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The avengers : Toby Miller Bath: Bath Press, 1997.
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Avengers assemble! : critical perspectives on the Marvel cinematic universe / by Terence McSweeney London: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University Press, c2018.
Call No: 753.5 MSCAuthor: McSweeney, Terence Source: US/UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University PressPubDate: c2018PhysDes: vii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: SUPERHEROES IN FILMS ; HEROS IN FILMS ; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS ; CRITICISM ; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT ; IRON MAN (US, Jon Favreau, 2008) ; IRON MAN 2 (US, Jon Favreau, 2010) ; THOR (US, Kenneth Branagh, 2011) ; INCREDIBLE HULK, THE (US, Louis Leterrier, 2008) ; CAPTAIN AMERICA : THE FIRST AVENGER (US, Joe Johnston, 2011) ; AVENGERS, THE (US, Joss Whedon, 2012) ; IRON MAN 3 (US/ C, Shane Black, 2013) ; THOR: THE DARK WORLD (US, Alan Taylor, 2013) ; CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (US, Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2014) ; GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (US/UK, James Gunn, 2014) ; ANT-MAN (US, Peyton Reed, 2015) ; AVENGERS : AGE OF ULTRON (US, Joss Whedon, 2015) ; CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (US, Anthony Russo/Joe Russo, 2016) Summary: "We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel cinematic universe, this book asks, "Why has the superhero genre reemerged so emphatically in recent years?" In an age where people have stopped going to the cinema as frequently as they used to, they returned to it in droves for the superhero film. What is it about these films that has resonated with audiences all around the globe? Are they just disposable pop culture artifacts or might they have something interesting to say about the fears and anxieties of the world we live in today? Beginning with Iron Man in 2008, this study provocatively explores both the cinematic and the televisual branches of the series across ten dynamic and original chapters from a diverse range of critical perspectives which analyse their status as an embodiment of the changing industrial practices of the blockbuster film and their symbolic potency as affective cultural artifacts that are profoundly immersed in the turbulent political climate of the era in which they were made." -- BOOK BACK COVERNotes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued onlineISBN: 9780231186254Donation: Senses of CinemaContents: 1. 'That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it ... and it's worked out pretty well so far' : The Stark doctrine in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 -- 2. Allegorical narratives of gods and monsters : Thor and The Incredible Hulk -- 3. State fantasy and the superhero : (Mis)remembering World War II in Captain America : The First Avenger -- 4. 'Seeing ... still working on believing!' : The ethics and aesthetics of destruction in The Avengers -- 5. 'Nothing's been the same since New York' : Ideological continuity and change in Iron Man 3 and Thor : The Dark World -- 6. 'The world has changed and none of us can go back' : The illusory moral ambiguities of the Post-9/11 superhero in Captain America : The Winter Soldier -- 7. Blurring the boundaries of genre and gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man -- 8. 'Isn't that why we fight? So we can end the fight and go home?' : The enduring American monomyth in Avengers : Age of Ultron -- 9. 'What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?' : The MCU on the small screen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter -- 10. The necessary vigilantism of the defenders : Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
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AVENGERS, THE : [TV] (UK, 1961-69)
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AVENGERS, THE : (US/UK, Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1998)
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'...I was a woman and she was a man...' - Patrick Macnee in UTS Review (Nov 1998) vol.4 iss.2 p.251-254
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The laugh was on Lazarus / John Garforth London: Panther Books, 1967.
Call No: 5668Author: Garforth, John Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Panther BooksPubDate: 1967PhysDes: 128 p. ; 18 cmSeries: The AvengersSubject: AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69) Summary: a novel based on the ABC Television series 'The Avengers'
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The magnetic man : The Avengers #8 / Norman Daniels New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1968.
Call No: N79AVE DANAuthor: Daniels, Norman Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Berkley Medallion BooksPubDate: 1968PhysDes: 128 p. ; 18 cmSeries: The AvengersSubject: AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69) Notes: Published by arrangement with ABC TelevisionDonation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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The Politics of Big Fantasy : The Ideologies of Star Wars, The Matrix and The Avengers / McDowell, John C. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 2014.
Call No: 735:626 MCDAuthor: McDowell, John C. Edition: 2014Place: Jefferson, NCPublisher: McFarland & Company Inc.PubDate: 2014PhysDes: 230p ; 23cmSubject: FANTASY FILMS ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS IN FILMS ; STAR WARS [...] (US, 1977-99) ; AVENGERS, THE (US, Joss Whedon, 2012) ; MATRIX, THE [...] (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999-2003) Summary: Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films—Larry and Andy Wachowski’s The Matrix, George Lucas’ Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon’s Avengers—this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ideologically is that they—or at least the genres they belong to—tend to be regarded as belonging to politically conservative frames of sociocultural reference. With the Star Wars saga, however, this idea is shown to be superficial and weak. -- publishers blurbISBN: 9780786474882Contents: -- Introduction: Why so serious? -- The super body-politic: nationally assembling Joss Whedon's exceptional The avengers -- "He was deceived by a lie": tragedy and the dark plague of the politics of fear in George Lucas' Star wars -- Dystopian polyvalence: emancipating the mediated life from The matrix --
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Small screen aesthetics : from TV to the Internet / Glen Creeber London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Storytelling in film and television / Kristin Thompson Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Call No: 632.2 THOAuthor: Thompson, Kristin Edition: 1st ed.Source: USAPlace: Cambridge, MassachusettsPublisher: Harvard University PressPubDate: 2003PhysDes: 172 p ; 20cm + b&w ill.Subject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADVERTISING ; CHARACTERS ON TV ; DRAMAS ; INTERNET ; SCRIPTWRITING ; SYMBOLISM ON TV ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN TV ; SEQUELS ; SERIALS ; SITUATION COMEDY ; SOAP OPERAS ; MERCHANDISING ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; CLEESE, JOHN ; FROST MARK ; KAEL, PAULINE ; LYNCH, DAVID ; NEWCOMB, HORACE ; WILLIAMS, RAYMOND ; WODEHOUSE, P.G ; AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69) ; BAD GIRLS [TV] (UK, 1999-) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; BOB NEWHART SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1961-62) ; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004) ; HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87) ; MURPHY BROWN [TV] (US, 1988-) ; ROYLE FAMILY, THE [TV] (UK, 1998-2000) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) ; SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999) ; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977) ; YES MINISTER [TV] (UK, 1980-84) Summary: Author Kristin Thompson analyses the narrative workings of television and film, looking at the narrative techniques the two media share. Thomson then focuses on the specific challenges that series television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet them – tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks.
[Taken from back cover].ISBN: 0674010876
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Television : a history / Francis Wheen ; editorial consultant, Peter Fiddick. London: Century, 1985.
Call No: 70 TEL WHEAuthor: Wheen, Francis. Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: CenturyPubDate: 1985PhysDes: 252 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27cm.Subject: HISTORY OF TV ; BROADCASTING ; SPORTS PRESENTATION ; SOAP OPERAS ; ALL IN THE FAMILY [TV] (US, 1971-?) ; AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69) ; BALL, LUCILLE ; BERLE, MILTON ; COLLINS, JOAN ; FROST, DAVID ; NIXON [RICHARD M.] ON TV ; REAGAN RONALD ; OLIVIER, LAURENCE ; SCALES, PRUNELLA ; BONANZA: THE NEXT GENERATION (US, Bill Claxton, 1988) ; BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (UK, Julian Jarrold, 2008) ; CHARLIE'S ANGELS [TV] (US, 1976-77?) ; CLARKE, ARTHUR C. ; DEATH OF A PRINCESS [TV] (UK/US/NZ/AT/NE, Antony Thomas, 1980) ; DYNASTY [TV](AT, Tony Morphett, 1970) ; FORSYTE SAGA, THE [TV] (UK, 2002) ; GUNSMOKE [TV] (US, 1955-75) ; JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (US, Stanley Kramer, 1961) ; VIE SUR TERRE, LA (FR, Abderrahmare Sissako, 1998) ; MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS[TV] (UK, 1969-1974) ; OLYMPICS ON TV ; ON THE BUSES (UK, Harry Booth, 1971) ; PRISONER [TV] (AT, 1979-86) ; ROCKFORD FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1974-80) ; ROOTS [TV] (US, 1977) ; SESAME STREET [TV] (US, 1969-) ; THORN BIRDS, THE [TV] (US, Daryl Duke, 1983) ; TODAY [TV] (AT, 1982-) ; UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS [TV] (UK, 1970-75) ; YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, THE [TV] (US, 1973- ) Summary: This book examines the beginnings of television and the making of a televised history of the medium in all of its different manifestations, around the world, and look at a variety of programs from current affairs to comedy, documentaries, to dramas, in countries as different as Britain and Japan, or India and the United States The history is looked at from the perspective of the "Third Age of Broadcasting" - the rea of cable, video, direct broadcasting by satellite, teletext, viewdata and computersNotes: Dust jacket title: Television a world history.; Based on a documentary series by Granada Television; Includes indexISBN: 0712609296Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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The television genre book / edited by Glen Creeber ; associate editors, Toby Miller and John Tulloch London: British Film Institute, 2001.
Call No: 720 TELAuthor: Creeber, Glen ; Miller, Toby ; Tulloch, John Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2001PhysDes: xi, 163 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmSubject: PROGRAMME GENRES ; DRAMAS ; SOAP OPERAS ; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR ; NEWS PROGRAMMES ; DOCUMENTARIES ; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE ; SOAP OPERAS ; SITUATION COMEDY ; HOMOSEXUALITY ON TV ; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004) ; SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-) ; SOUTH PARK [TV] (US, 1997-) ; I LOVE LUCY [TV] (US, 1951-57) ; ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ) ; ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996) ; WILL & GRACE[TV] (US, 1998-) ; MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS[TV] (UK, 1969-1974) ; DALLAS [TV] (US, 1978-91) ; COUNTRY PRACTICE, A [TV] (AT, 1981-1995?) ; TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991) ; ALLY MCBEAL [TV] (US, 1997-) ; AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69) ; HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87) ; ER [TV] (US, 1994 - ) ; STAR TREK [TV] [...] (US, 1966-69, 1987-) ; X-FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1993-) ; CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966) ; DAY AFTER, THE (US, Nicholas Meyer, 1983) ; ROOTS [TV] (US, 1977) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851708498(pbk.)
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