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Explores the history of Batgirl from her groundbreaking comics debut to her disappointing live-action appearances and beyond in an “appealing, comprehensive, and enjoyable tour of Batgirl’s many iterations.” (Booklist)For over sixty years, every woman who took on the mantle of Batgirl has been a powerful, independent heroine, each belying the sidekick status the name implies…
The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood. In combining theories of adaptation with close textual analysis, James C. Taylor provides a set of analytical tools with which to undertake nuanced exploration of superhero blockbusters’ meanings. This deep understanding of the…
Journey back through American mid-century Doo Wop motel architecture, with the largest collection and in one of the birthplaces of rock n’ roll – Wildwood, New Jersey!… Learn about the legend and folklore surrounding the motel architecture movement named after the touring vocal groups of the day, and how an era of optimism inspired hundreds…
“Orbit: Movie Magic: The Illustrated History of Film” explores the revolutionary first hundred years of motion pictures from Edison’s whirring kinetoscope to the galaxy-shaking impact of Star Wars. This 22-page comic charts the rise of silent pioneers, the Golden Age studio system, global movements like German Expressionism and Soviet montage, and the audacious auteurs who…
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST THE MANGA AND THE ANIME POCKET GUIDE By Jeremy Mark Robinson Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, 2001-2010) is a long-running manga by Himoru Arakawa (b. 1973, Hokkaido), a masterwork of narrative art of recent times which led to the production of two truly magnficent animé series in 2003-2004 and 2009-2010. The Fullmetal Alchemist…
Before streaming, before cable, before television was a flickering box that lit up the American living room and reshaped our culture, there was an inventor with a dream. “Orbit: Television-The Medium That Changed the World” is a 22-page, full-color comic anthology exploring the creators, rebels, and quiet revolutionaries behind the medium that changed how we…
Fans of Batman are used to seeing the Caped Crusader associate with the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman, but what if one were to put the Dark Knight into the company of figures such as Beowulf, Robin Hood, Oedipus, and Sun Tzu, among others? This is the first book to compare famous Batman graphic…
Remember when long-haired British rock ‘n’ rollers made teenage girls swoon — and their parents go crazy? Britmania plunges into the period when suddenly, America went wild for All Things British. This profusely illustrated full-color hardback, subtitled “The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture,” explores the movies (A Hard Day’s Night, Having a…
Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero’s unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation…
In both literature and film, mutants, androids, and aliens have long functioned as humanity’s Other–nonhuman bodies serving as surrogates to explore humanity’s prejudice, bigotry, and hatred. Scholars working in fields of feminism, ethnic studies, queer studies, and disability studies, among others, have deconstructed representations of the Othered body and the ways these fictional depictions provide…
In both literature and film, mutants, androids, and aliens have long functioned as humanity’s Other–nonhuman bodies serving as surrogates to explore humanity’s prejudice, bigotry, and hatred. Scholars working in fields of feminism, ethnic studies, queer studies, and disability studies, among others, have deconstructed representations of the Othered body and the ways these fictional depictions provide…
Representations of lead female characters in superhero film and television often reinforce tropes that portray women, especially those who are non-White and gender non-conforming, as sexually threatening, deceptive, hysterical, or inherently evil. These depictions were created alongside early pulp fiction and comic books that targeted White, working-class, male audiences, where figures such as Dragon Lady…
The extraordinary and shocking history of comic books, superheroes, and the films they inspire. This book answers all the age-old questions! Is Superman the first superhero? Why did movie studios reject Batman in the 80s? What would Marvel be without Stan Lee? Who’s winning the war between DC and Marvel? What happened to James Cameron’s…
Frank Capra is an icon of American popular culture. But he is so much more than simply the director of It’s a Wonderful Life, the most beloved Christmas movie of all time. TidalWave’s comic book biography traces the course of Capra’s life from penniless immigrant to Hollywood royalty, and examines his unique and invaluable contribution…
Are comics just storyboards for films that would be too expensive to ever actually commit to celluloid? Are movies just comics with added motion? These two media have become more closely tied in recent years, thanks to a bevy of comic-book adaptations, and seem naturally related. Both are comprised of visual storytelling techniques that would…
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