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Noisemakers : 25 women who raised their voices & changed the world : a graphic collection from Kazoo
\"...a collection of inspiring comics about twenty-five extraordinary women who made a racket, a bang, and uproar! You'll get to know some familiar heroes better, and you'll meet some new ones, too, like a daredevil pilot! A shark whisperer! An undercover spy! All noisemakers, through and through, just like you.\" -- back cover.
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Show Me Where It Hurts
In Show Me Where It Hurts , Monica Chiu argues that
graphic pathography-long-form comics by and about subjects who
suffer from disease or are impaired-re-vitalizes and re-visions
various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn
images. By the body and for the body, the medium is subversive and
reparative, and it stands in contradistinction to clinical accounts
of illness that tend to disembody or objectify the subject.
Employing affect theory, spatial theory, vital materialism, and
approaches from race and ethnic studies, women and gender studies,
disability studies, and comics studies, Chiu provides readings of
recently published graphic pathography. Chiu argues that these
kinds of subjective graphic stories, by virtue of their narrative
and descriptive strengths, provide a form of resistance to the
authoritative voice of biomedicine and serve as a tool to foster
important change in the face of social and economic inequities when
it comes to questions of health and healthcare. Show Me Where
It Hurts reads what already has been manifested on the comics
page and invites more of what demands expression.
Pathbreaking and provocative, this book will appeal to scholars
and students of the medical humanities, comics studies, race and
ethnic studies, disability studies, and women and gender
studies.
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Everything is teeth
The author presents a collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the irresistible forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
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Heroines of comic books and literature
Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men. In Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, editors Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor have selected essays by award-winning contributors that offer a variety of perspectives on the representations of heroines in today’s society. Focused on printed media, this collection looks at heroic women depicted in literature, graphic novels, manga, and comic books. Addressing heroines from such sources as the Marvel and DC comic universes, manga, and the Twilight novels, contributors go beyond the account of women as mothers, wives, warriors, goddesses, and damsels in distress. These engaging and important essays situate heroines within culture, revealing them as tough and self-sufficient females who often break the bounds of gender expectations in places readers may not expect. Analyzing how women are and have been represented in print, this companion volume to Heroines of Film and Television will appeal to scholars of literature, rhetoric, and media as well as to broader audiences that are interested in portrayals of women in popular culture.
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Ruth Asawa : an artist takes shape
\"This graphic biography chronicles the genesis of Ruth Asawa as an artist--from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building her life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking wire sculptures\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books
Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or \"Comix\") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry as a whole. Over-sized and in full color, From Krakow to Krypton is filled with sidebars, cartoon bubbles, comic book graphics, original design sketches, and photographs. It is a visually stunning and exhilarating history.
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RX : a graphic memoir
\"A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Rise of the American Comics Artist
Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic-book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen (1987) revolutionized the former genre in particular. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention beyond comics-specific outlets, as best represented by Art Spiegelman's Maus. Publishers began to collect, bind, and market comics as \"graphic novels,\" and these appeared in mainstream bookstores and in magazine reviews.The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts brings together new scholarship surveying the production, distribution and reception of American comics from this pivotal decade to the present. The collection specifically explores the figure of the comics creator--either as writer, as artist, or as writer and artist--in contemporary U.S. comics, using creators as focal points to evaluate changes to the industry, its aesthetics, and its critical reception. The book also includes essays on landmark creators such as Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, as well as insightful interviews with Jeff Smith (Bone), Jim Woodring (Frank) and Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics). As comics have reached new audiences, through different material and electronic forms, the public's broad perception of what comics are has changed. The Rise of the American Comics Artist surveys the ways in which the figure of the creator has been at the heart of these evolutions.
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Der Traum von Olympia : die Geschichte von Samia Yusuf Omar
The sprinter Samia Yusuf Omar represented Somalia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. However, she was threatened by Islamic extremists who oppose that women play sports. In the hope of being able to participate in the Olympic Games in London, she tried to escape to Europe. Samia Yusuf Omar drowned at age 21 off the coast of Malta in 2012. -- carlsen.de.
Beyond Bombshells
Beyond Bombshellsanalyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality.Beyond Bombshellsexplores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about \"how\" and \"why\" women are capable of physically dominating roles in modern fiction, indicating the various strategies used to contain and/or exploit female violence.
Focusing on a range of successful and controversial recent heroines in the mass media, including Katniss Everdeen fromThe Hunger Gamesbooks and movies, Lisbeth Salander fromThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoonovels and films, and Hit-Girl from theKick-Assmovies and comic books, Brown argues that the role of action heroine reveals evolving beliefs about femininity. While women in action roles are still heavily sexualized and objectified, they also challenge preconceived myths about normal or culturally appropriate gender behavior. The ascribed sexuality of modern heroines remains Brown's consistent theme, particularly how objectification intersects with issues of racial stereotyping, romantic fantasies, images of violent adolescent and preadolescent girls, and neoliberal feminist revolutionary parables.
Individual chapters study the gendered dynamics of torture in action films, the role of women in partnerships with male colleagues, young women as well as revolutionary leaders in dystopic societies, adolescent sexuality and romance in action narratives, the historical import of non-white heroines, and how modern African American, Asian, and Latina heroines both challenge and are restricted by longstanding racial stereotypes.
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