Adventure Comics And Youth Cultures In India

Author : Raminder Kaur,Saif Eqbal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429784316

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Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India by Raminder Kaur,Saif Eqbal Pdf

This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary era dominated by creative audio-video-digital outlets. The authors highlight early precedents in adventures set by the avuncular detective Chacha Chaudhary with his ‘faster than a computer brain’, the forays of the film veteran Amitabh Bachchan’s superheroic alter ego called Supremo, the Protectors of Earth and Mankind (P.O.E.M.), along with the exploits of key comic book characters, such as Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruv, Parmanu, Doga, Shakti and Chandika. The book considers how pulp literature, western comics, television programmes, technological developments and major space ventures sparked a thirst for extraterrestrial action and how these laid the grounds for vernacular ventures in the Indian superhero comics genre. It contains descriptions, textual and contextual analyses, excerpts of interviews with comic book creators, producers, retailers and distributers, together with the views, dreams and fantasies of young readers of adventure comics. These narratives touch upon special powers, super-intelligence, phenomenal technologies, justice, vengeance, geopolitics, romance, sex and the amazing potentials of masked identities enabled by navigation of the internet. With its lucid style and rich illustrations, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of popular and visual cultures, comics studies, literature, media and cultural studies, social anthropology and sociology, and South Asian studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367184915

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Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roma Chatterji
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000736977

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Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India by Roma Chatterji Pdf

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist’s rendition of a comic book story, and a commercial project to re-imagine two of India’s most famous epics – the Ramayana and the Mahabharata – as science fiction and superhero tales. It discusses comic books and self-published graphic novels; bardic performance aided with painted scrolls and commercial superhero comics; myths, folklore, and science fiction; and different pictorial styles and genres of graphic narration and storytelling. It also examines the actual process of the creation of comics besides discussions with artists on the tools and location of the comics medium as well as the method and impact of translation and crossover genres in such narratives. With its clear, lucid style and rich illustrations, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of sociology, anthropology, visual culture and media, and South Asian studies, as well as those working on art history, religion, popular culture, graphic novels, art and design, folk culture, literature, and performing arts.

Author : Katarzyna Ancuta
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786838018

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South Asian Gothic by Katarzyna Ancuta Pdf

This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The volume consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures. Gothic in South Asia can be read as a distinctive aesthetic, narrative practice, or a process of signification, where conventional Gothic tropes and imagery are assessed anew and global forms are consumed, appropriated, translated, transformed or resisted. The volume investigates South Asian Gothic as a local variety of international Gothic and part of the transnational category of globalgothic, contributing to the ongoing discussion on the need to de-westernise Gothic methodologies and ensure that Gothic scholarship remains relevant in the culturally-diverse modern world.

Author : Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209792

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Ethnographies of Power by Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar Pdf

Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Author : Natalie Underberg-Goode
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000801958

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Multiplicity and Cultural Representation in Transmedia Storytelling by Natalie Underberg-Goode Pdf

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes. The author employs a combination of research methodologies, including close reading of transmedia texts and interviews with transmedia storytellers and audiences, to better understand the way in which diverse cultures are employed as agents of multiplicity in transmedia narratives. The book addresses both commercial franchises such as superhero narratives, as well as smaller indie projects, in an attempt to elucidate the way in which key cultural symbols and concepts are utilized by writers, designers, and producers, and how these narrative choices affect audiences – both those who identify as members of the culture being represented and those who do not. Case studies include fan fiction based on Marvel’s Black Panther (2018), fan fiction and art created for the Moana (2016) and Mulan (2020) films, and creations by both U.S.-based and international indie comics artists and writers. This book will appeal to scholars and students of new media, narrative theory, cultural studies, sociocultural anthropology, folkloristics, English/literary studies, and popular culture, transmedia storytelling researchers, and both creators and fans of superhero comics.

Author : Rahul Mukherjee
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478009016

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Radiant Infrastructures by Rahul Mukherjee Pdf

In Radiant Infrastructures Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antennas in India—what he calls radiant infrastructures—creates environmental publics: groups of activists, scientists, and policy makers who use media to influence public opinion. In documentaries, lifestyle television shows, newspapers, and Bollywood films, and through other forms of media (including radiation-sensing technologies), these publics articulate contesting views about the relationships between modernity, wireless signals, and nuclear power. From testimonies of cancer patients who live close to cell towers to power plant operators working to contain information about radiation leaks and health risks, discussions in the media show how radiant infrastructures are at once harbingers of optimism about India's development and emitters of potentially carcinogenic radiation. In tracing these dynamics, Mukherjee expands understandings of the relationship between media and infrastructure and how people make sense of their everyday encounters with technology and the environment.

Author : Bradford W. Wright
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801874505

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Comic Book Nation by Bradford W. Wright Pdf

A history of comic books from the 1930s to 9/11.

Author : Chandan Bose
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030125165

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Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana by Chandan Bose Pdf

Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines). In situating the voice of the artisans themselves as the central focus of study, simultaneous and juxtaposing histories of craft practice emerge, through which artisans assemble narratives about work, home, and identity through multiple lenses. These perspectives include: the language artisans use to articulate their experience of materials, materiality, and the physical process of making; the shared and collective memory of practitioners through which they recount the genealogy of the practice; the everyday life of the household and its kinship practices, given the integration of the studio-space and the home-space; the negotiations between practitioners and the nation-state over matters of patronage; and the capacities of artisans to both conform to and affect the practices of the neo-liberal market.

Author : Mohit Sharma (Trendster)
Publisher : Mohit Sharma (Trendster)
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indian Comics Fandom (Vol. 6) by Mohit Sharma (Trendster) Pdf

Events, reviews, interviews, artworks, fanfic, articles and news related to Indian Comics.

Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : Collectors Press, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Comic book covers
ISBN : 9781888054385

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Comic Book Culture by Ron Goulart Pdf

A history of American comic books told almost entirely through reprinted comic book covers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0271038373

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The Aesthetics of Comics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448188567

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Pdf

An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

Author : Anant Pai,Kamala Chandrakant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 8189999184

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Stories of Krishna by Anant Pai,Kamala Chandrakant Pdf

Includes the following titles: Krishna, Krishna and Rukmini, The Syamantaka Gem, Krishna and Jarasandha, Krishna and Narakasura

Author : Martin Olson,Olivia Olson
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781613127704

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Adventure Time by Martin Olson,Olivia Olson Pdf

Explore the weird, hilarious world of Adventure Time™ with this beautifully illustrated 2-in-1 book based on the hit Cartoon Network series. All-new, gorgeous, hilarious, and grotesque illustrations? Ancient wizard lore, spells, curses, and jokes? Memories and mementos from a cute demon girl’s childhood? Goofball commentary by Finn, Jake, Marceline, and the Ice King? Check, check, check, check please! A treasure for any fan of the series, this magical and mysterious tome takes a deep dive into the world of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time™. Aspiring heroes and wizards will find invaluable information in The Enchiridion—the ancient book of Ooo—and true fans will learn everything they ever wanted to know about Marceline the Vampire Queen in her Super Secret Scrapbook. From the creative team behind the New York Times–bestselling Adventure Time Encyclopaedia, this in-world compendium of all things Oooian is a humor-, paradox-, and literary contrivance–filled book true to the imagination, innovation, and heart of Adventure Time™.