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Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years
ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood
and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the
world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave
Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews
with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the
definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing
production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all its outward
success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the
contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron
Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp:
Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives
in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original
genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of
Hollywood’s old studio system. But will it survive its own
spectacular achievements? Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first
book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full—and an essential,
effervescent account of American mass culture.
Travis Barker's soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and
lowlights of the renowned drummer's art and his life, including the
harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road
to recovery-a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of
personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood.
After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the multiplatinum
punk band Blink-182, everything changed for Travis Barker. But the
dark side of rock stardom took its toll: his marriage, chronicled
for an MTV reality show, fell apart. Constant touring concealed a
serious drug addiction. A reckoning did not truly come until he was
forced to face mortality: His life nearly ended in a horrifying
plane crash, and then his close friend, collaborator, and fellow
crash survivor DJ AM died of an overdose. In this blunt, driving
memoir, Barker ruminates on rock stardom, fatherhood, death, loss,
and redemption, sharing stories shaped by decades' worth of
hard-earned insights. His pulsating memoir is as energetic as his
acclaimed beats. It brings to a close the first chapters of a
well-lived life, inspiring readers to follow the rhythms of their
own hearts and find meaning in their lives.
A fascinating exploration and celebration of the life and work of
the coolest man in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson--from his
star-making turns in the films of Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino
to his ubiquitous roles in the Star Wars and Marvel franchises, not
to mention the cult favorite Snakes on a Plane. Samuel L. Jackson's
embodiment of cool isn't just inspirational--it's important. Bad
Motherfucker lays out how his attitude intersects with his identity
as a Black man, why being cool matters in the modern world, and how
Jackson can guide us through the current cultural moment in which
everyone is losing their cool. Edwards details Jackson's
fascinating personal history, from stuttering bookworm to
gunrunning revolutionary to freebasing addict to A-list movie star.
Drawing on original reporting and interviews, the book explores not
only the major events of Jackson's life but also his obsessions:
golf, kung fu movies, profanity. Bad Motherfucker features a
delectable filmography of Jackson's movies--140 and counting!--and
also includes new movie posters for many of Jackson's greatest
roles, reimagined by dozens of gifted artists and designers. The
book provides a must-read road map through the vast territory of
his on-screen career and more: a vivid portrait of Samuel L.
Jackson's essential self, as well as practical instructions, by
example, for how to live and work and be.
In this "highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in
pop culture" (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true
story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs.
Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along
with the late J. J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural
revolution--and the hijinks of pop music icons like Adam Ant, Cyndi
Lauper, Madonna, and Duran Duran--as the first VJs on the fledgling
network MTV. From partying with David Lee Roth to flying on Bob
Dylan's private jet, they were on a breakneck journey through a
music revolution. Boing beyond the compelling behind the scenes
tales of this unforgettable era, VJ is also a coming-of-age story
about the 1980s, its excesses, controversies, and everything in
between. "At last--the real inside story of the MTV explosion that
rocked the world, in all its giddy excess, from the video pioneers
who saw all the hair, drugs and guitars up close. VJ is the wild,
hilarious, addictive tale of how one crazy moment changed pop
culture forever" (Rob Sheffield, New York Times bestselling
author).
In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist
Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of
acclaimed actor River Phoenix--a teen idol on the fast track to
Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West
Hollywood's storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23.
Last Night at the Viper Room explores the young star's life,
including his childhood in Venezuela growing up under the aegis of
the cultish Children of God. Putting him at the center of a new
generation of leading men emerging in the early 1990s-- including
Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage, and Leonardo
DiCaprio--Gavin Edwards traces the Academy Award nominee's meteoric
rise, couches him in an examination of the 1990s, and illuminates
his lasting legacy on Hollywood and popular culture itself.
The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century
writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction
between upper and lower case letters, in the interests of a wider
radicalism. It discusses Dickens's satire - on 'Shares' in Our
Mutual Friend, on Paul Dombey's position as the 'Son' of Dombey and
Son - alongside the proto-modernist typography of suffragist poet
Augusta Webster and the work of Marx's translators transforming
German conventions of capitalisation into English under the
influence of Dickens and Carlyle. Placing these innovations within
the history of the dual alphabet from its invention by Carolingian
scribes to its rejection by modernist poets and the Bauhaus
printers, the book tracks the dual alphabet through Dickens's
manuscripts, corrected proofs, and the 'prompt copies' for his
public Readings, highlighting distinct ways in which writing,
printing and speech produce meaning. -- .
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