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Author: Tara Lynn Thompson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781515260257 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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Not Another Superhero is a fun, fast-paced mystery romance that always leaves you wanting more. You'll fall in love with Samantha Addison, a smart, snarky journalist turned puff-piece editor who's hiding from the injuries of her past. Starting with a harrowing scene in which Samantha is attacked by a mugger in an alley, our heroine's razor-sharp sarcasm flies off the pages. You'll discover that her wit is what keeps her going when this near-death experience turns out to be just the beginning of an all-out attack. But who's behind it? Strangely, Samantha can't remember how she managed to survive that initial brutal assault. Weirder still, a hooded man always appears and saves her just in the nick of time. And why has Trevor Maessen, her former editor during her beat reporter days, picked this moment to show up after leaving her during a traumatic episode seven years earlier? Amid all of this turmoil, the stoic Jackson Christy might be Samantha's saving grace-or not. Twists and turns, along with plenty of action, wit, and romance, make Not Another Superhero an irresistible chick-lit concoction you can't put down!
Author: Tara Lynn Thompson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781515260257 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
Not Another Superhero is a fun, fast-paced mystery romance that always leaves you wanting more. You'll fall in love with Samantha Addison, a smart, snarky journalist turned puff-piece editor who's hiding from the injuries of her past. Starting with a harrowing scene in which Samantha is attacked by a mugger in an alley, our heroine's razor-sharp sarcasm flies off the pages. You'll discover that her wit is what keeps her going when this near-death experience turns out to be just the beginning of an all-out attack. But who's behind it? Strangely, Samantha can't remember how she managed to survive that initial brutal assault. Weirder still, a hooded man always appears and saves her just in the nick of time. And why has Trevor Maessen, her former editor during her beat reporter days, picked this moment to show up after leaving her during a traumatic episode seven years earlier? Amid all of this turmoil, the stoic Jackson Christy might be Samantha's saving grace-or not. Twists and turns, along with plenty of action, wit, and romance, make Not Another Superhero an irresistible chick-lit concoction you can't put down!
Author: Blair Davis Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813588790 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 151
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Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman’s Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we willing to go when fighting terror? How can we resist a dystopian state? Film scholar Blair Davis also considers how the genre’s visual style is equally important as its weighty themes, and he details how advances in digital effects have allowed filmmakers to incorporate elements of comic book art in innovative ways. As he reveals, comic book movies have inspired just as many innovations to Hollywood’s business model, with film franchises and transmedia storytelling helping to ensure that the genre will continue its reign over popular culture for years to come.
Author: Rob Hill Publisher: ISBN: 9781527244849 Category : Comic books, strips, etc Languages : en Pages : 368
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1000 movies. 100 years. 50 countries. 19 Samuel L. Jacksons. Featuring accessible capsule reviews of every significant superhero movie ever made (and most of the insignificant ones), The A to Z of superhero movies represents the deepest dive ever taken into this ubiquitous, crownd-pleasing genre.
Author: C. B. Lee Publisher: Interlude Press - Duet Books ISBN: 9781945053030 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Resigned to a life without superpowers in a world full of them, Jess takes a paid internship where she helps a heinous supervillain and works with her longtime crush, but she soon stumbles on a massive plot.
Author: Jeffrey A. Brown Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317484517 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 190
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Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumerism after the events of 9/11. Superheroes have long been agents of hegemony, fighting for abstract ideals of justice while overall perpetuating the American status quo. Yet at the same time, the book explores how the genre has also been utilized to question and critique these dominant cultural assumptions.
Author: Roy Thomas Publisher: Marvel Comics Group ISBN: 9780785124597 Category : Good and evil Languages : en Pages : 0
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Christos Gage (Thunderbolts, House of M: Avengers) is joined by international superstar-tist Mario Alberti (Redhand) to bring you the most misunderstood team of all time meeting the most misunderstood super hero of all time in this tale of mystery that starts in the early days of the Marvel Age and winds it's way through to today! Watch as Kraven the Hunter and the Blob attack the world's strangest teens while deep in the background an even greater threat watches... and waits. Also, revisit the first time Spider-Man fought side-by-side with Xavier's team in X-Men #35! Collects X-Men/Spider-Man #1-4 and X-Men #35.
Author: Matt Carter Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1473232090 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 347
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Pinnacle City is many things to many people. To some it is a glittering metropolis, a symbol of prosperity watched over by the all-star superhero team, the Pinnacle City Guardians. Beyond the glitz and glamour, there is another city, one still feeling the physical and economic damage of the superhero-villain battles of generations past. The lower class, immigrants, criminals, aliens, sorcerers, and non-humans alike call this city home, looking to make a living, which is becoming increasingly difficult as the two sides of the city seem prepared to boil over into a violent conflict. Private investigator Eddie Enriquez, born with the ability to read the histories of objects by touch, still bears the scars of his time as a youthful minion for a low-level supervillain, followed by stints in prison and the military. Though now trying to live a straight-and-narrow life, he supports a drinking problem and painkiller addiction by using his powers to track down insurance cheats. When a mysterious woman enters his office asking him to investigate the death of prominent non-human rights activist Quentin Julian, a crime the police and heroes are ignoring, he takes the case in the hopes of doing something good. Superhero Kimberly Kline has just hit it big, graduating from her team of young heroes to the Pinnacle City Guardians with the new codename of Solar Flare. With good looks, powers that include flight, energy manipulation, superhuman strength, durability, and speed, as well as a good family name, the sky is the limit for her. Upbeat, optimistic, and perhaps a little naïve from the upper-crust life she was raised in, she hopes to make her family, and the world, proud by being the greatest superhero she can be . . . but things aren't always as they seem.
Author: Dan Hassler-Forest Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1780991800 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 288
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In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes who came to embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive conservative agenda in the 1980s, the 21st-century film narratives of Batman, Spider-Man and Superman reflect the policies of the Bush Doctrine after 9/11. This book offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship that exists between post-9/11 American politics and the contemporary superhero movie phenomenon. No other Hollywood subgenre was as consistently popular during the George W. Bush presidency, as films such as Spider-Man, Superman Returns, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight embodied the key contradictions that inform the cultural and political life of the post-9/11 years. By combining in-depth analyses of numerous major superhero films from this era with astute readings of contemporary critical theory, this book offers accessible and academically potent insight into the complex interplay between politics, ideology, and entertainment in the 21st century. ,
Author: Tara Lynn Thompson Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781547233120 Category : Languages : en Pages : 374
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THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS SPIRIT THAT MATCHED MINE. HE FELT LIKE A PART OF ME I'D FORGOTTEN, A PART THAT COULD GIVE ME LIFE OR TAKE MINE AWAY. Samantha Addison is still reeling a month later from the night of the Durant Ball. She's alive, but for how long? The faceless person threatening her life is still at large. Through all the chaos, Jackson Christy has been her constant protector. But that's about to change. Evidence has turned up that leads Samantha to question Jackson's motives. Is he who he says he is? Or has she been trusting the wrong man all along? Her heart says 'no' but the evidence says 'yes.' Samantha has one death-defying, endless night to prove once and for all if Jackson Christy is the hero of her story...or the villain. She won't stop until she knows, but finding the answer might just kill her.
Author: Barry Schein Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262338068 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1035
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A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective. In this book, Barry Schein argues that “and” is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. “And” always means “&,” across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event semantics, and, enlarged with Cinerama Semantics, a vocabulary for spatial orientation and navigation. Besides rescuing “and” from ambiguity, Eventish and Cinerama Semantics solve general puzzles of grammar and meaning unrelated to conjunction, revealing the book's central thesis in the process: aspects of meaning mistakenly attributed to “and” are discovered to reflect neighboring structures previously unseen and unacknowledged. Schein argues that Eventish and Cinerama Semantics offer a fundamental revision to clause structure and what aspects of meaning are represented therein. Eventish is distinguished by four features: supermonadicity, which enlarges verbal decomposition so that every argument relates to its own event; descriptive event anaphora, which replaces simple event variables with silent descriptive pronouns; adverbialization, which interposes adverbials derived from the descriptive content of every DP; and AdrPs, which replace all NPs with Address Phrases that locate what nominals denote within scenes or frames of reference. With 'And,' Schein rehabilitates an old rule of transformational, generative grammar, answering the challenges to it exhaustively and meticulously.
Author: Tara Lynn Thompson
Author: Tara Lynn Thompson
Author: Blair Davis
Author: Rob Hill
Author: C. B. Lee
Author: Jeffrey A. Brown
Author: Roy Thomas
Author: Matt Carter
Author: Dan Hassler-Forest
Author: Tara Lynn Thompson
Author: Barry Schein