This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world's most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson (winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize).

Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man

Comics & Graphic Novels

Robert G. Weiner

Robert Moses Peaslee

Manga

McFarland

<i>The Storyteller Speaks: Rare &amp; Different Fictions of the Grateful Dead</i> is a collection of literary short stories inspired by the Grateful Dead. Authors include Robert Hunter, Ed McClanahan, Vincent Louis Carella, Stephan Graham Jones, Mitch Myers, and many others.

The Storyteller Speaks: Rare & Different Fictions of the Grateful Dead

Literature & Fiction

Gary McKinney

Short Stories & Anthologies

Kearney Street Books

<p>'James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough' provides the most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. The 40 original essays provide new insights, scholarship, and understanding to the world of James Bond. Topics include the Bond girl, Bond related video games, Ian Fleming's relationship with the notorious Aleister Crowley and CIA director Alan Dulles. Other articles include Fleming as a character in modern fiction, Bond Jr. comics, the post Fleming novels of James Gardner and Raymond Benson, Bond as an American Superhero, and studies on the music, dance, fashion, and architecture in Bond films. Woody Allen and Peter Sellers as James Bond, are also considered as is Japanese imitation films from the 1960s, the Britishness of Bond, comparisons of Bond to Christian ideals, movie posters and much more. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have contributed a unique collection of perspectives on the world of James Bond and its history. Despite the diversity of viewpoints, the unifying factor is the James Bond mythos. 'James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough' is a much needed contribution to Bond studies and shows how this cultural icon has changed the world.</p>

James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films Are Not Enough

Humor & Entertainment

B. Lynn Whitfield and Jack Becker

Movies

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough provides the most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. The 40 original essays provide new insights, scholarship, and understanding to the world of James Bond. Topics include the Bond girl, Bond related video games, Ian Fleming s relationship with the notorious Aleister Crowley and CIA director Alan Dulles. Other articles include Fleming as a character in modern fiction, Bond Jr. comics, the post Fleming novels of John Gardner and Raymond Benson, Bond as an American Superhero, and studies on the music, dance, fashion, and architecture in Bond films. Woody Allen and Peter Sellers as James Bond are also considered, as are Japanese imitation films from the 1960s, the Britishness of Bond, comparisons of Bond to Christian ideals, movie posters and much more. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have contributed a unique collection of perspectives on the world of James Bond and its history. Despite the diversity of viewpoints, the unifying factor is the James Bond mythos. James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough is a much needed contribution to Bond studies and shows how this cultural icon has changed the world.

James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough, Second Edition

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