作者: Weiner Robert G. Weiner

Marvel Studios’ approach to its Cinematic Universe–beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)–has become the template for successful management of blockbuster film properties. Yet films featurin …

For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics’ flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the …

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. Th …

To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library …

This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move fo …

The Grateful Dead, one of the most meticulously documented rock bands, significantly influenced American music and popular culture. Its popularity has endured for three decades despite mixed critical …