Comparative literature

This volume examines the ways in which the media, including film, television, social media, and gaming, has constructed and sustained a narrative of white supremacy that has entered mainstream American discourse.

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions.

Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude.

"e;The Queer Politics of Television"e; is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies.

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction.

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This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.

Wolframs von Eschenbach Willehalm zählt zu den meistdiskutierten Dichtungen des deutschen Hochmittelalters.

Investigates the function and meaning of sadness in German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and culture from the 18th century to the present.

Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical "e;turn"e; known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.

From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures.

Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet).

This book examines what it means to live in an epidemiological reality, exploring the worldbuilding properties of epidemiology through the lens of critical theory, literary analysis, and visual culture.

Focusing on Netflix's child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix's "e;Family Watch Together TV"e; tag.

Does the CNN Effect exist?

The study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genre of comedy television as it relates to music.

Honorable Mention - American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) 2018-2019 Book PrizeHaving exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness.

This innovative text bridges media theory, psychology, and interpersonal communication by describing how our relationships with media emulate the relationships we develop with friends and romantic partners through their ability to replicate intimacy, regularity, and reciprocity.

Factual Television (1966) looks at the techniques and purpose of all facets of factual television - news and current affairs programmes; documentaries; reporting stories; the ethics of reporters and producers.

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With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type.

Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel.

This timely collection of accessible essays interrogate queer television at the start of the twenty- first century.

This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts.

As readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters' almost complete absence from Shakespeare's plays.

Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities undertaken by the Libraries Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

This book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other.

Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media and fiction), this book analyses fan-authored works as forms of literature worthy of studying at length.

Spanning a decade of key research, this collection brings together a selection of essays and chapters from leading media scholar Graeme Turner for the first time.

Ein Sinn, der verborgen oder enthüllt werden kann, ist eine der zentralen Denkfiguren der Neuzeit.

This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children's literature translation studies by applying the concept of transcreation, established in the creative industries of the globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative, transgressional and creative aspects of rewriting for children and young audiences.

This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space.

Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of national identity.

This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family.

Channel 4 had been a matter of controversy for years even before it came on the air in November 1982.

Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field.

In den wilden Steppen und den heiligen Klöstern der Ukraine entstand eine Literatur, die ihresgleichen sucht.

Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities undertaken by the Libraries Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound.

This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media.

In the age of "e;complex Tv"e;, of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance of a fictional world and other mediatized discourse over a long arc of time.

This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises.

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers.