Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time th
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Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur
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This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideolog
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In essays analyzing the photography of luminaries such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Susan Meiselas, pionee
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The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,0
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This tightly focused collection of essays by a distinguished group of scholars analyses the degree to which expressions
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In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folk
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Reconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory Reveals new directions for the study
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Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has
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This study brings the songs of the trouvères to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sex
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