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Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film
ISBN: 9780313241024 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the... This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western ar... |
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382,94 zł |
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A Dune Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert's Original Six Novels
ISBN: 9781476669601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels provides an encyclopaedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the series' underrated aesthetic integrity. An extensive introduction covers themes of ecology, chaos theory, concepts and structures, and Joseph Campbell's monomyth in Herbert's narrative.
This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels provides an encyclopaedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlight...
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219,82 zł |
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The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films: 28 Visions of the Hero's Journey
ISBN: 9780786479115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume analyzes the use of Joseph Campbell's monomyth in twenty-six films and two SciFi Channel miniseries released and aired in the fifty year period between 1960 and 2009. In addition to serving as the underlying plot structure in the initial Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) - these films include The Time Machine (1960), Logan's Run (1976), Time After Time (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Tron (1982), Dreamscape (1984), The Last Starfighter (1984),...
This volume analyzes the use of Joseph Campbell's monomyth in twenty-six films and two SciFi Channel miniseries released and aired in the fifty year p...
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189,01 zł |
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Chaos Theory, Asimov's Foundations and Robots, and Herbert's Dune: The Fractal Aesthetic of Epic Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780313311895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert remain two of the most popular and influential science fiction writers of the 20th century. Each is a master structuralist whose works succeed in large part through the careful mirroring of concepts at every narrative level. While the fiction of Herbert and Asimov has attracted scholarly attention, science itself is a crucial element that is almost completely ignored in critical assessments of science fiction as literature. Because the works of Asimov and Herbert are grounded in scientific premises, an appreciation of their literary structure depends on an... Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert remain two of the most popular and influential science fiction writers of the 20th century. Each is a master structu... |
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585,85 zł |
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The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World
ISBN: 9781476675947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,02 zł |
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Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now
ISBN: 9781476677897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,02 zł |
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Star Wars in the Public Square: The Clone Wars as Political Dialogue
ISBN: 9780786477647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture and public discourse. As a pop culture text, the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars offers critical commentary on contemporary issues, marking a moment of interplay whereby author and audience come together in what Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin called collaborative meaning making. This book critically examines the series as a voice in the political dialogues concerning human cloning, torture, just war theory, peace and drone warfare.
Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture and public discours...
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189,01 zł |
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English Magic and Imperial Madness: The Anti-Colonial Politics of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
ISBN: 9781476686271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,02 zł |
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Heinlein's Juvenile Novels: A Cultural Dictionary
ISBN: 9780786444632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Robert A. Heinlein was one of the most revered science fiction writers in America during the twentieth century. He published his early, juvenile science fiction novels between 1947 and 1958, just as America was emerging from World War II and entering the space age. This comprehensive work explores Heinlein's juvenile novels, providing pertinent definitions and explanations to aid the reader.
Robert A. Heinlein was one of the most revered science fiction writers in America during the twentieth century. He published his early, juvenile scien...
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189,01 zł |
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The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Exploring Their Parallel Worlds
ISBN: 9781476665436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What are the greatest, most widely read, most influential, most translated and most adapted children's classics? Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio are candidates, and through them this book explores what it means to be transnational fantasy icons.
What are the greatest, most widely read, most influential, most translated and most adapted children's classics? Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in...
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341,83 zł |
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An Asimov Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries
ISBN: 9780786498239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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189,01 zł |
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Caitlin R. Kiernan: A Critical Study of Her Dark Fiction
ISBN: 9781476680897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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189,01 zł |
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The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction: Stepchildren of Voltaire
ISBN: 9780786458578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following the Second World War, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Anticipation was an imprint of Fleuve Noir, specializing in science fiction. This critical text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint. Anticipation eschewed English-translation science fiction, preferring instead French work and thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French post-war ideas and aesthetics. Careful analysis reveals the way these writers criticized mid-century notions of...
Following the Second World War, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Antici...
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341,83 zł |
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Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy
ISBN: 9781476687131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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311,02 zł |
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Wells Meets Deleuze: The Scientific Romances Reconsidered
ISBN: 9781476668352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions of the present and the possible future, and modern science fiction continues to be indebted to his "scientific romances," such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Interpreted and adapted for more than a century, Wells's texts have resisted easy categorization and are perennial subjects for emerging critical and theoretical perspectives. The author examines Wells's works through the post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Via this critical...
The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions of the present and the possible future, and modern scien...
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250,02 zł |
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In Frankenstein's Wake: Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781476677804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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341,83 zł |
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Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain
ISBN: 9781476663074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is an iconic figure for millions of fans but Moorcock has also been a pioneer in science fiction and historical fiction. He was hailed as the central figure of the "New Wave" in science fiction, and has won numerous awards for his fantasy and SF, as well as his "mainstream" writing.
This first full-length critical look at Moorcock's career, from the early 1960s to the present, explores the author's fictional multiverse: his fantasy tales of...
Prolific, popular and critically acclaimed, Michael Moorcock is the most important British fantasy author of his generation. His Elric of Melnibone is...
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189,01 zł |
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Science Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas
ISBN: 9780786498567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how we speak and how we think. This book fully covers the terms that collected, clarified and crystallized the futurists' ideas, sometimes showing them off, sometimes slowing them down, and sometimes propelling them to fame and making them the common currency of our culture. The many entries in this...
Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book...
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219,82 zł |
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Saving the World Through Science Fiction: James Gunn, Writer, Teacher and Scholar
ISBN: 9781476663098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibrant and engaging areas of literary scholarship. His genre history Alternate Worlds and his The Road to Science Fiction anthologies introduced countless readers to science fiction. He founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction in 1982. But Gunn has also been one of the genre's leading writers. His classic novels Star Bridge (with Jack Williamson), The Joy Makers, The Immortals and The Listeners helped...
One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibrant an...
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189,01 zł |
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Discovering Dune: Essays on Frank Herbert's Epic Saga
ISBN: 9781476682013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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311,02 zł |
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