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Sports Movies(None)
(Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture)
by Lester D. Friedman
Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2020 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9986-1, ISBN: 0-8135-9986-5

"Lester D. Friedman pushes forward his argument by discussing the history of the sports film and then focusing individual chapters on the most popular American sports: baseball, basketball, football, and boxing."

Medical Humanities(1st Edition)
An Introduction
by Professor Therese Jones, Professor Delese Wear, Professor Lester D. Friedman, Mark Vonnegut, Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, Michael Sappol, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Rebecca Hester, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Professor Bernice Hausman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani Dasgupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Lisa Keränen, Paul Root Wolpe, Professor Allison B. Kavey, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6246-9, ISBN: 0-8135-6246-5

"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."

An Introduction to Film Genres(1st Edition)
by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Professor David Desser, Sarah Kozloff, Professor Stephen Prince, Professor Martha Nochimson, Sarah Kozlaff
Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93019-1, ISBN: 0-393-93019-X

"A brisk, accessible, and informative introduction to film genres. An Introduction to Film Genres, written by leading film scholars specifically for undergraduates who are new to the study of film, provides an introduction that helps students see thirteen film genres in a new light---to help them identify the themes, iconography, and distinctive stylistic traits of each genre."

Health Humanities Reader(1st Edition)
by Professor Therese Jones, Mark Vonnegut, Allen Peterkin, Michael Sappol, Professor Lester D. Friedman, Shelley Wall, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Rebecca Hester, Jack Coulehan, Professor Delese Wear, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Amy Haddad, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Martin F. Norden, Rosemarie Tong, Professor Bernice Hausman, Gretchen A. Case, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani Dasgupta, Professor Anne Hudson Jones, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Benjamin Saxton, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Michael Rowe Dr, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Professor Jonathan M. Metzl, Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni, Audrey Shafer M.D., Howard Brody, Lisa Keränen, Alice Dreger, Catherine Belling, Joseph N. Straus, Sander L. Gilman, Daniel Goldberg, Thomas R. Cole, E. Ann Kaplan, Alan Bleakley Dr, Paul Root Wolpe, Professor Allison B. Kavey, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Jay Baruch, Kathleen Pachucki
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2014 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6247-6, ISBN: 0-8135-6247-3

Second Star to the Right
Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination
by Professor Allison B. Kavey, Lester D. Friedman, Professor Lester Friedman
Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2008 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4437-3, ISBN: 0-8135-4437-8

"Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises.Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up W ..."

Tough Ain't Enough
New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood
by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Professor David Desser, Stephen Prince, Jonathan Kirshner, Diane Carson, David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Lucy Bolton, Alexandra Keller, Charity Lofthouse, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2018 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-8601-4, ISBN: 0-8135-8601-1

"Throughout his lengthy career as both an actor and a director, Clint Eastwood has appeared in virtually every major film genre and, at this point in his career, has emerged as one of America’s most popular, recognizable, and respected filmmakers. He also remains a controversial figure in the political landscape, often characterized as the most prominent conservative voice in mostly liberal Hollywood. At Eastwood’s late age, his critical ..."

Monstrous Progeny(Reprint)
A History of the Frankenstein Narratives
by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Professor Allison B. Kavey, Friedman/Kavey
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6423-4, ISBN: 0-8135-6423-9

"Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it still seems vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein famil ..."

Steven Spielberg
Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm, Steven Spielbergsteven Spielberg
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2000 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-113-6, ISBN: 1-57806-113-X

"Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like "phone home" and the music score from Jaws are now part of our cultural script, appearing in commercials, comedy routines, and common conversation. Yet few scholars have devoted time to studying Spielberg's vast output of popular films despite the director's financial and aesthetic achievements. Spanning twenty-five years of Spie ..."

Monstrous Progeny(124th Edition)
A History of the Frankenstein Narratives (Hardback)
by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Professor Allison B. Kavey, Friedman/Kavey
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6424-1, ISBN: 0-8135-6424-7

"Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it still seems vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein fami ..."

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