The Rise of Skywalker book

Okay, for all you Star Wars and Rise of Skywalker fans out there, the new movie edition book is out and it looks beautiful.

The book has photos, interviews with the main cast including Daisy Ridley, John Boyaga, Adam Driver, Oscar Issac, and Mark Hamill.  JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy discuss the process of making the movie and it also goes into the First and Sith Orders.  Lots of creature and vehicle information for all the stuff nerds out there.  This looks great and it’s not expensive at all.  Here are some pages from the book.  Don’t drool on your screen.

Check it out here

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POP CULTURE AND GEEK BOOK LIST DECEMBER 2019

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Welcome to the first issue of the Full Contact Nerd newsletter.  In November and December I interviewed voice actress Faya Mata about her anime and gaming work and you can listen to that here. I also interviewed Rebecca Thompson about the science in Game of Thrones and you can listen to that here.

Today’s book listings range from gothic animals, video game landscapes, Disney history, an H.G. Wells biography, Star Wars art, to Stan Lee. Enjoy. Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.

ANIME AND MOVIE ART STUDIES

The Art of Concrete Genie

COMIC BOOK AND ANIMATION HISTORY

A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee

DISNEY HISTORY

Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor

One Day at Disney

Discussing Disney

FANTASY STUDIES – LITERATURE AND ART

Roy G. Krenkel

Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women’s Literature

Re-Enchanted

FILM AND TV STUDIES

Why We Remake

Girlhood on Disney Channel

HORROR STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART

Monster Anthropology

An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse

Get Out

NOIR, THRILLER, AND MYSTERY FICTION AND FILM STUDIES

Hong Kong Dark Cinema

Mexico Noir

MYTHS AND FOLKLORE STUDIES

Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore

SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART

H.G. Wells

STAR WARS AND STAR TREK POP CULTURE

The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Ships & Battles

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker The Galactic Guide

I Am C-3PO – An Inside Story

VIDEO GAME AND BOARD GAME STUDIES

War Games

Architectonics of Game Spaces

Ludotopia

WEIRD FICTION STUDIES

An Eclectic Bestiary

Gothic Animals

WESTERNS AND OLD WEST HISTORY

Heroes of the Borderlands

The American West on Film

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Stargate Universe actor – Peter Kelamis interview

Peter Kelamis is a Canadian actor who’s done a lot of voice acting and live acting. He’s best known for his roles in Stargate Universe and as Rolf in Ed, Edd, and Eddy. He’s also played Goku in the English versions of Dragon ball Z. I spoke to him at Shore Leave 2018.

0:48 – Peter talks about how he got into acting. He was really into comedy as a kid. He used to get ice cream for impressions.

2:40 – Peter talks about how he does voice acting.

3:36 – Peter talks about how props can mess up a scene.

5:43 – Sometimes he remembers people he’s met and uses their voices for roles. He also talks about how his Greek background has influenced his acting.

8:12 – He saw Star Wars as a kid and was into sci-fi ever sine. He loves blue screen and green screen shoots.

12:18 – His website is Peterkelamis.com. He loves going to cons. He loves meeting people.

Links of interest

PeterKelamis.com

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Guests: Peter Kelamis

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, fantasy, art, artist, Stargate, voice acting, Greek culture, Rolf, Yoda, Star Wars, canadian, australia, Greece