Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero: A Graphic Guide - Softcover
Using a unique blend of text, collage, and comic art, this social commentary written in graphic novel format analyzes the continuity between the myth of Robin Hood and the occurrence of social uprisings among peasants. In addition, the book explores the mysteries, factual evidence, and trajectory that led to centuries of village festivals, songs, films, and cult television shows about the mythical hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Featuring a collage of various artistic renderings of Robin Hood over the past seven centuries, the comic portion presents a distinct perspective of the folk hero. Furthermore, the book reveals a largely unknown and unconsidered environmental side of Robin Hood, and touches on ecological wholeness that, for the most part, is absent in the mythos.
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Paul Buhle is a retired senior lecturer of history and American civilization at Brown University, a Distinguished Lecturer at the Organization of American Historians and American Studies Association, the founder of Radical America magazine, and the founder and former director of New York University’s Oral History of the American Left archive. He is also the recipient of the 2010 Will Eisner Award for The Art of Harvey Kurtzman. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Chris Hutchinson is a teacher, an artist, and a designer of General Strike Comics, which seeks to use art as a weapon to advance the class struggle. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
"Paul Buhle is the best informed and most sincere left-wing scholar that I know." —Harvey Pekar, artist
"Paul Buhle is my socialist conscience." —Robert Crumb, artist
"Buhle takes an unique approach to the examination, alternating between dense essays and lighter graphic summations. It's with this tactic that Buhle's book achieves the very trait it trumpets -- populism." —North Adams Transcript, www.TheTranscript.com, (February 2012)
"A thought-provoking study of tales that, whatever their radical credentials may or may not be, is an informative and entertaining examination of an enduring folk hero." —Monthly Review (May 2012)
"With plenty of art strewn about the writing, Robin Hood is a strong addition to any literary studies collection focusing on legends of popular culture." —www.MidwestBookReview.com
"Paul Buhle is my socialist conscience." —Robert Crumb, artist
"Buhle takes an unique approach to the examination, alternating between dense essays and lighter graphic summations. It's with this tactic that Buhle's book achieves the very trait it trumpets -- populism." —North Adams Transcript, www.TheTranscript.com, (February 2012)
"A thought-provoking study of tales that, whatever their radical credentials may or may not be, is an informative and entertaining examination of an enduring folk hero." —Monthly Review (May 2012)
"With plenty of art strewn about the writing, Robin Hood is a strong addition to any literary studies collection focusing on legends of popular culture." —www.MidwestBookReview.com
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- PublisherPM Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1604863188
- ISBN 13 9781604863185
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
- IllustratorHutchinson Chris, Dumm Gary, Rudahl Sharon
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Hutchinson, Chris; Dumm, Gary; Rudahl, Sharon (illustrator). Where and what was Robin Hood? Why is an outlaw from fourteenth century England still a hero today, with films, festivals and songs dedicated to his living memory? This book explores the mysteries, the historical evidence, and the trajectory that led to centuries of village festivals around Mayday and the green space of nature unconquered by the forces in power. Great revolutionaries including William Morris adopted Robin as hero, children?s books offered many versions, and Robin entered modern popular culture with cheap novels, silent films and comics. There, in the world of popular culture, Robin Hood continues to holds unique and secure place. The ?bad-good? hero of pulp urban fiction of the 1840s-50s, and more important, the Western outlaw who thwarts the bankers in pulps, films, and comics, is essentially Robin Hood. So are Zorro, the Cisco Kid, and countless Robin Hood knockoff characters in various media. Robin Hood has a special resonance for leftwing influences on American popular culture in Hollywood, film and television. During the 1930s-50s, future blacklist victims devised radical plots of ?people?s outlaws,? including anti-fascist guerilla fighters, climaxing in The Adventures of Robin Hood, network television 1955-58, written under cover by victims of the Blacklist, seen by more viewers than any other version of Robin Hood. Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero also features 30 pages of collages and comic art, recuperating the artistic interpretations of Robin from seven centuries, and offering new comic art as a comic-within-a book. With text by Paul Buhle, comics and assorted drawings by Christopher Hutchinson, Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero adds another dimension to the history and meaning of rebellion. Seller Inventory # SKU1005657
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