#Adrian Mackinder

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English Comedy Night 10 March at 20:00-22:00; Knock Knock Comedy Club, Vimmelskaftet 41, Cph K; internationalcomedians.com Let's laugh together! Enjoy four comedians from Irelan...

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Robert Kirkman’s “Secret History of Comics” comes to Sky History, but have you checked out “Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World” yet?

Robert Kirkman’s “Secret History of Comics” comes to Sky History, but have you checked out “Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World” yet?

Robert Kirkman‘s six-part documentary series Secret History of Comics, first screened in 2017, debuts on comes to Sky History UK from Monday 19th July. Hosted by Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman, this six-part series takes a deeper look into the amazing stories, people and events that have transformed the world of American comic books and inspired such a loyal and dedicated worldwide fan…

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Sexual imagery

Critics have also analyzed Alien's sexual overtones. Adrian Mackinder compares the facehugger's attack on Kane to a male rape and the chestburster scene to a form of violent birth, noting that the Alien's phallic head and method of killing the crew members add to the sexual imagery. Dan O'Bannon has argued that the scene is a metaphor for the male fear of penetration, and that the "oral invasion" of Kane by the facehugger functions as "payback" for the many horror films in which sexually vulnerable women are attacked by male monsters. McIntee claims that "Alien is a rape movie as much as Straw Dogs (1971) or I Spit on Your Grave (1978), or The Accused (1988). On one level it's about an intriguing alien threat. On one level it's about parasitism and disease. And on the level that was most important to the writers and director, it's about sex, and reproduction by non-consensual means. And it's about this happening to a man." He notes how the film plays on men's fear and misunderstanding of pregnancy and childbirth, while also giving women a glimpse into these fears. Film analyst Lina Badley has written that the Alien's design, with strong Freudian sexual undertones, multiple phallic symbols, and overall feminine figure, provides an androgynous image conforming to archetypal mappings and imageries in horror films that often redraw gender lines. O'Bannon himself later described the sexual imagery in Alien as overt and intentional: "One thing that people are all disturbed about is sex... I said 'That's how I'm going to attack the audience; I'm going to attack them sexually. And I'm not going to go after the women in the audience, I'm going to attack the men. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make the men in the audience cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat, the whole number.'"

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#amreading 4/27/21: Stan Lee, by Adrian Mackinder

#amreading 4/27/21: Stan Lee, by Adrian Mackinder

Subtitle: How Marvel Changed the World I received an advance reader copy of this book from the publisher through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. While it is ostensibly a biography of Stan Lee, this book can also be seen as a biography of sorts for Marvel Comics from its earliest days as a pulp publisher to its current existence as a multimedia empire and dominant player in the…

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"The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin", first comics-related biography from White Owl Books

“The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin”, first comics-related biography from White Owl Books

Slipping under my radar late last year was the release of The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin by Sian Lye, published by White Owl Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword – and the publisher has more comics-related biographies in the works, including an “joyous” tribute to Stan Lee from Adrian Mackinder. Belgian comic creator Georges Remi, aka Hergé (1907-1983) created only 24 Tintin books,…

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Adrian Mackinder’s book on Stan Lee on the way from Pen and Sword

Adrian Mackinder’s book on Stan Lee on the way from Pen and Sword

Writer, performer and producer Adrian Mackinder‘s first book, its title recently revealed as The Real Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel, is on course from Pen and Sword Books, due late 2020.

Writing about the commission on his blog last year, Adrian, who writes for outlets as diverse as Den of Geek and The Guardian, described Stan Leeas “one of the most important creative forces of the twentieth…