New books on the study of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, comic books, and horror for 2019
This list will grow over time.
Books on science (with a science fiction angle)
Morphing Intelligence (January)
Videophilosophy (January)
Future Cities (March)
Shoot for the Moon (March)
Picturing Apollo 11 (March)
The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy (March)
Apollo (April)
American Moonshot (April)
Cosmos (May)
Space Settlements (May)
The Eagle Has Landed (July)
Survive and Resist (August)
The study of Science Fiction literature and movies
Inception (April)
Making Solo: A Star Wars Story (April)
We Travel the Space Ways (May)
Jurassic Park (June)
12 Monkeys (June)
Children of Men (June)
Doom Doom Doom: The Art of Invader Zim (July)
Star Trek: The Official Guide to the Animated Series (September)
The study of video, card, and board games
Playing Dystopia (March)
Magic: The Gathering (April)
The study of comic books and comic book movies
Nobody’s Fool (March)
Cartoon Vision (March)
The Moviemaking Magic of Marvel Studios (April)
Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years (May)
Inside Family Guy (May)
The study of fantasy literature and movies
The Art of Heikala (January)
Tolkien: Treasures (January)
The study of mystery literature and movies
The Sopranos Sessions (January)
Vice, Crime, and Poverty (April)
Blood and Black Lace (May)
The Pit-Prop Syndicate (May)
The Killer Across the Table (May)
The study of horror literature and movies
The Ghosts Within (March)
Film’s Ghosts (April)
Kwaidan (May)
The Mummy (May)
The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion (May)
Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (May)
The New Prometheans (June) AAD supernatural studies
Studying Shaun of the Dead (June)
Shapeshifters (June)
The Real Vampires (June)
Shivers (July)
General film art and design studies
Twenty-First-Century Hollywood (January)
Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret (March)
Audio-Vision: Sound on the Screen (April)
Rewriting Indie Cinema (April)
Chromatic Modernity (April)
A Life in Movies – Irwin Winkler (May)
What is Japanese Cinema (June)
On the Screen (July)
Art that influences genre entertainment
The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic (March)
History of Art in Japan (August)
Notable fiction
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (June)
To Be Sorted
Representing Acts of Violence in Comics (Aug) AAD
Cities and Cinema (June) AAD
Gaming and the Divine (March) AAD
Gothic Heroines on Screen (May) AAD
The Filmmaker’s Eye (Aug) AAD
On Animation (July) AAD
Urban Comics (March) AAD
The World of the Walking Dead (Mar) AAD
Contexts of Violence in Comics (Aug) AAD
Transcendent Writers in Stephen King’s Fiction (Feb) AAD
Introduction to Game Analysis (Feb) AAD
Gilgamesh (April) AAD
Interfacing Ourselves (Jun) AAD
The Costumes of Burlesque (Jun) AAD
Understanding Design in Film Production (Mar) AAD
Roman Tales (Jun) AAD
The World of DC Comics (May) AAD
Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism (Feb) AAD
The Kubrick Legacy (Mar) AAD
Gaming Empire in Children’s British Board Games, 1836-1860 (Apr) AAD
Found Footage Horror Films (Feb) AAD
Breaking out of the Games Industry (Mar) AAD
Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures (Feb ) AAD
The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox (Mar) AAD
A History of Shaolin (Apr) AAD
Victor Frankenstein (May) AAD
Disney Theatrical Productions (Feb) AAD
Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain (feb) AAD
The Fairy Tale World (Apr) AAD
Japanese Culture Through Video games (Jun) AAD
Philosophy-Screens Marta Nijhuis trans June 2019 AAD
Argentina Noir Cynthis Schmidt-Cruz March 2019 AAD
A Dream of Hitchcock Murray Pomerance January 2019 AAD
From El Dorado to Lost Horizons Ken Windrum April 2019 AAD
Hollywood Goes Latin (May)
William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century (June)
Disney’s Star Wars (July)
The Films of Douglas Sirk (June) AAD movies
Dining with Madmen (Feb)AAD horror
The Comics of Rutu Modan (Mar) AAD comics
The Artistry of Neil Gaiman (Feb) AAD
You Don’t Know Jack (Feb) AAD folklore
Steven Spielberg (August) AAD
Steve Gerber (July) AAD comics
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat (June) AAD comics
Larry Hama (June) AAD comics
Folklore in Baltic History (June) AAD
Birth of the Binge (March) AAD
Craving Supernatural Creatures (June) AAD
The Broken Spell (June) AAD
Teaching Fairy Tales (March) AAD
The Man Who Lived With a Giant (May) AAD
Dante and the early Astronomer (April) AAD
Humour (Terry Eagleton) AAD
Alfred Steiglitz (April) AAD
Palaces of Pleasure ? (June) AAD
Reaching for the Moon (June) AAD
Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms – Ed Sean Hemingway & Kiki Karaglou (February)
Spanish Vampire Fiction Since 1900 (Feb)
Mysticism in Early Modern England (June) AAD
Malory’s Magic Book (February) AAD
Castles and Space in Malory’s Morte Darthur (February) AAD
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (April)
Menace of the Machine (April) AAD
The End of the World (May)
The Platform Edge (January)
Doorway to Dilemma (May)
The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (April)
The Face in the Glass (February)
Surrealism at Play (April) AAD
Surrogate Humanity (March) AAD
Figures of Time (April) AAD
Breaking Bad and the Cinematic Television (March)
The Technical Delusion (Feb) AAD (contacted directly too)
Elsevier – contact directly
Smart City Emergence (June) science
Autonomous Vehicles and Future Mobility (June)
Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges (June)
Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Everything (February)
Theatermachine (July) AAD written
Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things (May) AAD written
Rust Belt Burlesque (July) AAD
Evergreen Ash (February) AAD
Terrible Beauty (March) AAD
A Most Splendid Company – Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint (April)
Come Fly With Us (february) AAD
Shattered Dreams (May) AAD
The Supernatural Sublime (July) AAD
The Madness of Knowledge (April) AAD
Inhuman Power (June) AAD
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes – Douglas E. Cowan (January)
Amazons in America (March) genre stuff
Three Hundred of Years of Decadence (April)
The History of the Future (February) AAD
Funny Man (March) AAD
Below the Clock (March) AAD
Representing Beasts in Early medieval England and Scandinavia (?) AAD
The Viking Way (?) AAD
Egil’s Saga (?) AAD
Inquisition of the Fourteenth Century (?) AAD
Crime Fiction in the Global Era (?) AAD
That’s Entertainment (?) AAD