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The epic film : myth and history / Derek Elley.
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- London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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Return of the heroes : The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and contemporary culture / Hal Colebatch.
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- Perth, W.A. : Australian Institute for Public Policy, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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Eroi del nostro tempo / a cura di F. Adornato ; Abruzzese ... [et al.].
- Text
- Roma : Laterza, 1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
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The Hero in transition / [edited by] Ray B. Browne & Marshall W. Fishwick.
- Text
- Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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Il cinema peplum : la prima guida critica ai film di Conan, Ercole, Goliath, Maciste, Sansone, Spartaco, Thaur, Ursus / Domenico Cammarota.
- Text
- Roma : Fanucci, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
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Hollywood heroes / by John Howard Reid.
- Text
- Wyong, NSW, Australia : J.H. Reid, [1998]
- 1998
- 1 Item
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Hollywood heroes / David Hofstede.
- Text
- Lanham, Md. : Madison Books, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
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The super-hero photo guide book / by Tom Rogers.
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- East Meadow, N.Y. : Image Pub., c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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American dreamtime : a cultural analysis of popular movies, and their implications for a science of humanity / Lee Drummond.
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- Lanham, Md. : Littlefield Adams Books, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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The unsung heroes : Hollywood stuntmen and stuntwomen and your favorite stars in classic action scenes / by Neil Summers.
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- Vienna, WV : Old West Shop Pub., c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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Le beau ténébreux à l'écran / Henri Agel.
- Text
- Paris : Harmattan, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
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Hollywood heroes / by John Howard Reid.
- Text
- Wyong, Australia : J.H. Reid, [1998]
- 1998
- 1 Item
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The cowboy way : the western leader in film, 1945-1995 / Ralph Lamar Turner and Robert J. Higgs.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
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Movies to manage by : lessons in leadership from great films / John K. Clemens and Melora Wolff.
- Text
- Lincolnwood (Chicago), Ill. : Contemporary Books, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
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Myth and masculinity in the Japanese cinema : towards a political reading of the "tragic hero" / Isolde Standish.
- Text
- Richmond : Curzon, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
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Miti ed eroi nel cinema / Stefano Socci.
- Text
- Firenze : Lettere, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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The hero and the perennial journey home in American film / Susan Mackey-Kallis.
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Heroes, antiheroes, and dolts : portrayals of masculinity in American popular films, 1921-1999 / Ashton D. Trice and Samuel A. Holland.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Fanfan la tulipe : De la chanson au cinéma / textes réunis et présentés par Frédéric Chaleil.
- Text
- Paris : Editions de Paris, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 04-104 Offsite ̊Cuvstvo ̊ekrana. [S. Freĭlix].
- Text
- Moskva : Iskusstvo, 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDK 77-734 Offsite The medieval hero on screen : representations from Beowulf to Buffy / edited by Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray ; with a foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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Xun zhao ying xiong / Guan Jie zhu.
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- [Beijing] : Zhongguo wen lian chu ban she, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OVP 04-5793 Offsite The Byronic hero in film, fiction, and television / Atara Stein.
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
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Dictionnaire amoureux des héros / Patrick Cauvin ; dessins d'Alain Bouldouyre.
- Text
- Paris : Plon, 2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 05-11781 Offsite Unsung heroes of the Lord of the rings : from the page to the screen / Lynnette R. Porter.
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- Westport, Conn : Praeger Publishers, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
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Santo, el enmascarado de plata : mito y realidad de un héroe mexicano moderno / Alvaro A. Fernández Reyes.
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- Michoacán [Mexico] : Colegio de Michoacán : CONACULTA, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 05-5424 Offsite Action figures : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / by Mark Gallagher.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Superheroes and Greek tragedy : comparing cultural icons / Sally MacEwen.
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Supereroi : gli eroi nel cinema / Antonio Tentori.
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- Marino, Rome, Italy : Gallo, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Héroes de película : el mito de los héroes en el cine argentino / Estela Erausquin.
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- Buenos Aires : Editorial Biblos, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 09-32815 Offsite The impertinent self : a heroic history of modernity / Josef Früchtl ; translated by Sarah L. Kirkby.
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
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Ikonen, Helden, Aussenseiter : Film und Biographie / herausgegeben von Manfred Mittermayer ... [et al.].
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- Wien : Zsolnay, 2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
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El héroe del western : América vista por sí misma / Ma. Dolores Clemente Fernández.
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- Madrid : Editorial Complutense, 2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 10-30860 Offsite Du héros aux super héros : mutations cinématographiques / sous la direction de Claude Forest.
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- Paris : Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, c2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
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Superheroes! : capes and crusaders in comics and films / Roz Kaveney.
- Text
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN 6714 .K384 2008 Offsite Hobbits : the many lives of Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin / Lynnette Porter.
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- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
- 2012
- 1 Item
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Hollywood 9/11 : superheroes, supervillains, and super disasters / Tom Pollard.
- Text
- Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, c2011.
- 2011
- 1 Item
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Helden der Kindkeit aus Comic, Film und Fernsehen / herausgegeben von Andrea Baron und Kai Splittgerber ; illustriert und gestaltet von Studierenden des Fachbereichs Design der FH Münster im Rahmen des Editorial Illustrationskurses von Felix Scheinberger und Rüdiger Quass von Deyen.
- Text
- Frankfurt am Main : Edition Büchergilde, c2013.
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 14-31891 Offsite Home front heroes : the rise of a new Hollywood archetype, 1988-1999 / Elizabeth Abele.
- Text
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
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The last action hero : typescript, 1991 / by Zak Penn and Adam Leff.
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- 1991
- 1 Item
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Classical masculinity and the spectacular body on film : the mighty sons of Hercules / Daniel O'Brien, University of Southampton, UK.
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
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The monomyth in American science fiction films : 28 visions of the hero's journey / Donald E. Palumbo.
- Text
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
- 2014
- 1 Item
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Cinematic quests for identity : the hero's encounter with the beast / Maria Garcia.
- Text
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- 2015
- 1 Item
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Superheroes on world screens / edited by Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward.
- Text
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
- 2015
Byronic heroes in nineteenth-century women's writing and screen adaptation / Sarah Wootton, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Durham University, UK.
- Text
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- 2016-2016
- 1 Item
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Outlaw heroes as liminal figures of film and television / Rebecca A. Umland.
- Text
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- 2016
- 1 Item
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Superheroes on world screens [electronic resource] / edited by Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward.
- Text
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
- 2015
- 2 Resources
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Washed in blood [electronic resource] : male sacrifice, trauma, and the cinema / Claire Sisco King.
- Text
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
- 2012
- 2 Resources
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Fathers, warriors, and vigilantes : post-heroism and the US cultural imaginary in the twenty-first century / Ahu Tanrisever.
- Text
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016]
- 2016
- 1 Item
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The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television [electronic resource] / Atara Stein.
- Text
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
- 2004
- 2 Resources
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