Heroes Masked And Mythic

Author : Christopher Wood
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476683157

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Heroes Masked and Mythic by Christopher Wood Pdf

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666904703

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Goliath as Gentle Giant by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Goliath as Gentle Giant cuts through biblical biases and post-biblical images and considers sensitive and more nuanced portrayals of the giant in popular media, offering revisionist retellings of Goliath that challenge readers to humanize the “other.”

Author : Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000860382

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Transmedia Character Studies by Tobias Kunz,Lukas R.A. Wilde Pdf

Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media. This highly innovative work offers new perspectives on how to interrelate production discourses, media texts, and reception discourses, and how to select a suitable research corpus for the discussion of characters whose serial appearances stretch across years, decades, or even centuries. Each chapter starts from a different notion of how fictional characters can be considered, tracing character theories and models to approach character representations from perspectives developed in various disciplines and fields. This book will enable graduate students and scholars of transmedia studies, film, television, comics studies, video game studies, popular culture studies, fandom studies, narratology, and creative industries to conduct comprehensive, media-conscious analyses of characters across a variety of media.

Author : Deborah Bell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786457649

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Mask Makers and Their Craft by Deborah Bell Pdf

Profiling 30 mask makers from around the world, this book explores the motivations and challenges of contemporary artists working to bring the traditional methods and conventions of mask making to an evolving global theatre. There are 181 photographs—including two sections of color plates—which illustrate how the mythic iconography of masks is used in the modern fields of dance, mime, theatre and storytelling. Topics include the ways in which mask artists and performers maintain a sense of universality despite varying local customs; the legacies of Italian mask makers Amleto and Donato Sartori and of the California–based Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre; and the ways in which traditional approaches in mask artistry continue to influence commercial mask performance ventures in film, on Broadway, and in touring companies.

Author : Lou Anders
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439168822

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Masked by Lou Anders Pdf

WELCOME TO THE SECOND “GOLDEN AGE” OF SUPERHEROES AND HEROINES Superheroes have come a long way since the “Man of Steel” was introduced in 1938. This brilliant new collection features original stories and novellas from some of today’s most exciting voices in comics, science fiction, and fantasy. Each marvelously inventive tale shows us just how far our classic crusaders have evolved—and how the greatest of heroes are, much like ourselves, all too human. In “Call Her Savage,” MARJORIE M. LIU enters the dark heart of a fierce mythic heroine who is forced, by war, to live up to her own terrible legend. In “A to Z in the Ultimate Big Company Superhero Universe (Villains Too),” BILL WILLINGHAM presents a fully-realized vision of a universe where epic feats and tragic flaws have transformed the human race. In “Vacuum Lad,” STEPHEN BAXTER unveils the secret origins of the first true child of the space age—and disproves the theory that “nothing exists in a vacuum.” In “Head Cases,” PETER DAVID and KATHLEEN DAVID blast through the blogosphere to expose the secret longings of a Lonely Superhero Wife. In “The Non-Event,” MIKE CAREY removes the gag order on a super-thief named Lockjaw . . . and pries out a confession of life-altering events. Also includes stories by Mike Baron • Mark Chadbourn • Paul Cornell • Daryl Gregory • Joseph Mallozzi • James Maxey • Ian McDonald • Chris Roberson • Gail Simone • Matthew Sturges . . . and an introduction by Lou Anders, “one of the brightest and best of the new generation of science fiction editors” (Jonathan Strahan, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year).

Author : Andrew R. Bahlmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476625188

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The Mythology of the Superhero by Andrew R. Bahlmann Pdf

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model and lexicon for identifying the superhero mythos. The author examines the myth in several narratives--including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Green Arrow and Beowulf--and discusses such diverse characters as Batman, Wolverine, Invincible and John Constantine.

Author : Don LoCicero
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786431847

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Superheroes and Gods by Don LoCicero Pdf

The work provides a unique study of superheroes and gods in literature, popular culture, and ancient myth. The author selects a number of mythological figures (e.g., Babylonia's Gilgamesh and Enkidu), ancient gods (e.g., Greece's Eros and Tartarus), and modern superheroes (e.g., the United States' Superman and Captain Marvel) and identifies the often striking similarities between each unique category of characters. The author contends that the vast majority of mythological superheroes follow the same archetypal character patterns, regardless of each hero's unique time period or culture. Each of the first nine chapters examines the heroes and gods of a particular region or country, while the final chapter examines modern descendants of the hero prototype like Batman and Spiderman and several infamous anti-heroes (for example, Dracula and The Hulk). Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Louis Filler
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 087972143X

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Seasoned Authors for a New Season by Louis Filler Pdf

This collection of essays probes the values in a variety of authors who have had in common the fact of popularity and erstwhile reputation. Why were they esteemed? Who esteemed them? And what has become of their reputations, to readers, to the critic himself? No writer here has been asked to justify the work of his subject, and reports and conclusions about this wide variety of creative writers vary, sometimes emphasizing what the critic believes to be enduring qualities in the subject, in several cases finding limitations in what that writer has to offer us today.

Author : Gary Phillips,Christopher Chambers
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429984007

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The Darker Mask by Gary Phillips,Christopher Chambers Pdf

Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss's Weird Heroes from the 1970s, George R. R. Martin's Wild Card series, and Michael Chabon's McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Darker Mask is a collection of original prose stories recalling the derring-do of the beings we call Superheroes and the worlds they fight to save. But unique to The Darker Mask stories is that these plots and characters color a literary universe outside of what has been predominantly white, idiosyncratic, and male in previous homages to pulp. This is the stuff of urban legends, new mythos, and extraordinary folks who might live in a soon-to-be-gentrified ghetto, the dreary rust-belt of the city, or in another dimension. The Darker Mask offers an eclectic mix of popular fiction writers exploring worlds gritty, visceral, and fantastic. Including stories by: Walter Mosley, L. A. Banks, Naomi Hirahara, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes, Mike Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ann Nocenti, Jerry Rodriguez, Reed Farrell Coleman, Doselle Young, Mat Johnson, Peter Spiegelman, Alexandra Sokoloff, Christopher Chambers, Gary Phillips, Victor LaValle, and Wayne Wilson. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Louis Filler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015037070425

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A Question of Quality by Louis Filler Pdf

Author : L. Marin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349073290

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Utopics by L. Marin Pdf

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026170173

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The Mask of Comus ... Edited with Copious ... Notes ..., by H. B. Sprague by John Milton Pdf

Author : Timothy Murray
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472066358

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Mimesis, Masochism, & Mime by Timothy Murray Pdf

An invaluable collection of theater commentary by a wide range of leading French theorists, in English translation

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNS7J

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The Mask of Comus by John Milton Pdf

Author : Philip M. Peek,Kwesi Yankah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135948726

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African Folklore by Philip M. Peek,Kwesi Yankah Pdf

Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.