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Book e Pedia  Captain America  Civil War

Download or read book e Pedia Captain America Civil War written by Contributors, Wikipedia and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-02-11 with total page 10590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast, including Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl. In Captain America: Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark. This book has been derived from Wikipedia: it contains the entire text of the title Wikipedia article + the entire text of all the 634 related (linked) Wikipedia articles to the title article. This book does not contain illustrations.

Book The Superheroes Devotional

Download or read book The Superheroes Devotional written by Ed Strauss and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Can you actually find spiritual truths in comicbooks and superhero movies?” Yes, you can! For more than 75 years of comic book history and dozens of gigantic cinematic releases, Superheros have captivated our imagination--filling our senses with heart-pounding adventures, riveting plots, and spectacular special effects—and sometimes they have profound messages woven into them. Often the underlying themes reveal a Judeo-Christian influence, and even when it isn’t intentional, you can still draw deep lessons from them. Whether it’s the self-sacrifice and humility of Captain America and the Hulk’s struggles with anger or the parallels between Superman and Jesus or between Black Widow and a ruthless Bible heroine, your favorite heroes and heroines (and even villains) have much to teach. If you’re a fan of this good vs. evil world, you will love The Superheroes Devotional—featuring 60 interesting, challenging, and encouraging readings. With devotions drawn from dozens of favorite superheroes from both the Marvel and DC Comics universes—well-known names like Captain America and Batman and lesser-known heroes like Shazam and Gambit—each reading includes spiritual lessons relating superheroes to the heroes of the Bible in themes like faith, hope, courage, pride, and power. You’ll also enjoy reading about the history and background of each superhero, shared by author and lifelong fan Ed Strauss. Read on, True Believer, and may you draw inspiration and encouragement from the characters and stories that you know and love from comicbook pages and big screen movies alike.

Book Comic Books and American Cultural History

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.

Book Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Download or read book Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe written by Julian C. Chambliss, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  The Marvel Cinematic Universe—comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts—has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots. Beyond considerable box office achievements, the success of Marvel’s movie studios has opened up dialogue on social, economic and political concerns that challenge established values and beliefs. This collection of new essays examines those controversial themes and the ways they represent, construct and distort American culture.

Book Copyright Vigilantes

Download or read book Copyright Vigilantes written by Ezra Claverie and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero's unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films’ mode of production. Since the 1930s, the dominant American comics publishers have treated the creations of artists and writers as work for hire, such that stories and characters become company property. Thus, publishers avoided sharing the profits both from magazine sales and from licensing characters into other media. For decades, creators have challenged this regime, demanding either shares of profits or outright ownership of their creations. Now that the duopoly rents, licenses, and adapts superheroes for increasingly expensive franchises, and for growing international audiences, any challenge to intellectual property relations threatens a production regime worth billions of dollars. Duopoly movies, therefore, present any attempt to break the superhero’s monopoly on their powers as the scheme of terrorists, mad scientists, or space Nazis—assuaging studio anxieties and revealing the fears of those who benefit most from the real-world ownership of superheroes. Weaving together legal analysis, Marxist political economy, and close readings of movies, Copyright Vigilantes explains the preoccupations of Hollywood’s leading genre.

Book MCU  The Reign of Marvel Studios

Download or read book MCU The Reign of Marvel Studios written by Joanna Robinson and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I watched all the movies. I devoured all the articles. I listened to all the pods. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the MCU . . . and then I read this magnificent book. For fans, by fans; hilarious, gripping, and emotional; no infinity stone is left unturned. I loved it three thousand.” —Damon Lindelof The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise—and suddenly uncertain reign—of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood’s old studio system. But will it survive its own spectacular achievements? Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full—and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture.

Book Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation

Download or read book Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation written by Erin Giannini and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, angry gods and even bloggers who wish to rule the world. Within these works is a prevalent yet commonly overlooked theme--the corporate antagonist. This book examines the effects of this corporate culture on the protagonists of Whedon's most famous works (including Buffy, Roseanne, the Avengers, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dollhouse) to reveal explicit sociopolitical commentaries on corporate control in the real world.

Book Daredevil Masterworks Vol  12

Download or read book Daredevil Masterworks Vol 12 written by Marv Wolfman and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Daredevil (1964) #120-132 and material from FOOM (1973) #13. The Man Without Fear’s life is about to change forever. Bullseye is coming. The countdown begins when Daredevil, Black Widow and Nick Fury unite to battle a renewed Hydra. In the aftermath, Black Widow leaves and a new love interest, Heather Glenn, enters, but Matt Murdock’s growing obsession with his life as Daredevil puts their budding relationship at risk. The drama continues with Death-Stalker, the Torpedo, a destructive day in court for Man-Bull and the opening of Murdock and Nelson’s storefront law practice. Last, but certainly not least: Marv Wolfman, Bob Brown and iconic Daredevil inker/finisher Klaus Janson unleash one of comics’ most iconic adversaries. It’s the first appearance of Bullseye, the madman with perfect aim and no mercy.

Book Articles about the Ethnical and the National Secret Political Organizations  Second Edition

Download or read book Articles about the Ethnical and the National Secret Political Organizations Second Edition written by Istvan Adorjan and published by Istvan Adorjan. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword: “With my this book, i publish my relatively short writings, representing my ideas and conceptions about the global Illuminati and the ethnical and the national Illuminatis, or as i termed them “the ethnical and the national secret political organizations”, which i have not processed up to the size of a book.”

Book Stem Cells

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas C.G. Bosch
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-04-03
  • ISBN : 1402082746
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Stem Cells written by Thomas C.G. Bosch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of our knowledge of stem cells has been inferred from studies of remarkable few species. The ability to manipulate stem cells in “model” organisms such as the mouse and a few other vertebrate species has driven our understanding of basic biology of stem cells. The power and efficiency of studying model organisms, however, comes at a cost since a few species, obviously, do not reflect nature ́s true diversity. Unfortunately, although all multicellular organisms seem to rely on stem cells, and although this seems to be a question of key importance for understanding the evolution of animal life, little is known about stem cells in early-branching taxa. “Stem Cells: From Hydra to Man” illustrates that there is more than human and mouse stem cells to learn from. Reflecting an enormous growth in the knowledge of stem cells in various organisms, the book presents the conceptual language and the nature of questions, as well as a summary of the advances in our understanding of stem cells from a comparative point of view that has resulted from the development of new technology and the development of novel model organisms over the past few decades. As such this book is largely a horizon analysis of a frontier rather than a retrospective. It presents an integrative approach to animal stem cells and covers the major contributions, tools and trends in a newly emerging field: comparative stem cell biology.

Book Dark Order  A Ryan Weller Thriller Book 13

Download or read book Dark Order A Ryan Weller Thriller Book 13 written by Evan Graver and published by Third Reef Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Island Paradise … Hidden Nazi Gold … A Deadly Battleground When Steve Carlton purchases Big Darby Island in the Exuma Cays so his daughter can build a tropical getaway, he’s faced with one disaster after another. Someone wants him to leave his own island and is willing to do whatever it takes to make him. Desperate, Carlton turns to Ryan Weller, whose growing reputation as a troubleshooter has garnered more headlines than he’d like. He agrees to exorcise the “ghosts” that haunt Big Darby, but when the former EOD tech arrives, the only person he finds is Carlton’s daughter Diane, a woman hellbent on restoring a neglected house and to starting a new life. She’s not about to be scared off or persuaded to leave, even if it’s for her own good. The “ghosts” have their own plans—a methodical search for Nazi gold secreted out of Berlin during the closing days of World War II. To find it, they’ll let nothing—or no one—stand in their way. Forced into hunting for the gold, Ryan finds himself trapped between a relentless adversary intent on installing a Fourth Reich and the desire to save a woman he is desperately trying to distance himself from. But in order to save both their lives, he must first play the deadliest game.

Book Thoughts in Theology  1  Christian Theism Argued from Organized Life and Fossil Osteology

Download or read book Thoughts in Theology 1 Christian Theism Argued from Organized Life and Fossil Osteology written by John Sheppard (of Frome.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Cell Science

Download or read book Journal of Cell Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marvel s Captain America

Download or read book Marvel s Captain America written by Will Corona Pilgrim and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the road to Marvel's CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR with official adaptations of the smash-hit films IRON MAN 3 and CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER! When the Mandarin launches a series of deadly terror attacks on America, Iron Man must take action! But can Tony Stark handle the pressure when he has his own demons to face? And when Captain America encounters an assassin called the Winter Soldier, he joins with Black Widow and Falcon to uncover a deep-seated conspiracy in their very midst! It's spy versus spy as the fate of the country hangs in the balance! Plus: A single misstep ignites the fuse and pits hero against hero in the opening chapter of the comic-book story that inspired the film! Collecting MARVEL'S CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR PRELUDE #1-4 and INFINITE COMIC #1, and CIVIL WAR (2006) #1.

Book Real Nazis

Download or read book Real Nazis written by Piotr Uklanski and published by Patrick Frey Edition. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glamorous impersonations of evil: In the fall of 1999 Edition Patrick Frey published 'The Nazis', which soon became a legendary cult book. It has long since been out of print and remains highly coveted to this day. While 'The Nazis' showed stills of actors playing Nazis in various Hollywood movies, Polish artist Piotr Uklanksi has now juxtaposed them with the real thing: Nazi party bigwigs, decorated 'war heroes' and war criminals. Painstakingly culled from a great many different archives, this follow-up compilation superimposes fact on fiction, the stagey, propagandistic imagery of the Third Reich on the mockup Nazi iconography of Hollywood, revealing an uncanny, even spooky, resemblance between the play-acting and real-life exponents of evil. 'Real Nazis', using the same format and production values as its predecessor, is the 'real' brother that now seems an ugly reflection of that 'glamorous' artist's book 'The Nazis'"--Publisher's website (viewed on December 7, 2017).

Book Drakon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Ogden
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-02-28
  • ISBN : 0199557322
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Drakon written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich literary and iconographic sources, for the principal dragons of myth, and discusses matters of cult and the paradoxical association of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities.