Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Ain't No Place for a Hero PDF full book. Access full book title Ain't No Place for a Hero by Kaitlin Tremblay. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Kaitlin Tremblay Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 177305077X Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it's ridiculous. It's a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline "87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder." These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain't No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise Ñ which has sold more than 26 million copies Ñ disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium. The latest entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain-t No Place for a Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the uninitiated.
Author: Kaitlin Tremblay Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 177305077X Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it's ridiculous. It's a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline "87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder." These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain't No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise Ñ which has sold more than 26 million copies Ñ disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium. The latest entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain-t No Place for a Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the uninitiated.
Author: Alice Childress Publisher: Turtleback ISBN: 9780881032543 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
The life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Author: Billy Joe Shaver Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292706132 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Willie Nelson says, "Billy Joe Shaver may be the best songwriter alive today." And legions of fans agree. "Honky Tonk Hero" is the story of a man who not only walked on the wild side and lived to tell about it, but also got it all down in songs that many people consider to be some of the finest country songs ever written.
Author: Paul Tillman Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1524685720 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
Minnie McCormack is a fast-paced, action packed, adventure story for women. It is set in the Panhandle of Florida in the late 1960s. The heroine, Minnie, is an oystermans daughter who lives a simple life on the bayou near of Apalachicola Bay. She is a highly intelligent, courageous and determined girl who does not accept the established role for southern women and strikes out on her own to make her place in the world. The story begins when Minnie, a newly released prison inmate, incarcerated for accidentally killing a man at her graduation party, is sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Upon her release, she seeks to find a new career. She has a romantic interlude with a Navy flight instructor who introduces her to the world of flying. She takes flying lessons at a small flight school in rural Alabama. Upon completion of her training, the unscrupulous operator of the flight school offers her a job flying counterfeit Levis into Cuba. She accepts and unwittingly becomes part of a scheme to fly smuggle drug money to Cuba and cocaine back into the US. Trouble begins when she is discovered by the US Coast Guard as she leaves Cuba. She escapes capture by trusting a member of the smuggling cartel who is positioned in the Florida Keys to keep her from being caught until she fulfills the needs of the cartel. She is taken to a luxurious yacht in the mangroves where she learns the is an unwitting pawn in the repayment of six million dollars of drug money and the smuggling of cocaine back to the US. During the night, men drug her and rape her. She escapes the next morning but not before she kills the two men who violated her. Having discovered the truth about her flying job, and the six million dollars stashed in the flight school, she constructs a plan to have her revenge on the rest of the men who used her and keep the money for her own purposes. With the help of a high school friend, a retuned Viet Nam veteran, and a strong determined spirit, she succeeds. Her character demonstrates, compassion and sensitivity and an iron-willed determination fashioned in the mores of old school justice of her Scottish heritage. She faces her fears and dangerwith courage and determination. Her character can be compared to other heroines such as Katness Everdeen, The Hunger Games and Lisbeth Salander, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Author: Geraldine DeLuca Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351333208 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
Teaching Toward Freedom: Supporting Voices and Silence in the English Classroom promotes teaching and learning that celebrate diversity and community through the systematic integration of traditionally "non-academic" voices and mindfulness-based, contemplative practices. By examining current scholarship and discussing novels and memoirs whose power is tied to freedom of expression, this book argues that teachers should allow students to use and explore the various rhetorical registers that they bring to the classroom. Through an innovative combination of narrative, argument, and literary analysis, the book skillfully connects conversations about linguistic diversity and contemplative approaches in order to foster a compassionate space for learning in the college-level English classroom.
Author: Lynn S. Zubernis Publisher: BenBella Books ISBN: 163774417X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
Go deeper inside the hit TV show The Boys and its characters with psychologists, media experts, filmmakers, and more—including the original comic series' co-creator and the actors behind Soldier Boy and Stormfront. Supes Ain’t Always Heroes offers a fresh look at The Boys, delving into the show’s unflinching depiction of celebrity, politics, social media, corporate greed, racism, sexism, and more: The true difference between Homelander and Billy Butcher—and who the show’s biggest villain really is What Soldier Boy’s characterization says about how we define masculinity How today’s media landscape has contributed to The Boys’ success What the evolutions of Hughie, Starlight, A-Train, Mother’s Milk, and other show standouts reflect about addiction, family, identity, and self-acceptance PLUS: Exclusive interviews with The Boys comics co-creator Darick Robertson and actors Jensen Ackles (Soldier Boy), Jim Beaver (Robert Singer a.k.a. Dakota Bob), Aya Cash (Stormfront), and Nathan Mitchell (Black Noir) provide a unique glimpse behind the scenes. Comments from editor interviews with more of the show’s stars give further insight into their experiences in bringing these complex characters to life.
Author: James B. Haile Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810141671 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does the experience of being black and male in the modern West affect the telling of a narrative, the shape or structure of a novel, the development of characters and plot lines, and the nature of criticism itself? James B. Haile argues that, since black male identity is largely fluid and open to interpretation, reinterpretation, and misinterpretation, the literature of black men has developed flexibility and improvisation, termed the “jazz of life.” Our reading of this literature requires the same kind of flexibility and improvisation to understand what is being said and why, as well as what is not being said and why. Finally, the book attempts to offer this new reading experience by placing texts by well-known authors, such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Colson Whitehead, in conversation with texts by those who are less well known and those who have, for the most part, been forgotten, in particular, Cecil Brown. Doing so challenges the reader to visit and revisit these novels with a new perspective about the social, political, historical, and psychic realities of black men.
Author: Kaitlin Tremblay
Author: Kaitlin Tremblay
Author: Alice Childress
Author: Billy Joe Shaver
Author: 
Author: Ron Collins
Author: Paul Tillman
Author: Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Author: Geraldine DeLuca
Author: Lynn S. Zubernis
Author: James B. Haile