent texts in a number of media (theater, cinema, television, and streaming) which have yet...
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  • Becoming Alien Becoming Alien
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    Becoming Alien

    The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that...
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  • Midnight Marquee #81 Midnight Marquee #81
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    Midnight Marquee #81

    Midnight Marquee magazine issue 81, now in it's 59th year of publication includes THE RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE: Bela Lugosi's Finest Hour as an Undead Count by Barry Atkinson; THE BLACK ROOM:  Boris Karloff as Victim and Villain by Nathalie...
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  • Television's Outlander Television's Outlander
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    Television's Outlander

    Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish...
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  • Serial Killers in Contemporary Television Serial Killers in Contemporary Television
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    Serial Killers in Contemporary Television

    This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical and existential themes presented to viewers and their...
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  • Fantasy Media in the Classroom Fantasy Media in the Classroom
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    Fantasy Media in the Classroom

    A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the classroom have abandoned the classics, yet in a variety of contexts--high school, college freshman composition, senior seminars, literature, computer science,...
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  • The Secret Life of Ealing Studios The Secret Life of Ealing Studios
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    The Secret Life of Ealing Studios

    "This lively, funny, moving history of a movie studio and the people who made it feels uncannily like ... an Ealing comedy." Martin ScorseseA behind-the-scenes account of life at Ealing Studios - one of the great cinematic success stories of post-war...
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  • Are You in the House Alone? Are You in the House Alone?
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    Are You in the House Alone?

    Beginning in the 1960s through its heyday in the 1970s and beyond, the telefilm stands as an important cultural artefact masquerading as disposable entertainment. Made specifically for the small screen, within the tight constraints of broadcasting...
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  • Lost in the Dark Lost in the Dark
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    Lost in the Dark

    Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400...
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  • Horror and Philosophy Horror and Philosophy
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    Horror and Philosophy

    Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as...
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  • The Golden Age of Crap The Golden Age of Crap
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    The Golden Age of Crap

    Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during...
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  • Independent Filmmaking in South East Asia Independent Filmmaking in South East Asia
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    Independent Filmmaking in South East Asia

    Featuring interviews with 27 award-winning and emerging filmmakers, this book is the first comprehensive look at independent filmmaking careers in South East Asia with never-before published insights into the lives and careers of some of the most...
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  • A Change of Location A Change of Location
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    A Change of Location

    Hannah Ballard's most successful relationship: her career.     Her superpower is an uncanny ability to discover perfect movie settings while avoiding the limelight herself. Promoted from location scout to location manager,...
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  • The Big Book of Classic Monster Movies The Big Book of Classic Monster Movies
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    The Big Book of Classic Monster Movies

    Ever since the early days of cinema, starting with the 1910 FRANKENSTEIN, monsters have been the stuff that movies are made of. This guidebook includes all of Universal's "Classic Monster" movies from DRACULA (1931) to ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY...
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  • Riddles, Brain Teasers, and Trick Questions for Kids Riddles, Brain Teasers, and Trick Questions for Kids
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    Riddles, Brain Teasers, and Trick Questions for Kids

    If you want to have a good time no matter your age, then keep reading.This kids’ book is a collection of more than 300 brain teasing riddles, trick questions and puzzles for kids. Their purpose is to make children think and stretch their minds...
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  • Knock Knock Jokes Hilarious Jokes For Kids Knock Knock Jokes Hilarious Jokes For Kids
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    Knock Knock Jokes Hilarious Jokes For Kids

    If you want to have a good time no matter your age, then keep reading.A smile can make you feel good, but laughter takes that feeling deep down inside impacting both your emotional and physical health. Kids can benefit from a boost of laughter too. Funny...
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  • Zombies in Western Culture Zombies in Western Culture
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    Zombies in Western Culture

    Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of...
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  • Bruce Lee ETD Scrapbook sequences Vol 11 Hardback Edition Bruce Lee ETD Scrapbook sequences Vol 11 Hardback Edition
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    Bruce Lee ETD Scrapbook sequences Vol 11 Hardback Edition

    Eastern Heroes presents the Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon Scrapbook Volumes 11 Collector's Hardback Edition! Immerse yourself in the world of this iconic film through over 80 pages of captivating images, delving deep into the essence of Enter the Dragon...
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  • Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11 Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11
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    Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11

    The laws of man end at Baron Sardonicus' gate.When lights burn inside,    the castle façade looks like a skull.Wolfbane and hemlock grow in the garden.Why is Sardonicus masked?The peasants do not know.They only know that within the...
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  • The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book (hardback) The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book (hardback)
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    The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book (hardback)

    For eleven seasons, M*A*S*H put audiences through everything from laughter to tears and all points in between. The groundbreaking series blazed a trail and provided a distinctive mark on television history through the eyes of the staff of a small Mobile...
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  • The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book
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    The M*A*S*H Trivia Quiz Book

    For eleven seasons, M*A*S*H put audiences through everything from laughter to tears and all points in between. The groundbreaking series blazed a trail and provided a distinctive mark on television history through the eyes of the staff of a small Mobile...
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  • Corporate Wrongdoing on Film Corporate Wrongdoing on Film
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    Corporate Wrongdoing on Film

    Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The 'Public Be Damned' provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations. The book provides a history of corporate...
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  • A Tribute to The Golden Girls A Tribute to The Golden Girls
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    A Tribute to The Golden Girls

    Can't get enough of The Golden Girls? It's been 38 years since the show first aired and became an instant cult classic. Viewers quickly became enamored with the extraordinary cast of female characters. A Tribute to The Golden Girls: From Sharing...
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