The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales
The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-02-27

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 144294255X

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The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales: The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales comprises of two novels and two short stories. In this mesmerizing collection, the author bases his ideas on scientific facts and creates an extra-ordinary world of fantasy

Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature
Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature

Author: Richard Pine

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1527517837

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This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. Designed for classroom use by students of literature and film (and their teachers), it offers case studies in quest literature, detective fiction, the status of the outlaw and outsider, and the interdependence of self, other and the uncanny. It challenges perceived notions of, and prejudices against, popular literature, and affirms its connection with the deepest human experiences.

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

Author: Maurizio Ascari

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0230234534

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This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.

Dark City
Dark City

Author: Eddie Muller

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 076249896X

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This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark Cityexpands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.

The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest

Author: David Roberts

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0393241890

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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.