POP CULTURE AND GEEK BOOK LIST DECEMBER 2019
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Welcome to the first issue of the Full Contact Nerd newsletter. In November and December I interviewed voice actress Faya Mata about her anime and gaming work and you can listen to that here. I also interviewed Rebecca Thompson about the science in Game of Thrones and you can listen to that here.
Today’s book listings range from gothic animals, video game landscapes, Disney history, an H.G. Wells biography, Star Wars art, to Stan Lee. Enjoy. Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.
ANIME AND MOVIE ART STUDIES
The Art of Concrete Genie
COMIC BOOK AND ANIMATION HISTORY
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
DISNEY HISTORY
Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor
One Day at Disney
Discussing Disney
FANTASY STUDIES – LITERATURE AND ART
Roy G. Krenkel
Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women’s Literature
Re-Enchanted
FILM AND TV STUDIES
Why We Remake
Girlhood on Disney Channel
HORROR STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART
Monster Anthropology
An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse
Get Out
NOIR, THRILLER, AND MYSTERY FICTION AND FILM STUDIES
Hong Kong Dark Cinema
Mexico Noir
MYTHS AND FOLKLORE STUDIES
Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore
SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART
H.G. Wells
STAR WARS AND STAR TREK POP CULTURE
The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Ships & Battles
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker The Galactic Guide
I Am C-3PO – An Inside Story
VIDEO GAME AND BOARD GAME STUDIES
War Games
Architectonics of Game Spaces
Ludotopia
WEIRD FICTION STUDIES
An Eclectic Bestiary
Gothic Animals
WESTERNS AND OLD WEST HISTORY
Heroes of the Borderlands
The American West on Film
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