Slumberland

Author : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 037460228X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slumberland written by Paul Beatty and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger. Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world. After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods, the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other. Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Diaz.

Author : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1846552427
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slumberland written by Paul Beatty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little-known avant garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest takes him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's streets ruminating about race, sex and love in search of his artistic - and spiritual - other.

Author : Eric Shanower
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623027829
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland written by Eric Shanower and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new, all-ages series full of magic and whimsy from award-winning creators Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez! Spinning out of Winsor McKay's brilliant early 20th century strip, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland sees King Morpheus' daughter, in the Royal Palace of Slumberland, select her next-playmate: Nemo! Collects issues #1_4 and includes an art gallery from artist Gabriel Rodriguez.

Author : Katherine Roeder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741174
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Awake in Slumberland written by Katherine Roeder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869–1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftsmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book explores McCay’s interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger preoccupation with fantasy that dominated the popular culture of early twentieth-century urban America. McCay’s role as a pioneer of early comics has been documented; yet, no existing study approaches him and his work from an art historical perspective, giving close readings of individual artworks while situating his output within the larger visual culture and the rise of modernism. From circus posters and vaudeville skits to department store window displays and amusement park rides, McCay found fantastical inspiration in New York City’s burgeoning entertainment and retail districts. Wide Awake in Slumberland connects McCay’s work to relevant children’s literature, advertising, architecture, and motion pictures in order to demonstrate the artist’s sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple forms from mass culture. Studying this interconnection in McCay’s work and, by extension, the work of other early twentieth-century cartoonists, Roeder traces the web of relationships connecting fantasy, leisure, and consumption. Readings of McCay’s drawings and the eighty-one black and white and color illustrations reveal a man who was both a ready participant and an incisive critic of the rising culture of fantasy and consumerism.

Author : Winsor McCay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780317925272
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland written by Winsor McCay and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Little Nemo's fantasy adventures, reprinted from the vintage comic strip.

Author : Scott Bukatman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520265718
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Slumberland written by Scott Bukatman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy. Slumberland is more than a marvelous world for Nemo and its other citizens; it is an aesthetic space defined by the artist's innovations. The book broadens to consider similar 'animated' behaviors in seemingly disparate media--films about Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh; the musical My Fair Lady and the story of Frankenstein; the slapstick comedies of Jerry Lewis; and contemporary comic superheroes--drawing them all together as purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Winsor McCay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780924359361
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland written by Winsor McCay and published by . This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS -- Vintage American favorites LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND; KRAZY KAT; TERRY & THE PIRATES BY MILTON CANIFF & POLLY & HER PALS are available now in hardback series format. The complete run of these favorites, printed in their full, original colors, have been acclaimed by Entertainment Weekly, Library Journal, Village Voice, etc. LITTLE NEMO (series ISBN 0-924359-00-5) is the Art Nouveau fantasy masterpiece in eight volumes; Vol. VI released June '92. KRAZY KAT (0-924359-05-6) is regarded as the greatest comic strip of all time; of the seven volume set, Vol. III released June '92. TERRY & THE PIRATES (0-924359-18-8) is the foremost of the Golden Age adventure strips; of 16-volume complete set, Vol. III release June '92. POLLY & HER PALS (0-924359-13-7) is the surrealist classic from the 1920s; of four-volume set, Vol. III released June '92. The reprint classics are appropriate for all age groups, as illustrated narratives, young-adult books, art books, or nostalgia. Write to Box 391, Abington, PA 19001 for titles & ordering details.

Author : Katherine Roeder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617039608
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Awake in Slumberland written by Katherine Roeder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to place this genius of modern comics creation in his historical context

Author : Scott Bukatman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520951506
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Slumberland written by Scott Bukatman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination. The book broadens to consider similar "animated" behaviors in seemingly disparate media—films about Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh; the musical My Fair Lady and the story of Frankenstein; the slapstick comedies of Jerry Lewis; and contemporary comic superheroes—drawing them all together as the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.

Author : Paul Beatty
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374722900
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tuff written by Paul Beatty and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays. Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of earning millions from his idea for Cap’n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and he married his wife, Yolanda, over the phone from jail. He’s funny and fierce, frustrated and feared. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from astoundingly funny to acerbically sublime. By turns profound and irreverent, and populated with a hilarious supporting cast, Paul Beatty's Tuff is satire at its razor-sharp best. “An extravagant, satirical cri de couer...Beatty’s blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a kind of transfixing power.” —The New York Times Book Review “Masterfully conceived and highly entertaining...Richly textured and unforgettable.”—The Boston Globe