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POPULAR CULTURE

Animation and The New Heroines
the American Female Embodiment
Imagination and Technology in 21st-

A Brief History Century Popular Culture
KATHERYN WRIGHT
GORDON B. ARNOLD
“ straightforward overview This book explores how the next
[A] solid and
generation of teen and young
of a century of animated adult heroines in popular culture
”
films. are creating a new feminist ideal
November 2016 March 2016 for the 21st century.
282pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 —Choice, June 1, 2017 180pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-3359-5 Providing a detailed historical Print: 978-1-4408-3279-6 FEATURES
$48.00, £37.00, €44.00 $46.00, £36.00, €42.00 • Provides a new roadmap to
eBook: 978-1-4408-3360-1 overview of animated film and eBook: 978-1-4408-3280-2 analyze teen and young-adult
television in the United States over heroines in popular culture
more than a century, this book examines animation within the U.S.
film and television industry as well as in the broader sociocultural
context. KATHERYN WRIGHT, PhD, is assistant professor of
interdisciplinary studies at Champlain College in Burlington, VT.
FEATURES
• Documents the evolution of U.S. animation, from its origins in
newspaper cartooning at the beginning of the 20th century to 21st-Century
the digital creations of the late 20th century and beyond TV Dramas
Exploring the
GORDON B. ARNOLD, PhD, is professor of liberal arts at
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, where he teaches film New Golden Age
and animation history.
AMY M. DAMICO
AND SARA E. QUAY
Violence in American “ Recommended. All
”
Popular Culture levels/libraries.
—Choice, September 1, 2016
2 VOLUMES
February 2016
DAVID SCHMID, EDITOR 223pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 In its exploration of some of the
FOREWORD BY HAROLD SCHECHTER Print: 978-1-4408-3344-1 most influential, popular, or critically
$60.00, £47.00, €55.00 acclaimed television dramas since
“ Taken together, the two eBook: 978-1-4408-3345-8 the year 2000, this book documents
volumes cover all the
topics this reviewer could how modern television dramas
expect and some that reflect our society through their complex narratives about
he could not anticipate. prevailing economic, political, security, and social issues.
”
November 2015 Recommended.
623pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 —Choice, August 1, 2016 AMY M. DAMICO, PhD, is professor of communication at
Print: 978-1-4408-3205-5 Endicott College in Beverly, MA, and is faculty advisor to the
$131.00, £101.00, €120.00 This timely collection provides a Endicott College Scholars honors program.
eBook: 978-1-4408-3206-2
historical overview of violence in SARA E. QUAY is dean of the school of education at Endicott
American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and College in Beverly, MA, and is director of the Endicott College
across a range of media. Scholars honors program.

DAVID SCHMID, PhD, is associate professor of English at the
University at Buffalo.

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