Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special #3

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special #3
Author: Jeremy Lambert
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2023-11-08
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Deep in the dark of the mine, Vivian has found an impossible thing that has no place being there: a fully operational diner in the middle of the cavern, where the jukebox songs are all her favorites and memories abound. It’s a place where Vivian is on display, like it or not, and every buried thing comes to the surface. Here, she is forced to confront her worst memories…and the Mismatch Man himself.

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special #2

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special #2
Author: Jeremy Lambert
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2023-09-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

There’s a monster lurking outside of Minersville, and he’s tired of hiding. Everyone thinks Viv’s crazy. Delusional. That she didn’t see what she saw. Everyone, that is, except the locals. Vivian copes the best way she can—with a visit to the local watering hole—but it’s what happens after that changes everything. The Mismatch Man is hungry, you see…and Vivian’s many wounds have never healed.

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special
Author: Jeremy Lambert
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2024-06-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

This fresh installment of Scott Snyder’s Dark Spaces anthology unearths a monster in the twisted underbelly of Pennsylvania mine country. There’s a monster lurking outside of Minersville, and he’s tired of hiding. Everyone thinks Viv’s crazy. Delusional. That she didn’t see what she saw. Everyone, that is, except the locals. Vivian copes the best way she can—with a visit to the local watering hole—but it’s what happens after that changes everything. The Mismatch Man is hungry, you see…and Vivian’s many wounds have never healed. Jeremy Lambert picks up the torch of Scott Snyder’s chilling Dark Spaces anthology in The Hollywood Special, a new dark tale of intrigue and the bad things people do.

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special #5

Dark Spaces: The Hollywood Special #5
Author: Jeremy Lambert
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2024-01-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

We all wear masks…but Vivian has a thousand, all of them have come back to haunt her and most of them are more monstrous than you could ever imagine. The haunting memory of Vivian’s ex-husband threatens to destroy Vivian’s psyche, along with her desperate search for Molly. Lou tries to find Vivian but instead finds himself drowning in his own past, facing demons he hoped to NEVER see again.

Dark Spaces: Dungeon #3

Dark Spaces: Dungeon #3
Author: Scott Snyder
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2024-02-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Detective Madoc spent three years in the Dungeon, changing his body and mind forever. He’s getting perilously close to discovering the mysteries the Dungeon contained and who was responsible for keeping him inside. But the Dungeon Master doesn’t want those secrets revealed and will do what is necessary to destroy everything Madoc escaped with. This latest collaboration between Scott Snyder (Dark Nights: Death Metal) and Hayden Sherman (Detective Comics), the team behind Dark Spaces: Wildfire, takes the Dark Spaces horror anthology series to chilling new places. You might have to cover your eyes to read it!

The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative

The Black Imagination, Science Fiction and the Speculative
Author: Sandra Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317982150

This book expands the discourse as well as the nature of critical commentary on science fiction, speculative fiction and futurism – literary and cinematic by Black writers. The range of topics include the following: black superheroes; issues and themes in selected works by Octavia Butler; selected work of Nalo Hopkinson; the utopian and dystopian impulse in the work of W.E. B. Du Bois and George Schuyler; Derrick Bell’s Space Traders; the Star Trek Franchise; female protagonists through the lens of race and gender in the Alien and Predator film franchises; science fiction in the Caribbean Diaspora; commentary on select African films regarding near-future narratives; as well as a science fiction/speculative literature writer’s discussion of why she writes and how. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities: An International Journal.

Alien: the Original Screenplay

Alien: the Original Screenplay
Author: Cris Seixas
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2020
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506717667

In 1976, Twentieth Century Fox bought a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon entitled Star Beast. Three years later with Ridley Scott at the helm, Alien was unleashed on unsuspecting filmgoers. En route to back to Earth, the crew of the starship Snark intercepts an alien transmission. Their investigation leads them to a desolate planetoid, a crashed alien spacecraft, and a pyramidic structure of unknown origin. Then the terror begins . . . Writer Cristiano Seixas and artist Guilherme Balbi have attempted to stay true to the characters, settings, and creatures described in O'Bannon's original screenplay--without replicating the famous designs of Ron Cobb, Moebius, and H.R. Giger. A new experience, but still terrifying! Collects Alien: The Original Screenplay issues #1-#5.

Criminalization/Assimilation

Criminalization/Assimilation
Author: Philippa Gates
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813589436

Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood’s responses to social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration, racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact of industry factors including the Production Code and star system on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films, Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important alternatives to Hollywood’s yellowface fabrications of Chinese identity and a resistance to Hollywood’s Orientalist narratives.

Writing in Space, 1973–2019

Writing in Space, 1973–2019
Author: Lorraine O'Grady
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 147801265X

Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume contains statements, scripts, and previously unpublished notes charting the development of her performance work and conceptual photography; her art and music criticism that appeared in the Village Voice and Artforum; critical and theoretical essays on art and culture, including her classic "Olympia's Maid"; and interviews in which O'Grady maps, expands, and complicates the intellectual terrain of her work. She examines issues ranging from black female subjectivity to diaspora and race and representation in contemporary art, exploring both their personal and their institutional implications. O'Grady's writings—introduced in this collection by critic and curator Aruna D'Souza—offer a unique window into her artistic and intellectual evolution while consistently plumbing the political possibilities of art.