Author: Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: detective, novel, dime
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1982-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0879722134
ISBN-13: 9780879722135

Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: index, annotated, roundup, novel, dime
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 1983-06-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0879722282
ISBN-13: 9780879722289

Author: Brian J. Frost
Publisher: Popular Press 3
Keywords: pat, browne, book, ray, literature, guide, werewolf, essential
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0879728604
ISBN-13: 9780879728601

In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction. Frost’s analysis encompasses fanciful medieval beliefs, popular works by Victorian authors, scholarly treatises and medical papers, and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1

Author: A. R. Riverol
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: pageant, spite, television, america, miss, atlantic, city, live
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0879725583
ISBN-13: 9780879725587

"A great American institution"; "the bane of feminist ideology"; "a cornucopia of corn"; "the world’s largest source of scholarship for women"--whatever the descriptor, few are neutral about the Miss America Pageant. Live from Atlantic City traces the pageant’s history from its birth as pseudoevent in 1920 through its emergence as American popular culture icon. Although millions watch the pageant on television each year, Live from Atlantic City proposes that it is more than just a television show. Long before, after, and, some might argue, in spite of, television coverage, "a carni

Author: Leverett T. Smith Jr.
Publisher: Popular Press 3
Keywords: game, national, dream, american
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1975-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0879728671
ISBN-13: 9780879728670

This engaging study examines sports as both a symbol of American culture and a formative force that shapes American values. Leverett T. Smith Jr. uses high culture, in the form of literature and criticism, to analyze the popular culture of baseball and professional football. He explores the history of baseball through three important events: the fixing of the 1919 World Series, the appointment of Judge Landis as commissioner of baseball with dictatorial powers, and the emergence of Babe Ruth as the "new" kind of ball player. He also looks at literary works dealing with leisure and sports, incl

Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: study, critical, carr, dickson, john
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1990-06-15
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0879724773
ISBN-13: 9780879724771

John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr’s entire work and pays particular attention to this author’s three best-known detectives: Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, and Sir Henry Merrivale.

Author: William Froug
Publisher: Popular Press 3
Keywords: ray, pat, browne, book, producer, writer, gilligan, island, misadventures, hollywood, escaped
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0879728736
ISBN-13: 9780879728731

In the early 1950s writers were leaving radio en masse to try their hand at another promising medium—television. William Froug was in the thick of that exodus, a young man full of ideas in a Hollywood bursting with opportunities. In his forty-year career Froug would write and/or produce many of the shows that America has grown up with. From the drama of Playhouse 90 and the mind-bending premises of The Twilight Zone to the escapist scenarios of Adventures in Paradise, Gilligan’s Island, Bewitched, and Charlie’s Angels, Froug played a role in shaping his trade. He crossed paths with some