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Come on Highlanders!

Glasgow Territorials in the Great War

By: Alec Weir

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Come on Highlanders!

Glasgow Territorials in the Great War

By: Alec Weir

Formed in 1868, and already possessors of a proud history by the outbreak of the First World War, the men of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, were right at the heart of the cataclysmic events that unfolded between 1914 and 1918 on the Western Front. One of the first Territorial units to be rushed to France in 1914, they participated in almost all the major British battles, including the Somme in 1916 and Ypres in 1917. Altogether, around 4,500 men served with the Glasgow Highlanders in the First World War. The composition of the Glasgow Highlanders changed dramatically over five years of fighting, as the original Territorial members were replaced. Despite this change, the ethos of the battalion, built up over half a century of peace and many months of warfare, survived. Alec Weir has steeped himself in the proud history of the Glasgow Highlanders in the First World War. His accessible, informal style, employing many first hand accounts, and his rigorous research combine here to produce a fascinating and detailed account of how ordinary men from all walks of life confronted and mastered the hellish conditions of trench warfare.

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The History Press

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0752495887

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9780752495880

Economics

By: Richard Lipsey,Alec Chrystal

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Economics

By: Richard Lipsey,Alec Chrystal

The twelfth edition of this bestselling textbook has been revised and updated to offer Economics students a comprehensive introduction to Economics and its core principles. New case studies and boxed examples, in-depth explanations and an expanded Online Resource Centre will help students to progress with their studies.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199563381

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9780199563388

Economics

By: Richard G. Lipsey,K. Alec Chrystal

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Economics

By: Richard G. Lipsey,K. Alec Chrystal

Written to engage you with real world issues and questions in economics, this book provides up-to-date coverage of the financial crisis and its many subsequent implications, which are vital to understanding today's economic climate. Case studies help you to understand how economics works in practice, and to think critically"--Back cover.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199676836

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9780199676835

In the Front Line

A Doctor's Life in War and Peace

By: Alec Glen

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In the Front Line

A Doctor's Life in War and Peace

By: Alec Glen

This memoir by a Scottish doctor who was born and went on to work in Govan was found among family papers long after his death in 1972. Less an account of the author's inner life, it is a graphic narrative, by a practitioner in the hospitals and homes of a major city, of hands-on medical care during much of the twentieth century. After training as a medical student on the wards of Glasgow hospitals, at the outbreak of the First World War the young doctor joined the army and served as a medical officer for the duration. Early on he provides a shattering account of the hopeless slaughter at Gallipoli,where he survived almost certain death many times as his companions fell around him. Only 100 men survived of his battalion of 1,000. His later service in the Middle East and Mesopotamia is an astonishing tale of courage and endurance, interwoven with spells of leave, during which the Scot encountered exotic experiences undreamed of in Govan. After the war Glen became a GP in Govan, one of the poorest areas in Britain, at a time long before the National Health Service. Preventable illnesses were often a death sentence for old and young alike. The extremes of poverty and suffering he witnessed brought home to him that he was in the front line once more, but in a different kind of warfare. The Second World War brought new challenges, and a post-war transformation when the NHS was finally came into being. Glen's shrewd commentary on the birth-pangs of the new institution provides valuable insights for the ongoing debate about this most controversial of public services.

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Birlinn

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0857906127

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9780857906120

Beyond the Blue Mountain

By: Alec McDonald

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Beyond the Blue Mountain

By: Alec McDonald

From the glaciers of Spitsbergen to the palaces of Oman, this is an unlikely journey by an unassuming Liverpool boy who spent much of his career rising, to his surprise, through MI6, when not indulging his passion for rock-climbing.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800465920

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9781800465923

Shooting 007

And Other Celluloid Adventures

By: Alec Mills,Roger Moore

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Shooting 007

And Other Celluloid Adventures

By: Alec Mills,Roger Moore

In Shooting 007, beloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his twenty years of filming cinema’s most famous secret agent. Among many humorous and touching anecdotes, Mills reveals how he became an integral part of the Bond family as a young camera operator on 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, how he bore the brunt of his old friend Roger Moore’s legendary on-set bantering, and how he rose to become the director of photography during Timothy Dalton’s tenure as 007. Mills also looks back on a career that took in Return of the Jedi on film and The Saint on television with wit and affection, and Shooting 007 contains many of his and Eon Productions’ unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs compiled over a lifetime of filmmaking. Featuring many of the film industry’s biggest names, this book will be a must-have for both the James Bond and British film history aficionado.

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The History Press

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0750957409

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9780750957403

C.O.W.L. Vol. 2: The Greater Good

By: Kyle Higgins,Alec Siegel

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C.O.W.L. Vol. 2: The Greater Good

By: Kyle Higgins,Alec Siegel

With super villain threats a problem of the past, a strike on his hands, and scandal on the horizon, Geoffrey Warner has taken drastic steps to breathe life back into the Chicago Organized Workers League. But how far will his false-flag operation reach? Is there any line he wonåt cross for ãthe greater good? Collects C.O.W.L. #7-11.

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Image Comics

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1632155958

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9781632155955

American Popular Song

The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

By: Alec Wilder

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American Popular Song

The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

By: Alec Wilder

Composer Alec Wilder's American Popular: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 is widely recognized as the definitive book on American popular song. In this volume, which achieved immediate praise and recognition upon its publication, Wilder discusses some 800 songs from the American Songbook, offering a composer's insight, acceccible music analysis, as well has his strong personal biases. Nearly fifty years later, this classic study has received a much-needed revision. While leaving Wilder's colorful prose and brazen opinions intact, language, style, and musical nomenclature have been updated to reflect current usage. The musical examples mostly remain, but piano score has been replaced with lead-sheet notation: melody, chords, and lyrics. Rhythmic notation has also been adjusted to follow present-day norms. Additionally, a final chapter has been added, which includes more than fifty songs that were not in the original, seeking to achieve greater representation for women and African American composers, as well as including several of Wilder's own songs"--

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Oxford University Press

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019093994X

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9780190939946

Space and Food in the City

Cultivating Social Justice and Urban Governance through Urban Agriculture

By: Alec Thornton

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Space and Food in the City

Cultivating Social Justice and Urban Governance through Urban Agriculture

By: Alec Thornton

Urban social movements are influential agents in shaping cityscapes to reflect values and needs of communities. Alongside urban population growth, various forms of urban agriculture activity, such as community and market gardens, are expanding, globally. This book explores citizens’ ‘rights to city’ and alternative views on urban space and the growing importance of urban food systems.

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Springer

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3319893246

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9783319893242

Transition: Phase 7 #010 & #011

By: Alec Longstreth

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Transition: Phase 7 #010 & #011

By: Alec Longstreth

For the first time, both parts of Transition are under one cover! "Transition: Part One - A Comics Artist is Formed" is the true story of how I grew up with comics, abandoned them, and then returned to them and decided to start self-publishing! "Transition: Part Two - The Best of All Possible Worlds" describes the secret origins of my minicomic PHASE 7, as well as many of the things I learned in my first 4 years of self-publishing. This book secretly contains many useful tips on how to start your own comic book, distribute it and get involved in the comics community!

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Lulu.com

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0615253598

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9780615253596

Money and Modernity

Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson

By: Alec Marsh

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Money and Modernity

Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson

By: Alec Marsh

Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticized finance capitalism and its institutions--notably banks--in the strongest terms. Providing a history of the aesthetics of Jeffersonianism and its collision with modernism in the works of Pound and Williams, Alec Marsh traces "the money question" from the republican period through the 1940s. Marsh can thus read two modernist epics--Pound's Cantos and Williams's Paterson--as the poets hoped they would be read, as attempts to break the hold of "false" financial values on the American imagination. Marsh argues that Pound's and Williams's similar Jeffersonian outlooks were the direct result of the political battles of the 1890s concerning the meaning of money. Although Pound's interest in money and economics is well known, few people are aware that both poets were active in the Social Credit monetary-reform movement of the 1930s and 1940s, a movement shown by Marsh to have direct links to Jeffersonianism via American populism. Ultimately, the two poets took divergent paths, with Pound swerving toward Italian fascism (as exemplified in his Jefferson and/or Mussolini) and Williams becoming deeply influenced by the American pragmatism of John Dewey. Thus, Marsh concludes, Pound embraced the fascist version of state-capitalism whereas his old friend proclaimed a pragmatic openness to the new selves engendered by corporate capitalism. Money and Modernity exemplifies the best of recent literary criticism in its incorporation of American studies and cultural studies approaches to bring new insight to modern masterworks.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817356959

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9780817356958

Phase 7 #001 - #004

By: Alec Longstreth

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Phase 7 #001 - #004

By: Alec Longstreth

This collection reprints the first four issues of Phase 7 in their entirety: #001 features a twelve-page "silent" comic about escaping horrible office jobs, plus a variety of one and two-page comics with plenty of gags and jokes! #002 has three short stories: a trip to New York City with my friend Gabe, working as a scenic carpenter in L.A. and tree-hugging SPACE ALIENS! #003 is the epic story of my cross-country road trip with my friend Gabe. Drawn with stick figures in a journal-type Comics form. Adventure! Love! Hilarity! Danger! Gambling! #004 contains a semi-autobiographical tale that explores the idea of graffiti as art. I used all real graffiti from the streets of Seattle, WA. This book also features an all-new three page introduction and Phase 7 covers, introductions and letter columns.

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Lulu.com

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0615250114

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9780615250113

C.O.W.L. Vol. 1

Principles Of Power

By: Kyle Higgins,Alec Siegel

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C.O.W.L. Vol. 1

Principles Of Power

By: Kyle Higgins,Alec Siegel

The Chicago Organized Workers League once stood as a beacon of hope against an epidemic of organized crime and an unbeatable "brotherhood" of Super-Villains. Now, in 1962, the union faces a disillusioned public, scandal, and a new era of threats. Here's what the press has been saying about the hit new series: "A down and dirty Mad Men meets Heroes in '60s Chicago."_Entertainment Weekly "A gorgeous book, and the story is just as captivating as the art."_The AV Club "There's a touch of Mad Men's style and sex appeal as well as Watchmen's serious approach to heroes...Stunning."_Mental Floss Collects C.O.W.L. #1-5.

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Image Comics

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1632152622

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9781632152626

Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves

The Inside Story of How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution

By: Bierbauer Alec,Mark Cooter,Michael E. Marks

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Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves

The Inside Story of How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution

By: Bierbauer Alec,Mark Cooter,Michael E. Marks

“An extraordinary, riveting, page-turning account—finally cleared for publication by the CIA—of the once highly classified effort by the CIA and special military units to develop a truly game-changing, transformational capability: armed drones."—General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and former Director of the CIA The Inside Story of How a CIA Officer and an Air Force Officer Joined Forces to Develop America’s Most Powerful Tool in the War on Terror. Never Mind, We’ll Do It Ourselves is the story behind the origins of the Predator drone program and the dawn of unmanned warfare. A firsthand account told by an Air Force team leader and a CIA team leader, Never Mind, We’ll Do It Ourselves takes readers into the back offices and secret government hangars where the robotic revolution went from a mad scientist idea to a pivotal part of global airpower. Featuring a foreword by Charlie Allen, an introduction by Lieutenant General John Campbell, USAF (Ret.), and an afterword by Lieutenant Colonel Gabe Brown, the story reveals the often conflicting perspectives between the defense and intelligence communities and puts the reader inside places like the CIA’s counterterrorism center on the morning of 9/11. Through the eyes of the men and women who lived it, you will experience the hunt for Usama bin Laden and the evolution of a program from passive surveillance to the complex hunter-killers that hang above the battlespace like ghosts. Poised at the junction between The Right Stuff and The Bourne Identity, Never Mind, We’ll Do It Ourselves documents the way a group of cowboys, rogues, and bandits broke rules and defied convention to change the shape of modern warfare

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Simon and Schuster

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1510720928

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9781510720923

The Icon Thief

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

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The Icon Thief

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

A controversial masterpiece resurfaces in Budapest. A ballerina's headless corpse is found beneath the boardwalk at Brighton Beach. And New York's Russian mob is about to collide with the equally ruthless art world... Maddy Blume, an ambitious young art buyer for a Manhattan hedge fund, is desperate to track down a priceless painting by Marcel Duchamp, the most influential artist of the twentieth century. The discovery of a woman’s decapitated body thrusts criminal investigator Alan Powell into a search for the same painting, with its enigmatic image of a headless nude. And a Russian thief and assassin known as the Scythian must steal the painting to save his reputation – and his life. The murderous race is on. And in the lead is an insidious secret society intent on reclaiming the painting for reasons of its own – and by any means necessary….

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Penguin

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110157724X

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9781101577240

John Kasper and Ezra Pound

Saving the Republic

By: Alec Marsh

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John Kasper and Ezra Pound

Saving the Republic

By: Alec Marsh

John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men. John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound's later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound's poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound's own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound's committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rights-era America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472511964

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9781472511966

Stealing Time

Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner

By: Alec Klein

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Stealing Time

Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner

By: Alec Klein

A behind-the-scenes look at the largest corporate merger in history describes how AOL purchased Time Warner, only to find itself in increasing financial difficulties, under investigation by the SEC and Justice Department, with top AOL executives having resigned. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Simon and Schuster

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074325984X

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9780743259842

Storming the City

U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam

By: Alec Wahlman

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Storming the City

U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam

By: Alec Wahlman

In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when advanced weapons are used in a close-range urban fight with an abundance of cover? Storming the City explores these issues by analyzing the performance of the US Army and US Marine Corps in urban combat in four major urban battles of the mid-twentieth century (Aachen 1944, Manila 1945, Seoul 1950, and Hue 1968). Alec Wahlman assesses each battle using a similar framework of capability categories, and separate chapters address urban warfare in American military thought. In the four battles, across a wide range of conditions, American forces were ultimately successful in capturing each city because of two factors: transferable competence and battlefield adaptation. The preparations US forces made for warfare writ large proved generally applicable to urban warfare. Battlefield adaptation, a strong suit of American forces, filled in where those overall preparations for combat needed fine tuning. From World War Two to Vietnam, however, there was a gradual reduction in tactical performance in the four battles.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416197

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9781574416190

Harold E. Stassen

The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican

By: Alec Kirby,John F. Rothmann

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Harold E. Stassen

The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican

By: Alec Kirby,John F. Rothmann

In 1938 Harold E. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota at age 31, an office he resigned in 1943 to enter the United States Navy at the height of World War II. In the postwar years he helped write the charter of the United Nations and, serving in the Eisenhower administration, very nearly achieved a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. He is famously known as a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for president, seeking it 10 times between 1944 and 1992.

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McFarland

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0786465549

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9780786465545

Empires of the Imagination

A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to The Lord of the Rings

By: Alec Worley

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Empires of the Imagination

A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Melies to The Lord of the Rings

By: Alec Worley

The warlocks and ghosts of fantasy film haunt our popular culture, but the genre has too long been ignored by critics. This comprehensive critical survey of fantasy cinema demonstrates that the fantasy genre amounts to more than escapism. Through a meticulously researched analysis of more than a century of fantasy pictures--from the seminal work of Georges Melies to Peter Jackson's recent tours of Middle-earth--the work identifies narrative strategies and their recurring components and studies patterns of challenge and return, setting and character. First addressing the difficult task of defining the genre, the work examines fantasy as a cultural force in both film and literature and explores its relation to science fiction, horror, and fairy tales. Fantasy's development is traced from the first days of film, with emphasis on how the evolving genre reflected such events as economic depression and war. Also considered is fantasy's expression of politics, as either the subject of satire or fuel for the fires of propaganda. Discussion ventures into the subgenres, from stories of invented lands inhabited by fantastic creatures to magical adventures set in the familiar world, and addresses clashes between fantasy and faith, such as the religious opposition to the Harry Potter phenomenon. From the money-making classics to little-known arthouse films, this richly illustrated work covers every aspect of fantasy film.

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1476611831

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