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Harry Potter, Still Recruiting

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1936294176

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Harry Potter, Still Recruiting by Valerie Estelle Frankel Pdf

The Harry Potter phenomenon has created a new world: one of Quidditch in the park, lightning earrings, endless parodies, a new genre of music, and fan conferences of epic proportions. This book attempts to document everything - exploring costuming, crafting, gaming, and more, with essays and interviews straight from the multitude of creators. At last, this groundbreaking moment of pop culture is brought to light, from the amazing philanthropic triumphs of the Harry Potter Alliance to the many camps and classrooms that have welcomed Harry into their halls. Today's internet age has formed a new kind of reader: one who devours 800-page books and then creates fanfiction, art, videos, real-life adventures, and more, reimagining the series to reflect a new growing consciousness. From children to adults, fans are delighting the world with an explosion of captivating activities and experiences, all based on Rowling's delightful series.

I Wanna Wrock!

Author : Paul A. Thomas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476673035

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I Wanna Wrock! by Paul A. Thomas Pdf

"Wizard rock"--music based on the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling--is an idiosyncratic subgenre, with band names like Harry and the Potters, Draco and the Malfoys and The Whomping Willows. Drawing on input from insiders and fans, and interviews with more than a dozen wizard rockers, this book explores the history and aesthetics of the movement. An appendix lists dozens of popular bands, members and discographies: a must-have for fandom scholars and wizard rock devotees alike.

Playing Harry Potter

Author : Lisa S. Brenner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476621364

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Playing Harry Potter by Lisa S. Brenner Pdf

Through classroom activities, wizard rock concerts, and organizations like the Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter fans are using creativity to positively impact the world. This collection of essays and interviews examines how playful fandom--from fanfiction to Muggle quidditch, cosplay, role-playing games, and even Harry Potter burlesque--not only reimagines the canon but also challenges consumerism, questions notions of identity, and fosters participatory culture. The contributors explore issues applicable to fan studies and performance studies at large, such as the role of performance, the nature of community, and questions of representation and ownership in the digital age. Presented in three parts, the essays discuss discrepancies between sanctioned versions of Harry Potter and fan creations, the reenactment and reinterpretation of the original narrative in fan performance, and collaborative and participatory performances that break down the boundaries between actors and audiences.

Harry Potter and Convergence Culture

Author : Amanda Firestone,Leisa A. Clark
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476632537

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Harry Potter and Convergence Culture by Amanda Firestone,Leisa A. Clark Pdf

Since the 1997 publication of the first Harry Potter novel, the "Potterverse" has seen the addition of eight feature films (with a ninth in production), the creation of the interactive Pottermore© website, the release of myriad video games, the construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, several companion books (such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), critical essays and analyses, and the 2016 debut of the original stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. This collection of new essays interprets the Wizarding World beyond the books and films through the lens of convergence culture. Contributors explore how online communities tackle Sorting and games like the Quidditch Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, and analyze how Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are changing fandom and the canon alike.

Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004335370

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Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults by Anonim Pdf

In The Classics and Children's Literature between West and East a team of contributors from different continents offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in children’s and young adults’ literature by applying regional perspectives.

Defenses Against the Dark Arts

Author : John S. Nelson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498592611

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Defenses Against the Dark Arts by John S. Nelson Pdf

As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical and institutional ways. Like ancient Sophists, modern Machiavellians, and postmodern Nietzscheans, the Potter books treat politics as dark arts and our defenses against them. The Potter saga overflows with drama, humor, and insight into ours as dark times of terrible troubles. These reach from racism, sexism, and specism to fascism, terrorism, autocracy, and worse. Harry and his friends respond with detailed, entertaining takes on many ideologies, movements, and styles of current politics.Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that Potter performances of magic show us how and why to leap into political action. This includes the high politics of governments and elections, and especially the everyday politics of families, schools, businesses, media, and popular cultures. It explores Potter versions of idealism, realism, feminism, and environmentalism. It clarifies Potter accounts of bureaucracy, nationalism, and patronage. And it analyzes Potter resistance through existentialism and anarchism. The emphasis is on learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.

Teaching with Harry Potter

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476601229

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Teaching with Harry Potter by Valerie Estelle Frankel Pdf

The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the world are harnessing the power of the series to teach history, gender studies, chemistry, religion, philosophy, sociology, architecture, Latin, medieval studies, astronomy, SAT skills, and much more. These essays discuss the diverse educational possibilities of J.K. Rowling's books. Teachers of younger students use Harry and Hermione to encourage kids with disabilities or show girls the power of being brainy scientists. Students are reading fanfiction, splicing video clips, or exploring Rowling's new website, Pottermore. Harry Potter continues to open new doors to learning.

An Unexpected Parody

Author : Valerie Frankel
Publisher : Henry Potty and the Pet Rock
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780615775470

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An Unexpected Parody by Valerie Frankel Pdf

An Unexpected Parody: The Unauthorized Spoof of The Hobbit revisits the film with mayhem, mirth, and magic missiles-or at least, crumpled newspaper missiles. Torn Teepeeshield, the Hot Prince of the Dwarves, puts aside his developing stardom in dwarf cabaret to quest to the Lame Old Mountain and destroy the dragon Erpolushun, or in the common tongue, Smog. Gonedaft the Grey, formerly known as Gonedaft the Grizzled and Gonedaft of the Rainbow Tie-die that He So Can't Pull Off, recruits Bumble Baglunch, country gentleman and professional coward, since as an avid comic book fan and all-around geek, Bumble's too smart to fall prey to obvious fantasy clich�s. Together with Bobbin, Noggin, Rover, Clover, Sloppy, Ploppy, Frappe, Hottie, Spottie, Quaff, Sloth, and Ezekiel the dwarves, they journey across Renfair Earth to revive their franchise. Destiny may be a word writers use to pave over plotholes, but Bumble is determined to triumph nonetheless and play as good a game of goblin golf as his ancestors.

Inhabited by Stories

Author : Nancy A. Barta-Smith,Danette DiMarco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443843669

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Inhabited by Stories by Nancy A. Barta-Smith,Danette DiMarco Pdf

Intertextuality has signaled change, appropriation, adaptation, and derivation. It has focused readers on irresolvable questions of influence and origination, progressive or regressive movement across continents, periods, and media. Inhabited by Stories: Critical Essays on Tales Retold takes a different approach. What would a model of literary study look like that steps out of time’s river and embraces not only the presence and proximity of the world to the senses, but also of the past and the future to the present here and now? When stories inhabit us, imagination and memory extend our ability to see and feel. Phenomenological experience is lived, not just thought. Such a perspective suggests that the past and future inhabit the present, increase the depth of sensory perception itself, and enrich the range of our affective and ethical responses. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, this perspective offers an alternative to an idea of intertextuality as simply following lines of influence and appropriation. It focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories. Ironically, for literary theorists and critics, perhaps the highest form of both praise and critique is a tale retold, since such retellings attest to literature’s instructive power and its perennial regeneration.

Katniss the Cattail

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : Henry Potty and the Pet Rock
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781469968247

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Katniss the Cattail by Valerie Estelle Frankel Pdf

"Bringing details from myths, herbal guides, military histories, and the classics, English professor and award-winning pop culture author Valerie Estelle Frankel sheds light on the deeper meanings behind Panem's heroes and villains in this hottest of YA trilogies."--Page 4 of cover.

Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination

Author : David M Rosen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813563725

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Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination by David M Rosen Pdf

When we hear the term “child soldiers,” most Americans imagine innocent victims roped into bloody conflicts in distant war-torn lands like Sudan and Sierra Leone. Yet our own history is filled with examples of children involved in warfare—from adolescent prisoner of war Andrew Jackson to Civil War drummer boys—who were once viewed as symbols of national pride rather than signs of human degradation. In this daring new study, anthropologist David M. Rosen investigates why our cultural perception of the child soldier has changed so radically over the past two centuries. Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination reveals how Western conceptions of childhood as a uniquely vulnerable and innocent state are a relatively recent invention. Furthermore, Rosen offers an illuminating history of how human rights organizations drew upon these sentiments to create the very term “child soldier,” which they presented as the embodiment of war’s human cost. Filled with shocking historical accounts and facts—and revealing the reasons why one cannot spell “infantry” without “infant”—Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination seeks to shake us out of our pervasive historical amnesia. It challenges us to stop looking at child soldiers through a biased set of idealized assumptions about childhood, so that we can better address the realities of adolescents and pre-adolescents in combat. Presenting informative facts while examining fictional representations of the child soldier in popular culture, this book is both eye-opening and thought-provoking.

Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games

Author : Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark,Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600321

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Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games by Mary F. Pharr,Leisa A. Clark,Donald E. Palumbo Pdf

This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and media studies. The essayists demonstrate diverse perspectives regarding Collins's novels but their works have three elements in common: an appreciation of the trilogy as literature, a belief in its permanent value, and a need to share both appreciation and belief with fellow readers. The 21 essays that follow the context-setting introduction are grouped into four parts: Part I "History, Politics, Economics, and Culture," Part II "Ethics, Aesthetics, and Identity," Part III "Resistance, Surveillance, and Simulacra," and Part IV "Thematic Parallels and Literary Traditions." A core bibliography of dystopian and postapocalyptic works is included, with emphasis on the young adult category--itself an increasingly crucial part of postmodern culture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities

Author : Racheline Maltese
Publisher : Sterling & Ross Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780977954520

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The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities by Racheline Maltese Pdf

Tests the knowledge of Harry Potter fans with a series of quests, each divided by three skill levels, using the Harry Potter series and two books written by J.K. Rowling for charity as guides.

A New Recruit

Author : Michael D. Beil
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385753210

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A New Recruit by Michael D. Beil Pdf

Andy witnesses a bank robbery and becomes a recruit for a secret organization that finds and eliminates evil.

Brands and Branding

Author : Stephen Brown
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473988040

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Brands and Branding by Stephen Brown Pdf

A fun and humorous introductory book, written in Stephen Brown′s entertaining and highly distinctive style, that introduces curious readers to the key components of brands and helps them to begin to make sense of them - what they are, what they do, why and how - using plenty of examples and references drawn from a wide range brands such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Gucci, Nike, Nintendo, Starbucks, Swatch and The Worst Hotel in the World. With 3,000 branding books published each year, why would you (or your students) want to read Brands & Branding? Here are seven reasons why: It’s introductory, aimed at undergraduate students or postgrads without a bachelor degree in business and assumes nothing more than readers’ awareness of high profile brands such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Chanel It’s indicative, focusing on the basics and thus being a more reliable revision aid than Lucozade It’s immersive, taking readers on a journey and, working on the assumption that they have smartphones or tablet computers to hand, the print text links to images, articles and academic publications to give emphasis and context where appropriate. It’s inclusive, considering articles and reports but also blogs, novels, newspapers, reviews, social media and other sources It’s irreverent – branding is not always a deadly serious business! It’s intimate, Stephen speaks to you directly and together you will pick your way through the sometimes weird and unfailingly wonderful world of brands and branding using examples rather than abstract ideas to illustrate points. It’s inspirational, celebrating the curious and successful stories of brands from Cillit Bang to Cacharel Suitable for first and second year marketing or advertising students, and for those new to or interested in branding and who are keen to know more.