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M. Keith Booker is professor of English and director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has written or edited more than 40 books on literature and popular culture. His books include Drawn to Television: Prime-Time Animated Series from The Flintstones to Family Guy (2006) and Historical Dictionary of American Cinema (2011). Bob Batchelor is a cultural historian who has written or edited more than 25 books on popular culture, modern American literature, and mass communications. Among his books are John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013) and Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).




24 Ebooks by M. Keith Booker

M. Keith Booker: Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature
The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature is a useful reference to the broad and burgeoning field of science fiction literature. Science fiction literature has gained immensely in …
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€124.09
M. Keith Booker & Isra Daraiseh: Tony Soprano’s America
Widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is also considered one of the most significant achievements in contemporary American culture. IThe series …
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€44.72
M. Keith Booker & Anne-Marie Thomas: The Science Fiction Handbook
The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world’s most fascinating genres. * Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres …
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€88.99
M. Keith Booker: Star Trek
First airing in 1966, with a promise to ‘;boldly go where no man has gone before, ‘ Star Trek would eventually become a bona fide phenomenon. Week after week, viewers of the series tuned in to watch …
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€19.98
M. Keith Booker: Coen Brothers’ America
For more than three decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have produced some of the most unique and thought-provoking works in modern cinema. In broad comedies such as Raising Arizona, violent thrillers like …
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€37.57
Booker M. Keith Booker: Alternate Americas
For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the …
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€56.14
Booker M. Keith Booker: Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism
The work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, can be fully understood only when the colonial and postcolonial context of Joyce’s Ireland is taken into account. Reading Joyce as a postcolonial writer …
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€82.90
Booker M. Keith Booker: Science Fiction Television
Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current …
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€45.07
Booker M. Keith Booker: Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia
Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe’s major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more.Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and …
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€84.38
Booker M. Keith Booker: Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War
The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s–the period from 1946 to …
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€78.75
Booker M. Keith Booker: Post-Utopian Imagination
In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in …
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€78.81
Booker M. Keith Booker: Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels
The most comprehensive reference ever compiled about the rich and enduring genre of comic books and graphic novels, from their emergence in the 1930s to their late-century breakout into the …
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€180.27
Booker M. Keith Booker: Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children’s Films
This work is a wide-ranging survey of American children’s film that provides detailed analysis of the political implications of these films, as well as a discussion of how movies intended for …
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€48.34
Booker M. Keith Booker: Blue-Collar Pop Culture
From television, film, and music to sports, comics, and everyday life, this book provides a comprehensive view of working-class culture in America.The terms "blue collar" and "working …
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€113.09
Booker M. Keith Booker: Comics through Time
Focusing especially on American comic books and graphic novels from the 1930s to the present, this massive four-volume work provides a colorful yet authoritative source on the entire history of the …
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€366.21
Booker M. Keith Booker: Literature and Politics Today
Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national …
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€84.60
Prof. M. Keith Booker & Prof. Isra Daraiseh: Consumerist Orientalism
In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab popular culture is …
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€35.94
M. Keith Booker: Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema
In the years since Georges Melies’s Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) was released in 1902, more than 1000 science fiction films have been made by filmmakers around the world. The …
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€127.84
M. Keith Booker: Historical Dictionary of American Cinema
One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of …
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€239.33
Simon Bacon: Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and …
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€43.88
James Joyce: Dubliners (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Often considered the greatest collection of short stories in the English language, Dubliners is the vivid portrayal of the people of ‘dear dirty Dublin’ at the beginning …

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€2.99
Simon Bacon: Future Folk Horror
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€43.87
Booker M. Keith Booker: Blue-Collar Pop Culture
From television, film, and music to sports, comics, and everyday life, this book provides a comprehensive view of working-class culture in America.The terms "blue collar" and "working …
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€112.74
Booker M. Keith Booker: Comics through Time
Focusing especially on American comic books and graphic novels from the 1930s to the present, this massive four-volume work provides a colorful yet authoritative source on the entire history of the …
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€365.95