The New Titans (1984-1996) #129
Author: Marv Wolfman
Publisher: DC
Published:
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Titans and their allies prepare for the final battle. How will wildcards Raven and Changeling fit into the coming war?
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Generation Multiplex
Author: Timothy Shary
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-03-07
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 029276071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeneration Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine’s Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded edition reaffirms the idea that films about youth constitute a legitimate genre worthy of study on its own terms. Identifying four distinct subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, and romance—Timothy Shary explores hundreds of representative films while offering in-depth discussion of movies that constitute key moments in the genre, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything . . . , Boyz N the Hood, Scream, American Pie, Napoleon Dynamite, Superbad, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games. Analyzing developments in teen films since 2002, Shary covers such topics as the increasing availability of movies on demand, which has given teens greater access to both popular and lesser-seen films; the recent dominance of supernatural and fantasy films as a category within the genre; and how the ongoing commodification of teen images in media affects real-life issues such as school bullying, athletic development, sexual identity, and teenage pregnancy.
Soccer in a Football World
Author: David Wangerin
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2008-03-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1592138853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Beckham’s arrival in Los Angeles represents the latest attempt to jump-start soccer in the United States where, David Wangerin says, it “remains a minority sport.” With the rest of the globe so resolutely attached to the game, why is soccer still mostly dismissed by Americans? Calling himself “a soccer fan born in the wrong country at nearly the wrong time,” Wangerin writes with wit and passion about the sport’s struggle for acceptance in Soccer in a Football World. A Wisconsin native, he traces the fragile history of the game from its early capitulation to gridiron on college campuses to the United States’ impressive performance at the 2002 World Cup. Placing soccer in the context of American sport in general, he chronicles its enduring struggle alongside the country’s more familiar pursuits and recounts the shifting attitudes toward the “foreign” game. His story is one that will enrich the perspective of anyone whose heart beats for the sport, and is curious as to where the game has been in America—and where it might be headed.
1996 Comic Book Index
Author: Johnny Lauck
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hollywood Story
Author: Joel Waldo Finler
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781903364666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.
2005 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide, 1961 to Present
Author: Maggie Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9780873498289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLists prices for more than 75,000 publishers from 1961 to the present.
Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Book Two
Author: Geoff Johns
Publisher: DC Comics
Published: 2018-02-13
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1401286011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeoff Johns, the writer behind some of DC’s greatest events, including DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH and INFINITE CRISIS, continues his smashing run on the classic TEEN TITANS franchise with TEEN TITANS BY GEOFF JOHNS BOOK TWO. After misadventures in Hollywood and life-changing revelations for Beast Boy in San Francisco, the Teen Titans earn a much-deserved weekend off. While the Titans’ weekends are usually a chance to get away from it all, this time they’re really gone…to the 31st century. There they must help the Legion of Super-Heroes stop a threat known as the Fatal Five Hundred. Their return trip drops them off a mere ten years into the future, but it’s not a place they want to stay. Most of the team are horrified at what they grow up to become and what these adult Titans do to accomplish their goals. In this second volume, Johns teams with Mike McKone (JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED) and other artists for his unforgettable reimagining of one of the DC Universe’s staple titles. Collects BEAST BOY #1-4, TEEN TITANS #13-19, TEEN TITANS/LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES SPECIAL #1 and more.
The Comic Book in America
Author: Mike Benton
Publisher: Taylor Publishing Company (TX)
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of the comic book, looks at publishers and genres, and discusses industry trends.
Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt
Author: Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 113999185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only substantial and up-to-date reference work on the Ptolemaic army. Employing Greek and Egyptian papyri and inscriptions, and building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, it offers a coherent account of how the changing structures of the army in Egypt after Alexander's conquest led to the development of an ethnically more integrated society. A new tripartite division of Ptolemaic history challenges the idea of gradual decline, and emphasizes the reshaping of military structures that took place between c.220 and c.160 BC in response to changes in the nature of warfare, mobilization and demobilization, and financial constraints. An investigation of the socio-economic role played by soldiers permits a reassessment of the cleruchic system and shows how soldiers' associations generated interethnic group solidarity. By integrating Egyptian evidence, Christelle Fischer-Bovet also demonstrates that the connection between the army and local temples offered new ways for Greeks and Egyptians to interact.
Time in Ancient Stories of Origin
Author: Anke Walter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0192582038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive "even now" or "ever since then". Yet, while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of origin undergoes profound changes. By studying a broad range of texts and by closely examining select stories of origin from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying changing attitudes to time: to the interaction of the time of gods and men, to historical time, to change and continuity, as well as to a time beyond the present one. Walter provides a model of how to analyse the temporal construction of aetia, by combining close attention to detail with a view towards the larger temporal agenda of each work. In the process, new insights are provided both into some of the best-known aetiological works of antiquity (e.g. by Hesiod, Callimachus, Vergil, Ovid) and lesser-known works (e.g. Ephorus, Prudentius, Orosius). This volume shows that aetia do not merely convey factual information about the continuity of the past, but implicate the present in ever new complex messages about time.
