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How Obelix fell into the magic potion
All of the Asterix stories feature references to Obelix falling into the Druid's Cauldron of magic potion when he was about six years old. This was the event through which he derived his phenomenal physical strength. Here is the full story of how it happened.
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From Blofeld to Moneypenny: Gender in James Bond
Since its inception, 007 has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience, and the franchise is now available over multiple media platforms, including movie, comic strips, games, graphic novels and fashion statements. This edited collection examines the role that gender has played across the platforms that the James Bond franchise now occupies.
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China and the Chinese in Popular Film
There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants of The Good Earth and Dragon Seed fighting against Japanese invasion in wartime tributes to the West's ally, Nationalist China. The cinema's split level response is also traced through the images of the ultimate Oriental villain, the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu and the timeless Chinese hero, the intelligent and benevolent detective Charlie Chan.Filling a longstanding gap in Cinema and Cultural History, the book is founded in fresh research into Hollywood's shifting representations of China and its people.
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Jack Kirby : 100th celebration collection
\"Long live the king! He was one of the most gifted artists and influential storytellers of the 20th century. He pioneered entire genres and co-created whole universes with the stroke of a pencil. He is Jack Kirby, the King of Comics. Now DC celebrates his 100th birthday with this all-star collection of all-new stories featuring some of this visionary master's greatest creations! Enter the dangerous dreamworld of Sandman, the Master of Nightmares! Battle for control the mean streets of World War II-era New York City with the Newsboy Legion and the Boy Commandos! Escape certain death with Shilo \"Mister Miracle\" Norman as he runs from the clutches of the Black Racer! Fight the crime wave of the century with the masked vigilante called Manhunter! Burn in the fiery nether world of Etrigan the Demon! And tremble before the awesome evil of the Lord of Apokolips hmself ... Darkseid!\" -- Page 4 of cover.
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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce's Dublin, and Ulysses
A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the
writing of James Joyce
In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853 ‒
1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced
James Joyce's creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well
as Ulysses 's broader themes surrounding race, nationalism,
and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals
parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the
experience of double marginalization-which Altman felt as both a
Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire-is a major
idea explored in Joyce's work.
Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in
municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and
frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce's
youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in
the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most
identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman's
career on the Dubliners story \"Ivy Day in the Committee
Room,\" as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses . Through
Altman's biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that
illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce's
Dublin.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian
D. G. Knowles
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The tragedy of Othello : the moor of Venice
Seeing Shakespeare, a new series from David Zwirner Books, brings the world's leading contemporary artists together with William Shakespeare. Featuring covers designed by the artists and illustrations throughout, these editions of Shakespeare's plays are created with a whole new generation in mind, one of readers and art lovers alike. 'Othello' is one of Shakespeare's most contemporary and moving plays, with its emphasis on race, revenge, murder, and lost love. Chris Ofili's new edition highlight's the tragedy of Othello's plight in ways no other previous edition of this play has. In twelve etchings Ofili has produced to illustrate this play, Othello is depicted with tears in his eyes, which flow below various scenes visualized in his forehead. Ofili asks us to see in Othello the great injustices that still plague the world today. These images add feeling to Shakespeare's words, and together they form their own hybrid object-something between a book and a visual retelling of the tragedy. With a foreword by the renowned critic Fred Moten, this edition is the first of its kind and puts Othello's blackness and interiority front and center, forcing us to confront the complex world that ultimately dooms him. The first play in the 'Seeing Shakespeare', 'Othello' is illustrated by English contemporary artist Chris Ofili. Future titles in the series include 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' illustrated by Marcel Dzama, and 'The Merchant of Venice' with images by Jordan Wolfson.
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Can You Forgive Her?
This revealing romp through proper society follows three different women who dare to defy Victorian standards.
Can You Forgive Her? comically intertwines the stories of three very independent-minded women who each desires to decide her own fate in a world where love comes second to obedience and familial expectations set them apart from their peers.
First and foremost is the spirited Alice Vavasor, whose indecision and repeated rejections of two different swains have made her a woman of both substance and suspicion. Equally determined to have her way is the recently widowed Mrs. Greenow, who was married to a wealthy man at a young age, and who can now decide whom she will take as a husband. And finally, there is the tale of the brazen, free-thinking Glencora M'Cluskie, including her rocky marriage to the loving—but hardheaded—Plantagenet Palliser, whose powerful family appears throughout Anthony Trollope's works.
In this classic novel of social satire, Trollope's deft humor and biting examination of the lives and legacies of high society remain as entertaining and inviting as ever.
Can You Forgive Her? is the 1st book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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