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Free Download The comic book film adaptation : exploring modern Hollywood’s leading genre By Burke, Liam P
2015 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1628462035 | EPUB | 16 MB
In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood’s leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production.Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before.The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics.

Free Download JP Coovert, "Maker Comics: Draw a Comic!"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1250152127, 1250152119 | PDF | pages: 132 | 15.9 mb
Maker Comics is the ultimate DIY guide. Inside JP Coovert’s graphic novel you will find illustrated instructions for seven comic book projects!

Free Download Comic relief : Nietzsche’s Gay science By Higgins, Kathleen Marie; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
2000 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0195126912 | PDF | 17 MB
This book offers a lively and unorthodox analysis of Nietzsche by examining a neglected aspect of his scholarly personality–his sense of humor. While often thought of as ponderous and melancholy, the Nietzsche of Higgins’s study is a surprisingly subtle and light-hearted writer. She presents a close reading of The Gay Science to show how the numerous literary risks that Nietzsche takes reveal humor to be central to his project. Higgins argues that his use of humor is intended to dislodge readers from their usual, somber detachment and to incite imaginative thinking

Free Download Comic cure for delusional democracy : Plato’s Republic By Fendt, Gene
2014 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 0739193902 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book shows how the discussion of Platos’ Republic is a comic mimetic cure for civic and psychic delusion. Plato creates such pharmaka, or noble lies, for reasons enunciated by Socrates within the discussion, but this indicates Plato must think his readers are in the position of needing the catharses such fictions produce. Socrates’ interlocutors must be like us. Since cities are like souls, and souls come to be as they are through mimesis of desires, dreams, actions and thought patterns in the city, we should expect that political theorizing often suffers from madness as well. It does. Gene Fendt shows how contemporary political (and psychological) theory still suffers from the same delusion Socrates’ interlocutors reveal in their discussion: a dream of autarchia called possessive individualism. Plato has good reason to think that only a mimetic, rather than a rational and philosophical, cure can work. Against many standard readings, Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy shows that the Republic itself is a defense of poetry; that kallipolis cannot be the best city and is not Socrates’ ideal; that there are six forms of regime, not five; and that the true philosopher should not be unhappy to go back down into Plato’s cave.

Free Download Bradford W. Wright, Mike Lenz (Narrator), "Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America"
English | ASIN: B0CRLXJP5H | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~11:52:00 | 332 MB
As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation’s popular culture since Superman’s 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.
From Batman’s Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America’s one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man’s Cold War exploits in Vietnam and Spider-Man’s confrontations with student protestors and drug use in the early 1970s, comic books have continually reflected the national mood, as Wright’s imaginative reading of thousands of titles makes clear. In every genre, Wright finds that writers and illustrators used the medium to address a variety of serious issues.
Wright’s lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups, and child psychologists to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.

Free Download Chihiro Hattori, "Kanji de Manga: The Comic Book That Teaches You How To Read And Write Japanese!"
English | 2005 | pages: 144 | ISBN: 4921205027 | EPUB | 6,3 mb
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Free Download Jennifer Saunders, "The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women"
English | 2014 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 184943428X, 1350351636 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
"So Katy Wix has written this book of comic monologues and I may have to steal some of them. Although written for the female voice, I dare say they would stand up very well if you were a gentleman and changed the odd word or two. Here you have a book filled with brilliant characters and much funny. Each piece is bubbling with the quirky genius that makes Miss Wix one of the funniest performers / writers around." – Jennifer Saunders, from her foreword.

Free Download JT Waldman, Harvey Pekar, "From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books"
English | 2008 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0827608438 | PDF | 18,3 mb
Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry as a whole. Over-sized and in full color, From Krakow to Krypton is filled with sidebars, cartoon bubbles, comic book graphics, original design sketches, and photographs. It is a visually stunning and exhilarating history.

Free Download Claudia Dávila, "Viminy Crowe’s Comic Book"
English | 2017 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1101918934, 1770494790 | EPUB | 16,4 mb
Now in paperback. From two of Canada’s most renowned children’s authors comes a hilarious, action-packed comic adventure novel!

Free Download ImagineFX Presents – Comic Artist – 11th Edition – August 2023
English | 132 pages | True PDF | 106.4 MB