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Author: Luke Howie
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0982806132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Through dazzling close readings of a wide variety of cultural texts, from the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot to post-9/11 pornography, Howie is able to demonstrate how the politics and poetics of witnessing' have come to structure the experience of American popular culture in the past decade."--Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusett, Boston.
Author: Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher:
Published: 2016-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781481304900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
Author: Dan Simmons
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2007-03-08
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 0316003883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
Author: Derek Ford
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Naja Later
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 287
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kristen Lacefield
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780754669845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzing the extraordinary trans-cultural popularity of the Ring phenomenon, inaugurated with the 1991 publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, The Scary Screen embraces a wide variety of interpretive approaches. The contributors examine the full range of Ring-related cultural production, including novels, films, manga, and television specials, showing how the many adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the United States expose the anxieties triggered by the advent of new communications and media technologies.
Author: Kim Newman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-04-18
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1408817500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last two decades of horror films with all the wit, intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of the first edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing, and taken a new and stronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vast back-catalogue of horror, charting the on-screen progress of our collective fears and bogeymen from the low budget slasher movies of the 60s, through to the slick releases of the 2000s, in a critical appraisal that doubles up as a genealogical study of contemporary horror and its forebears. Newman invokes the figures that fuel the ongoing demand for horror - the serial killer; the vampire; the werewolf; the zombie - and draws on his remarkable knowledge of the genre to give us a comprehensive overview of the modern myths that have shaped the imagination of multiple generations of cinema-goers. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not only provides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but a truly entertaining guide with which to discover the less well-trodden paths of horror, and re-discover the classics with a newly instructed eye.
Author: Isabel Cristina Pinedo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016-02-24
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1438416164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
Author: Russell Meeuf
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-04-05
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0253060397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost always White family, evil forces or transgressive ideas transforming loved ones, and children dying when White women eschew traditional maternal roles. Horror film has a long history of radical, political commentary, and Russell Meeuf reveals how racial resentments represented specifically in horror films produced during the Obama era gave rise to the Trump presidency and the Make America Great Again movement. Featuring films such as The Conjuring and Don't Breathe, White Terror explores how motifs of home invasion, exorcism, possession, and hauntings mirror cultural debates around White masculinity, class, religion, socioeconomics, and more. In the vein of Jordan Peele, White Terror exposes how White mainstream fear affects the horror film industry, which in turn cashes in on that fear and draws voters to candidates like Trump.
Author: Francois Debrix
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-09-12
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1135979464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebrix develops a model of tabloidized international relations, where responses are organized by and supportive of a strong centralized US government - focusing on the exploitation of insecurities caused by 9/11 manifested in the US tabloid media.
