Glen Weldon Livres

From NPR comes the definitive guide to podcasting, featuring step-by-step advice on how to find a unique topic, tell the best stories, and engage the most listeners, as well as the secrets that will take a podcast to the next level

A witty, intelligent cultural history from Glen Weldon that explains Batman's rises and falls throughout the ages-and what his story tells us about ourselves.

From NPR comes the definitive guide to podcasting—featuring step-by-step advice on how to find a unique topic, tell the best stories, and engage the most listeners, as well as the secrets that will take your pod to the next level. Whoever you are, whatever you love, there’s a podcast audience waiting for you, and in today’s booming audio storytelling landscape, it’s never been easier to share your voice with the world. But while the barrier to entry for podcast production is relatively low (just the cost of a mic and a laptop), the learning curve is steep—and quality matters. That’s where NPR comes in. In NPR’s Podcast Start Up Guide, Glen Weldon draws on NPR’s extensive educational materials and army of talent—from recognizable hosts, such as Guy Raz (How I Built This), Gene Demby (Code Switch), Linda Holmes (Pop Culture Happy Hour), and Yowei Shaw (Invisibilia), to indispensable behind-the-scenes players, such as producers, engineers, and editors—to guide aspiring podcasters through the conception, creation, and launch of a podcast. Part master class, part candid informational interview with the best in the business, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make their dream of starting a podcast a reality.

"Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop Art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim ninja of the urban night, cycling through eras of dark melodrama and light comedy and back again. He is constantly changing, jumping from page to screen and beyond, and yet he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. In this witty, wise, and fascinating history, NPR critic and self-proclaimed nerd Glen Weldon expalins why we've continued to look to this masked man in the night--and what that devotion tells us about ourselves. Spanning from the Bat's humble beginnings as Bob Kane and Bill Finger's hyphenated hero, trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with Robin the Boy Wonder, to Christopher Nolan's post-9/11 Dark Knight, delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl, The Caped Crusade is a journey into the depths of Gotham that will delight new and old Bat-fans alike."--

Historie Batmana a zrod nerdů. Tahle kniha ukrývá víc překvapení než Batmanův opasek. Věděli jste, že redaktoři Batmana dali publiku možnost telefonicky hlasovat o životě a smrti vedlejší postavy? Že filmy s Batmanem navždy změnily hollywoodský marketing? Že nepřímo stál na počátku fenoménů, jako jsou internetová diskusní fóra nebo fanouškovské weby, a že napomohl oblibě psaní takzvané fanfikce? Zkušený publicista a fanoušek Glen Weldon dává do souvislostí podoby a interpretace Temného rytíře od jeho zrodu v komiksu před 80 lety až po nedávnou minulost. Přibližuje pozadí vzniku a kvality milovaných i nenáviděných děl: Nechybí televizní seriál ze 60. let, filmy od Tima Burtona, Joela Schumachera a Christophera Nolana, animovaná verze z 90. let ani nejslavnější komiksy od Neala Adamse, Franka Millera, Alana Moora nebo Granta Morrisona. Batmanův život na papíře i mimo něj se prolíná se vznikem kultury zarytých fanoušků, kteří si žárlivě střeží to, jak má podle nich Batman vypadat a koho má reprezentovat. Weldon ukazuje vzestup nerdů, kteří svým zápalem dokázali obohatit běžné publikum a mainstream, ale mezi nimiž se pravidelně objevují tací, jejichž vášeň se proměňuje v nenávist. Objevná kniha, kterou si pochvalují také oceňovaní scenáristé jako Tom King nebo Scott Snyder, vám otevře cestu k novému čtení Batmanových příběhů.