Edited by Randy Laist
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4716-9
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8588-8
notes, bibliographies, index
260pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price: $38.00
About the Book
Lost has received widespread acclaim as one of the most innovative, intelligent, and influential dramatic series in television history. Central to Lost’s success has been its capacity to evoke audience interpretations of its mysteries, undiminished even with the series’ definitive conclusion.
This collection of fifteen essays by critics, academics, and philosophers examines the complete series from a diverse but interconnected array of perspectives. Complementary and occasionally conflicting interpretations of the show’s major themes are presented, including the role of time, fate and determinism, masculinity, parenthood, and the threat of environmental apocalypse.
Table of Contents
Introduction
RANDY LAIST 1
PART ONE: LOST IN TIME
“We Have to Go Back”: Temporal and Spatial Narrative Strategies
ERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS 11
Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of Time
MICHAEL RENNETT 25
“Enslaved by Time and Space”: Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global Interconnectedness
ARIS MOUSOUTZANIS 43
New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The Tempest
RYAN HOWE 59
PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHY
Lost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing Philosophy
JASON M. PECK 75
Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault
GIANCARLO LOMBARDI 90
“So This Is All in My Mind?” Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary Crusoe
MATTHEW PANGBORN 105
Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of “Non-Western” Imagery
RENEE MCGARRY 120
PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMEN
The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found
DAVID MAGILL 137
“It Always Ends the Same”: Paternal Failures
HOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK 154
Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Potential
DEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN 171
PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Lost in Capitalism: or, “Down Here Possession’s Nine-Tenths”
ELIZABETH LUNDBERG 189
“Strangers in a Strange Land”: Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human Choice
CARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS 202
Securitizing the Island: The Other Others’ Defense of Environmental Management
J. L. SCHATZ 216
We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11
JESSE KAVADLO 230
About the Contributors 243
Index 247
About the Author
Randy Laist is an assistant professor of English at Goodwin College in Connecticut. He has published numerous articles on DeLillo, Mailer, Melville and Hawthorne, as well as on popular culture, new media, and pedagogy.
Edited by Alissa Burger
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6148-6
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8575-8
notes, bibliographies, index
202pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price: $40.00
About the Book
Pushing Daisies was a unique network television show. This collection of 10 essays addresses the quirky, off-beat elements that made the show a popular success, as well as fodder for scholarly inquiry. Divided into three main sections, the essays address the themes of difference, the placement of the series within a larger philosophical context, and the role of gender on the show. A consideration of Pushing Daisies’ unique style and aesthetics is a consistent source of interest across these international and interdisciplinary scholarly critiques.
Table of Contents
Introduction
ALISSA BURGER 1
Part One: Television, Difference, and Pushing Daisies
1. Spectacular Collision/Collusion: Genre, “Quality,” and Contemporary Drama
LORNA JOWETT 11
2. Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through Isolation
MATT DAUPHIN 28
3. Often Invisible: Disability in Pushing Daisies
CHRISTINE GARBETT 43
Part Two: Philosophy and Pushing Daisies
4. Consuming Grief and Eating Pie
LAURA ANH WILLIAMS 57
5. “Neophobic Ned Needs Neoteny”: Neuroses and Child’s Play
ANN-GEE LEE 73
6. “Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun. He Was Bad, Now He’s Done”: On Justice and Schadenfreude
CHRISTINE ANGELA KNOOP 92
7. “It’s a Destiny Thing—Enjoy It!”: Free Will and Determinism in Bryan Fuller’s Series
PATRICK GILL 115
Part Three: Gender and Pushing Daisies
8. The Queer, Quirky World of Pushing Daisies
DANIEL FARR 137
9. Sweet Talk in The Pie Hole: Language, Intimacy, and Public Space
TARA K. PARMITER 155
10. Fashion, Femininity, and the 1950s: Costume and Identity Negotiation in Pushing Daisies
ALISSA BURGER 174
About the Contributors 193
Index 195
About the Author
Alissa Burger is an assistant professor of English and the humanities at the State University of New York, Delhi. Her research addresses literature and popular culture, with specific focus on multiple versions of the Wizard of Oz story and American identity.
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Sherwood Schwartz
Forewords by Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6368-8
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8488-1
100 photos, appendices, index
342pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011 [1988]
Price: $19.99
About the Book
While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater obstacles than Gilligan’s Island. In spite of that, no series has achieved greater success, as measured by the fact that Gilligan’s Island has given rise to three TV movies, two animated series, and is the most rerun program in the entire history of television.
Now, Sherwood Schwartz, creator, writer, and producer of Gilligan’s Island, tells the life story of the show: from the labor pains of scripting, casting, and production to its golden years of afternoon reruns. Fascinating history that could be known only by the show’s creator is enhanced by wonderful photos, sketches, and other illustrations from the author’s personal collection, as well as the guest forewords by all seven "Castaways." An appendix lists plots, writers and directors for every episode. All this behind-the-scenes information makes the book a special treat, not only for fans, but for anyone interested in an inside look at the television industry.
About the Author
Sherwood Schwartz lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Bruce K. Hanson
Foreword by Stewart Stern
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4778-7
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8619-9
352 photos (14 in color), discography, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
417pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $45.00
About the Book
Recounting the more than century-long stage and screen history of J.M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan, Bruce K. Hanson updates and expands his 1993 volume on "The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up." Hanson traces the origin of Barrie’s tale through the first London production in 1904, to various British and American theatrical and film productions up to and including the stage versions of 2010.
Included are excerpts of interviews with actresses Dinah Sheridan, Mary Martin and Sandy Duncan, all of whom portrayed Peter Pan on stage, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyricists for the 1954 Broadway musical. The book features a wealth of rare photos, posters, programs and costume designs. An appendix lists virtually every actor who has performed a featured role in a London, Broadway or Hollywood production of Peter Pan from 1904 to the present.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword by Stewart Stern 1
Introduction 5
1. James Barrie: The Man Who Wouldn’t Grow Up 9
2. Nina Boucicault and the First Peter Pan 24
3. Maude Adams: Peter Pan Lands in America 52
4. Cecilia Loftus and the Mermaids 74
5. Vivian Martin and the Unknown Peter Pans 82
6. Pauline Chase and an Afterthought 86
7. Marilyn Miller: The Ziegfeld Treatment 106
8. Betty Bronson: The Silent Treatment 125
9. Jean Forbes-Robertson and Other English Lasses 143
10. Eva Le Gallienne: The Civic Repertory Theatre 166
11. Jean Arthur: A Touch of Bernstein 182
Between pages 200 and 201 are 12 color plates containing 14 photographs
12. The Disney Touch 201
13. Mary Martin: A Musical Peter Pan 210
14. Margaret Lockwood and Toots: A Family Affair 257
15. Mia Farrow and Another Musical 280
16. Sandy Duncan: Back on Broadway 285
17. Cathy Rigby: Peter Pan—A Record Breaker 294
18. A Change of Gender: Peter Pan as a Real Boy 303
Afterword: The Lasting Appeal of Peter Pan 325
Appendix A: A Selected Discography 329
About the Author
A theatre instructor and a National Board Certified teacher of Visual Arts, Bruce K. Hanson has written books, plays, articles and CD liner notes. He lives in Petersburg, Virginia.
Edited by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba
Forewords by Kevin Murphy and Robert Moses Peaslee; Afterword by Mary Jo Pehl
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4532-5
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8572-7
14 photos, notes, bibliographies, index
277pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $40.00
About the Book
The award-winning television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988-1999) has been described as "the smartest, funniest show in America," and forever changed the way we watch movies. The series featured a human host and a pair of robotic puppets who, while being subjected to some of the worst films ever made, provided ongoing hilarious and insightful commentary in a style popularly known as "riffing." These essays represent the first full-length scholarly analysis of Mystery Science Theater 3000--MST3K--which blossomed from humble beginnings as a Minnesota public-access television show into a cultural phenomenon on two major cable networks. The book includes interviews with series creator Joel Hodgson and cast members Kevin Murphy and Trace Beaulieu.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword: Riffing and You (and Riffing ) by Kevin Murphy 1
Foreword by Robert Moses Peaslee 3
Introduction by Robert G. Weiner and Shelley E. Barba 7
PART ONE: DIRECTORS
1. There’s Been an Accident at the Studio: How We Made Hobgoblins! 18
RICK SLOANE
2. “Remember: Only you can prevent Roger Corman”: The King of the Bs Under Siege 29
CYNTHIA J. MILLER
PART TWO: SPECIFIC FILMS
3. Communists and Cosmonauts in Mystery Science Theater 3000: De-Camping East Germany’s First Spaceship on Venus/Silent Star 40
SEBASTIAN HEIDUSCHKE
4. The Semiotics of Spaceflight on the Satellite of Love 46
MATTHEW H. HERSCH
5. Resurrecting the Dead: Revival of Forgotten Films through Appropriation 55
CHERYL HICKS
PART THREE: FANDOM
6. Becoming “The Right People”: Fan-Generated Knowledge Building 66
KRIS M. MARKMAN and JOHN OVERHOLT
7. Converging Fan Cultures and the Labors of Fandom 76
MEGAN CONDIS
8. “Consume excrement and thus expire”: Conflict Resolution, “Fantagonism,” and alt.tv.mst3k 88
JEREMY GROSKOPF
9. Cinemasochism: Bad Movies and the People Who Love Them 101
DAVID RAY CARTER
PART FOUR: MEDIA TEXTS, AUDIENCES, AND THE CULTURE OF RIFFING
10. Double Poaching and the Subversive Operations of Riffing: “You kids with your hoola hoops and your Rosenbergs and your Communist agendas” 110
ORA MCWILLIAMS and JOSHUA RICHARDSON
11. Frame Work, Resistance and Co-optation: How Mystery Science Theater 3000 Positions Us Both In and Against Hegemonic Culture 120
MICHAEL DEAN
12. “Not too different from you or me”: The Paradox of Fiction, Joint Attention, and Longevity 127
MICHAEL DAVID ELAM
13. Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Media-Centered Exploration 135
ZACHARY GRIMM
14. Authorship and Text Remediation in Mystery Science Theater 3000 140
KALEB HAVENS
PART FIVE: MENTAL HYGIENE: THE MST3K SHORTS
15. “People were whiter back then”: Film Placement and In-Theater Commentary as Sociopolitical Dialogue 146
ERIN GIANNINI
16. The Endearing Educational Shorts 155
AMANDA R. KEELER
17. Writing History with Riffs: The Historiography of the “Shorts” 164
MIRANDA TEDHOLM
PART SIX: SATIRE AND GENDER
18. Robot Roll Call: Gypsy! (Hi Girls!) 172
MICHELE BRITTANY
19. What’s the Difference? Satire and Separation in That “Little Puppet Show” 178
ALANA HATLEY
PART SEVEN: TECHNOLOGY AND EPISODE COLLECTING
20. The Design and Speculative Technology of MST3K: Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu at MIT 184
JASON BEGY and GENEROSO FIERRO
21. “Cambot Eye”: The Synthesis of Man, Machine and Spectatorship 197
DANIELLE REAY
22. MSTies and Mastery: Circulating the Tapes in a Digital Age 209
JOSEPH S. WALKER
PART EIGHT: HISTORY AND PRE-HISTORY
23. “Hamlet will return in Thunderball”: Historical Precedents of Riffing 220
MARK MCDERMOTT
24. From Techno-Isolation to Social Reconciliation 231
E. MITCHELL
25. Fishing with Cheese on a Blood Hook: MST3K’s Unlikely Origins on a Lake in the Woods of Wisconsin 242
ROBERT G. WEINER
Afterword by Mary Jo Pehl 253
About the Contributors 255
Index 259
About the Author
Robert G. Weiner is associate humanities librarian at Texas Tech University. His works have been published in the Journal of Popular Culture, Public Library Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, International Journal of Comic Art and Popular Music and Society. He lives in Lubbock, Texas. Shelley E. Barba has written for Texas Library Journal. She is a metadata librarian at Texas Tech University.
C.W. Sullivan III Series Editor Donald E. Palumbo
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4463-2
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8717-2
appendices, bibliography
192pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price: $40.00
About the Book
Robert A. Heinlein’s early, juvenile science fiction novels appeared between 1947 and 1963, just as America was emerging from World War II and entering the space age, and are among his richest and most warmly remembered books. This comprehensive work defines the many names, terms and cultural references that appear in Heinlein’s juvenile novels, noting where they are found, explaining their sources and tracking their occurrences throughout the series. Of particular interest is the way in which Heinlein used science fiction to parallel the exploration of outer space with the settlement of the North American continent. Appendices provide a precis of the plot of each book, and speculate on some of the names and terms for which no specific reference could be found.
Table of Contents
Heinlein’s Juvenile Novels 1
Preface 3
Introduction 7
THE DICTIONARY 13
Appendix I: Plots of Heinlein’s Juvenile Novels 169
Appendix II: Some Speculations About Terms and Names Not Found 174
Works Cited 181
About the Author
C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies
Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He lives in Greenville.
William H. Roberson
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6361-9
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8710-3
chronology, bibliographies, index
218pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $40.00
About the Book
Walter M. Miller, Jr., was one of the twentieth century’s leading science fiction writers, a two-time Hugo Award winner and author of the classic novels A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. This comprehensive literary guide provides more than 1,500 alphabetically arranged entries on Miller’s life and body of work. It includes summaries of his two novels and all of his shorter works, character descriptions, explanations of the literary, cultural, historical, and religious allusions found in the works, as well as translations of all foreign words and phrases. This guide is meant to inform both scholarly and popular readings of Miller’s work.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface 1
Chronology 3
The Reference Guide 5
Works by Walter M. Miller, Jr. 193
Works About Walter M. Miller, Jr. 195
General Bibliography 198
Index 201
About the Author
William H. Roberson is professor and head librarian at the Brentwood Campus of Long Island University. He is the author of a number of books and his articles have appeared in Critique, Great Lakes Review, RQ, and Bulletin of Bibliography.
Matthew R. Bradley
Foreword by Richard Matheson
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4216-4
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-5638-3
64 photos, bibliography, index
315pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2010
Price: $45.00
About the Book
Though innumerable biographies have been written about novelists, playwrights, and poets, screenwriters are rarely granted this distinction, even ones as prolific and successful as Richard Matheson. He has occupied a unique position in cinema as the writer or original author of films from The Incredible Shrinking Man in 1957 through I Am Legend in 2007. This book documents his rise to prominence, parallel literary career, and role in the horror and science fiction renaissance. In chronological order, the exhaustively indexed narrative examines each film written by Matheson or based on his work, with sections devoted to episodic television (including The Twilight Zone) and unproduced projects.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword by Richard Matheson 1
Introduction 3
THE FILMS
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) 9
The Beat Generation (1959) 17
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) 21
Other Episodic Television 49
House of Usher (1960) 78
Master of the World (1961) 85
Pit and the Pendulum (1961) 89
Night of the Eagle (1962) 94
Tales of Terror (1962) 101
The Raven (1963) 107
The Comedy of Terrors (1963) 112
The Last Man on Earth (1964) 117
Fanatic (1965) 123
The Young Warriors (1968) 127
The Devil Rides Out (1968) 130
“It’s Alive!” (1969) 137
De Sade (1969) 141
Cold Sweat (1970) 146
The Omega Man (1971) 149
Duel (1971) 155
The Night Stalker (1972) 162
The Night Strangler (1973) 169
The Legend of Hell House (1973) 177
Dying Room Only (1973) 185
Dracula (1974) 186
Scream of the Wolf (1974) 192
The Morning After (1974) 194
Icy Breasts (1974) 197
The Stranger Within (1974) 199
Trilogy of Terror (1975) 201
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (1977) 207
Dead of Night (1977) 209
The Martian Chronicles (1980) 212
Somewhere in Time (1980) 219
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) 228
Twilight Zone—The Movie (1983) 231
Jaws 3-D (1983) 239
Loose Cannons (1990) 242
The Dreamer of Oz (1990) 245
Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics (1994) 248
Trilogy of Terror II (1996) 249
What Dreams May Come (1998) 252
Stir of Echoes (1999) 257
Blood Son (2006) 262
My Ambition (2006) 262
I Am Legend (2007) 265
Other Unproduced Projects 269
Bibliography 273
Index 281
About the Author
Matthew R. Bradley is a widely published authority on the work of Richard Matheson. He has written articles, interviews, and reviews for Filmfax, Fangoria, Mystery Scene, VideoScope, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Cinema Retro. The creator of the Internet film-related blog Bradley On Film, he lives in Bethel, Connecticut.
Phyllis M. Betz
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-5885-1
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8614-4
appendix, notes, bibliography, index
211pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011
Price: $40.00
About the Book
Science fiction has long been a haven for lesbian writers, allowing them to use the genre to discuss their marginalized status. This critical work examines how lesbian authors have used the structures and conventions of science fiction to embody characters, relationships and other themes that relate to their experience as the quintessential Other in the broader culture. Topics include lesbian gothic, fantasy, science fiction, mixed genre texts and historical background for the works discussed. A vital addition to the scholarship on homosexuality and culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface 1
Introduction: Reading Lesbians Reading Fantasy 5
1. Once Upon a Time: Historical Backgrounds and Contexts 27
2. Here Be Monsters: Lesbian Gothic 70
3. In a Kingdom Far Away: Lesbian Fantasy 102
4. Beyond the Known Galaxy: Lesbian Science Fiction 132
5. Blurring the Lines: Mixed Genre 158
Conclusion: Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On 172
Appendix: Why Would a Lesbian Writer Use Gay Characters Rather Than Lesbian Ones? 179
Notes 189
Works Cited 195
Index 201
About the Author
Phyllis M. Betz is an assistant professor of English at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has written three books examining genre fiction written by lesbians. She lives in Burlington, New Jersey.
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