Sheikhs Batmobile

Author : Richard Poplak
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781593762926

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The Sheikh's Batmobile by Richard Poplak Pdf

What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-on—especially one that, according to some, is completely at odds with our own? In The Sheikh’s Batmobile, pop culture commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his and America’s obsessions—pop songs and sitcoms, Hollywood movies and shoot-'em-up video games, muscle cars and punk music—when they make their way into the Muslim world. Over the course of his journey, Poplak gets body-slammed by WWE fans in Afghanistan, hangs out with hip-hop artists in Palestine, headbangs to heavy metal in Cairo, discovers a world of extreme makeovers in Beirut, bowls with the chief of police in small-town Kazakhstan, and encounters a mysterious Texan who builds rocket-propelled Batmobiles for a clientele of sheikhs. With uproarious humor and keen cultural insight, Poplak asks some vital questions: How is American pop culture consumed and reinterpreted in the Islamic world? What does that say about how we are viewed by young Muslims? And can Homer Simpson bridge the divisions that are tearing our world apart?

Author : Richard Poplak
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080855896

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Sheikhs Batmobile by Richard Poplak Pdf

In The Sheikh's Batmobile, pop-cultural commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his, and North America's, obsessions - pop songs and sitcoms, Hollywood movies and shoot-em-up video games, muscle cars and punk music - when they make their way into the Muslim world. Over the course of his journey, Poplak is body slammed by WWE fans in Afghanistan, hangs out with hip-hop artists in Palestine, head bangs to heavy metal in Cairo, discovers a world of extreme makeovers in Beirut, bowls with the chief of police in small-town Kazakhstan, and encounters a mysterious Texan building rocket-propelled batmobiles for a clientele of sheikhs.

Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134105144

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The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Carl Thompson Pdf

As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences. An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world. Covering all of the major topics and debates, this is an essential overview of the field, which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study. Contributors: Simon Bainbridge, Anthony Bale, Shobhana Bhattacharji, Dúnlaith Bird, Elizabeth A. Bohls, Wendy Bracewell, Kylie Cardell, Daniel Carey, Janice Cavell, Simon Cooke, Matthew Day, Kate Douglas, Justin D. Edwards, David Farley, Charles Forsdick, Corinne Fowler, Laura E. Franey, Rune Graulund, Justine Greenwood, James M. Hargett, Jennifer Hayward, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Graham Huggan, William Hutton, Robin Jarvis, Tabish Khair, Zoë Kinsley, Barbara Korte, Julia Kuehn, Scott Laderman, Claire Lindsay, Churnjeet Mahn, Nabil Matar, Steve Mentz, Laura Nenzi, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Manfred Pfister, Susan L. Roberson, Paul Smethurst, Carl Thompson, C.W. Thompson, Margaret Topping, Richard White, Gregory Woods.

Author : Walid El Hamamsy,Mounira Soliman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136228070

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Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa by Walid El Hamamsy,Mounira Soliman Pdf

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and political moment, analyzing the emergence of a popular expression in the Middle East and North Africa region in recent years, and drawing conclusions pertaining to the direction of popular culture within a geopolitical context. The importance of this book lies in presenting a fresh perspective on popular culture, combining media that are not often combined and offering a topical examination of recent popular production, aiming to counter stereotypical representations of Islamophobia and otherness by bringing together the perspectives of scholars from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines. The collection shows that popular culture can effect changes and alter perceptions and stereotypes, constituting an area where people of different ethnicities, genders, and orientations can find common grounds for expression and connection.

Author : Jared Bland
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780771013690

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Finding the Words by Jared Bland Pdf

Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada. In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir the mind and heart. By turns inspiring, provocative, witty, and compelling, these diverse and original pieces explore home, exile, and the search for a place to belong; community, creativity, celebrity, and the many forms power can take. Among the pieces in the anthology: Diana Athill and Alice Munro discuss the consequences of writing about other people; Gord Downie meditates on what it means to be a songwriter by considering one of his own songwriting heroes; Guy Gavriel Kay reflects on how his relationship with his own readers continues to change; Elizabeth Hay searches for inspiration in the fallow period between books; Rawi Hage meditates on writing rooted in the universal experience of exile; Pasha Malla and Moez Surani present a funny and confounding list of “rules for writers” solicited from non-writers; Heather O’Neill tells the story of an illiterate and underage wannabe gangster in mid-century Montreal; Michael Winter pieces together court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources to take us into the dark heart of a real-life Newfoundland crime story. Proceeds from this volume will go to PEN Canada in support of its vital work in defence of freedom of expression and on behalf of writers around the world who have been silenced. Finding the Words Contributors List: Diana Athill Tash Aw David Bezmozgis Joseph Boyden David Chariandy Denise Chong Karen Connelly Alain de Botton Emma Donoghue Gord Downie Marina Endicott Stacey May Fowles Rawi Hage Elizabeth Hay Steven Heighton Lee Henderson Guy Gavriel Kay Mark Kingwell Martha Kuwee Kumsa Annabel Lyon Linden MacIntyre Pasha Malla Lisa Moore Alice Munro Stephanie Nolen Heather O’Neill Richard Poplak Moez Surani Miguel Syjuco Madeleine Thien Michael Winter With cover design and illustration by Seth www.pencanada.ca

Author : Ross Anthony,Kevin Bloom,Daouda Cissé,Martyn Davies,Maxime Lauzon-Lacroix,Garth le Pere,Thaddeus Metz,Richard Poplak,Gauhar Raza,Yongjun Zhao,Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Publisher : Real African Publishers Pty Ltd.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781920655938

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Rise and Decline and Rise of China by Ross Anthony,Kevin Bloom,Daouda Cissé,Martyn Davies,Maxime Lauzon-Lacroix,Garth le Pere,Thaddeus Metz,Richard Poplak,Gauhar Raza,Yongjun Zhao,Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) Pdf

Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in southern Africa some 800 years ago. What makes this research report unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been undertaken primarily from an African perspective.

Author : Noah Berlatsky
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737751192

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Popular Culture by Noah Berlatsky Pdf

This edition delivers contemporary perspectives on popular culture, with the majority of the material reflecting stances of countries other than the United States. Readers are offered a truly panoramic view. Essays are arranged in a thoughtful sequence that guides readers through several sides to each topic covered. Does television create obesity? Should manga depicting child pornography illegal? Could China benefit from stronger intellectual property laws? Essays answer these and other questions about pop culture. Helpful features include an annotated table of contents, a world map and country index, a bibliography, and subject index.

Author : Nick Gillespie,Matt Welch
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610392006

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The Declaration of Independents by Nick Gillespie,Matt Welch Pdf

Everywhere in America, the forces of digitization, innovation, and personalization are expanding our options and bettering the way we live. Everywhere, that is, except in our politics. There we are held hostage to an eighteenth century system, dominated by two political parties whose ever-more-polarized rhetorical positions mask a mutual interest in maintaining a stranglehold on power. The Declaration of Independents is a compelling and extremely entertaining manifesto on behalf of a system better suited to the future--one structured by the essential libertarian principles of free minds and free markets. Gillespie and Welch profile libertarian innovators, identify the villains propping up the ancien regime, and take aim at do-something government policies that hurt most of those they claim to protect. Their vision will resonate with a wide swath of frustrated citizens and young voters, born after the Cold War's end, to whom old tribal allegiances, prejudices, and hang-ups about everything from hearing a foreign language on the street to gay marriage to drug use simply do not make sense.

Author : Andrew Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538109458

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Jesus of Arabia by Andrew Thompson Pdf

In Jesus of Arabia, the Reverend Canon Andrew Thompson introduces an unfamiliar Jesus—Jesus in the context of his home in the Middle East. Whether readers believe Jesus to be a prophet or the messiah, Thompson enhances our understanding of his work and character by looking at his social context as a man and Middle Easterner. Jesus’s teachings take on new meaning as Thompson explores themes including family in Arabia, gender roles in the region, food culture, and more. Jesus of Arabia looks at the bridges between Islam and Christianity through the figure of Jesus and how the two communities may reflect each other despite their differences. Thompson draws on his experience as a priest in the Anglican Church and his many years living in the Middle East to analyze the often conflicting roles and loyalties concerning family, culture, and God. A timely and incisive work, Jesus of Arabia invites us to consider contemporary views of the Middle East and how a figure like Jesus might be received today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556039241146

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Wallace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781647223298

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Batmobile Manual by Daniel Wallace Pdf

Go under the hood of Batman’s most iconic vehicles in this fully illustrated volume that crosses multiple realities to explore a huge fleet of Batmobiles, including cars seen in The Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, and the films of Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder, and Tim Burton. In a universe that encompasses infinite realities there is one constant: each known reality has its own Batman and each of these Dark Knights possesses a unique Batmobile. For the first time, this groundbreaking book presents an in-depth exploration of Batman’s vehicles from across multiple realities to deliver the most comprehensive source of Batmobile information ever assembled. Discover the inner workings of the unstoppable Tumbler that Batman used to take on the forces of Ra’s al Ghul and The Joker; learn the secrets of the souped-up muscle car that a young Bruce Wayne built in his quest to take vengeance on the criminals of Gotham City; and explore the mechanics of the transforming, battle-ready Batmobile that Batman used in his deadly clash with the Arkham Knight. Drawing on decades of Batman lore from film, comics, animation, and video games, Batmobile Manual is the ultimate guide to the Dark Knight’s rides and an essential companion for Batman fans of all ages. FEATURES A HUGE SELECTION OF CARS: This book not only includes iconic Batmobiles but also Batman’s support vehicles, such as the Batwing, Bat-Pod, and the Flying Fox. DETAILED ILLUSTRATIONS: Features remarkable vehicles illustrated with electrifying new art created exclusively for this book by Lukasz Liszko (Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection). FAN-FAVORITE FILMS: Discover in-depth information on vehicles from your favorite Batman movies, including those directed by Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder. NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN CONTENT: Experience old favorites in new ways with exciting details and exclusive artwork.

Author : Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Automobiles in motion pictures
ISBN : 1781162840

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Batmobile by Mark Cotta Vaz Pdf

This is a complete history of the incomparable Batmobile. From its humble beginnings in the pages of Detective Comics, to its re-imaginings every decade, it explores each incarnation of the Batmobile in incredible detail and scope.

Author : Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1608871037

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Batmobile by Mark Cotta Vaz Pdf

Explore the complete history of the Batmobile with this deluxe coffee table book. Here for the first time is the complete history of the sleek, sophisticated, incomparable Batmobile. From its humble beginnings in the pages of Detective Comics, to its reimaginings every decade in the pages of DC Comics, to its unforgettable appearances on the big screen, this book explores each incarnation of the Batmobile in incredible detail and scope. In addition to comic books, the Batmobile has been immortalized in nearly every imaginable medium, including film, television, toys, and video games. Most recently, it was given breathtaking new life—and incredible capabilities—in Christopher Nolan’s extraordinary film trilogy, which concludes with 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. While each of the Batmobile’s incarnations will be explored, special attention will be paid to the "Tumbler" Batmobile from Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. With stunning gatefolds and detailed specs, blueprints, and historical comparisons, BATMOBILE: The Complete History is an informational and visual delight for auto and Batman fans alike. It’s an unparalleled and high-speed journey that will leave you breathless. BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics. (s12)

Author : Kenny Abdo
Publisher : Abdo Zoom-Fly
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098284178

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Batman's Batmobile by Kenny Abdo Pdf

This title explores Batman's Batmobile and gives information related to its origins, the media it has appeared in throughout the years, and the impact it has had on popular culture. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

Author : Dennis R. Shealy
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780375859670

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Joker's Joyride by Dennis R. Shealy Pdf

When Batman and Robin respond to a bank robbery, the Joker steals the Batmobile; and the Super Friends display their super-powered vehicles and describe how they use them to catch criminals.