Results for 'alan moore'

1. Jason Tondro

Superheroes of the Round Table

“That big S on Superman's chest? S stands for Spenser and Shakespeare, too. As knowledge of literature can inform readings of superhero comics, knowledge of the DC and Marvel universes can inform readings of Malory and Ben Johnson. And don't you love that title?”—Library Journal; “Well-written, balanced, educated, intelligent, and also very seductive in its arguments”—Ler BD.

1. Marc Sobel
2. Alan Moore

Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore

Collection and analysis of Alan Moore's difficult to find short comics stories.

1. James R. Keller

V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche

The 2005 film, ""V for Vendetta"" represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name. This work identifies and examines the intersecting texts of ""V for Vendetta"", with chapters providing localized readings of the story's specific intertextual components.

1. Jochen , Ecke

The British Comic Book Invasion

What makes a successful comics creator? How can storytelling stay exciting and innovative? How can genres be kept vital? Writers and artists in the highly competitive U.S. comics mainstream have always had to explore these questions but they were especially pressing in the 1980s. As comics readers grew older they started calling for more sophisticated stories. They were also no longer just following the adventures of popular characters--writers and artists with distinctive styles were in demand. DC Comics and Marvel went looking for such mavericks and found them in the United Kingdom. Creators like Alan Moore (Watchmen, Saga of the Swamp Thing), Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, Flex Mentallo) and Garth Ennis (Preacher) migrated from the anarchical British comics industry to the U.S. mainstream and shook up the status quo yet came to rely on the genius of the American system.

Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition

The first book-length study to address Moore's significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels. The essays collected here identify the Gothic tradition as perhaps the most significant cultural context for understanding Moore's work, providing unique insight into its wider social and political dimensions as well as addressing key theoretical issues in Gothic Studies, Comics Studies and Adaptation Studies. Scholars, students and general readers alike will find fresh insights into Moore's use of horror and terror, homage and parody, plus allusion and adaptation. The international list of contributors includes leading researchers in the field and the studies presented here enhance the understanding of Moore's works while at the same time exploring the ways in which these serve to advance a broader appreciation of Gothic aesthetics.

Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore

Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels. This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from his seminal work, Lost Girls, and demonstrates how these ideologies relate to his larger body of work. Framed by Moore's insistence upon deconstructing the myth of the superhero, each essay attends to the form and content of Moore's comics under the rubric of his pervasive metaphor of the "politics of sexuality/the sexing of politics."