Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
ISBN: 9780061992117 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Sean Howe's history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world...That it's all true is just frosting on the cake." "Exhaustively researched and artfully assembled, this book is a historical exploration, a labor of love, and a living illustration of how the weirdest corners of the counterculture can sometimes become the culture-at-large." In the early 1960s, Marvel Comics introduced a series of bright-costumed superhero... "Sean Howe's history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdo... |
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76,88 zł |
Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology
ISBN: 9780810885868 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that also affects, transforms, and unites a wide range of disciplines, such as art, music, film, television, fashion, new media, and material culture. In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller have assembled a collection of essays that consider the...
A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and v...
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658,43 zł |
Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9781617032356 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One Hundred Demons ), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) has branched out to incorporate plays, paintings, radio commentary, and lectures. With a combination of simple, raw drawings and mature, eloquent text, Barry's oeuvre blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir, comics and literary fiction, and fantasy and reality. Her recent volumes What It Is (2008) and Picture This (2010) fuse autobiography,... Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and gra... |
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215,70 zł |
Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology
ISBN: 9780810893153 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that also affects, transforms, and unites a wide range of disciplines, such as art, music, film, television, fashion, new media, and material culture. In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller have assembled a collection of essays that consider the...
A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and v...
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163,80 zł |
Mechademia 9: Origins Volume 9
ISBN: 9780816695355 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
The essays brought together in Mechademia 9 lead us to understand the extent to which "Japan" might be seen as an idea generated by anime, manga, and other texts...
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114,06 zł |
Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law
ISBN: 9781138787995 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today's world. Far from being unsophisticated mass entertainment, comics and graphic fiction both imbue our contemporary culture, and are themselves imbued, with the concerns of law and justice. Accordingly, and spanning a wide variety of approaches and topics from an international array of contributors, Graphic Justice draws comics and graphic fiction into the range of critical resources available to the academic study of law. The first book to do this, Graphic... The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today's world. Far from being ... |
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778,05 zł |
Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villanesses of Golden Age Comics
ISBN: 9781935259275 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance Between the covers of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, fans will rediscover the original bad girls of comics--as fierce and full of surprises as they were when the comic book industry was born. From murderous Madame Doom to He-She, dubbed by io9 as "the most unsung comic book villain ever," Mike Madrid resurrects twenty-two glorious evildoers in fully reproduced comics and explores the ways they both transcend and become ensnared in a web of cultural...
"Mike Madrid is doing God's work. . . . mak ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." --ComicsAlliance Between the co...
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81,12 zł |
Chester Brown: Conversations
ISBN: 9781496802521 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown (b. 1960) quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality and originality of his Yummy Fur (1983-1994). Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines. It also includes original... The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing an... |
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185,79 zł |
The Star Trek Universe: Franchising the Final Frontier
ISBN: 9781442249851 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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. Film versions featuring Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and other original crew members first appeared in 1979, followed by a number of successful sequels and ultimately a reboot of the original show. From the modest ambitions of the show's creator, Gene...
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 th...
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442,26 zł |
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
ISBN: 9781611688214 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2016) In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection--which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor--seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups...
Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2016) In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection--which gathers scholars in...
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191,10 zł |
Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
ISBN: 9780295994956 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art. As the first detailed investigation of Black women's participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence examines the representation, production, and transnational... Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald... |
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487,58 zł |
Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
ISBN: 9780295994963 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of sequential art. As the first detailed investigation of Black women's participation in comic art, Black Women in Sequence examines the representation, production, and transnational... Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald... |
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134,81 zł |
Gene Basset's Vietnam Sketchbook: A Cartoonist's Wartime Perspective
ISBN: 9780815610571 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1965, Gene Basset, a well-known political cartoonist, was sent to Vietnam In 1965, Gene Basset, a well-known political cartoonist, was sent to Vietnam |
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106,63 zł |
The Superhero Response: How 9/11 Changed Our Superheroes and Why It Matters
ISBN: 9780985806125 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spider-Man could not stop disaster. Superman abandoned earth. Batman lost a war to madness. Captain America was assassinated. The post-9/11 world has been dangerous for superheroes. Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, superheroes have grown darker, more realistic, and more fallible and flawed than ever before. The scary part is what their transformation says about all of us. Filled with in-depth analysis and thought- provoking questions, The Superhero Response is sure to fascinate die-hard fans and casual readers alike.
Spider-Man could not stop disaster. Superman abandoned earth. Batman lost a war to madness. Captain America was assassinated. The post-... |
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44,82 zł |
Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon
ISBN: 9780813587516 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he still be an American icon when the country itself has undergone so much change?
Superman: Persistence of an American Icon examines the many iterations of the character in comic books, comic strips, radio series, movie serials, feature films, television shows, animation, toys, and collectibles over the past eight decades. Demonstrating how Superman's iconic popularity cannot be attributed to any single creator or text, comics expert... After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he still b...
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181,55 zł |
Historicising Transmedia Storytelling: Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds
ISBN: 9781138217690 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling typically branded a product of the contemporary digital media landscape this book provides a historicised intervention into understandings of how fictional stories flow across multiple media forms. Through studies of the storyworlds constructed for The Wizard of Oz, Tarzan, and Superman, the book reveals how new developments in advertising, licensing, and governmental policy across the twentieth century enabled historical systems of transmedia storytelling to emerge, thereby providing a valuable contribution to the growing field... Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling typically branded a product of the contemporary digital media landscape this book provi... |
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752,12 zł |
Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon
ISBN: 9780813587523 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he still be an American icon when the country itself has undergone so much change?
Superman: Persistence of an American Icon examines the many iterations of the character in comic books, comic strips, radio series, movie serials, feature films, television shows, animation, toys, and collectibles over the past eight decades. Demonstrating how Superman's iconic popularity cannot be attributed to any single creator or text, comics expert... After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he still b...
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695,06 zł |
Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law
ISBN: 9781138241664 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today s world. Far from being unsophisticated mass entertainment, comics and graphic fiction both imbue our contemporary culture, and are themselves imbued, with the concerns of law and justice. Accordingly, and spanning a wide variety of approaches and topics from an international array of contributors, Graphic Justice draws comics and graphic fiction into the range of critical resources available to the academic study of law. The first book to do this, Graphic... The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today s world. Far from being ... |
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280,05 zł |
Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us about Impactful Leadership
ISBN: 9781683501930 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you a bit of a lone wolf, who is stirred into leading through a crisis - like Wolverine? Or do you exhibit the overachieving prowess of a Superman? Or perhaps your experience makes you a bit more of a Father Figure, like the mighty Optimus Prime? Superheroes play a huge part in popular culture, and beyond. They inspire people and make them aspire to greatness. One reason they seem larger than life is their willingness to sacrifice and their impressive strength of character - which translates into remarkable leadership ability. Lead Like a Superhero goes in depth into...
Are you a bit of a lone wolf, who is stirred into leading through a crisis - like Wolverine? Or do you exhibit the overachieving prowess of a Su...
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76,71 zł |
Retcon Game: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America
ISBN: 9781496811325 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The superhero Wolverine time travels and changes storylines. On Torchwood, there's a pill popped to alter memories of the past. The narrative technique of retroactive continuity seems rife lately, given all the world-building in comics. Andrew J. Friedenthal deems retroactive continuity, or -retconning, - as a force with many implications for how Americans view history and culture. Friedenthal examines this phenomenon in a range of media, from its beginnings in comic books and now its widespread shift into television, film, and digital media. Retconning has reached its present... The superhero Wolverine time travels and changes storylines. On Torchwood, there's a pill popped to alter memories of the past. The narrativ... |
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664,42 zł |