Medievalist Comics and the American Century, Chris Bishop

Автор: Bishop Chris
Название: Medievalist Comics and the American Century
ISBN: 1496808509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496808509
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The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop presents a reception history of medievalist comics, setting them against a greater backdrop of modern American history.

From its genesis in the 1930s to the present, Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy, but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow remains the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it was to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the United States. The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight-errant. In the narrative of Red Sonja, we can trace a parallel history of feminism. Bishop regards these comics as not merely happenchance, but each success (Prince Valiant and The Mighty Thor) or failure (Beowulf: Dragon Slayer) as a result and an indicator of certain American preoccupations amid a larger cultural context.

Intrinsically modernist paragons of pop-culture ephemera, American comics have ironically continued to engage with the European Middle Ages. Bishop illuminates some of the ways in which we use an imagined past to navigate the present and plots some possible futures as we valiantly shape a new century.

Автор: DArcens Louise
Название: International Medievalism and Popular Culture
ISBN: 1604978643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604978643
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Автор: Karl Alvestad, Robert Houghton
Название: The Middle Ages in Modern Culture: History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism
ISBN: 1788314786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788314787
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This open access book brings together an international team of experts, The Middle Ages in Modern Culture considers the use of medieval models across a variety of contemporary media – ranging from television and film to architecture – and the significance of deploying an authentic medieval world to these representations. Rooted in this question of authenticity, this interdisciplinary study addresses three connected themes. Firstly, how does historical accuracy relate to authenticity, and whose version of authenticity is accepted? Secondly, how are the middle ages presented in modern media and why do inaccuracies emerge and persist in these works? Thirdly, how do creators of modern content attempt to produce authentic medieval environments, and what are the benefits and pitfalls of accurate portrayals? The result is nuanced study of medieval culture which sheds new light on the use (and misuse) of medieval history in modern media. This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Автор: Wood, Christopher
Название: Heroes masked and mythic
ISBN: 1476683158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476683157
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Описание: With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in film as the crystallization of the hero`s journey in the modern imagination.

Автор: Oliver Kozlarek, Jorn Rusen, Ernst Wolff
Название: Shaping a Humane World: Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms
ISBN: 3837619419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837619416
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Описание: The generation of meaning is the primary precondition for acting and thinking. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalised world in mind. The notions civilisation, humanism and modernity -- far from being exclusively Western ideas -- may facilitate joint efforts of reflecting on the universality of current human conditions, particularly since such reflection is possible from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but shared, humane world is the challenge.

Автор: Bryan, John Fleming, Michael
Название: Early english viols: instruments, makers and music
ISBN: 0367229684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367229689
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Music of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Thomas Mace (1676) writes that `old English viols` are ideal, and names five English makers than whom `there are no Better in the World`.

Название: Studies in Medievalism XII: Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages
ISBN: 085991772X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780859917728
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Описание: Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.

Автор: Jenkins
Название: Antiquity Now
ISBN: 0521196264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521196260
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Through the lens of reception studies, Antiquity Now examines the ideological uses of the classical world in contemporary media, including surprising new developments in comic books, film, drama and fiction. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of American, classical and cultural studies.

Автор: Ruth Barratt-Peacock, Ross Hagen
Название: Medievalism and Metal Music Studies: Throwing Down the Gauntlet
ISBN: 1787563960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787563964
Издательство: Emerald
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Описание: This edited collection investigates metal music`s enduring fascination with the medieval period from a variety of critical perspectives, exploring how metal musicians and fans use the medieval period as a fount for creativity and critique.

Автор: Gerzic
Название: From Medievalism to Early-Modernism
ISBN: 1138366579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138366572
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Описание: From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism-a new term introduced here-present in contemporary popular culture.

Автор: Gail Ashton
Название: Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 135002161X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350021617
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture.

Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comic book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more.

Also included is a companion website at https: //medievalafterlives.wordpress.com/ aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of medieval afterlives, complete with:

- Further reading/weblinks
- 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations
- Images and interviews
- Guide to library archives and manuscript collections
- Guide to heritage collection

Название: Comics of charles schulz
ISBN: 1496818474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496818478
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Описание: With contributions by: Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders, Jeffrey O. Segrave, and Michael Tisserand.The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied medium of newspaper comics.Schulz's Peanuts ran for a half century, during which time he drew the strip and its characters to express keen observations on postwar American life and culture. As Peanuts' popularity grew, Schulz had opportunities to shape the iconography, style, and philosophy of modern life in ways he never could have imagined when he began the strip in 1950. Edited by leading scholars Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon, this volume ranges over a spectrum of Schulz's accomplishments and influence, touching on everything from cartoon aesthetics to the marketing of global fast food. Philosophy, ethics, and cultural history all come into play. Indeed, the book even highlights Snoopy's global reach as American soft power.As the broad interdisciplinary range of this volume makes clear, Peanuts offers countless possibilities for study and analysis. From many perspectives-including childhood studies, ethnic studies, health and exercise studies, as well as sociology - The Comics of Charles Schulz offers the most comprehensive and diverse study of the most influential cartoonist during the second half of the twentieth century.