She Makes Comics (2014)
Documentary film about the history of women in the comic book industry since the medium's beginnings in the early 1900s.
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 10M
Director : Marisa Stotter
Sinopse
She Makes Comics traces the fascinating history of women in the comics industry. Despite popular assumptions about the comics world, women have been writing, drawing, and reading comics since the medium’s beginnings in the late 19th century. And today, there are scores of women involved in comics and its vibrant fan culture. Featuring dozens of interviews with such vital figures as Ramona Fradon, Trina Robbins, Joyce Farmer, Karen Berger, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Becky Cloonan, She Makes Comics is the first film to bring together the most influential women of the comics world.
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Um anjo que observa a cidade dividida de Berlim deseja se tornar um humano mortal quando se apaixona por uma bela trapezista francesa.
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Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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