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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures

This book examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates how folk monsters form across different art and media traditions, and interrogates the 21C revitalization of folk as both a cultural formation and aesthetic mode.

1. Vernon Shetley

Dark Film, Blood Money

A thought-provoking interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking, from the 1970s to the 2020s, through the lens of the economic, encompassing issues of trust, professionalism, race, artistic influence, and the relation between business and family. 14 b&w; illus.

1. Burt Kearns

SHEMP!

The definitive biography of Shemp Howard, an original member of the Three Stooges that Library Journal calls "a complete portrait of a talented character actor," Kirkus Reviews calls an "illuminating… reworking of the Stooges mythology" and Patton Oswalt praises as "the only book you will ever need to read about anything.... [T]here is ONLY SHEMP!"

1. Desirina Boskovich

Lost Transmissions

“Boskovich sets the tone with a conversational style that enwraps solid scholarship…the collection will broaden your horizons and turn you on to wonders bubbling under the mass-market commodified pleasures to which we all too often limit ourselves.”