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All six books in Michael R. Stern's 'Quantum Touch', a series of time travel science fiction novels, now in one volume! Storm Portal: When history teacher Fritz Russell walks through his classroom door, he doesn't expect to meet General Robert E. Lee on the day after the surrender at Appomattox. A lover of history, Fritz finds his sudden time trip to the past both a gift and a chance for great adventure. But when a portal opens to the Oval Office, he realizes that this mysterious gate could also be put to serious purpose. Fritz does not believe there is any danger in traveling across time and space, but will his own government consider him expendable if he cannot solve the mystery of the por...
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Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression-era photographs, the bulk of scholarship treats them as isolated art objects. And yet they were often joined together with evocative writing in a genre that flourished amid the period, the documentary book. American Modernism and Depression Documentary looks at the tradition of the hybrid, verbal-vi...
This is a provocative collection of essays that provide cutting edge, original research in film studies, discussing a number of 'transgressive' films that have never before had such in-depth analysis and treatment. From '70s Italian horror films and extreme European cinema to Nazi propaganda films and fundamentalist Christian 'scare' movies, these essays explore many different genres and themes.
Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture. These franchises have launched avenues for fans to expand and influence the stories that they tell. This book examines those fan-driven narratives as "wilderness texts," in which fans use their platforms to create for themselves while also communicating their visions to the franchises, thus spurring innovation. The essays in this collection look at how fans intervene in the production of mass media. Scholars analyze the negotiations between fan desires for both novelty and familiarity that franchises must maintain in order to achieve critical and commercial success. Applying varying theoretical approaches to discussions of fan responses to franchises, including Star Wars, Marvel, Godzilla, Firefly, The Terminator, Star Trek, DC, and The Muppets, these essays provide insight into the ever-changing relationships between fandom and transmedia storytelling.
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Books 4-6 in Michael R. Stern's 'Quantum Touch', a series of time travel science fiction novels, now in one volume! Storm Unleashed: In a world on the brink of chaos, a North Korean missile launch and a devastating naval base attack raise questions of a new menace. As the president seeks peace in the Middle East, a plot to shatter any hope for resolution gains momentum. Enter Fritz, a traveler through space and time, who must navigate the dangers of his portal to confront the conspirators and save humanity. With the White House under siege and a trail of suspicious deaths, Fritz's life is once again disrupted. Can he harness the power of the portal to stop the enemy, or will the cost be too ...
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-cen...