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Alien Quartet

Author : Michael Z Lewin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532061102
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Alien Quartet written by Michael Z Lewin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These four Albert Samson short stories are linked by one unusual client. The first story, “Who I Am,” begins when LeBron James climbs Albert’s stairs. He wants Samson to investigate a burglary at his Indianapolis home. This is not an everyday event for this PI: having a new client. Who I Am won the Shamus Award for best PI Story of 2011. In “Good Intentions,” a genuinely well-meaning man has been beaten so badly he needs hospital treatment. But he insists that he doesn’t want police to become involved. “Extra Fries” opens when a man has been caught cheating by his wife. Unusually, it’s the cheater who is the detective’s client, not the wife. Extra Fries was nominated for the Shamus of 2013. “A Question of Fathers” sees Albert search for a man due to inherit millions of dollars. The investigation helps him find a new level of understanding with his daughter, his mother, and himself. But what about his father?

Alien Sex

Author : Gerard Loughlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470775157
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Alien Sex written by Gerard Loughlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays. Discusses various films, including the Alien quartet, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and Derek Jarman’s The Garden. Draws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern, religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar to André Bazin and Leo Bersani. Uses cinema to think about the church as an ecclesiacinema, and films to think about sexual desire as erotic dispossession, as a way into the life of God. Written from a radically orthodox Christian perspective, at once both Catholic and critical.

Alien

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714294
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Alien written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring films of modern cinema – its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, Roger Luckhurst examines its origins as a monster movie script called Star Beast, dismissed by many in Hollywood as B-movie trash, through to its afterlife in numerous sequels, prequels and elaborations. Exploring the ways in which Alien compels us to think about otherness, Luckhurst demonstrates how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings about the fragility of humanity. This special edition features original cover artwork by Marta Lech.

Alien Woman

Author : Ximena Gallardo C.
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826415707
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Alien Woman written by Ximena Gallardo C. and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). It will be useful to researchers and teachers in film, mass communication, women's studies, gender studies and genre studies.

The Alien Quartet

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780747551812
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Alien Quartet written by David Thomson and published by Bloomsbury Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket book details many different aspects of the "Alien" films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, the tensions on the set, indeed everything anyone could possibly want to know about them.

On Film

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134537999
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book On Film written by Stephen Mulhall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

David Thomson on the Alien Quartet

Author : David Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book David Thomson on the Alien Quartet written by David Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alien Vault

Author : Ian Nathan
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781319421
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Alien Vault written by Ian Nathan and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien Vault is the ultimate tribute to a film that changed cinema forever.

Alien Legacies

Author : Nathan Abrams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197556027
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Alien Legacies written by Nathan Abrams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements, and starring then-unknown actor Sigourney Weaver in the lead role, it transcended its humble origins to shock and disturb audiences upon its initial release. Its success has led to three direct sequels, two prequels, one "mashup" franchise, a series of comic books, graphic novels, novelizations, games, and an enormous and devoted fanbase. For forty years, Alien and its progeny have animated debate and discussion among critics and academics from a wide variety of fields and methodological perspectives. This book brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Alien through a contemporary lens. The chapters here demonstrate the extent to which its effects and reception are deeply multifaceted, with the Alien franchise straddling the lines between "high" and "low" culture, playing with generic categories, crossing media boundaries, and animating theoretical, critical, and political debates. Chapters touch on female agency and motherhood, the influence of H.R. Giger, the viscerality of Alien's body horror, the narrative tradition of the Female Gothic, the patriarchal gaze in the Alien video games, and the rise of in-universe online marketing campaigns. In so doing, the volume aims to debate Alien's legacy, consider its current position within visual culture, and establish what the series means--and why it still matters--forty years since its birth.

Sheroes

Author : Varla Ventura
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573241281
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Sheroes written by Varla Ventura and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents portraits of real and fictional role models for women, from sports, science, politics, and entertainment, including Dian Fossey, Aretha Franklin, Joan Baez, Anita Hill, and Agent Dana Scully

David Fincher

Author : Mark Browning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book David Fincher written by Mark Browning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. David Fincher is one of the most exciting filmmakers working in Hollywood today. He has produced a string of groundbreaking films that have achieved both critical and commercial success, while constantly challenging audiences to rethink their expectations of generic boundaries. David Fincher: Films That Scar is the first truly analytical work on the films of this mysterious and complex filmmaker. This insightful book analyzes all of Fincher's feature films, as well as examples of his commercials and pop videos, tracing key influences that include his background in special effects. It considers how he creates roles for strong women, how he has extended the detective genre, and how he adapts cult texts. The book also questions whether Fincher's films, famous for their downbeat endings and "dark" visual style, are really bleak or just part of an unconventional approach to filmmaking. In the end, readers will understand the development of Fincher's individual films and appreciate how the films relate closely to each other.

The Horror Genre

Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851324
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Horror Genre written by Paul Wells and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the horror film in social and historical context, Paul Wells explores how it has reflected and commented upon particular historical periods, and asks how it may respond to the new millennium by citing recent innovations in the genre's development, such as the "urban myth" narrative underpinning Candyman and The Blair Witch Project. Over 300 films are treated, all of which are featured in the filmography.

Posthumanity

Author : Brian Cooney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461714966
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanity written by Brian Cooney and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Posthumanity, Brian Cooney examines this philosophically turbulent era, in which the products of our latest technology will include a new kind of reality, new kinds of minds, and new sorts of bodies for those minds. Until now, major technological innovations have always had an important effect on human history. But our newest technology will alter the human animal to such an extent that the next era could end up being posthuman. Posthumanity introduces key concepts in philosophy in a creative and provocative manner guaranteed to engage the attention of first-year students and other newcomers to the study of philosophy. Using examples from films, television, and science fiction, Cooney advances a fascinating and original argument about technology while simultaneously acquainting students with the foundations of philosophy.

Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema

Author : David Greven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230118836
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema written by David Greven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation.

The Hollywood Sequel

Author : Stuart Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839020199
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Sequel written by Stuart Henderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The Son of a Sheik (1926) to Toy Story 3 (2010), this book provides a comprehensive history of this critically-neglected yet commercially-dominant art form.

Blockbuster

Author : Tom Shone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743235686
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Blockbuster written by Tom Shone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But somewhere along the line, the beast they awakened took on a life of its own, and by the 1990s production budgets had escalated as quickly as profits. Hollywood entered a topsy-turvy world ruled by marketing and merchandising mavens, in which flops like Godzilla made money and hits had to break records just to break even. The blockbuster changed from a major event that took place a few times a year into something that audiences have come to expect weekly, piling into the backs of one another in an annual demolition derby that has left even Hollywood aghast.".

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia

Author : Robert Shail
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787691071
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia written by Robert Shail and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.