- Creature
from the Black Lagoon - For the first time ever, the original
Creature from the Black Lagoon film comes to DVD in this extraordinary
Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original
classic, starring Richard Carlson, and two timeless sequels,
featuring such legendary actors as John Agar and Jeff Morrow.
These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre
of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures
to this day.
- American
Drive-in Movie Theater - Tracing the history, geography,
and ideology of the American drive-in movie theater, authors
Don and Susan Sanders present a densely illustrated look at
American culture at its most shallow, sensual, and delightful.
Noting the need of the newly created class of motorized, moneyed
teenagers of the 1940s and '50s to find a dark and private
place for their pubescent pastimes, the Sanders place the
origin of this outdoor entertainment form in the birth of
popular culture. The sections on the amusement park-style
rides, refreshments, and attractions that were used to lure
the bored and their cash to this form of voyeurism are especially
delightful (the "Mono-Rocket" ride and the new high-speed
food dispensers provide intriguing images of capitalist inventiveness).
In spite of its Pollyanna-ish tone, The American Drive-In
Movie Theater works as both a celebration and an insightful
analysis of this passing phase of pre-couch potato folly.
- Cinema
Under the Stars: America's Love Affair With the Drive-In Movie
Theater - The automobile and the motion picture industry
are icons of American life.
- Lost
America: The Abandoned Roadside West - A stunningly
photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot
America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust
towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past
that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology
and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields.
The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented
with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall
of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America
still standing, yet largely forgotten.
- Universal
Monsters: Cavalcade of Horror - The Mummy, Frankenstein,
Dracula, The Creature from the Black Lagoon! Featuring long
out-of-print artwork by the white-hot Tony Harris (Ex Machina,
Starman) and artist Art Adams (Monkeyman & O'Brien), as
well as a brand new introduction and painted cover by multiple
Eisner Award Winner Eric Powell (The Goon), this collection
tells the original stories of the Universal monsters - Frankenstein,
the Mummy, Dracula, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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