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This 2006 comic by Brian K. Vaughn and Niko Henrichon is about lions escaping the Baghdad Zoo during the Iraq War. We look at how the creators approached this subject matter, why it's been challenged in libraries and how it represents people in the Middle East.
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- US troops kill Baghdad lions
- 15 YEARS AGO, A LION PRIDE ROAMED THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD
- Revisiting ‘Pride of Baghdad’s’ Haunting Iraq War Allegory
- The Joy of Pride: Vaughan talks "Pride of Baghdad"
- BANNED BOOKS WEEK: PRIDE OF BAGHDAD
- The Pride of Baghdad
- CBLDF Discussion Guide: Pride of Baghdad
This 1977 record seems to mythologize a certain version of New York, so we look at how it was made to get to the core beneath its poetry, guitar solos and critical success.
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- Television's Principles
- How Television Made ‘Marquee Moon,’ the Best Punk Guitar Album Ever
- Television’s Punk Epic “Marquee Moon,” 40 Years Later
- Invisible Hits: When Eno Met Television
- https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/punks-founding-father-richard-hell-306738.html
- Waterman, B. (2011). Television’s Marquee Moon. New York: Continuum.
- Rolling Stone. 1/7/93, Issue 647, p22.
- Lloyd, R. (2018). Everything is Combustible. Mount Desert, ME: Beech Hill Publishing Company.
This 1996 comic-book-based-cartoon aired on MTV in 10-minute bursts of weirdness. We discuss its themes of tragedy and trauma, together with how it represents feminism, while still objectifying the female body.
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- The Maxx -- The Only Thing MTV Never Screwed Up
- The Maxx messed up afterschool MTV viewers with its dark surrealism
- FEMINIST REPLAY: MTV'S THE MAXX
- Why The Maxx Was the Perfect Comic for '90s MTV
- Shaping The Maxx: Adapting the Comic Book Frame to Television
- MTV’s Oddities Part 2: The Maxx: Julie’s Pangea, Laura’s Ghostwood
This book attempts to redefine the novel by combining narrative with an imagined anthropological record. We discuss Le Guin's background and mission, as well as larger questions about cultural misappropriation and utopianism.
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- Future Ethnography of the Inhabitants of the Valley of the Na, and The unBible of Ursula K. Le Guin
- PAPERBACKS; THE KESH IN SONG AND STORY
- Always coming home…
- Ursula K. Le Guin‘s Folk/Electronica Album Can Teach Us a Lot About Storytelling
- The Journeys of Ursula K. Le Guin. By: CARPENTER, ZOË, Nation, 00278378, 10/24/2016, Vol. 303, Issue 17
- Taking Politics to Another World. By: Pilon, Dennis, Canadian Dimension, 00083402, Sep/Oct2007, Vol. 41, Issue 5
- Le Guin, Urusula K. “On the Frontier,” in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, edited by Le Guin. Boston: Shambhala Press, 2004.