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When it premiered on NBC in September 1966, Star Trek was described by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, as “Wagon Train to the stars.” Featuring a racially diverse cast, trips to exotic planets, and encounters with an array of alien beings who could be either friendly or hostile, the program opened up new vistas for television….
As one of the most influential shows of all time, Star Trek continues to engage fans around the world. But its cultural impact has grown far beyond the scope of the original seventy-nine episodes. The show spawned an unprecedented progeny, beginning with Star Trek: The Next Generation, followed by three additional series of space exploration….
From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to…
Michael Jackson desperately wanted to play the X-Men’s mentor, Professor X. Tommy Lee Jones told Jim Carrey he hated him when they first met while working on Batman Forever. Thor was nearly turned into a tv special. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t realize she was in a Spider-Man film for two years. Leonardo DiCaprio tried to make…
Drugged and shackled to the briefcase with gold coins, and to each other, Ryker and Tiara have been left on the yacht to die. To make matters worse, Sasha set a fire onboard, which is beginning to rage. The key is to find a way to be freed, but Ryker wants to take the briefcase…
I remember the things I felt at that bar in the mountains. The music was over… Some songs played on the Jukebox. The tears welled within me. The dusty road outside… I had my whole life ahead of me, a vision of the indescribable future. Tears fell within. Mountain life was different, but it fit…
Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approaches to ‘the creative excess of being’ as expressed through the genre.
After the death of Denmark’s King Hamlet, his ghost appears and tells his son, also called Hamlet, to avenge his wrongful death, which leads to more tragedy. Includes discussion prompts, fun facts, a short biography of Shakespeare, and famous phrases from the play. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Graphic Planet…
Inspired by vintage and folk illustrations, and the Appalachian mountains. Spunky: The Fiddling Band is a book of short, weird, some might say funky songs. Performed by not only the band consisting of a bunny, a frog, an otter, and a beaver but also you! It is highly encouraged that you sing along to the…
Sam, Abby and their friend, Justin, time travel back to 1968 in search of their grandpa’s long-lost guitar. They jam with a local garage band, meet a yet-unknown musical group called The J5s, and discover the groovy world of pop stars, mod clothes and teen idols. But when they locate the stolen guitar, the kids…
When Art Spiegelman’s Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving…
First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her character has grown in popularity with subsequent Marvel films, and fans have been vocal about wanting to see Black Widow in a titular role. Romanoff has potent appeal: a strong female…
This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network’s hit television series Arrow–based on DC Comic’s Green Arrow–and its spin-offs The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office–five of the 11…
Since its debut manga RG Veda, CLAMP has steadily asserted itself as one of the most widely renowned teams of manga artists, leaving a durable imprint in every established genre while also devising novel formulas along the way. Endowed not only with stylistic distinctiveness but also comprehensive cultural structure, CLAMP’s output is distinguished by unique…
This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, and up through the series of Warner Bros. summer blockbusters that climaxed with Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises. Chapters on each Batman feature include extensive film…
Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments. This work explores the graphic novel’s reception in both popular and scholarly arenas and how the conceptual relationship between images and words affects the reading experience. Other topics include heroism as…
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