Book Synopsis The Fortress of Solitude by : Jonathan Lethem
Download or read book The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the prize-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, a daring, riotous, sweeping novel that spins the tale of two friends and their adventures in late 20th-century America. This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They live in Brooklyn and are friends and neighbours; but since Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the simplest decisions - what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money - are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is also the story of 1990s America, when nobody cared anymore. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: they would screw up their lives.
Book Synopsis Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction by : Erich Hertz
Download or read book Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction by Erich Hertz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addresses this gap by offering the first full-length study of the relationship between recent music and fiction. With essays from an array of international scholars, the collection focuses on how writers weave rock, punk, and jazz into their narratives, both to develop characters and themes and to investigate various fan and celebrity cultures surrounding contemporary music. Write in Tune covers major writers from America and England, including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, and Jim Crace. But it also explores how popular music culture is reflected in postcolonial, Latino, and Australian fiction. Ultimately, the book brings critical awareness to the power of music in shaping contemporary culture, and offers new perspectives on central issues of gender, race, and national identity.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Multiplex by : Barbara Klinger
Download or read book Beyond the Multiplex by Barbara Klinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media—from cable television and VHS to DVD and the Internet—shape our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema. Barbara Klinger explores topics such as home theater, film collecting, classic Hollywood movie reruns, repeat viewings, and Internet film parodies, providing a multifaceted view of the presentation and reception of films in U.S. households. Balancing industry history with theoretical and cultural analysis, she finds that today cinema's powerful social presence cannot be fully grasped without considering its prolific recycling in post-theatrical venues—especially the home.
Download or read book Superman by Jerry Siegel and published by Dc Comics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Don't miss these tales of Superman's Fortress of Solitude! They're collected here for the first time from SUPERMAN #17, ACTION COMICS #241 and 261, ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #2 and #10, SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL #100, and the hard-to-find DC SPECIAL SERIES #2
Book Synopsis Understanding Jonathan Lethem by : Matthew Luter
Download or read book Understanding Jonathan Lethem by Matthew Luter and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Jonathan Lethem is a study of the novels, short fiction, and nonfiction on a wide range of subjects in the arts by American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Motherless Brooklyn, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel for Gun, with Occasional Music. Matthew Luter explores the key contemporaries of and influences on Lethem, who is the Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College. Luter begins this volume by explaining how Lethem’s innovative and provocative essay on creative appropriation “The Ecstasy of Influence” differs from other writing about influence, suggesting an artistic mode that celebrates thoughtful borrowing. Readings of Lethem’s three major novels follow: taken together, Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City present a novelist coming to terms with the joys and downsides of artistic influence. Motherless Brooklyn pays tribute to and subverts traditional hardboiled detective novels as Lethem plays with the conventions of a favorite (and influential) genre. Fortress dwells obsessively on appreciation and criticism of influential art, as Lethem’s main character spends a lifetime contemplating the complexities of the art he loves, interrogating his own reactions to it, and thinking through the political implications of the ways he has been influenced by that which he consumes. Chronic City depicts the cost of fandom and the dangers of giving over too much of oneself to the art that one loves, dramatized via a character brought nearly to ruin not by the demands of artistic creation, but by obsessive cultural consumption. Borrowing openly and promiscuously from earlier traditions both high and low (experimental fiction, comic books, art film, detective novels), Lethem displays a career-long interest in questioning what literary originality might mean in a postmodern age. Some suggest that such borrowings indicate a literary well that has run dry, making writers such as Lethem mere patchwork artists. Luter argues instead that Lethem’s propensity for wearing his influences and obsessions on his sleeve encourages new thought about originality itself. Out with “it’s all been done” and in with “look at all that’s been done, and all that we can still do with it!”
Download or read book SPIN by and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
Book Synopsis Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction by :
Download or read book Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume explores the various intersections and interconnections of the self and popular music in fiction; it examines questions of musical taste and identity construction across decades, spaces, social groups, and cultural contexts, covering a wide range of literary and musical genres.
Book Synopsis Bright Lights, Big Ass by : Jen Lancaster
Download or read book Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining. Whether she's reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security, harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, or fighting-and losing-the Battle of the Stairmaster- Lancaster explores how silly, strange, and not-so-fabulous real city living can be. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss her big, fat, pink, puffy down parka.
Download or read book Gene Hackman by Peter Shelley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gene Hackman (b. 1930) has been described as the best actor of his generation. During almost half a century as an American film, television and stage actor, film producer and author, he was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor for The French Connection (1971) and the Best Supporting Actor for Unforgiven (1992), as well as three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs. This study examines his film work in detail, with a filmography/videography included.
Download or read book Superman by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Book Synopsis 100 Things Superman Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by : Joseph McCabe
Download or read book 100 Things Superman Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Joseph McCabe and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether you're a die-hard comic book fan from the Golden Age or a new follower of Henry Cavill and Zack Snyder, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Joseph McCabe of Nerdist.com has collected every essential piece of Superman knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom!
Download or read book DC Comics Encyclopedia by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Book Synopsis Reframing the Musical by : Sarah K. Whitfield
Download or read book Reframing the Musical by Sarah K. Whitfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing together contributions from cultural, American and theatre studies for the first time, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on musical theatre history, calling for a radical and inclusive new approach. By questioning ideas about what the musical is about and who it for, this groundbreaking book retells the story of the musical, prioritising previously neglected voices to reshape our understanding of the form. Timely and engaging, this is required reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of musical theatre. It offers an intersectional approach which will also be invaluable for theatre practitioners.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the American Novel by : Abby H. P. Werlock
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 4202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Download or read book Last Seen by Rick Mofina and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Chicago crime reporter’s idyllic home life comes undone when his child disappears in this thriller by the USA Today–bestselling author of Six Seconds. As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal Hudson has journeyed into society’s darkest corners and expose the vilest crimes. But the world he and his wife share with their nine-year-old son is much nicer. They have made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban River Ridge to protect the person most precious to them. Until the unthinkable happens. When their son disappears at a local carnival, the Hudsons’ storybook world is shattered. A frantic search begins to uncover splinters in their carefully crafted facade, revealing secrets that cast just as much suspicion on Cal and his wife as any ill-meaning stranger. It soon becomes clear that the line between love and violence can disappear as suddenly as a child on a chaotic midway.
Download or read book populär by Diana Andrei and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Das Populäre erfreut und zerstreut, wir werden von ihm unentwegt beschallt und bestrahlt. Doch das Populäre entsteht nicht von ungefähr: Es entsteht aus bestimmten gesellschaftlichen Strukturen. Deren Normen formen und modulieren die Popkultur in der gleichen Weise, wie ihre Produkte uns formen und modulieren. In jedem Hit-Song, in jedem Blockbuster, in jeder Kult-Serie zeichnen sich die Spuren dieser Strukturen ab. Diese Spuren nachzuzeichnen war das Ziel der vorliegenden Texte. Unsere Autor*innen sind dicht an jene Artefakte herangetreten, welche uns sonst oft platt und nichtssagend erscheinen. Sie haben jedoch an ihrer schillernden Oberfläche ungemeine Potentiale ausgemacht. Was etwa lässt sich über die wechselseitige Beziehung von Judentum und Queerness anhand einer Amazon Serie sagen? Wie hängen Techno, Gender und Zitat zusammen? Kann die Konstruktion von Männlichkeit mithilfe einer Fernsehwerbung sichtbar gemacht werden? Was passiert, wenn wir Stereotype zerschneiden und neu zusammenkleben? Welchen Strukturen unterliegt unser Musikgeschmack? Machen Emojis Shakespeare subversiver? SYN geht diesen und weiteren Spuren nach und zeigt wohin sie führen, woher sie kommen und worin sie bestehen. Diese Suchbewegung führt von den Rändern des Beliebten, in den Kern des Geliebten und zurück. Wir wünschen eine gute Reise!
Book Synopsis 1000 Facts about Comic Books Vol. 1 by : James Egan
Download or read book 1000 Facts about Comic Books Vol. 1 by James Egan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
