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The Hollywood B-Film offers readers a concise overview and compelling analysis of the so-called B-film in the United States between the late 1920s—when the emergence of the double-feature film exhibition format led to the creation of motion pictures intended for the bottom half of a theater's dual bill—and the contemporary period, when an increasing number of distribution channels and exhibition outlets for commercial feature films have shifted the B-film's traditional definition but not its cultural importance or pervasiveness. Based to a significant degree on original, primary source research culled from film studio archives and from trade press, newspaper coverage, and other contemporary accounts, each chapter of this volume offers a clear and concise examination of a distinct period in the history of this vast but relatively unknown area of film history. Case studies explore Warner Bros.' B-film unit in the 1930s, Poverty Row stalwart Monogram Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, independent upstart King Bros. in the 1960s and 1970s, and Quentin Tarantino's and Robert Rodriguez's homage to B-film excess in Grindhouse (2007).

A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba's North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city Word on the street is that this is the Tigers' last season. For Tomahawk "Tommy" Shields, an Indigenous, image-obsessed high school student from Winnipeg, the potential loss of his team serves as a stark reminder of his uncertain future. He can't help but feel that each of his peers has some skill or gift that he lacks, yet each of their perceived virtues hides darker truths, too. Clinton is beloved by teachers, but his "good kid" disposition is a desparate attempt not to fall prey to the gang violence in which his older brother has become enmeshed. Floyd has incredible talent on the ice, yet behind that talent lies deep insecurity about his multiracial background. And the adults that populate Tommy's life--his mother, who struggles with schizophrenia; Pete, the team's wayward Zamboni driver; and elders Maggie and Olga--offer a mixture of well-intentioned but often misguided support and serve as a portent of what the future could hold. Set in Winnipeg's North End, at the border of Canada's eastern woodlands and central prairies, Small Ceremonies follows a community both at the edge of the world and at the center of something much larger than itself. As its richly drawn characters navigate the thrilling independence of adulthood and the loss of innocence that accompanies adolescence, one can't help but root for Tommy and his community, even as Tommy wrestles with his place in it.

There's no feeling quite so horrific as a full scale invasion. The only thing more terrifying than an invasion of the United States, is an invasion of the human body. When Freddy Quinn and his son Gary attend their first baseball game, it began as an accident. By the time prison inmate Davante Jones bears witness, planes are falling out of the sky. Within an hour, school teacher Lorraine Martinez can't even begin to fathom the sights before her eyes on the classroom television. A virus unlike any other, a powerful infectious strain resulting in the loss of all mobility against Caucasians throughout America. Unable to move, all branches of the military fractured, Washington in the dark, civil unrest and chaos begins to ensue with 77% of the labor force suffering from such an improbable weaponized strain of COVID. As Freddy, Gary, Davante, and Lorraine try to survive this hellish reality, it's only a matter of time before an ancient enemy storms the mainland with little resistance looking to finish an old war, and their nightmare has just begun...