A Tour Of Fabletown

Author : Neta Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624011
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Tour of Fabletown written by Neta Gordon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham’s Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures—Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others—as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City, having fled their storied homeworlds following an invasion. After 150 issues and many awards, Fables concluded its run in July 2015. This study, the first about the sprawling, complex series, discusses such topics as Fables’ status as a contemporary adaptation of folk and fairy tales; its use of conventional genres like sword-and-sorcery, crime and romance; its portrayal of social and political relationships; and its self-referential moments. Providing a detailed introduction to the themes and ideas in the series, the author explores how Fables portrays redemption, the function of community, and how our hopes and fears influence our ideal of “happily ever after.”

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 : 1401236154
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages written by Bill Willingham and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic-book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Freddy and Mouse, two local rogues who just want to get along and perhaps turn a bit of profit in the post-war, topsy-turvy world. Meanwhile, in Fabletown, a new political group forms called the Society of Seconds, and what they want doesn't seem very reasonable at all. Collects issues #76-82 in Bill Willingham-s Eisner Award-winning Vertigo series.

Author : Pauline Greenhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317368797
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures written by Pauline Greenhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.

Author : Claudia Schwabe
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814341977
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Craving Supernatural Creatures written by Claudia Schwabe and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC
ISBN 13 : 1401236170
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fables Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover written by Bill Willingham and published by DC. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF FOURTEEN EISNER AWARDS. As the free Fables struggle to regroup following the destruction of their New York City stronghold, they are suddenly faced with a new menace-one who threatens not only their adopted planet, but all of reality itself! Against such terrible power, can even the combined abilities of these legendary storybook heroes prevail? Only one thing is certain: Once battle is joined, the world of Fables will never be the same! All nine issues of the long-awaited crossover between Vertigo's two popular series FABLES and JACK OF FABLES are collected in this volume: FABLES issues #83-85, JACK OF FABLES issues #33-35, and THE LITERALS issues #1-3.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cinderella: Fables are Forever (2011) #5 written by Chris Roberson and published by Vertigo. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinderella barely survived her last encounter with her longtime nemesis, and if she's going to come out on top the next time they meet she'll need a lot of luck--especially when tracking the assassin all the way to the Deadly Desert of Oz.

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135204349
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Why Fairy Tales Stick written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Author : Alexander C. Irvine
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780756641221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Vertigo Encyclopedia written by Alexander C. Irvine and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DC Comics' innovative imprint for mature readers, Vertigo, is ready to follow in the footsteps of the successful "Marvel Encyclopedia" and "DC Comics Encyclopedia" with this ultimate guide to the most influential comics of our time, and their creators Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and others.DC Comics

Author : Bill Willingham
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1779511841
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fables: The Deluxe Edition Book One written by Bill Willingham and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, Bill Willingham's acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning series FABLES is presented in a deluxe hardcover edition collecting issues #1-10. When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. When Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it's up to Fabletown's sheriff, the reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to find the killer. Meanwhile, trouble of a different sort brews at the Fables' upstate farm where non-human inhabitants are preaching revolution – and threatening Fabletown's carefully nurtured secrecy.

Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317134656
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction written by Jason Marc Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.