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Cultura e Política nas Histórias em Quadrinho Luke e Tantra de Angeli
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 189

Cultura e Política nas Histórias em Quadrinho Luke e Tantra de Angeli

O presente livro tem como propósito analisar o discurso do cartunista paulista Angeli, por meio das histórias em quadrinhos Luke e Tantra, sobre os novos contextos políticos e culturais nos anos 1990-2000. As aventuras e o universo urbano das personagens Luke e Tantra satirizam um contexto de transformações políticas, econômicas, sociais e culturais trazidas com a Globalização, em especial a respeito de como o Brasil as tem vivenciado desde os anos 1990. As referidas personagens angelianas vivem em um mundo marcado por processos de globalização, ao mesmo tempo em que convivem com diversos localismos. As tramas se desenvolvem em um ambiente fluido e flexível, onde as personagens e...

If Anything Happens I Love You
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 64

If Anything Happens I Love You

We feel so strongly in the power of this book to start an important conversation that we’re offering it free through October 26, 2022.​ "Heavy pain exquisitely rendered."" Kirkus Starred Review Based on the Academy Award-winning animated short by the same name, If Anything Happens I Love You is a young adult graphic novel that follows two parents as they reckon with the loss of their young daughter, Rose, in a school shooting. Readers follow Rose from “above” as she watches her parents slowly break down under the weight and pain of their loss. Throughout the novel, Rose’s soul seeks to help her parents reconnect. We learn who Rose was and how much life she lived in her short time. By incorporating a wide range of characters, her boyfriend, teacher, and her cat, Rose is able to introduce healing into the lives of the people she left behind. If Anything Happens I Love You may be a story about loss, but in it we see ourselves—in the grief, the pain, and, most importantly, in the fight toward human connection, love, and acceptance.

Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist

  • Categories: Art

The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling. Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner’s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components of graphic storytelling. From his earliest comics, including the celebrated Spirit, to his pioneering graphic novels, Eisner understood that the proper use of anatomy is crucial to effective storytelling. His control over the mechanical and intuitive skills necessary for its application set him apart among comics artists, and his principles of body grammar have proven invaluable to legions of students in overcoming what is perhaps the most challenging aspect of creating comics. Buttressed by dozens of illustrations, which display Eisner’s mastery of expression, both subtle and overt, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative will benefit comics fans, students, and teachers and is destined to become the essential primer on the craft.

Interview with the Vampire
  • Language: en

Interview with the Vampire

The "New York Times" bestselling first and second volumes in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles now join Ballantine's monthly "Special Low Price" mass market reissue program.

My Cocaine Museum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

My Cocaine Museum

In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la República, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories.

Mulheres de Ditadores
  • Language: pt
  • Pages: 372

Mulheres de Ditadores

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-28
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  • Publisher: Leya

Chamavam-se Inessa, Clara, Nadia, Magda, Felismina, Jiang Qing, Elena, Catherine... E eles Lenine, Mussolini, Estaline, Hitler, Salazar, Mao, Ceausescu, Bokassa. Prostitutas ou mulheres da alta burguesia intelectual, paixões fugazes ou amores intensos, eles maltratavam ou adoravam-nas, mas, sistematicamente, voltavam para os seus braços. Esposas, companheiras, musas, admiradoras, todas têm em comum o facto de terem sido vencedoras, enganadas e sacrificadas. Aos seus homens cruéis, violentos, tiranos e infiéis, faziam crer que eram belos, charmosos e todo-poderosos. Sendo a virilidade um dos alicerces do poder absoluto, os ditadores sentiam a necessidade de juntar figuras femininas ao imaginário de poder e domínio que criaram. E assim controlando-os na sombra, por vezes, até à morte, como se vivessem sob a égide de um Pigmaleão. Diane Ducret relata em detalhe os momentos, as estratégias de sedução, os casos amorosos, as intervenções políticas e os destinos diversos, ocasionalmente trágicos, das mulheres que cruzaram o caminho ou passaram pelo leito dos ditadores.

O diário de Marise
  • Language: pt
  • Pages: 449

O diário de Marise

Marise é o nome de trabalho de Vanessa. Em casa, uma mãe dedicada. Na faculdade de enfermagem, uma aluna esforçada. Nos hotéis e motéis onde atende, uma garota de programa muito requisitada por conta dos anúncios de jornal, nos quais vende com criatividade sua beleza e seus atributos, sozinha ou em dupla. Neste diário, ela fala sem censura de seus programas, das taras de seus clientes, da cafetinagem, das orgias, das casas de swing, da vida nas ruas e nas boates. Vanessa também mostra a relação com a família e as amigas, as frustrações com os homens que amou, como entrou nessa vida. E fala de vários dos 5 mil programas que já calcula ter feito.

The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

The Cultural Politics of Reproduction

Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and “cultures of health” travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity.

Papa!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Papa!

Papa! Papa! There's a monster in my bed! But just who exactly is the monster in this story? Children and parents alike will giggle as they learn that "monsters" come in all different shapes and sizes.