This 240-page full-color hardbound book tells the history of officially licensed comic book adaptations of every hit, cult, and obscure horror film to receive attention within the comic book medium. From the early days of the publishing industry - like Dell, Gold Key, and Charlton Comics Group - to the indie boom of the 1990s (Adventure Comics, Epic, Innovation) - and ending on the modern-day comic giants (Dynamite Entertainment, Boom!, IDW Publishing). The guide spotlights iconic films and franchises such as Nosferatu, Frankenstein, Night of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, Army of Darkness, Hatchet, and more! Halftone Horrors includes a visual guide to all the issues, variants, one-shots, ashcans, and more - an exhaustive tome to the history of cinematic comic adaptations. The most comprehensive guide ever published on the subject.

Discussing such classic films as Sergeant York, Air Force, and All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as more modern blockbusters like Apocalypse Now and Saving Private Ryan, this outstanding volume focuses on Hollywood and its production of war films. Topics covered include: the early formation of war cinema the apotheosis of the Hollywood war film the ascendancy of ambivalence Hollywood and the war since Vietnam war as a way of seeing. For any student of film studies or American cultural studies, this is a valuable companion.

Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of world history and penetrating diagnosis of the crisis of modernity. This monumental work launched a seminal attack on the idea of progress and supplanted the outmoded Eurocentric understanding of history. His provocative pessimism seems to be confirmed in retrospect by the twentieth-century horrors of economic depression, totalitarianism, genocide, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the emerging global environmental crisis. In Prophet of Decline, John Farrenkopf takes advantage of the historical perspective the end of the millennium provides to reassess this visionary thinker and his challenging ideas on world history and politics and modern civilization. Farrenkopf's assessment ranges widely, placing Spengler's philosophy in its intellectual historical context and covering Spengler's ideas on democracy, capitalism, science and technology, cities, Western art, social change, and human exploitation of the environment. He also illuminates the implications of Spengler's thought for contemplating from a fresh perspective the future of the United States, the leading power of the West. Prophet of Decline is highly relevant today as many take the opportunity at the turn of the century to ponder again the direction in which humankind and our global community are moving and approach with concern the uncertain future amid globalization, hypercomplexity, and accelerating change. An interdisciplinary book about an interdisciplinary thinker, it is a substantial contribution to the literature of historical philosophy, political science, international relations, and German studies.