Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Praeger Publisher
Keywords: american, culture, film, fiction, americas, science, alternate
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0275983951
ISBN-13: 9780275983956

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 genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history of science fiction film also serves as a cultural history of America over the past half century. M. Keith Booker has selected fifteen of the most successful and innovative science fiction films of all time, and examined each of them at length-from cultural, technical and cinematic perspectives-to see

Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: encyclopedia, achebe, chinua
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0325070636
ISBN-13: 9780325070636

Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life and writings. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries. Some of these are substantive summary discussions of Achebe’s major works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Entries are written by expert contributors and close with brief bibliographies. The volume also provides a general bibliography and chronology.

Author: Keith Booker
Publisher: Veloce Publishing
Keywords: buyer, guide, essential, coupe, romeo, giulia, alfa
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-06-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1904788696
ISBN-13: 9781904788690

Keith Booker. A small investment in this book could save you a fortune. With the aid of this book’s step-by-step expert guidance, you’ll discover all the information you need to know about the Alfa Romeo Giulia GT Coupe you want to buy. Unique point system will help you to place the car’s value in relation to condition. This is an important investment—don’t buy a car without this book’s help.

Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: television, collection, praeger, science, fiction
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-07-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0275981649
ISBN-13: 9780275981648

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 series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows. In this chronological survey, author M. Keith Booker examines this phenomenon and provides in-depth studies of the most important of these series. Science Fiction Television traces the development of the genre as a distinct cultural phenomenon within the context of broader develop

Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: modern, fiction, power, knowledge, domination, sex, literature
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1993-04-20
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0813011957
ISBN-13: 9780813011950

Employing the theoretical resources provided by cultural critics such as Adorno, Jameson, Althusser, and Foucault, M. Keith Booker examines the treatment of issues of power and domination in modern literature. Discussing texts such as Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Thomas Pynchon’s V., and Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, Booker focuses on gender relations as a locus of struggles for power in human relations generally. He also pays special attention to the work of Samuel Beckett, reading the novels Watt and The Lost Ones

Author: Keith M. Booker
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: criticism, theory, literary, introduction, practical
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1995-12-17
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0801317657
ISBN-13: 9780801317651

A uniquely accessible guide to a difficult subject, A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism introduces students to the major trends in contemporary literary theory. Offering the breadth of information of a handbook and the examples of an anthology, it provides an invaluable alternative to the standard collections and shows students how literary theory really unfolds.

Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: writing, volume, revolution, censorship, literature, politics, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313329400
ISBN-13: 9780313329401