Download or read book Commies from Mars the Red Planet written by Tim Boxell and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 1986-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a great collection of an unfortunately neglected example of the post-Zap explosion of underground comics - this features work by many stalwarts of the Zap! crew (Crumb, Robt. Williams, Spain Rodriguez, and S. Clay Wilson alongside Tim Boxell), as well as a slew of fine-but-forgotten artists and writers.
Download or read book Space Western Comics Cowboys vs Aliens Commies Dinosaurs Nazis written by Walter Gibson and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild, WILD West! Spurs Jackson and his Space Vigilantes bravely defended the frontier against Martians, Venusian spies, Meteor Men, moon bats, and of course, Hitler and his space Nazis. Oh, and dinosaurs! With stories by Walter Gibson, famed creator/writer of The Shadow pulps, and art by John Belfi, Stan Campbell, and Lou Morales, Space Western Comics were one of the weirdest, most fun comics series of the '50s and are collected and restored here, including a "lost" story! Profusely illustrated intro by Eisner-award winning comics historian Craig Yoe. To Arizona . . . and beyond!
Download or read book Invasion USA written by David J. Hogan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the queasy U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance long dissolved into mutual suspicion, the House Un-American Activities Committee launched aggressive investigations of alleged communist activity in the Hollywood film industry in 1947--and again in 1951. Studio chiefs, terrified of scandal, scrambled to display their patriotism by producing anti-communist films, from melodramas to thrillers to animated cartoons. Twenty-one lively new essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and politics of more than 40 remarkable films of the McCarthy era and the chauvinism that spawned them.
Download or read book Martian Pictures written by O’Brien Stanley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mars has long served as a blank canvas for illustrating society's aspirations and anxieties--a science fiction setting for exploring our "future history." Covering a wide array of films from Soviet propaganda to Hollywood blockbusters, the authors examine a range of themes and concepts in motion pictures about Mars--attitudes about women, fear of government, environmental issues--and how these depictions changed over time. A complete filmography provides a concise summary of each film discussed.
Download or read book Red Scared written by Michael Barson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Red Scared! offers valuable lessons from the vault on how to identify Communists, media reports on the jolly side of Stalin, guidelines for bomb shelter chic, and much more. As they did in their other lively pop-culture histories, Teenage Confidential and Wedding Bell Blues, Michael Barson and Steven Heller once again bring the nearly forgotten details of American culture into full relief with Red Scared!"--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Mars the Red Planet written by Mick Farren and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television journalist Lech Hammond flies out to Mars to investigate rumors of a Soviet discovery of an alien artifact, but discovers that the Mars-based KGB is not talking.
Download or read book Film After Film written by J. Hoberman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital-and post-9/11-age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film theorists/critics like Andr Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes considerations of global cinema's most important figures and films, from Lars von Trier and Jia Zhangke to WALL-E, Avatar and Inception.
Download or read book Anti Communism and Popular Culture in Mid Century America written by Cyndy Hendershot and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America's attention turned from world war to cold war. The perceived threat of communism had a definite and significant impact on all levels of American popular culture, from government propaganda films like Red Nightmare in Time magazine to Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. This work examines representations of anti-communist sentiment in American popular culture from the early fifties through the mid-sixties. The discussion covers television programs, films, novels, journalism, maps, memoirs, and other works that presented anti-communist ideology to millions of Americans and influenced their thinking about these controversial issues. It also points out the different strands of anti-communist rhetoric, such as liberal and countersubversive ones, that dominated popular culture in different media, and tells a much more complicated story about producers' and consumers' ideas about communism through close study of the cultural artifacts of the Cold War. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Mars Inc written by Ben Bova and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape and bound by budget constrictions, thats for sure. No, what it will take is a helping of adventure, science, corporate powerplays, a generous dollop of seduction¾both in and out of the boardroom¾and money, money, money! Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has utterly failed, but Thrasher has got the plan to accomplish such a feat: form a _clubÓ or billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. But these are men and women who are tough cookies, addicted to a profitable bottom-line, and disdainful of pie-in-the-sky dreamers who want to use their cash to make somebody elses dreams come true. But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important regarhes a billionaire himself, and the president of a successful company. But its going to take all his wiles as a captain of industry and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and sabotage¾and get a rocket full of scientist, engineers, visionaries, and dreamers on their way to the Red Planet. The man for the job has arrived. Art Thrasher is prepared to do whatever it takes to humans on Mars¾or die trying! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Mars, Inc.: _. . .perfectly enjoyable as an SF book (could Bova write anything that wasnt enjoyable?), Mars, Inc. has that torn-from-the-headline vibe thats obviously intended for a larger audience. . . . the bottom line? Mars, Inc. has inspiration, excitement, thrills, romance, a dash of satir¾and is a good, fun read . . . .Ó¾Analog "The Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject: the quest for Mars."¾Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Handbook of American Popular Literature written by M. Thomas Inge and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-09-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at a wide variety of popular American fiction genres, including comic books, mystery novels, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction, and westerns.
Download or read book The B List written by David Sterritt and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of collection could possibly find common ground among The Son of Kong, Platoon, and Pink Flamingos? What kind of fevered minds could conceive of such a list? What are the unheard-of qualities that tie them all together?br Once the B movie was the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the double feature. Today it is a more inclusive category, embracing films that fall outside the mainstream by dint of their budgets, their visions, their grit, and occasionally -- sometimes essentially -- their lack of what the culture cops call "good taste".br The B List are offbeat, unpredictable, and decidedly idiosyncratic. And that's why we love them.
Download or read book Dream Factories and Radio Pictures written by Howard Waldrop and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baker's dozen of Waldrop's best short stories about movie and TV. Dream Factories and Radio Pictures collects twelve of Howard Waldrop's movie (“dream factories”) and television ("radio pictures") stories from his first four collections, as well as a new article and a new story. The stories — about personalities, history, projections, alternatives, guesses, and the effects they had and keep on having as they and we evolve — are accompanied by Waldrop’s original (in every sense of the word) introductions full of "Strange But True facts uncovered while researching them.” The collection includes: "Fin de Cyclé,” "Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me,” “French Scenes,” "Heirs of the Perisphere,” "Hoover’s Men,” "Major Spacer in the 21st Century,” and more.
Download or read book Things Will Never Be the Same written by Howard Waldrop and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen of the best short stories from the one and only culture mashup genius brain of Howard Waldrop.
Download or read book The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture Almanacs through do it yourself written by M. Thomas Inge and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique, abundantly illustrated set features essay-length chapters on the many forms, genres, and themes of popular culture.
Download or read book The Moviegoing Experience 1968 2001 written by Richard W. Haines and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of going to the movies, be it a single screen theater, twin, multiplex or drive-in, is affected by many different factors that have shifted over the years. Just as movies emerged from silent to talking, black and white to color, there has invariably been change in the way movies are made, copied, distributed and viewed. This change in the moviegoing experience, for better or for worse, is worth studying. This work examines the American moviegoing experience from 1968 to 2001--the way in which movies are made and regulated (including the demise of the Production Code and the emergence of the ratings system) as well as changes in lighting, cinematography and coloring techniques. The projection practices of the past and present, during and after the presence of the Projectionists Union, and the advent of the "platter," which allowed for automated projection, are discussed. How home video and cable affected the content of films after the eighties and the history of computerized special effects leading to the development of digital cinema projection are included. The work also covers the changing types of venues over the last third of a century and other aspects that affect, positively or negatively, the entire moviegoing experience.
Download or read book The Science Fiction Archive 4 written by Fritz Leiber and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth incredible installment of the Science Fiction Archive, edited by the time-traveling genius Rey Bertran! Featuring: Proof of the Pudding, by Robert Sheckley Where the World is Quiet, by C.H. Liddell Business for the Lawyers, by Ralph Robin The Observers, by G.L. Vandenburg Infinite Intruder, by Alan Nourse Where the PHPH Pebbles Go, by Miriam Allen DeFord The Snare, by Richard Smith X Marks the Pedwalk, by Fritz Leiber Education of a Martian, by Joseph Shallit The Light on Precipice Peak, by Stephen Tall Not Fit for Children, by Evelyn E. Smith Thin Edge, by Johnathan Blake Mackenzie Where There's Hope, by Jerome Bixby Mars Confidential, By Jack Lait & Lee Mortimer What Do You Read?, by Boyd Ellanby The Moons of Mars, by Dean Evans Fee of the Frontier, by H.B. Fyfe Sweet Tooth, by Robert Young The Highest Mountain, by Bryce Walton Half Past Alligator, by Donald Colvin The Rag and Bone Men, by Algis Budrys
Download or read book Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
