Download or read book Batman and the Shadows of Modernity written by Rafael Carrión-Arias and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.
Download or read book Batman and the Shadows of Modernity written by Rafael Carrión Arias and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book aims to study the Batman narrative or Bat-narrative from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative as such. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization"--
Download or read book The Trickster in Contemporary Film written by Helena Bassil-Morozow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from Charlie Chaplin’s classics such as Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940) to contemporary comedies and dramas with ‘trickster actors’ such as Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron-Cohen, Andy Kaufman and Jack Nicholson. The Trickster in Contemporary Film offers a fresh perspective on the trickster figure not only in cinema but in Western culture in general. Alongside original film analyses, it touches upon a number of psychosocial issues including sovereignty of the individual, tricksterish qualities of the media, and human relationships in the mercurial digital age. Further topics of discussion include: common motifs in trickster narratives the trickster and personal relationships gonzo-trickster and the art of comic insurrection. Employing a number of complementary approaches such as Jungian psychology, film semiotics, narrative structure theories, Victor Turner’s concept of liminality and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of film, as well as anyone with an interest in analytical psychology and wider critical issues in contemporary culture.
Download or read book Reading Words into Worlds written by J. Clayton McReynolds and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themselves to readers in ways that mimetically resemble our phenomenological reception of given beings in reality. McReynolds refers to this process as phenomenological mimesis of givenness, and he draws on the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion to explore how masterful novels can make reading ink marks on a page feel like seeing things, feeling things, and meeting (even loving) others. McReynolds blends rigorous phenomenological study with a personable style, first laying out his theory in detail and then applying that theory through close studies of his reading experiences of four British realist masterpieces: Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Eliot’s Middlemarch, and Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. Ultimately, this book offers a grounded phenomenology of novel-reading, illuminating what gives novels such power to not only thrill readers—but to change them.
Download or read book Language in Literature written by Jonathan Locke Hart and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language in Literature examines the overlap and blurring boundaries of English, comparative and world poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature, translation and creative writing are addressed as befitting an author who is a poet, literary scholar and historian. The book begins with metaphor, which Aristotle thought, in Poetics, was the key gift of the poet, and discusses it in theory and practice; it moves from the identity of metaphor to identity in translation and culture; it examines poetry in a comparative and world context; it looks at image and text; it explores literature and culture in the Cold War; it explores the role of the poet and scholar in translating poetry East and West; it places creative writing in theory and practice in context East and West; it concludes by summing up and suggesting implications of creation in language, translating and interpreting, and its expression in literature, especially in poetry.
Download or read book The Shadow Batman 4 of 6 written by Steve Orlando and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veins of the Silent Seven have bore their way into the very heart of modern society. Their every move can be hidden, and there is no move that can be made in secret from them. And that includes Batman and the Shadow. When one of the Seven invades Wayne Manor, a horrifying revelation casts Batman's entire mission in doubt. The only one that can save him? The Shadow. But can the Master of Men liberate both Wayne Manor and the Dark Knight's mind without losing his own?
Download or read book Tim Burton The Monster and the Crowd written by Helena Bassil-Morozow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Burton’s films are well known for being complex and emotionally powerful. In this book, Helena Bassil-Morozow employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history, to explore the reworking of myth and fairytale in Burton’s gothic fantasy world. The book explores the idea that Burton’s lonely, rebellious ‘monstrous’ protagonists roam the earth because they are unable to fit into the normalising tendencies of society and become part of ‘the crowd’. Divided into six chapters the book considers the concept of the archetype in various settings focusing on: the child the monster the superhero the genius the maniac the monstrous society. Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd offers an entirely fresh perspective on Tim Burton’s works. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of film or Jungian psychology, as well as anyone interested in critical issues in contemporary culture. It will also be of great help to those fans of Tim Burton who have been searching for a profound academic analysis of his works.
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat Vol 1 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batman isnÕt the only masked crusader in town-and Arkham Asylum has many, many cells beyond those detaining the Penguin, the Joker, and Poison Ivy. But this is not the dark, dismal Arkham Asylum of old-this modern Arkham is run by the son of the original founder, Jeremiah Arkham. He is determined to improve on his fatherÕs methods, and in doing so walks perilously close to the abyss of madness himself. Can Jeremiah cure the Dark Knight when Batman is committed to Arkham for killing a cop? Writer ALAN GRANT (DETECTIVE COMICS) joins artists TIM SALE (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN), NORM BREYFOGLE (BATMAN), and more in these stories about the men and women in shadow-the shadow of the Bat! Collects BATMAN: THE SHADOW OF THE BAT #1-12!
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat written by Alan Grant and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Batman Shadow The Murder Geniuses written by Scott Snyder and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Gotham City’s guardian, Batman has investigated nearly every kind of murder—but he’s never seen a homicide as strange as this. The death of Lamont Cranston, an Arkham Asylum employee, leads the Dark Knight Detective to an impossible conclusion: the crime was committed by a man also named Lamont Cranston, who died more than 50 years ago—a man better known as the Shadow. The Shadow is definitely alive and kicking, however, and once Batman picks up his trail he will stop at nothing to bring him to justice. But it soon becomes clear that the hunter and his quarry are both entangled in a much larger web of evil—a conspiracy that threatens everything they have sworn to protect. Now Batman and the Shadow must put aside their differences to stop a terrifying new foe called the Stag, who has set his sights first on Gotham and then the world. And this merciless monster has a partner of his own: the Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker. Can the Shadow and the Bat stop this unholy alliance? Or will these two brilliant crime-fighters fall victim to the twisted genius of their archnemeses? New York Times best-selling author Scott Snyder joins forces with acclaimed talents Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo for BATMAN/THE SHADOW: THE MURDER GENIUSES—an action-packed thriller decades in the making!
Download or read book Batman Shadow 2017 1 written by Scott Snyder and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of historyÕs greatest vigilantes are reunited at last! Murder has come to Gotham City, and Lamont Cranston appears to be the culpritÉbut heÕs been dead for over fifty years! Batman will go to the ends of the Earth to unravel the mystery of CranstonÕs life, but the mysterious Shadow will do everything in his power to stop him from learning too muchÉ The superstar team of writers Scott Snyder and Steve Orlando and artist Riley Rossmo brings you a dark and twisty modern noir like nothing youÕve seen before, with a brand-new villain unlike any either hero has faced! This is the unmissable crime series of 2017, so get on board now! Co-published with Dynamite.
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat Vol 2 written by Alan Grant and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Alan Grant (DETECTIVE COMICS) continues his epic run of BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT, this time joined by artists Bret Blevins (BATMAN: ZERO HOUR, HARLEY QUINN) and Norm Breyfogle (BATMAN) and others in these stories about the men and women in shadowÉthe shadow of the Bat in BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT VOL. 2! To many in Gotham City, Batman is a savior; to others, he is a menace who must be stopped. This includes Anarky, who escapes prison and sets out to eliminate the Dark Knight for the good of the city. The Scarecrow, though, has other plans for Batman. When Gotham is visited by an alien parasite, a high school gym teacher becomes the cityÕs latest protector, taking on the costumed persona of Joe Public, but thereÕs a lot he must learn from the WorldÕs Greatest Detective. And after BatmanÕs back is broken, he has handed the mantle of the Bat to Jean-Paul Valley, who has a very deadly approach to crime fighting. ValleyÕs actions prompt an injured and demoralized Bruce Wayne to retrain his ravaged body and travel to England with Alfred in search of Shondra Kinsolving, the one woman who might be able to heal him. Collects BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT #13-23 and BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT ANNUAL #1.
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 20 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batman's wounds don't prevent him from taking on the menace of a new villain, the Tally Man, who is seeking revenge for something Bruce Wayne once did to him. "The Tally Man" part 2, a "KnightQuest" tale following the adventures of the new Batman!
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 24 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with a gang smuggling black-market babies into Gotham City lead the new Batman to use self-hypnosis in an attempt to learn the identity of his mother.
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 94 written by Greg Rucka and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Man's Land part 47--the story ends, as the aftermath of "No Man's Land" sets the stage for the future of Gotham City. As our heroes pay their final respects to their fallen comrade, the city's mysterious benefactor goes over the line to take total control of Gotham City.
Download or read book Batman Shadow of the Bat 4 written by Alan Grant and published by DC. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Arkham concludes when Batman discovers the secret behind Mr. Zsasz's ghastly spree and accepts help from Nightwing to stop him. The Dynamic Duo join forces once more!
Download or read book Shadows of the Past written by Geary Gravel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
