A graphic novel,Fun Homeby cartoonist Bechdel touches on a girl’s dysfunctional relationship with her father through the lens of a lesbian.Fun Homeexplores broken family, unraveling emotions, and suicide. Turned into a musical in 2015, it won the Tony Award for Best Musical. 19.The Line of...
This groundbreaking film transports audiences into an awe-inspiring world where dinosaurs roam free once again, thanks to advanced cloning technology. With its state-of-the-art visual effects and spellbinding musical score by John Williams, Jurassic Park is not just another action-packed blockbuster;...
This pioneering work, which later became a musical, helped shape the modern genre of “graphic memoir”, combining detailed and beautiful panels with remarkable emotional depth. 32 The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010) “Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells ...
In the musical fantasy film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), a poor boy, stumbles upon a golden ticket. This ticket grants him access to the enigmatic chocolate factory of Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder), an eccentric candy maker. Inside this whimsical world...
How I Taught a Superhero to Sing ; Paul Gambaccini Spent His Boyhood Devouring Comic Books. Now He Has Turned Them into a Musical"LOVE (MAKES Me Do Foolish Things)", Martha and the Vandellas sang in 1965. Imagine what passion can do. Mine has led me to collect thousands of vintage ...
BergerwroteArthur Rex(1978). In England T.H. White retold the stories in a series of novels collected asThe Once and Future King(1958). His work was the basis forCamelot(1960), a musical by Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe; a film, also calledCamelot(1967), wasderivedfrom the musical....
(Countess of Harewood) and poet/artist Thomas A. Clark collaborated on an exhibition at Harewood House:the grove of delight. Using objects, words and images, the exhibition turned the house’s Terrace Gallery into a symbolic grove; also displayed was a series of 15 photographs by Howse of ...
Following graduation, Kaling shared an apartment in Brooklyn with her college friend Brenda Withers. Kaling and Withers turned a running joke into an infotainmentsatire,Matt & Ben, in which the women portrayed the actorsMatt DamonandBen Affleck. The play was entered in 2002 into the New York In...
As for sequence (narrative and non-narrative) as a strand of book-DNA, Drucker’s use of alphabetic order throughout ties that one into a Gordian knot. The alphabetic sequence of the anthology, the naming of each character with a letter, the 26 numbered statements in the dedication, etc....
“Greetings. I am a woman who has discovered she has turned into the wrong person.” (Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups) “Nice day, eh? The sun is shining, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” (Samuel Beckett, Murphy) “A bit about myself: All children, except one,...