Author: Edward Waterman TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats
Author: Edward Waterman TownsendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Yellow Kid
Author: Richard Felton OutcaultPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756766832
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The Yellow Kid is the mischievous street urchin who took NY & the whole country by storm at the end of the 19th cent. He's the popular comic character created by Richard Felton Outcault who was the prize in a battle between the greatest newspaper titans of the Gilded Age, Joseph Pulitzer of the NY WorldÓ & William Randolph Hearst of the NY Journal.Ó The Yellow Kid's smiling face & yellow nightshirt appeared on thousands of books, toys, magazines, cookie tins, bars of soap, & myriad other products in Victorian homes. He was the star of the first comic strip. This volume reprints the entire comic strip for the first time since its original appearance in 1895-1898. A lengthy intro., illustrated with photos & drawings, discusses the Yellow Kid comic & its era.
The Yellow Kid
Author: R. F. OutcaultPublisher: Checker Book Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781933160696
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The comic strip that started it all, the American comic strip that laid the groundwork for an art form. This precocious kid from the barrio of Brooklyn took the US by storm in the late 1800s and coined the termed 'yellow journalism'. Collected here is the entire run along with dozens of never-before-collected images by Outcault. Also included is the extraordinarily rare strip Pore Lil Mose.
The Culture of Yellow
Author: Sabine DoranPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441196900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during this period primarily as a color of stigma and scandal. Yellow stigmatization has had a long history: it goes back to the Middle Ages when Jews and prostitutes were forced to wear yellow signs to emphasize their marginal status. Although scholars have commented on these associations in particular contexts, Sabine Doran offers the first overarching account of how yellow connects disparate cultural phenomena, such as turn-of-the-century decadence (the "yellow nineties"), the rise of mass media ("yellow journalism"), mass immigration from Asia ("the yellow peril"), and mass stigmatization (the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany). The Culture of Yellow combines cultural history with innovative readings of literary texts and visual artworks, providing a multilayered account of the unique role played by the color yellow in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European culture.
Of Comics and Men
Author: Jean-Paul GabillietPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628469994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form. A thorough introduction by translators and comics scholars Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen brings the book up to date with explorations of the latest innovations, particularly the graphic novel. The book is organized into three sections: a concise history of the evolution of the comic book form in America; an overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, detailing specific controversies such as the creation of the Comics Code in the mid-1950s; and the problematic legitimization of the form that has occurred recently within the academy and in popular discourse. Viewing comic books from a variety of theoretical lenses, Gabilliet shows how seemingly disparate issues—creation, production, and reception—are in fact connected in ways that are not necessarily true of other art forms. Analyzing examples from a variety of genres, this book provides a thorough landmark overview of American comic books that sheds new light on this versatile art form.
Movie Comics
Author: Blair DavisPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813572274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
As Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the “comic book movie” is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own. Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a special focus on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred this media convergence, as the film and comics industries joined forces to expand the reach of their various brands. While analyzing this production history, he also tracks the artistic coevolution of films and comics, considering the many formal elements that each medium adopted and adapted from the other. As it explores our abiding desire to experience the same characters and stories in multiple forms, Movie Comics gives readers a new appreciation for the unique qualities of the illustrated page and the cinematic moving image.
Society Is Nix
Author: Peter MarescaPublisher: Sunday Press (CA)
ISBN: 9780983550419
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
"Mit dose kids, society is nix!" So said the Inspector about the Katzenjammer kids, but he could have been speaking of all comic strips in their formative years at the turn of the last century. From the very first color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper sales, even though their crude and often offensive content placed them in a whirl of controversy. Sunday comics presented a wild parody of the world and the culture that surrounded them. Society didn't stand a chance. These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time when there were no set styles or formats, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium. Here are the earliest offerings from known greats like R. F. Outcault, George McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with the creations of more than fifty other superb cartoonists; over 150 Sunday comics dating from 1895 to 1915.
Silver Sparrow
Author: Tayari JonesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786077973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
*THE BESTSELLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK* From the award-winning author of An American Marriage comes this breathtaking tale of a sisterhood defined by a father's secret, perfect for fans of Brit Bennett and Yaa Gyasi 'MY FATHER, JAMES WITHERSPOON, IS A BIGAMIST.' SECRETS Dana and Chaurisse are sisters who have never met. The only thing binding them together is the life-changing secret of their father's double life. LIES Only one of them knows the truth about James and his hidden family. When the girls do finally meet and become friends, the fragile promise that has kept his secrets safe for so long threatens to implode. HOPE This soulful story of friendship and sisterhood paints an unforgettable picture of the messy knots that bind families together, from the author of modern classic, An American Marriage. AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN 'BEST BOOK OF 2020 TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS' * A BOOKSELLER SMALL PUBLISHERS 2020 TOP 20 'Do not miss this can’t-actually-stop-reading-it novel from the author of the Women's Prize for Fiction-winning An American Marriage.' Stylist
Saving Max
Author: Antoinette van HeugtenPublisher: MIRA
ISBN: 036970519X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Max Parkman is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman can't deny her son's behavior has been getting worse—drugs and violent outbursts have become a frightening routine. But when she receives the diagnosis from a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that Max is deeply disturbed—and dangerous—it seems too devastating to accept. Until she finds Max, weapon in hand, at the bedside of a fellow patient who has been brutally stabbed to death. Separated from Max and trapped in a maelstrom of doubt and fear, Danielle's mothering instincts snap sharply into focus. The justice system is bearing down on her son, so she must use her years of legal experience to find out the truth, no matter what that might be. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son truly a killer? Previously published.
Our Antediluvian Ancestors
Author: Frederick Burr OpperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description