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The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction ...
Will BrookerCONTENTS Editor's note Notes on contributors Introduction: 2019 Vision WILL BROOKER The Blade Runner Experience: Pilgrimage and Liminal Space WILL BROOKER Post-Millennium Blade Runner JUDITH B. KERMAN SECTION 1: THE ...
Star Wars
Will BrookerWill Brooker. 27 Marcus Hearn, The Cinema of George Lucas (New York: Harry N . Abrams Inc., 2005), p. 33. 28 Pollock, op.cit., p. 101. 29 Cited in Jenkins, op.cit., p. 29; see also Kline, op.cit., p. 117, for a similar version of the same story.
Using the Force: Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans
Will BrookerIn this intelligent and entertaining study of fandom at its most intense, Will Brooker examines the Star Wars phenomenon from the audience's perspective and discovers that the saga exerts a powerful influence over the social, cultural, and ...
Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon
Will BrookerThis fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades.
Aitch: A Life in Colour: Conversations with my hair stylist
Jill King“During my training Chris Brooker, who was the creative director of Vidal Sassoon at the time, used to say to me 'you're only as good as your last haircut' and that's the key. If you're spirited into an appreciation of what you are doing, that comes ...
Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon
Will BrookerA work of scholarship and a labor of love. "This is the definitive history of the Batman in all media: comics, film, television and the internet.
Teach Yourself Cultural Studies
Will BrookerThe book's lively and easy-to-follow style is suitable for both beginners and first-level students of cultural studies.
Churchill Livingstone Medical Dictionary
Chris BrookerStay up to date on fast-changing areas of health care with the 75th anniversary edition of this trusted medical dictionary.
The Audience Studies Reader
Will BrookerKey writings exploring questions of reception, interpretation and interactivity. The fan audience, the active audience, gender and audience, nation and ethnicity, internet audiences.
Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman
Will BrookerAn investigation into the Batman movie franchise by Christopher Nolan analyzes the relationship between popular films, audiences, and producers, addressing questions about timelines and the "Why So Serious" marketing campaign.
Many More Lives of the Batman
PreviewCONTENTS Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors v Introduction: Revisiting the Batman/Roberta Pearson, William Uricchio and Will Brooker 1 9 10 11 12 13 CREATING THE BATMAN 1 man, myth and cultural icon/ Paul Levitz 2 notes from ...
Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
Will BrookerOne way into understanding this approach to Bowie is through Micheal Sean Bolton's 2014 monograph on William Burroughs. On an immediate level, the parallels between Bowie and Burroughs are extremely suggestive. Bowie, of course ...
Joyce's Critics: Transitions in Reading and Culture
Joseph BrookerBush considers Kenner's essay "The Impertinence of Being Definitive" as " probably the document that most of us ... is actually based on a few memorable pages of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which describe "Uncle Charles." Kenner ...
Skiing
Full view... Leslie Anthony, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Kelly Bastone, Jon Billman, Kevin Brooker, Jeff Burke, Keith Carlsen, Dave Cox, Jason Daley, Kevin Fedarko, McKenzie Funk, Eric Hansen, Ben Hewitt, Nick Heil, Frederick Reimers, Doug Schnitzspahn, ...
Alexander's Nursing Practice4: Alexander's Nursing Practice
Chris Brooker... University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK Chapter 23 Tissue viability and managing chronic wounds Marsh Gelbart BA MA PGCE RN Lecturer in Adult Nursing, School of Community and Health Sciences, City University, London, UK Chapter ...
Foundations of Nursing Practice: Fundamentals of Holistic Care
Chris BrookerThis second edition of Foundations of Nursing Practice has been revised and updated specifically to meet the needs of nursing students in all fields of practice The book explains how and why sensitive, safe, evidence-based holistic nursing ...
Reading "The Waste Land": Modernism and the Limits of ...
Jewel Spears BrookerOnly There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show ...
Guardian Journalists: Maureen Lipman, Roy Hattersley, ...
General Books LLCChapters: Maureen Lipman, Roy Hattersley, Russell Brand, David James, Melanie Phillips, Ron Atkinson, George Monbiot, Julie Burchill, Victor Lewis-Smith, Mark Cocker, Arthur Ransome, Charlie Brooker, C. L. R. James, Polly Toynbee, Malcolm ...
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