Most overviews of film are written from some high, sunlit mountaintop. This collection of Harlan Ellison's cinema criticism comes from the darkened interiors of a thousand movie houses where this most peculiar of all Observers of the Passing Scene has spent much of his life.

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This book shows the development of Jonathan Lethem's imagination through the movies, comics and books he read as a child - it is a rich mixture of personal memories and cultural commentaries. In the title piece, a letter from his aunt (a children's book author) spurs a meditation on the value of writing workshops, the role and influence of reviews, and the uncomfortable fraternity of writers. In '

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The author citing examples confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members commit suicide.

Takes on the forces aligned to destroy America - whether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or brand breakfast cereals - and tackles issues like religion, sexuality, and nature.

Addresses, among other things, the promise and perils of Web 2.0 and the rise of YouTube. This book provides an introduction to the world where every story gets told and every brand gets sold across multiple media platforms.

New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture.

Among this collection of surprising, controversial and politically-incorrect American ads of the 1940s, readers can also find familiar products that haven't changed at all over the years, including Dole pineapples and Campbell's soup.

Reissue of the legendary underground classic of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets!

Confessions of a Groupie. B format outing for the ultimate story of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - The definitive groupie memoir from the ultimate groupie, now updated again.

Published in 1975, this autobiography of private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success; about New York and America; and about himself - his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, good times and bad times in the Big Apple, the explosion of his career in the Sixties, and life among celebrities.

The second edition of this guide has been expanded to cover the sixth and seventh - and final - seasons of Buffy and the third and fourth seasons of Angel . There are new chapters on the relationship between Buffy and the lovelorn vampire Spike and on the thematic structure of Angel .

Born into a family of wealthy and patrician New Englanders, Edie Sedgwick became, in the 1960s, both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Edie was outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful. This book is an American fable on an epic scale, the story of a short, crowded and vivid life.

Taking the reader from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, this is a story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including film, literature, and historical tourism. It offers a different look at the myriad ways in which political assassinations have altered and shaped America's history.

Two titles bound together in which we are reminded again that it is Pooh's way of doing things which has made him the world's most beloved bear.

Describes the author's ideas on how horror works on many levels.

The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet.

Third installment of the Harry Potter series - a once-supporter of Voldemort escapes from Azkaban prison, and is trying to get into Hogwarts to find Harry

An Essential Guide to Emo Culture - a culture of confessional punk rock.