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A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bandsーKISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starzーlaid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and gr……続きを見る

Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tunin……続きを見る

LOST RIDERS OF THE HOLLYWOOD SAGE . . . Fans of Western movies have heard of (and likely seen) the key genre classics: Shane, High Noon, The Searchers, Stagecoach, Red River, Tombstone, and Unforgiv……続きを見る

Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this p……続きを見る

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored i……続きを見る

In his latest iconoclastic work, Douglas Brodeーthe only academic author/scholar who dares to defend Disney entertainmentーargues that "Uncle Walt's" output of films, television shows, theme parks, ……続きを見る

While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still voci……続きを見る

With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become s……続きを見る