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    Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

    Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne, Australia)

    eIn this volume, Ken Gelder offers a comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary and cultural field, tied directly to the logics and practices of entertainment and industry.

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    Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared - and disappeared - in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies’ developing…

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    Colonial Adventure

    Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver

    Examines Australia's history with enduring narratives of colonial discovery

    Adventure was one of the grand narratives of colonisation, which saw European powers sending agents off to new and distant worlds…

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    New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction

    This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus.

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    Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    Ken Gelder

    Ken Gelder covers a remarkable range of forms and practices across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from bebop to hip hop, and from hippies…

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    Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    Ken Gelder

    Ken Gelder covers a remarkable range of forms and practices across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from bebop to hip hop, and from hippies…

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    Reading the Vampire

    Ken Gelder

    Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narrative manifestations, placing the vampires in their cultural contexts. The author draws upon films such as Murnau’s Nosferatu and books such…

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    The Horror Reader

    From classic gothic literature like Frankenstein, to contemporary serial killers, horror film fanzines and low-budget movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this book collects twenty-nine key articles to examine…

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    The Horror Reader

    From classic gothic literature like Frankenstein, to contemporary serial killers, horror film fanzines and low-budget movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this book collects twenty-nine key articles to examine…

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    The Subcultures Reader: Second Edition

    Revised and updated completely to include new research and theories, this second edition of a hugely successful book brings together a range of articles, from big names in the field…

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    The Subcultures Reader: Second Edition

    Revised and update completely to include new research and theories, this second edition of a hugely successful book brings together a range of articles, from big names in the field…

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    Reading the Vampire

    Ken Gelder

    Gelder examines the vampire in its various film and narrative manifestations, placing the vampires in their cultural contexts. The author draws upon films such as Murnau’s Nosferatu and books such…

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    Subcultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Subcultures attract a great deal of interest, both in popular media and in academic work. Beginning by looking at accounts of subcultures in sixteenth-century England, these four volumes represent work…

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    Adapting Bestsellers: Fantasy, Franchise and the Afterlife of Storyworlds

    Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne)

    This Element looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms. It focuses on ‘transmedia storytelling’, building its case…

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    New Vampire Cinema

    K. Gelder

    New Vampire Cinema looks at recent vampire films as a genre, and asks what is at stake when the cinematic vampire and the modern world are made to encounter each…

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    Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

    Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne, Australia)

    eIn this volume, Ken Gelder offers a comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary and cultural field, tied directly to the logics and practices of entertainment and industry.

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    After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007

    Ken Gelder,Paul Salzman

    Looks at the major genres of Australian fiction that have flourished in Australia since 1988, from the popular - crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, romance and the action blockbuster -…

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    The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    The best examples of colonial Australian romance are collected in this anthology, from writers such as Ada Cambridge, Rosa Praed, Francis Adams, Henry Lawson. They show colonial women challenged by…

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    The Anthology Of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Marauding bushrangers, lost explorers, mad shepherds, new chums and mounted troopers: these are some of the characters who populate the often perilous world of colonial Australian adventure fiction.

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    The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children’s tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and…

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    Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush

    Ellen Davitt

    Ellen Davitt’s Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush is a feisty account of a murder investigation in the colonies that takes the twists and turns of English sensation…

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    The Forger’s Wife

    John Lang

    John Lang was Australia’s first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. The Forger’s Wife (1856) is a lively…

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    An Australian Bush Track

    J D Hennessey

    A nineteenth-century colonial adventure In the spirit of H. Rider Haggard, set on the Australian frontier.

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    The Colonial Journals: And the emergence of Australian literary culture

    Ken Gelder,Rachael Weaver

    Colonial Australia produced a vast number of journals and magazines that helped to create an exuberant literary landscape. They were filled with lively contributions by many of the key writers…

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