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Carl Brandon

Author : Jeanne Gomoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 035957906X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Carl Brandon written by Jeanne Gomoll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Carr recounts the invention of an imaginary black science fiction fan named Carl Brandon, one of the field's most (in)famous hoaxes. In addition to Carl Brandon's complete history, this volume includes his J.D. Salinger parody, "The Cacher of the Rye;" a more current parody by Carl Brandon 2.0, "The Kvetcher on the Racists;" and an essay by Samuel R. Delany, "Racism and Science Fiction." To quote Carr: "In the late fifties, several of the fans of the Bay Area...presented fandom with a new fanwriter who was quickly acclaimed as one of the best writers around and who was, not incidentally, the first prominent fan who was black." Read the book for more of this fascinating tale. All proceeds go to the Carl Brandon Society, which promotes discussions on race at conventions and conferences, and through its support of the Parallax and Kindred literary awards, and the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Speculative Blackness

Author : André M. Carrington
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452949751
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Speculative Blackness written by André M. Carrington and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination. Carrington’s argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has been both marginalized and celebrated offers a black perspective on iconic works of science fiction. He examines the career of actor Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed the character Uhura in the original Star Trek television series and later became a recruiter for NASA, and the spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, set on a space station commanded by a black captain. He recovers a pivotal but overlooked moment in 1950s science fiction fandom in which readers and writers of fanzines confronted issues of race by dealing with a fictitious black fan writer and questioning the relevance of race to his ostensible contributions to the 'zines. Carrington mines the productions of Marvel comics and the black-owned comics publisher Milestone Media, particularly the representations of black sexuality in its flagship title, Icon. He also interrogates online fan fiction about black British women in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Harry Potter series. Throughout this nuanced analysis, Carrington theorizes the relationship between race and genre in cultural production, revealing new understandings of the significance of blackness in twentieth-century American literature and culture.

Kindred

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807083704
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Kindred written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. “Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise” (New York Times). “Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it’s absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream.” —N. K. Jemisin Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, and Gayle Rankin.

Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance

Author : Carl Brandon Strehlke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500970998
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance written by Carl Brandon Strehlke and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With illustrations that demonstrate the rich colors and intense light that imbue Fra Angelico’s work, this book takes a deeper look at one of the master painters of the Florentine Renaissance. One of the great fifteenth-century masters, Fra Angelico was one of several painters who shaped the beginnings of the Florentine Renaissance. Although, because of his occupation as a friar, he is sometimes considered separately from his contemporaries, including Masaccio, Masolino, Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Nanni di Banco, and Filippo Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance examines his early works and shows that not only was he a participant in the artistic culture of the time, but also a key innovator. Angelico’s breakthrough work from the mid-1420s, the Prado’s great Annunciation altarpiece, is regarded as the first Renaissance-style altarpiece in Florence. Published to accompany the exhibition “Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance” at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, this book reveals the results of the Prado’s extensive conservation and technological research efforts on The Annunciation, as well as two other recently acquired Angelico paintings: the Alba Madonna and the Funeral of Saint Anthony Abbot. Vividly illustrated and deeply illuminating, this book investigates the origins of the Florentine Renaissance and positions Angelico at the heart of the story.

"Waiting Room" The Seanton Jorden Story

Author : S. Devon Jorden
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book "Waiting Room" The Seanton Jorden Story written by S. Devon Jorden and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Waiting Room” The Seanton Jorden Story, is a gripping narrative inspired by true events. It tells the story of the life of a 15-year-old boy who was simply playing video games, and was tragically shot in the head with a pellet gun by his friend. This powerful book delves into the life of Seanton prior to this horrific incident, and his amazing transformation after a super-natural encounter with God, marking the way for a colossal vision and purpose. It also tells the story of the tumultuous days afterward as his family begins their journey of many days and nights in the physical waiting room, and many more years in the emotional and mental “waiting room”. It’s a story of tremendous faith, long-suffering, and the bonding of a family, through the eyes of a father who tells a story about overcoming unsurmountable odds in the midst of the most difficult time of his family’s life. “Waiting Room” The Seanton Jorden Story will tug at heartstrings and promises to be an unforgettable reading experience, tackling important topics, and telling a story of triumph over tragedy that will stay with audiences long after the final chapter is read.

The Hand of Fate Comic Book No 16

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Publisher : Tri Fold Media Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hand of Fate Comic Book No 16 written by and published by Tri Fold Media Group. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions

Author : K. Loock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137263350
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions written by K. Loock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction – remaking and remodelling – which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial, textual and critical perspectives.

Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes]

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313054746
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes] written by Robin Anne Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.

Sands and McDougall's Directory of Victoria ... Melbourne and Suburban Sections ... Country Section

Author : Sands & McDougall, Melbourne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3138 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sands and McDougall's Directory of Victoria ... Melbourne and Suburban Sections ... Country Section written by Sands & McDougall, Melbourne and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 3138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Partners in Wonder

Author : Eric Leif Davin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739112670
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Partners in Wonder written by Eric Leif Davin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.

Convergence Culture Reconsidered

Author : Claudia Georgi
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
ISBN 13 : 3863952170
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Convergence Culture Reconsidered written by Claudia Georgi and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking media scholar Henry Jenkins’s concept of ‘convergence culture’ and the related notions of ‘participatory culture’ and ‘transmedia storytelling’ as points of departure, the essays compiled in the present volume provide terminological clarification, offer exemplary case studies, and discuss the broader implications of such developments for the humanities. Most of the contributions were originally presented at the transatlantic conference Convergence Culture Reconsidered organized by the editors at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, in October 2013. Applying perspectives as diverse as literary, cultural, and media studies, digital humanities, translation studies, art history, musicology, and ecology, they assemble a stimulating wealth of interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that will appeal to students as well as experts in any of these research areas.

A Little Taste of Freedom

Author : Emilye Crosby
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080782965X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Little Taste of Freedom written by Emilye Crosby and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions t

Edinburgh History of Reading

Author : Mary Hammond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474446124
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh History of Reading written by Mary Hammond and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the agesCovers reading practices around the world from 19th-century Africa to the reading of music in the 20th-century USEmploys a wide range of methodologies a Showcases new research including reading at night; readers as writers and critics; and 21st-century neuroscienceChallenges previous models with new data on travelling readers, images of readers, and digital reading and fan culturesModern Readers explores the myriad places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place since the eighteenth century, from the bedrooms of the English upper classes, through large parts of nineteenth-century Africa and on-board ships and trains travelling the world, to twenty-first-century reading groups. It encompasses a range of genres from to science fiction, music and self-help to Government propaganda.

Race and Popular Fantasy Literature

Author : Helen Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317532171
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Race and Popular Fantasy Literature written by Helen Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genre’s racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The book’s interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre’s habits of whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities. With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this book is an important and original contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture.

The Drink Tank 300

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Publisher : Office Supply Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drink Tank 300 written by and published by Office Supply Publishing. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 300th issue of The Drink Tank, including contributions from around the world. Edited by Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon,

Tolkien and Alterity

Author : Christopher Vaccaro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331961018X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Tolkien and Alterity written by Christopher Vaccaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, and the Orcs as well as discussions of how language and identity function in the source texts. The analysis of Tolkien’s work is set against an examination of his life, personal writing, and beliefs. Each essay takes as its central position the idea that how Tolkien responds to that which is different, to that which is “Other,” serves as a register of his ethics and moral philosophy. In the aggregate, they provide evidence of Tolkien’s acceptance of alterity.

The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti

Author : Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy)
Publisher : Officina Libraria
ISBN 13 : 9788897737636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti written by Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy) and published by Officina Libraria. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti surveys the 149 works assembled by the Berensons for their home in Florence from the late 1890s through the first decades of the twentieth century at the time that they were making their mark on the world as connoisseurs. The catalogue presents a privileged window on the Berensons' intellectual interests through the objects they owned. The entries, written by an international team of art historians, take full advantage of the extensive correspondence from the Berensons' friends, family, and colleagues at I Tatti as well as the couple's diaries and notations on the backs of their vast gathering of photographs. All the entries are lavishly illustrated with full scholarly and technical accountings of the objects. There are also 17 illustrated reconstructions of the original contexts of panel paintings. The catalogue includes essays on the progress of the Berensons' collecting, their love for Siena, the Sienese forger Icilio Federico Joni, the critic Roger Fry, and René Piot's murals at I Tatti, as well as a listing of 94 pictures that were once at I Tatti including donations made to museums in Europe and America. Contents: Preface Lino Pertile; Acknowledgments - Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Israëls; Note to the Use of the Catalogue; Abbreviations; Glossary of People in the Berenson Circle Mentioned in the Text; Section I: Introductory Essays and Entries 0 to 111; Essay I: "Bernard and Mary Collect: Pictures Come to I Tatti" - Carl Brandon Strehlke; Essay II: "The Berensons and Siena" (working title) - Machtelt Israëls; Essay III: "Passions Intertwined: Art and Photography at I Tatti" - Giovanni Pagliarulo; Entries: Paintings from the 14th to 18th century - Plates 0 to 111; Section II: Fakes; Essay IV: The Berensons and the Sienese Forger Federico Ioni - Gianni Mazzoni; Entries: Fakes - Plates 112 to 116; Section III: Roger Fry; Essay V: "Roger Fry and Bernard Berenson" - Caroline Elam; Entry: Fry - Plate 117; Section IV: René Piot; Essay VI: "A Failure: René Piot and the Berensons" - Claudio Pizzorusso; Entries: Piot - Plates 118 to 131; Section V: The Berensons, Family and Friends; Entries: Portraits - Plates 132 to 138; Entries: Miscellanea - Plates 139 to 148; Appendix: Paintings Formerly Owned by the Berensons - Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Israëls; Bibliography; Photo Credits; Index.