The thrilling secret history of the American pilots who risked their lives to protect their country during the Cold War

A modern study on America’s preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror

The true story of a kidnapper’s calamitous criminal life as told by the man he abducted

A study of sound in the film and media industry of China, especially its music and multilingual soundtrack, that amplifies a vibrantly changing national power and global order

The first biography of a singer who was once one of the most significant African American male vocalists in America

An examination of storytelling and story making using Jack tales as a metaphor to talk about teaching and telling

A reasoned, radical proposal to overhaul American school sports and free education from the madness of competition and entertainment

How comics generate significance and weave images and words into a narrative art

An exploration of the Nobel laureate’s engagement with Native Americans and the ways in which Native American writing illuminates Faulkner

The marvelous story of innovators C. C. Beck and Otto Binder and their mighty American hero

The first-person account of a daring, extraordinary blow against segregation

A showcase of skillful artwork from the renowned artist

The singular vision of a courageous Mississippi activist

Collected interviews and articles with one of early Hollywood’s most successful screenwriter-directors and the first woman to direct a feature film

The definitive biography of the great band leader and New Orleans jazz performer

Collected interviews with the director of such films as Harlan County, U.S.A. and Gun Fight

A record catch of place, lore, tradition, and family connection with environment

The first take on America’s outstanding film reel appeals to African American dignity and service

An exploration of whites posing as Native Americans from nineteenth-century literature to comic books

Essays from innovative, leading scholars covering the gamut of the civil rights movement

A captivating account of the turbulent journey from box-office disaster to classic American road film

The first major biography of the influential, visionary Disney animator

An explication of master works by one of comics studies’ most renowned scholars

An analysis of children’s rights in literature

An incomparable resource to understand the historical role of the federal judiciary in a Deep South state

An original study on the little-known but highly influential Russianmagazine Krokodil

Collected interviews the self-titled “quadra schizoid” writer who is best known for his novella Legends of the Fall

Tracking the surprising rise of the British superhero

Tales of a people’s great, disgraceful, and mundane constitutional encounters

Over forty years of interviews with one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century, an American original who redefined the picture book and changed children’s literature—and its readers—forever