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Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the
Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments
have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic
Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and
Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography
constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic
Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that
are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural
studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore
cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's
Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie
serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson
Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left
Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's
novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel
Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic
Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that
which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or
subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and
dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in
the fantastic city. Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb,
Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah
Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni
Berns, Chris Pak, Maria Isabel Perez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J.
Jesse Ramirez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey
Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.
Delve into the making of Godzilla vs. Kong, and experience cinema's
most colossal clash like never before. Featuring exclusive concept
art and insights from the filmmakers, The Art of Godzilla vs. Kong
is the ultimate guide to an iconic movie showdown. From creature
design to on-set photography, The Art of Godzilla vs. Kong captures
every stage of the filmmaking process, giving you unprecedented
access to the creation of a titanic movie event. *Exclusive concept
art lets you experience the epic showdown in a whole new way.
*Interviews with filmmakers give you an inside look at the making
of the movie. *A deluxe format makes this book a must-have
collector's item.
Structured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes
the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after
the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had
evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much more
accessible system of film production, with growing expertise in
distribution and marketing. By the early 2000s, an impressive,
diverse cohort of filmmakers broke through the gridlock of a small
set of esteemed, aging auteurs as well as the glut of imported
Hollywood blockbusters, empowered by the digital revolution and
domestic audience appetite for independent work. Polish directors
today challenge sacrosanct bromides about national and gender
identity, Poland's historical martyrdom, the status of the
influential Catholic Church, and the benevolent family, while
investigating the phenomena of migration and sexuality in their
full complexity. Each thematic chapter places these recent films
within a historical/cultural context nationally and
transnationally, and designs its analyses of specific works to
engage general audiences of film scholars, students, and
cinephiles.
This book documents the making of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
in fascinating detail. Featuring interviews with the acclaimed
director, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, and key cast, with candid
pictures from the set, the book will also focus on scientist Kip
Thorne, whose revelatory theories about the nature of time and
space inspired the movie's narrative.INTERSTELLAR and all related
characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc (S14)
Teaching with film is not a new approach in the social studies
classroom. Different publications, such as Hollywood or History,
have bridged the gap with challenges attached to using historical
film and engage students through inquiry, not entertainment. To
continue with the Hollywood or History strategy, this text uses
television shows (sitcoms) to brings issue-centered curriculum to
middle and high school classrooms. By exploring issues in specific
episodes, students can learn the history behind an issue, relate it
to their lives, and develop an informed decision associated with
the issue. The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) framework is an
integral part to the exploration of issue-centered curriculum. In
each chapter, the students will work through the four dimensions
and develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. My hope
is that this text can play a small role in walking practicing
teachers through the C3 framework while allowing students to learn
about issues that affect society and the communities where they
live.
This high-quality collectible replica of Harry Potter's Hogwarts
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