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Maverick Movies tells the improbable story of New Line Cinema, a company that cut a remarkable path through the American film industry and movie culture. Founded in 1967 as an art film distributor, New Line made a small fortune running John Waters's Pink Flamingos at midnight screenings in the 1970s and found reliable returns with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in the 1980s. By 2001, the company competed with the major Hollywood studios and reached global box office success with the Lord of the Rings franchise. Blurring boundaries between high and low culture, between independent film and Hollywood, and between the margins and the mainstream, New Line Cinema epitomizes Hollywood's shift in focus from the mass audience fostered by the classic studios to the multitude of niche audiences sought today.
"At long last, a top film scholar takes a deep dive into New Line Cinema's remarkable and most unlikely history. Mining a wealth of primary sources and trade press accounts, and with access to New Line's renegade founder Bob Shaye himself, Daniel Herbert deftly recounts the company's rags-to-riches saga and firmly situates New Line as one of the most important Hollywood studios in the past half century." — THOMAS SCHATZ, author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
"Exhibiting the same archival dexterity he brought to Videoland, Herbert reconsiders how New Line's eclecticism both predicted and reflected broader changes in US film culture of the late twentieth century. This book will revitalize the field of distribution studies." — CAETLIN BENSON-ALLOTT, author of The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
"Focusing on New Line Cinema, an indie outfit rooted in 1960s college-campus film culture that in the 1990s briefly became the tail that wagged the dog at the WB, Herbert crafts a compelling road map of the volatile movie industry of postclassical Hollywood." — JON LEWIS, author of Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the ""tangible phase"" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video sto

Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the ""tangible phase"" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video sto.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Peirce and 'Community' -- Introduction -- 'Community' as a Logical Category -- 'Community' as an Explanation of Reality -- The Ideal 'Community' -- Inquiry, Values, and Socio-historical Research Communities -- Reconstructing Peirce's Community? -- Shared (Instrumental) Values -- A Way of Life -- Identification with Groups and Their Practices -- Mutual Recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The Unity of Pragmatism : Hookway's Contribution to the Tradition -- What's in a Name? Hookway's Reading of Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim -- The Connection between Cognition and Sentiment -- A Pragmatist Account of Epistemic Character: The Task of Improving Epistemic Habits -- Concluding Thoughts: Hookway and British Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Hookway on Peirce on Truth -- Hookway's Approach to Almeder's Puzzle -- Challenges for Hookway's Interpretation -- A More Promising Interpretation: Pragmatics and (Pragmatist) Metaphysics -- Notes -- References Policy for C. S. Peirce -- Chapter 4: Christopher Hookway's Study of Peirce's Development: Modes of Being -- Introduction -- Hookway's 1985 Peirce -- Hookway's 2004 Truth, Rationality and Pragmatism -- Hookway's 2012 The Pragmatic Maxim -- Modes of Being in Peirce's Development -- Peirce as an Aristotelian -- Vagueness -- True Continua -- Modes of Being and the Architectonic System -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Hookway's Exchange with Apel: Peirce and Transcendental Arguments -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Peirce on Vital Matters and the Scientific Method -- Introduction -- Hookway's Solution -- No Science in Vital Matters -- No Belief in Science -- The Conflict with "Fixation" -- Conclusion -- Notes.

AbstractMalignant middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction warranting decompressive craniectomy (DC) is unusual in the population younger than 40 years. Specifically, only a few cases affecting pregnant women have been described in the literature. We present the case of a 39-year-old woman in the 24th week of pregnancy who suffered a right malignant MCA infarction that eventually required DC. The patient delivered a healthy baby and underwent a second surgery for cranioplasty 7 months later. We present both this case and a review of the literature, including all cases of DC in pregnant women published to date.