A Tour Of Fabletown

Author : Neta Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476624013

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A Tour of Fabletown by Neta Gordon Pdf

In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham’s Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures—Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others—as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City, having fled their storied homeworlds following an invasion. After 150 issues and many awards, Fables concluded its run in July 2015. This study, the first about the sprawling, complex series, discusses such topics as Fables’ status as a contemporary adaptation of folk and fairy tales; its use of conventional genres like sword-and-sorcery, crime and romance; its portrayal of social and political relationships; and its self-referential moments. Providing a detailed introduction to the themes and ideas in the series, the author explores how Fables portrays redemption, the function of community, and how our hopes and fears influence our ideal of “happily ever after.”

Author : Neta Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786499854

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A Tour of Fabletown by Neta Gordon Pdf

In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham's Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures--Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others--as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City, having fled their storied homeworlds following an invasion. After 150 issues and many awards, Fables concluded its run in July 2015. This study, the first about the sprawling, complex series, discusses such topics as Fables' status as a contemporary adaptation of folk and fairy tales; its use of conventional genres like sword-and-sorcery, crime and romance; its portrayal of social and political relationships; and its self-referential moments. Providing a detailed introduction to the themes and ideas in the series, the author explores how Fables portrays redemption, the function of community, and how our hopes and fears influence our ideal of "happily ever after."

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401236045

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Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham Pdf

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. In the Fables- world, there isn-t a lot of happily-ever-after to go around. As refugees from the lands of make-believe, the Fables have been driven from their storybook realms and forced to blend in with our gritty, mundane reality. Includes the 4-part story "Storybook Love." Also included are the 2-part "A Sharp Operator" and the single-issue tales "Bag o' Bones" and "Barleycorn Brides." Collects 11-18 of creator Bill Willingham-s celebrated Vertigo series.

Author : Pauline Greenhill,Jill Terry Rudy,Naomi Hamer,Lauren Bosc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317368793

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures by Pauline Greenhill,Jill Terry Rudy,Naomi Hamer,Lauren Bosc Pdf

From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.

Author : Claudia Schwabe
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814341971

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Craving Supernatural Creatures by Claudia Schwabe Pdf

Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401236151

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Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages by Bill Willingham Pdf

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic-book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all. Collects issues #76-82 in Bill Willingham-s Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175032935531

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill Willingham,Matthew Sturges
Publisher : DC
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401236175

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Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham,Matthew Sturges Pdf

WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. As the free Fables struggle to regroup following the destruction of their New York City stronghold, they are suddenly faced with a new menace-one who threatens not only their adopted planet, but all of reality itself! Against such terrible power, can even the combined abilities of these legendary storybook heroes prevail? Only one thing is certain: Once battle is joined, the world of Fables will never be the same! All nine issues of the long-awaited crossover between Vertigo's two popular series FABLES and JACK OF FABLES are collected in this volume: FABLES issues #83-85, JACK OF FABLES issues #33-35, and THE LITERALS issues #1-3.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T0929000055001

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Cinderella: Fables are Forever (2011) #5 by Chris Roberson Pdf

Cinderella barely survived her last encounter with her longtime nemesis, and if she's going to come out on top the next time they meet she'll need a lot of luck--especially when tracking the assassin all the way to the Deadly Desert of Oz.

Author : Alexander C. Irvine
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0756641225

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The Vertigo Encyclopedia by Alexander C. Irvine Pdf

DC Comics' innovative imprint for mature readers, Vertigo, is ready to follow in the footsteps of the successful "Marvel Encyclopedia" and "DC Comics Encyclopedia" with this ultimate guide to the most influential comics of our time, and their creators Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and others.DC Comics

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135204341

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Why Fairy Tales Stick by Jack Zipes Pdf

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779511843

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Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One by Bill Willingham Pdf

For the first time ever, Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition collecting issues #1-10. When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. When Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff, the reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to find the killer. Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables' upstate farm where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution – and threatening Fabletown's carefully nurtured secrecy.

Author : Gerard Way
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:18371

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The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1 by Gerard Way Pdf

Once, the Umbrella Academy was unstoppable. Under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr. Reginald Hargreeves, its members spent their childhoods fighting evil and honing their extraordinary gifts. Until something went terribly wrong. Now, nine years later, the estranged members of the Umbrella Academy are reunited by the death of the only parent they've ever known and the rise of a new and terrible threat. Will they be able to overcome their history for long enough to save the worldone more time? Conceived and written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, _The Umbrella Academy_ features interior art by Eisner Award-winning artist Gabriel B�� (_De:Tales_), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (_Fables_). **2008 Eisner Award winnerBest Limited Series and Best Cover Artist!**

Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317134657

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Jason Marc Harris Pdf

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

Author : Tarquin Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416584025

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The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall Pdf

The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review). Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives—Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream—Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.