Green Lantern Corps (2011-) #37

Green Lantern Corps (2011-) #37
Author: Van Jensen
Publisher: DC
Total Pages: 26
Release:
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Godhead Part 13! Continued from GREEN LANTERN (2011- ) #37! John Stewart leads an army of Lanterns of every color in an assault on New Genesis! Getting to the New Gods' home was nearly impossible--and battling them will be worse! Continued in GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS #37!

Godhead

Godhead
Author: Robert Venditti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN: 9781401258474

"Originally published in single magazine form as Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead #1, Green Lantern #35-37, Green Lantern Annual #3, Green Lantern Corps #35-37, Green Lantern: New Guardians #35-37, Red Lanterns #35-37, Sinestro #6-8"--Colophon.

Green Lantern Corps

Green Lantern Corps
Author: Tony Bedard
Publisher: Dc Comics
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781401231408

When an enemy of the Lanterns seizes control of the Alpha Lanterns, Green Lanterns John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, and former Guardian Ganthet must stop them.

Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film

Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film
Author: Hannah Hamad
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113508890X

This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to configure ideal masculinity in paternal terms. It analyses postfeminist fatherhood across a range of genres including historical epics, war films, westerns, bromantic comedies, male melodramas, action films, family comedies, and others. It also explores recurring themes and intersections such as the rejuvenation of aging masculinities through fatherhood, the paternalized recuperation of immature adult masculinities, the relationship between fatherhood in film and 9/11 culture, post-racial discourse in representations of fatherhood, and historically located formations of fatherhood. It is the first book length study to explore the relationship between fatherhood and postfeminism in popular cinema.

Superhero Synergies

Superhero Synergies
Author: James N. Gilmore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442232129

In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more. In a single year alone, films featuring Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers have appeared on the big screen. Popular media no longer exists in isolation, but converges into complex multidimensional entities. As a result, traditional ideas about the relationship between varying media have come under striking revision. Although this convergence is apparent in many genres, perhaps nowhere is it more persistent, more creative, or more varied than in the superhero genre. Superhero Synergies: Comic Book Characters Go Digital explores this developing relationship between superheroes and various forms of media, examining how the superhero genre, which was once limited primarily to a single medium, has been developed into so many more. Essays in this volume engage with several of the most iconic heroes—including Batman, Hulk, and Iron Man—through a variety of academic disciplines such as industry studies, gender studies, and aesthetic analysis to develop an expansive view of the genre’s potency. The contributors to this volume engage cinema, comics, video games, and even live stage shows to instill readers with new ways of looking at, thinking about, and experiencing some of contemporary media’s most popular texts. This unique approach to the examination of digital media and superhero studies provides new and valuable readings of well-known texts and practices. Intended for both academics and fans of the superhero genre, this anthology introduces the innovative and growing synergy between traditional comic books and digital media.

The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies

The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies
Author: Graham Elwood
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1614482217

"The Comedy Film Nerds Guide to Movies" brings what has been missing from movie discussion for too long: A healthy dose of humor. This is the first time ever two filmmakers who are also comedians give their views on film. It will bring movie discussion to a younger audience in a way they can relate to it without all the stodgy film school discussion. This is a movie book for film and comedy fans, by filmmakers and comedians. In the way that Jon Stewart and Bill Mahr have brought comedy to politics, Chris and Graham will do this for film.

Comic Book Film Style

Comic Book Film Style
Author: Dru Jeffries
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1477313273

Superhero films and comic book adaptations dominate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers approach them as texts. Comic Book Film Style explores how the unique conventions and formal structure of comic books have had a profound impact on film aesthetics, so that the different representational abilities of comics and film are put on simultaneous display in a cinematic work. With close readings of films including Batman: The Movie, American Splendor, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, V for Vendetta, 300, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Watchmen, The Losers, and Creepshow, Dru Jeffries offers a new and more cogent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre, repositioning the study of comic book films from adaptation and genre studies to formal/stylistic analysis. He discusses how comic book films appropriate comics’ drawn imagery, vandalize the fourth wall with the use of graphic text, dissect the film frame into discrete panels, and treat time as a flexible construct rather than a fixed flow, among other things. This cinematic remediation of comic books’ formal structure and unique visual conventions, Jeffries asserts, fundamentally challenges the classical continuity paradigm and its contemporary variants, placing the comic book film at the forefront of stylistic experimentation in post-classical Hollywood.

The Modern Superhero in Film and Television

The Modern Superhero in Film and Television
Author: Jeffrey A. Brown
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1317484517

Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumerism after the events of 9/11. Superheroes have long been agents of hegemony, fighting for abstract ideals of justice while overall perpetuating the American status quo. Yet at the same time, the book explores how the genre has also been utilized to question and critique these dominant cultural assumptions.

A Complete History of American Comic Books

A Complete History of American Comic Books
Author: Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781433101076

This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.