Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women by Nancy A. Walker This analytical survey of contemporary fiction is a study ...

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in ...

The Depression brought unprecedented changes for American workers and organized labor. As the economy plummeted, employers cut wages and laid off workers ...

2020 Blues Hall of Fame Classic of Blues Literature Jimi Hendrix called Earl Hooker 'the master of the wah-wah pedal.' Buddy Guy slept with one of Hooker's ...

Folk Music and Modern Sound Essays by Amiri Baraka, Doris J. Dyen, Dena J. Epstein, David Evans, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Anthony Heilbut, William Ivey, ...

Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke's career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. ...

James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia by Edgar MacDonald In his prime Vanity Fair nominated James Branch Cabell for "Immortality" on its pages ...

< In outstanding films that are sharply focused on unusual women Jane Campion has gained worldwide admiration and respect. This New Zealand director first ...

This collection of interviews captures the conversation of one of the most prominent prose writers in the Unites States. About her the Chicago Sun-Times ...

A study of pop culture's representation of a continent's visual traditions In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied ...