Author : William W. Savage
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 1998-04-24
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780819563385
in the confusing decade following World War II, comic books were all the rage. They treated such issues as the atomic and hydrogen bombs, communism, and the Korean War, and they offered heroes and heroines to deal with these problems. Using five representative cartoon stories, historian William Savage looks at the immense popularity of comic books and their impact on the American public. Cartoons.
Author : Hunter Shea
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925597462
They are called the Orang Pendek, masters of the steamy Sumatran rain forest. Henrik Kooper watched his father die at the brutal hands of the orange-haired ape men. Having barely survived helping twins Natalie and Austin McQueen discover and destroy the beasts lurking in Loch Ness, it's now his turn for vengeance. Within the treacherous jungles of Sumatra lies the fabled lost city of Gadang Ur. Its secrets are guarded by a savage band of Orang Pendek who lord over the strange and deadly creatures of the hidden land. Utter madness is the lifeblood of Gadang Ur. Henrik's journey into darkness will take them to the ragged edge of hell on Earth. Some places were never meant to be discovered. Praise for Loch Ness Revenge: "A high octane, pandemonium packed tour de force of action charged mayhem!" -- HorrorTalk Reviews "An adrenaline-fueled creature feature. Is it too much to beg for another adventure?" -- Horror After Dark "A roaring torrent of firepower and grey skies." -- Unnerving Magazine
Author : Blair Davis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813553245
The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served largely as a support mechanism to A-films of the major studios—most of which also owned the theater chains in which movies were shown. When a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust ruling severed ownership of theaters from the studios, the B-movie soon became a different entity in the wake of profound changes to the corporate organization and production methods of the major Hollywood studios. In The Battle for the Bs, Blair Davis analyzes how B-films were produced, distributed, and exhibited in the 1950s and demonstrates the possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood had abandoned the Bs. Made by newly formed independent companies, 1950s B-movies took advantage of changing demographic patterns to fashion innovative marketing approaches. They established such genre cycles as science fiction and teen-oriented films (think Destination Moon and I Was a Teenage Werewolf) well before the major studios and also contributed to the emergence of the movement now known as underground cinema. Although frequently proving to be multimillion-dollar box-office draws by the end of the decade, the Bs existed in opposition to the cinematic mainstream in the 1950s and created a legacy that was passed on to independent filmmakers in the decades to come.
Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674737342
Tracing the global trade and trafficking in animals that supplied U.S. zoos, Daniel Bender shows how Americans learned to view faraway places through the lens of exotic creatures on display. He recounts the public’s conflicted relationship with zoos, decried as prisons by activists even as they remain popular centers of education and preservation.
Author : Chris Viner-Smith
Publisher : chris viner-smith
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 064647541X
The author describes his life as a Patrol Officer (in the 1960s) in primitive areas of Papua New Guinea. Some of the duties included: supervising the building of roads, bridges, houses, airstrips, wharves and hospitals.
Author : Martin Page
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Corporations
ISBN : 9780304290130
Author :
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781540346629
Wild and sexy Jungle Girls in the classic comic book style by cult favorite fantasy artist, Mr, F Newton Burcham.
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368240196
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 2854 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1627931910
Collected her in this mammoth oversized book are eight complete Tarzan novels by the master of pulp fiction Edgar Rice Burroughs. Include are Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, and Tarzan The Terrible. Journey to an Africa that never was and join Tarzan in his many adventures in the deepest, darkest jungle.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 8723 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE LOST WORLD - 40 Books Collection: King Solomon's Mines, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, New Atlantis, The Man Who Would be King, The Land That Time Forgot, Lost Horizon and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Mysterious Island The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) King Solomon's Mines (Henry Rider Haggard) She: A History of Adventure The People of the Mist When the World Shook The Yellow God The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe) Lost Horizon (James Hilton) The Moon Pool (Abraham Merritt) The Lost Lemuria (W. Scott-Elliot) The Lost Continent of Mu - Motherland of Man (James Churchward) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Caspak Trilogy (E. Rice Burroughs) The Moon Trilogy The Pellucidar Series The Man-Eater The Cave Girl The Eternal Lover Jungle Girl The Return of Tarzan Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar The Atlantis Books: The Original Myth of Atlantis (Plato) New Atlantis (F. Bacon) Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World (I. Donnelly) The Lost Continent (C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne) The Story of Atlantis (W. Scott-Elliot) The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time or place. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard is sometimes considered the first lost-world narrative. Haggard's novel shaped the form and influenced later lost-world books, including Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, A. Merritt's The Moon Pool, and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. James Hilton's Lost Horizon used the genre as a takeoff for popular philosophy and social comment and it introduced the name Shangri-La, a meme for the idealization of the lost world as a paradise.
