American Vampire 1976 (2020-) #9

American Vampire 1976 (2020-) #9
Author: Scott Snyder
Publisher: DC Black Label
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

It’s the beginning of the end. With their numbers cut and only hours left before the Earth cracks and humanity is conquered, the VMS has exhausted every smart defensive strategy. Their last hope is a marathon of increasingly desperate Hail Marys-culminating in a high-speed face-off with the Beast, freshly emerged from Hell in his terrifying final form. Before the score is settled, Travis taps into new powers to rally a surprising source of backup, Felicia takes control of the president’s nukes, Gus fights for freedom, and Skinner and Pearl rehearse an unthinkable farewell.

American Vampire 1976 (2020-) #7

American Vampire 1976 (2020-) #7
Author: Scott Snyder
Publisher: DC Black Label
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Before Skinner and Pearl reunited and the Beast returned-before 1976-the fight to protect humanity persisted. This special anthology issue presents new stories from the unseen era between American Vampire: Second Cycle and American Vampire 1976, bridging the VMS’ turbulent past with a nation’s uncertain future. Jim Book and Pearl will test their new partnership on a mission to uncover new DNA technology in the fight against the Beast, Travis, and Gus enjoy a rare carefree moment in exile, and a deathbed vision reveals the truth about George Washington’s pact with the Council of Firsts and America’s role as a haven for persecuted monsters.

American Vampire 1976

American Vampire 1976
Author: Scott Snyder
Publisher: DC Comics
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1779516177

Paranoia reigns supreme. It’s 1976, and this is the final chapter of the Eisner Award-winning American Vampire! At a seedy motorcycle rally in the desert where Skinner Sweet is closer than ever to his death wish, Pearl Jones and a shocking partner track him down for one last, desperate mission as the series that launched the careers of superstars Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque concludes! Collects American Vampire 1976 #1-10.

American Vampire 1976

American Vampire 1976
Author: Snyder Scott
Publisher: DC COMICS bei Panini Comics
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 3736777213

DAS LETZTE GEFECHT UM DIE SEELE AMERIKAS 1976 scheinen die USA innerlich zu zerbrechen. Das Vertrauen der Öffentlichkeit in die Regierung schwindet immer mehr, im Land machen sich Misstrauen und Paranoia breit. Skinner Sweet, einst der erste amerikanische Vampir, hat seine Unsterblichkeit verloren und damit nicht nur seine Kräfte, sondern auch seine Bestimmung. Jetzt arbeitet er als waghalsiger Motorrad-Stuntfahrer, um sich von der Welt mit einem spektakulären Knall zu verabschieden. Da aber sucht ihn seine ehemalige Feindin Pearl Jones auf, die von Skinner einst zur Vampirin gemacht wurde, und sie hat eine letzte, verzweifelte Mission für ihn: Die Grauen Händler, die der Finsternis dienen, wollen die Hölle auf Erden entfesseln, und das ausgerechnet zur Zweihundertjahrfeier der USA. Nur Skinner und Pearl scheinen sie noch aufhalten zu können ... Ein Horror-Kracher von den Superstars Scott Snyder (BATMAN) und Rafael Albuquerque (ALL-STAR BATMAN), der zugleich das große Finale ihrer preisgekrönten Saga darstellt, die sie einst mit Stephen King begonnen haben. ENTHÄLT: AMERICAN VAMPIRE 1976 1-10

Vampire Films Around the World

Vampire Films Around the World
Author: James Aubrey
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2020-10-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476676739

Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.

American Vampire 1976

American Vampire 1976
Author: Scott Snyder
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1779517246

A living legend's last ride. It's 1976, and America is doomed. Trust between the government and the American public has crumbled, paranoia reigns, and the devil himself is about to unleash hell on Earth—just in time for the nation's bicentennial. American Vampire Skinner Sweet isn’t doing so hot himself. A decade after his last heroic efforts robbed him of immortality, he’s done fighting and determined to go out with a bang—in fact, he’s closer than ever to his death wish when his estranged protégée, Pearl Preston, wields a tempting secret to recruit him for one final mission: the weapon they need to retrieve in order to save the world is also the last hope of restoring Skinner’s powers. But with catastrophe looming and redemption on the line, Skinner, Pearl, and their old teammates will need to put the past behind them before they can change the course of history. Creators SCOTT SNYDER and RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE reunite alongside FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA, TULA LOTAY, and RICARDO LÓPEZ ORTIZ for American Vampire 1976, collecting all 12 issues of the concluding sequel to the Eisner Award-winning American Vampire.

What America Watched

What America Watched
Author: Marsha Ann Tate
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-01-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476680574

Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa. No matter what reasons are cited--the characters, the actors, the plots, the music--television shows that were beloved by audiences in their time remain fondly remembered. This study covers the classic period of popular television shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, focusing on how regular viewers interacted with television shows on a personal level. Bridging popular and scholarly approaches, this book discovers what America actually watched and why through documents, footage, visits to filming locations, newspapers, and magazine articles from the shows' eras. The book features extensive notes and bibliography.

All Y'all

All Y'all
Author: Heidi Siegrist
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2024-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1469682826

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer." The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan speak to this connection between queerness and the South. Heidi Siegrist explores the boundaries of negotiating place and sexuality by using the concept of Southernness—a purposefully fluid idea of the South that extends beyond simple geography, eschewing familiar ideas of the Southern canon. When the connection between queerness and Southerness becomes apparent, Siegrist shows a Southern-branded queer deviance can not only change the way we think about literature but can also change Southern queer people's lived experiences. Siegrist gathers a bevy of undertheorized writers, from Kenan and Truong to Dorothy Allison and even George R. R. Martin, showing that there are many "queer Souths." Siegrist offers these multiverses as a way to appreciate a place that is often unfriendly, even deadly, to queer people. But as Siegrist argues, none of these Souths, from the terrestrial to the imaginary, would be what they are without the influence and power of queer literature.

The medium of Leonora Carrington

The medium of Leonora Carrington
Author: Catriona McAra
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1526161222

Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right, critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her. It explores the work of a remarkable variety of individuals and organisations, including the artists Lucy Skaer, Samantha Sweeting and Lynn Lu, the actress Tilda Swinton, the novelists Chloe Aridjis and Heidi Sopinka and the ensemble Double Edge Theatre. This long-awaited study provides essential reading for both new and established members of the burgeoning Carrington fan club.