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  • Chick Lit

    The New Woman's Fiction

    Edited by Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young ...
    From the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the Citythat captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Chick Flicks

    Contemporary Women at the Movies

    Edited by Suzanne Ferriss, Mallory Young ...
    From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, "chick flicks" have long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. Like other forms of "chick culture," which the editors define as a group of mostly American and British popular culture media forms focused primarily on twenty- to thirtysomething, middle-class—and frequently college-educated—women, chick flicks ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

    Edited by Mallory Young, Julie Chappell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of “bad girls”—women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them—in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Perhaps not surprisingly, the initial introduction of women into Western cultural narrative coincides with the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Black Cat Weekly #138

    by Eve Fisher, Hal Charles, Michael Mallory, Tony Rothman, Robert F. Young, Evelyn E. Smith, Damon Knight, Arthur B. Reeve, Bryce Walton, Al Reynolds ...
    This issue, we have original mysteries from Eve Fisher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Tony Rothman, and Michael Mallory (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), plus a classic novel from Arthur B. Reeve (one of his Craig Kennedy scientific detective series). And, of course, we have a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the science fiction side, we 6 tales instead of ... Read more

    $4.07 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

    by Carina Chocano ...
    N ational B ook C ritics C ircle A ward Winner . "With dazzling clarity, [Chocano's] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens."— O, The Oprah MagazineAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rape-Revenge Films

    A Critical Study, 2d ed.

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Killing Off the Lesbians

    A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television

    by Janice G. Dodd, Irene Fubara-Manuel, Liz Millward ...
    So, the film or television lesbian character dies. It seems to happen frequently. But does it really? If so, is it something new? Surveying the fates of numerous characters over decades, this study shows that killing off the lesbian is not a new trend. It is a form of symbolic annihilation and it has had an impact in real life.When more women are working behind the scenes, what appears on-screen ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers

    Redefining Feminism on Screen

    by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn ...
    Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and "Girl Power" a familiar anthem, girls have assumed new visibility in the culture. Yet in asserting their new power, young women have redefined femininity in ways that have often mystified their mothers. They have also largely disavowed feminism, even though their new influence is a likely legacy of feminism's Second Wave. At the same ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    by Maria Tatar ...
    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman.The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Fourth Time Travel MEGAPACK®

    by Fritz Leiber, R. A. Lafferty, Keith Laumer, Ron Goulart, Avram Davidson ...
    Time travel remains a favorite subgenre in science fiction, and we are pleased to present another volume of classic tales. From pulp adventure to literary gems, here are stories that range from the ancient past to the far future...20 in all, by masters of their craft!Included are:TIME IN THE ROUND, by Fritz LeiberTRANSFER POINT, by Anthony BoucherGUEST IN THE HOUSE, by Frank Belknap LongA STONE ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

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  • The First Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK®

    6 Great Science Fiction Novels

    by John Gregory Betancourt, Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Mack Reynolds, Laurence Janifer, Jay Franklin ...
    Here are 6 modern and classic science fiction novels we hope you will enjoy:Wolfbane, by Frederik Pohl and C.M. KornbluthSlave Planet, by Laurence JaniferPreferred Risk, by Frederik Pohl and Lester del ReyThe Rat Race, by Jay FranklinChampagne Caesar, by Jay FranklinRememory, by John Gregory BetancourtIf you like this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press ... Read more

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