Benedict Cumberbatch captivated audiences as Marvel's Doctor Strange. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Cumberbatch's life, acting career, and experience playing Doctor Strange.

Tom Holland captivated audiences as Marvel's Spider-Man. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Holland's life, acting career, and experience playing Spider-Man.

Travel back in time to find out what life was like before television. Historical photographs, helpful infographics, and a "Blast from the Past" special feature provide readers an engaging overview of ways people got news and entertainment before TV was invented.

Tom Holland captivated audiences as Marvel's Spider-Man. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Holland's life, acting career, and experience playing Spider-Man.

Chris Pratt captivated audiences as Marvel's Star-Lord. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Pratt's life, acting career, and experience playing Star-Lord.

Answer the call to brawl! Discover the backstory of all your favorite brawlers and Bakugan in this official guide. The new Bakugan come in two different versions: core and pro. This detailed 96-page guidebook will introduce kids to the brand-new and classic Bakugan characters. Featuring facts and stats about each powerful Bakugan creature, this guide has everything you need to know about the all-new Bakugan TV show and toy characters!

This title gives readers a close-up look at how animated movies are made. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, infographics, and a "That's Amazing!" special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of the animation process.

Travel back in time to find out what life was like before television. Historical photographs, helpful infographics, and a "Blast from the Past" special feature provide readers an engaging overview of ways people got news and entertainment before TV was invented.

This title introduces readers to Disney, covering its history, franchises and products, and worldwide impact. The title features engaging infographics, informative sidebars, vivid photos, and a glossary.

This title introduces readers to Star Wars, covering its history, franchises and products, and worldwide impact. The title features engaging infographics, informative sidebars, vivid photos, and a glossary.

Supergirl is one of the top-rated TV series with millions of viewers each week. This in-depth, full-color guide to the TV series offers detailed profiles on characters and super powers, a heroes and villains gallery, episode guide, and more. Includes all of the action through Season 3 of the hit show! Fans of all ages will soar to get their hands on this ultimate guide to Supergirl!

Motion is a change in an object's position. This fascinating title explains in a clear, simple way how objects are moved by a change in energy. Simple activities show young readers how energy is changed by applying a force, either by coming in contact with an object or by a force that does not touch it physically, like gravity. Teacher's guide available.

In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form the heroine of the animated film that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found."

A new edition of the ultimate and most essential guide to Doctor Who, now updated to include all thirteen incarnations of the Doctor and covering all her newest adventures from Series 11. With fascinating facts from all of space and time, as well as information on the Doctor's helpful companions and fearsome foes, this book will tell all about the Doctor's TARDIS, her regenerations, and much, much more!

Thunderbirds and Nifflers, house-elves and Hippogriffs - J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World abounds with magical creatures of all kinds. But how does a Bowtruckle come to life on the big screen? Is an Occamy a snake or a bird? And what's the truth about Mooncalf poo? Featuring detailed creature profiles, stunning artwork and captivating insights from the making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and all eight Harry Potter films, these pages reveal everything fans want to know about how these creatures were created. Jam-packed with bonus material - pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, removable posters and other goodies - this book offers young readers a thrilling backstage pass to the wizarding world.

Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) is stop-motion studio LAIKA's feature-length debut based on the popular children's novel by British author Neil Gaiman. Heralding a revival in global interest in stop-motion animation, the film is both an international cultural phenomenon and a breakthrough moment in the technological evolution of the craft. This open access collection brings together an international group of practitioners and scholars to examine Coraline's place in animation history and culture, dissect its politics, and unpack its role in the technological and aesthetic development of its medium. More broadly, it celebrates stop motion as a unique and enduring artform while embracing its capacity to evolve in response to cultural, political, and technological changes, as well as shifting critical and audience demands. Divided into three sections, this volume's chapters situate Coraline within an interconnected network of historical, industrial, discursive, theoretical, and cultural contexts. They place the film in conversation with the medium's aesthetic and technological history, broader global intellectual and political traditions, and questions of animation reception and spectatorship. In doing so, they invite recognition - and appreciation - of the fact that Coraline occupies many liminal spaces at once. It straddles the boundary between children's entertainment and traditional 'adult' genres, such as horror and thriller. It complicates a seemingly straight(forward) depiction of normative family life with gestures of queer resistance. Finally, it marks a pivotal point in stop-motion animation's digital turn. Following the film's recent tenth anniversary, the time is right to revisit its production history, evaluate its cultural and industry impact, and celebrate its legacy as contemporary stop-motion cinema's gifted child. As the first book-length academic study of this contemporary animation classic, this volume serves as an authoritative introduction and a primary reference on the film for scholars, students, practitioners, and animation fans. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Walt Disney made history by creating animated characters and movies that are still loved by fans to this day. Movies produced by Disney Studios continue to inspire the imaginations of audiences around the world. This book explores Disney's life and his groundbreaking achievements.

Gal Gadot captivated audiences as DC's Wonder Woman. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Gadot's life, acting career, and experience playing Wonder Woman.

Chris Pratt captivated audiences as Marvel's Star-Lord. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Pratt's life, acting career, and experience playing Star-Lord.

Zoe Saldana captivated audiences as Marvel's Gamora. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Saldana's life, acting career, and experience playing Gamora.

Scarlett Johansson captivated audiences as Marvel's Black Widow. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Johansson's life, acting career, and experience playing Black Widow.

Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket and negative perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse yet comparable narratives creatively responding to their situation. Featuring selected and edited presentations from the Third International Conference on Balkan Cinema 8-10 May 2018 in Bucharest, this volume features how films entangled these issues including wars, national identity, myths, travels, and cultural exchanges. While we share a common Balkan heritage and celebrate peace and coexistence, we are also aware of the fact that our stories are written amidst and through multiple conflicts and wars. The wars and the peace, regardless of when and how they are happening, are ours to share.

Now a movie on HBO Max starring Euphoria star Barbie Ferreira! 'A remarkable debut about the long and winding road of adolescence. Hilarious journeys and heartbreaking choices.' STEPHEN CHBOSKY, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test - until she finds herself staring at a plastic stick with two solid pink lines. She's pregnant. With her college future fading before her eyes, Ronnie has to make a tough choice - an abortion. But the closest clinic is over nine hundred miles away. Faced with a treacherous boyfriend and no car, Ronnie turns to the one person who won't judge her: her ex-best friend Bailey. What could go wrong? Not much, apart from stolen cars, crazed ex-boyfriends, aliens, and the pain and heartbreak of a broken relationship ... In this warm and darkly funny road trip story, Veronica and Bailey drive a thousand miles to an out-of-state abortion clinic - rediscovering their friendship in the process. A sharply-observed, bittersweet road-trip story for our times; perfect for fans of Booksmart and Juno. Female friendship is at the heart of the story: Veronica teams up with her ex-best pal and social misfit, Bailey. A YA Thelma-and-Louise story with a strong social and reproductive justice theme.

Using stunning film images from popular Marvel Studios movies, this exciting sticker book for children showcases the adventures of Marvel heroes the Avengers. Meet Earth's Mightiest Heroes-Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, and Spider-man-and their powerful enemies, including the Mad Titan Thanos and the mischievous Loki. Learn about the Super Heroes' incredible powers, their awesome vehicles, and their advanced technology. Discover Doctor Strange's magical mysteries, go on an amazing adventure with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and join Captain Marvel's fight against the sinister Skrulls.

Marvel Studios Ultimate Sticker Collection features stickers of all the heroes, villains, locations, and vehicles from more than 10 years of Marvel Studios movies. Have fun finding the stickers for each page and create your own scenes, or re-create your favorite moments from the epic battles.