Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
26
result(s) for
"Humanity Juvenile fiction."
Sort by:
All in a day
Brief text and illustrations by ten internationally well-known artists reveal a day in the lives of children in eight different countries showing the similarities and differences and emphasizing the commonality of humankind.
Book
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and
helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the
golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid
rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing
government regulation, studios of the 1950s struggled to make and
sell the kinds of films that once were surefire winners. These
conditions, the leading media scholar J. P. Telotte argues,
catalyzed the incredible rise of science fiction.
Though science fiction films had existed since the earliest days
of cinema, the SF genre as a whole continued to resist easy
definition through the 1950s. In grappling with this developing
genre, the industry began to consider new marketing approaches that
viewed films as fluid texts and audiences as ever-changing. Drawing
on trade reports, film reviews, pressbooks, trailers, and other
archival materials, Selling Science Fiction Cinema
reconstructs studio efforts to market a promising new genre and, in
the process, shows how salesmanship influenced what that genre
would become. Telotte uses such films as The Thing from Another
World , Forbidden Planet , and The Blob , as
well as the influx of Japanese monster movies, to explore the
shifting ways in which the industry reframed the SF genre to market
to no-longer static audience expectations. Science fiction
transformed the way Hollywood does business, just as Hollywood
transformed the meaning of science fiction.
eBook
Attack on Titan : Kuklo unbound
Swallowed and regurgitated as an infant by a Titan, an orphan seeks to find and prove himself in this official prequel novel to the smash hit comics series. A stand-along work (whose ongoing manga adaptation is available stateside from Kodansha Comics as Attack on Tital: Before the Fall), Kuklo Unbound offers a rare window into the era preceding the destruction of Wall Maria and features must-know bits like the rebirth of the Survey Corps and rumors of a rogue settlement beyond humanity's cage.
Book
Fear within the Frames: Horror Comics and Moral Danger
Looking back, the moral panic that precipitated the decimation of horror comics in the 1950s seems quaint, yet concerns about the psychological impact of violent media on consumers have never disappeared. In this article, I outline a particular type of psychological impact we ought to take seriously when evaluating the moral status of entertainment. I then consider (a) ways in which comics seem immune from claims that they create this kind of impact for their readers, as well as (b) ways in which we might think that comics generate special instances of moral danger for readers.
Journal Article
Ringer : Gemma ; Ringer : Lyra
\"In the world outside of the Haven Institute, Lyra and Caelum are finding it hard to be human--and Lyra, infected at Haven with a terrible disease, finds her symptoms are growing worse. When Caelum leaves without warning, Lyra follows him, seeking a pioneering organization in Philadelphia that might have a cure. But what they uncover there is a shocking connection to their past, even as their future seems in danger of collapsing. Though Gemma just wants to go back to her normal life after Haven, she soon learns that her powerful father has other plans for the replicas--unless she and her boyfriend Pete can stop him. But they soon learn that they aren't safe either. The Haven Institute wasn't destroyed after all, and now Gemma is the one behind the walls\"--Amazon.com.
BOOK
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England
Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel considers a wide range of well-known and more obscure texts from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, including philosophical writings by Locke and Rousseau, poetry by Coleridge, Blake, and Caroline Norton, works by journalists and reformers like Henry Mayhew and Mary Carpenter, and novels by Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Morrison. Taking up crucial topics such as the linking of children with animals, the figure of the child performer, the relationship between commerce and child endangerment, and the problem of juvenile delinquency, Flegel examines the emergence of child abuse as a subject of legal and social concern in England, and its connection to earlier, primarily literary representations of endangered children. With the emergence of the NSPCC and the new crime of cruelty to children, new professions and genres, such as child protection and social casework, supplanted literary works as the authoritative voices in the definition of social ills and their cure. Flegel argues that this development had material effects on the lives of children, as well as profound implications for the role of class in representations of suffering and abused children. Combining nuanced close readings of individual texts with persuasive interpretations of their influences and limitations, Flegel's book makes a significant contribution to the history of childhood, social welfare, the family, and Victorian philanthropy.
eBook
In a World of Super-Violence, Can Pacifism Pack a Punch?: Nonviolent Superheroes and their Implications
Since at least 1954-the year when Congress, inspired by psychologist Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, investigated comics as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and when the industry implemented in the hearings' wake a Comics Code, nominally active until 2011, that disallowed, among much else, \"[s]cenes of excessive violence\"3 -the relevant debate has tended to center around the literal-minded question of how violence in superhero comics impacts the morals and behavior of readers, especially children.4 Rather than assert whether comic book heroes are good or bad role models for individuals, this article will highlight, in accordance with Marco Arnaudo's suggestion that their stories often employ \"a principle of allegory that is relatively rare in the world of contemporary pop fiction\" (17), their metaphoric value, specifically how they stand for other sorts of superhuman entities. [...]I turn to the question posed in my title:
Journal Article
Delinquent Fiction: Article 15 and the shégués Children in Marie-Louise Mumbu's Samantha à Kinshasa
Article 15 is a popular phrase that represents the many tactics that urban occupants, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Kinshasa in particular, use to bypass apparent powerlessness in the face of hardship. In this article, I explore how Montreal- and Kinshasa-based journalist and writer Marie-Louise Mumbu's 2008 novel Samantha à Kinshasa transposes into fiction the urban delinquency, playfulness, and vibrancy of Article 15, so as to present a narrative version of it that is very much (un)structured like the everyday survival tactics it portrays. Some of the novel's most vibrant characters are the gangs of shégués, or street youth, whose resourcefulness involves navigating the line between legal and criminal activities in order to devise an inventive micro-economy of their own. Mumbu's novel shows the shégués as major characters worthy of space in the streets of Kinshasa and in her novel. Article 15 and the shégués have received scholarly attention as social phenomena; this article draws on this existing scholarship and a close reading of the characters of the shégués in Samantha à Kinshasa to rethink delinquency in its urban and narrative forms.
Journal Article
Globalizing the Local: Irish Film and TV in 2016
Prolific producers such as Rebecca O'Flanagan (Viva, Handsome Devil), Katie Holly (the period film Love and Friendship was one of the year's biggest and most unusual Irish success stories), Rachel Lysaght (Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village, Hostage to the Devil) and Leslie McKimm continued to build business momentum while also being to the forefront of institutional decision processes; Holly and Lysaght were appointed as members of the IFB and McKimm as Project Manager. Output in this format has grown exponentially over the past decade with many festivals running multiple \"new Irish shorts\" programmes to accommodate four IFB funding schemes (documentary, animation, live action and micro narratives), various local and regional initiatives (e.g. Galway Film Centre, Filmbase etc.) and untold numbers of young filmmakers - inside and outside of formal education settings - who produce films that find recognition at festivals around the world. [...]perhaps most usefully for educational contexts - was the IFB funded After '16 project: nine fiction and documentary short films selected from hundreds of applications which were screened at festivals and on RTE and have recently become available in the IFI player. [...]coincidentally or not, RTE placed its chips firmly within TV3 territory by commissioning Screentime Shinawal to produce Dancing With the Stars, a localized version of the BBC's wildly successful Strictly Come Dancing. Since going on air in January 2017, Dancing With the Stars has been the most watched show on Irish television.
Journal Article
Tech-noir film
From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works - including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - are discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, Tech-Noir Film will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the development of this new and highly innovative genre.
eBook