{"title":"Wayne State University Press","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"disney-tv-tv-milestones-series","title":"Disney TV (TV Milestones)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's network television series Disneyland\/The Wonderful World of Color. The series, part of Walt Disney's quest to re-create American entertainment, premiered October 27, 1954 on ABC and was the longest-lived program in television history. Over the years, Walt Disney's visions have evolved into family-oriented cinema, television, theme parks. From the lovable Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to magical places like Frontierland, Disneyland\/The Wonderful World of Color generated some of the most popular fads of the era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Disney TV, J. P. 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The show has become famous for eschewing many of the conventions of situation comedy, the fully formed and coherent script, narrative closure, predictable characters, and the decorum associated with presentation. Its curious transatlantic popularity defied the assumption that comedy is regional and exclusive, and the show’s cult status still lives on in the United States and United Kingdom through reruns, videos, DVDs, and continual reappearances by the show’s now iconic stars. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMost written accounts of \u003cem\u003eMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u003c\/em\u003e focus solely on members of the Pythons, histories of the sketches, or the development of other Monty Python projects, leaving a dearth of scholarly and contextual analysis on the television show itself. Marcia Landy’s book is one of the rare studies available examining the Flying Circus within the context of its time, analysing the show’s influence on 1960s and 1970s British television as well as British cultural influence on the show’s legendary material. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLandy explores not only why the series’ complex form of comedy was important but also why it was so well received, citing the Pythons’ amalgam of comedic material: the unruly treatment of sexuality, the mockery of religion and class, and the critique of the medium of television. The Flying Circus parodied both the lowbrow and the highbrow, throwing many previously untouchable topics into the ring, and here Landy deconstructs the impact of the show’s risks and reception. As informative as it is engaging and entertaining, this book will appeal to film and media scholars, popular culture enthusiasts, and Monty Python fans alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44857810977026,"sku":"BK-WSU-MPFC-001-M","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_4256_1.jpg?v=1790585642"},{"product_id":"red-alert-marxist-approaches-to-science-fiction-cinema","title":"Red Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRed Alert: Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, editors Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia argue that Marxist philosophy, science fiction, and film share important connections concerning imaginings of the future. Contributors look at themes across a wide variety of films, including many international co-productions to explore individualism versus collectivism, technological obstacles to travel through time and space, the accumulation of capital and colonisation, struggles of oppressed groups, the dangers of false ideologies, and the extension of the concept of labor due to technological advances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRed Alert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e considers a wide swath of contemporary international films, from the rarely studied to mainstream science fiction blockbusters like The Matrix. Contributors explore early Czechoslovak science fiction, the Polish-Estonian co-productions of director Marek Piestrak, and science fiction elements in 1970s American blaxploitation films. The collection includes analyses of more recent films like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTransfer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Damir Lukacevic), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAvalon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Mamoru Oshii), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGamer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDistrict 9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eElysium\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Neill Blomkamp), along with more obscure films like Alex Rivera’s materialist science fiction works and the Latin American zombie films of Pablo Parés, Hernán Sáez, and Alejandro Brugués. 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