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House of fear : attack of the killer snowmen
\"It's Scooby-Doo meets Tales from the Crypt--welcome to the House of Fear, your new home for scary comics. Boyle, the creepy caretaker, presents five frightening tales of ... suspense and ... adventure\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reading bande dessinée
Bande dessinée, or French comic strip, has always provoked controversy--labeled a danger to literacy and moral standards by its detractors, this polarizing art form has at the same time been deemed worthy of prestigious national centers in France and Belgium. Reading Bande Dessinée, the first English-language overview and critical study of this intriguing medium, traces the history and examines the cultural implications of French comics. Ann Miller's groundbreaking book not only parses bande dessinée as visual narrative art, but it shows readers how to study it, as she places these comic strips in the context of debates surrounding the form's legitimization, approaches it from a cultural studies perspective, and examines bande dessinée in its relationship to subjectivity in the body. Miller here illuminates such disparate concepts as Astérix and the mythologizing of Frenchness, historical memory and the Algerian war, and characterizations of the new managerial bourgeoisie in the context of Francophone comic strips. Reading Bande Dessinée will help lay a scholarly foundation for the growing interest in this captivating art form in the Anglophone world. \"[Miller's] analysis ranges from psychoanalytic to Marxist interpretations and is a terrific introduction to this neglected aspect of the comic world.\"--Roger Sabin, Observer \"The characteristics of Ann Miller's writing for me abound in this latest work; concise prose, beautifully crafted sentences, complex analysis illustrated with crystal clear exemplification. This is a work for a wide readership. It is a work for enriching subject knowledge for teachers and students of French and/or the visual arts at advanced levels.\"--Ann Swarbrick, Language Learning Journal \"The work provides both a key analysis for scholars of the bande dessinée, as well as a manual for a modern application of
critical theory.\"--Dr. Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow \"This exceptional work of synthesis by Ann Miller must be applauded. She succeeds in providing a detailed and complete panorama of bande dessinée a cultural phenomenon, an achievement which is all the more remarkable given that the author makes successive use of multiple scholarly approaches, moving from the cultural history of the production and reception of bande dessinée to the theoretical reflections on the medium, the sociological analysis and the problematic of the autobiographical self in graphic literature.\"--Harry Morgan.
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Mummies!
A few basic facts about mummies and the story of the 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb.
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Public Heroes, Secret Jews: Jewish Identity and Comic Books
By 1938 there was a syndicated comic strip, and in 1948 The Lone Ranger comic book series began its 145-issue run.1 These visual representations created the now iconic look of a man in a simple black domino mask, which was enough of a disguise that no one could recognize the man under the mask. A mask simply diverts the eye (or the paint) for a brief time until it is removed, and the underlying reality is once again revealed, unchanged and unharmed. [...]when a superhero wears a mask the version of her that sits below the mask exists simultaneously with the version of her that wears the mask. In Disguised as Clark Kent, Danny Fingeroth writes, \"as part of their assimilation into America, Jews became deeply involved in creating the modern myths that infuse our pop culture. \"6 Yet, he says, many of the Jewish creators of comic books argue that their personal Jewishness was not important, or that they were just telling universal stories: \"According to this viewpoint, if there was any Jewish mythological basis for the superheroes that emerged from comics, it was fueled by the same Bible tales to which every child in Western society is exposed, as often as not in a nonreligious, nonethnic context.
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Mermaids
Describes the myth of mermaids, presenting a graphic retelling of a Celtic tale about their powers and summaries of other tales about their origins.
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Wonder woman and philosophy
Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique explores a wide range of philosophical questions surrounding the most popular female superhero of all time, from her creation as feminist propaganda during World War II up to the first female lead in the blockbuster DC movie-franchise. - The first book dedicated to the philosophical questions raised by the complex and enduringly iconic super-heroine - Fighting fascism with feminism since 1941, considers the power of Wonder Woman as an exploration of gender identity and also that of the human condition – what limits us and what we can overcome - Confronts the ambiguities of Wonder Woman, from her roles as a feminist cause and fully empowered woman, to her objectification as sexual fantasy - Topics explored include origin stories and identity, propaganda and art, altruism and the ethics of care, Amazonians as transhumanists, eroticism and graphic novels, the crafting of a heroine, domination, relationships, the ethics of killing and torture, and many more.
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Werewolves!
This volume looks at some of the legends surrounding werewolves and then follows a true tale of a mysterious beast that ravaged the countryside in south-central France in the mid-1700s, killing at least 60 people.
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Fast Forwarding through Turkey's Last Ten Years with Ordinary Things
Over the last decade the webcomic Ordinary Things has documented the observations of graphic artist Özge Samancı on topics including: childhood, growing up, adolescence, attachment, dependency, deification, obsessions, passions, gaining insight, non-defensive listening, self-exploration, eavesdropping on others' conversations, accepting, judging, superficiality, presence, movement and pleasure, fear and pleasure, decision making, transportation, transformation, forgiving, and gender roles. This article provides a sampling of her work and observations on Turkey since 2006.
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