Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comic Books and American Cultural History written by Matthew Pustz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic books can be used to understand the history of the United States. Over the last twenty years, there has been a proliferation of book-length works focusing on the history of comic books, but few have investigated how comics can be used as sources for doing American cultural history. These original essays illustrate ways in which comic books can be used as resources for scholars and teachers. Part 1 of the book examines comics and graphic novels that demonstrate the techniques of cultural history; the essays in Part 2 use comics and graphic novels as cultural artifacts; the third part of the book studies the concept of historical identity through the 20th century; and the final section focuses on different treatments of contemporary American history. Discussing topics that range from romance comics and Superman to American Flagg! and Ex Machina, this is a vivid collection that will be useful to anyone studying comic books or teaching American history.

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mixed Race Superheroes written by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.” The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature. They explore how superhero media positions mixed-race characters within a genre that has historically privileged racial purity and propagated images of white supremacy. The book considers such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe. Examining both literal and symbolic representations of racial mixing, this study interrogates how we might challenge and rewrite stereotypical narratives about mixed-race identity, both in superhero media and beyond.

Download or read book Characters Created by Garth Ennis written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: List of The Boys characters, List of Preacher characters, Jesse Custer, Hitman, Barracuda, Kev Hawkins, Russian, List of Hitman characters, Martin Soap, Ma Gnucci. Excerpt: The following is a list of fictional characters in the comic book series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The Boys are a CIA black operations team, initially created by Colonel Mallory to manage, police, and sometimes liquidate Vought-American's superheroes so the company will never be stable enough to get supes into national defence. However, it was swiftly taken over by Billy Butcher; while Butcher claims to have the same mission, it's clear he has no interest in management. As Mallory notes in #55, fourteen people were killed by the Boys from 1987-95 and "nearly three times that number" between 1995 to 2002, when Butcher had gained more influence. Mallory would later say (#54-5) how special forces teams can often go wrong as they try to justify their budgets and create their private conflicts, but the concept of them is still seductive; he considers the Boys to have gone down this path and that he never should have created them. The Boys were decommissioned after a disastrous operation in 2001, but reformed a few years later - indicated in #1 to be soon after the 2004 Presidential election - and have carried on where they left off. All members possess super strength due to injections of Compound V. He is an Englishman (from London's East End) who leads the current Boys, who were disbanded as the result of events depicted in #50. It was him he coined the teamname "the Boys," because in the East End "the boys" were who you said you'd hired to take someone out. At the beginning of the series, he works to reassemble the old team, with a new fifth member filling in for the original team leader, Mallory, whose leadership...

Download or read book On the Plains with Custer written by Edwin Sabin and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the battle and events leading up to General George Armstrong Custer's defeat and death at the Battle of Little Big Horn, as seen through the eyes of Ned Fletcher, a boy Custer rescued from certain death at the hands of a raging buffalo bill. Fletcher, who becomes a bugler with Custer's Seventh Calvary, is a fictitious character. But, both Indian and non-Indian children played a part in battles of this period; many were injured and many were killed. So, rather than call Ned a completely fictitious character, it might be more accurate to call him "semi-non-fictitious," should such a designation exist or be accepted by the reader. The book is about more than Custer's battles; it provides insights into Army life and about some of the heroes of the time: Wild Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody and other army scouts, and Custer's family, including his brothers and wife. Fast pace, lots of action and adventures, and tight dialogue combine to make this a very fun and interesting read. For his spirited book, "On the Plains with Custer," Sabin went out of his way to inform readers that he had used Custer's own story -- "It lies before me." Included in this Illustrated Edition of the 1913 version of "On the Plains with Custer" are all five original illustrations, rejuvenated, and 10 additional illustrations of failed military campaigns, including Custer's, that are unique to this edition of the book.

Download or read book Bowker s Guide to Characters in Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preacher written by Garth Ennis and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kit Carson and the Indians written by Thomas W. Dunlay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial views and actions were much like those of his contemporaries.

Download or read book Preacher All hell s a coming written by Garth Ennis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disillusioned with his own beliefs, Jesse Custer, along with his girlfriend Tulip and their Irish vampire friend Cassidy, begins a violent and riotous journey across the country in search of God, who has abandoned heaven.

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Hell on a Fast Horse written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Download or read book Preacher written by Garth Ennis and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Jesse Custer, an old Texas minister who is joined with a spiritual entity called Genesis and wields the Word of God, revisits terrors of his childhood on his way to find God.

Download or read book Just a Pilgrim written by Garth Ennis and published by Dynamite. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the days before the "Burn"--When the sun scorched the Earth and evaporated the seas--the Pilgrim was a soldier who lost his way and lost his connection to humanity, becoming a depraved thing ... until he found the Lord and his new purpose upon the new Earth"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Absolute Preacher Vol 2 written by Garth Ennis and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follows the Reverend Jesse Custer on his epic quest to track down an absent God and force him to answer for the sufferings of his creation"--from the publisher.

Download or read book Telegraph Days written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.