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Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865298Author Walter HoppsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 663g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444045Author George GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureSeries Men's Adventure LibraryWeight(grams)...

For fifty years, graffiti and street art have been challenging conventions and stimulating debate around our perceptions of what constitutes art. As the genre enters its sixth decade, this ground-breaking book presents a new interpretation of where...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647291822Author Riichi YokomitsuFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831433Author Mike SassFormat HardbackPage Count 5Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. 'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463550400Author Henry BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945710179Author MantracraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Castle P&pPublisher New Castle P&pWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721880Author Michael Dante DiMartinoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Fifteen years of Joe Brainard's illustrated appropriation of classic comic strip character, Nancy From 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of...

You may know Bill Campbell's name, but chances are, you know his handiwork better, especially the Weird-Ohs models that burst on the pop culture scene in the 1960s. Enjoy looking back over the career of this colorful artist in over 700 brilliant photos...

Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.About the AuthorDavid...

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...

In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such...

-Focuses on what actually works in development practice, in order to inform and inspire practitioners and students -Impressive global reach, with a wide range of case studies drawn from across Algeria, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico,...

The visual arts in Wales are in ferment. The growing fascination in painters, installation artists, sculptors and those working in mixed and electronic media has been reflected both in booming sales and private gallery growth on the one hand and,...

The official art book for the animated movie Luck. The Art and Making of Luck showcases, in beautifully illustrated detail, the concept art behind the story of the unluckiest girl in the world: Sam Greenfield. When Sam stumbles into the...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces.Digital communication technologies and the social norms...

This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on 'deviant' social groups to the present day reasearch and theories.This...

With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.Focusing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998895109Author Steven KeslowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Quillpop BooksPublisher Quillpop BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

For most of the twentieth century, the private eye dominated crime fiction and film, a lone figure fighting for justice, often in opposition to the official representatives of law and order. More recently, however, the police have begun to take centre...

In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change. Since...

In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series and aims to elucidate some of the meanings of Twin Peaks:...

Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies offers numerous specific cultural analyses while...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879585Author Emily FlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

Mona Hatoum creates events, videos, sculptures and installations that relate to the body, to language and to the condition of exile. Her most famous work Corps Etranger, first shown at the Tate Gallery when she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995,...

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality...

Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art.Beginning with an analysis of the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981172603Author Matthew McCaffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713571Author Way NetflixFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657323Author Michael FinkelFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 146mm *...

The actual historical moments of birth of the various arts are not known. At most, significant changes of direction are distinguishable - and these are usually detected retrospectively. However, the founding of eurythmy, a new art of movement, has been...

Kat Von D's followup to her "New York Times" bestseller "High Voltage Tattoo" offers an intimate look at a pivotal year in her personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and ends in summer 2009. When Kat does a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781791943233Author Laura's Dot to Dot TherapyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Dot to Dot...

Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951038151Author Mr. Timothy TrumanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Clover PressPublisher Clover Press