A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks Specific wars and military campaignsThe first comparative historical study of the six Disneyland theme parks around the world in five distinct cultures: the USA, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Sets the parks in the historic contexts at their opening, discusses cross and trans cultural understandings of the parks and the part that class plays. A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access: A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks. It has been made
which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds
A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products
the chapters in Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo provide fresh readings of both well-known and lesser-known crime authors
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and rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fit rigid thematic categories
Long offers a unique history of twentieth-century Hollywood narrative cinema
this volume specifically examines the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between sacred and urban spaces
some important misunderstandings of his analytical work
New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the writings of three of its key exponents: Sarah Grand
‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels
A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy
