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Terrors of Uncertainty (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Joseph Grixti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317638085
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Terrors of Uncertainty (Routledge Revivals) written by Joseph Grixti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre, horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes and narratives. Considering horror fiction both as a genre and as a social phenomenon, Joseph Grixti provides a theoretical and historical framework for reconsidering horror and the cultural apparatus that surrounds it. First published in 1989, this book looks at shifts in the genre’s meaning – its fascination with excess, its commentaries on the categories and boundaries of culture – and at interpretations of horror from psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, cultural and media studies. Terrors of Uncertainty brings together a provocative range of perspectives from across the disciplines, which combine to raise important questions about the relationship between fiction and society, and the way in which we use fiction to resolve or evade our fears of uncertainty.

Terrors of Uncertainty

Author : Joseph Grixti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415025973
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Terrors of Uncertainty written by Joseph Grixti and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frankenstein to Psycho, horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring narratives. Grixti looks at interpret ations of the genre from psychology, psycho- analysis, sociology, cultural and media studies.

Terrors and Experts

Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674874800
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Terrors and Experts written by Adam Phillips and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronicle of the all-too-human terror that drives us into the arms of experts, and of how expertise, in the form of psychoanalysis, addresses our fears - in essence, turns our terror into meaning.

Japanese and American Horror

Author : Katarzyna Marak
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496665
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Japanese and American Horror written by Katarzyna Marak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies. This book compares and contrasts horror narratives from two distinct cultures--American and Japanese--with a focus on the characteristic mechanisms that make them successful, and on their culturally-specific aspects. Including a number of narratives belonging to film, literature, comics and video games, this book provides a comprehensive perspective of the genre. It sheds light on the differences and similarities in the depiction of fear and horror in America and Japan, while emphasizing narrative patterns in the context of their respective cultures.

Little Horrors

Author : T.S. Kord
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666067
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Little Horrors written by T.S. Kord and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a child with an innocent face and a diabolical stare. Cinema's evil children attack our cherished ideas of innocence and our innocent bystander status as the audience. A good horror film is a scary ride--a "devil child" movie is a guilt trip. This book examines 24 international films--with discussions of another 100--that in effect "indict" viewers for crimes of child abuse and abandonment, greed, social and ecological negligence, and political and war crimes, and for persistent denial of responsibility for them all. For 75 years evil children have ritually rebuked audiences and, in playing on our guilt, established a horror subgenre that might be described as a blood-spattered rampage on an ethical mission.

Horror, The Film Reader

Author : Mark Jancovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134563752
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Horror, The Film Reader written by Mark Jancovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.

Bollywood Horrors

Author : Ellen Goldberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350143162
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Bollywood Horrors written by Ellen Goldberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood Horrors is a wide-ranging collection that examines the religious aspects of horror imagery, representations of real-life horror in the movies, and the ways in which Hindi films have projected cinematic fears onto the screen. Part one, “Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia” looks at horror movie posters and song booklets and the surprising role of religion in the importation of Gothic tropes into Indian films, told through the little-known story of Sir Devendra Prasad Varma. Part two, “Cinematic Horror, Iconography and Aesthetics” examines the stereotype of the tantric magician found in Indian literature beginning in the medieval period, cinematic representations of the myth of the fearsome goddess Durga's slaying of the Buffalo Demon, and the influence of epic mythology and Hollywood thrillers on the 2002 film Raaz. The final part, “Cultural Horror,” analyzes elements of horror in Indian cinema's depiction of human trafficking, shifting gender roles, the rape-revenge cycle, and communal violence. This book also features images (colour in the hardback, black and white in the paperback).

The Literature of Terror: Volume 2

Author : David Punter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317888022
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Terror: Volume 2 written by David Punter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde and continuing through the twentieth century.

The Terror of History

Author : Teofilo F. Ruiz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691161992
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Terror of History written by Teofilo F. Ruiz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on the diverse ways Western humanity has attempted to escape its frightening history This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors—from the existential condition and natural disasters to the endless succession of wars and other man-made catastrophes. Drawing on historical episodes ranging from antiquity to the recent past, and combining them with literary examples and personal reflections, Teofilo Ruiz explores the embrace of religious experiences, the pursuit of worldly success and pleasures, and the quest for beauty and knowledge as three primary responses to the individual and collective nightmares of history. The result is a profound meditation on how men and women in Western society sought (and still seek) to make meaning of the world and its disturbing history. In chapters that range widely across Western history and culture, The Terror of History takes up religion, the material world, and the world of art and knowledge. "Religion and the World to Come" examines orthodox and heterodox forms of spirituality, apocalyptic movements, mysticism, supernatural beliefs, and many forms of esotericism, including magic, alchemy, astrology, and witchcraft. "The World of Matter and the Senses" considers material riches, festivals and carnivals, sports, sex, and utopian communities. Finally, "The Lure of Beauty and Knowledge" looks at cultural productions of all sorts, from art to scholarship. Combining astonishing historical breadth with a personal and accessible narrative style, The Terror of History is a moving testimony to the incredibly diverse ways humans have sought to cope with their frightening history.

Vampire God

Author : Mary Y. Hallab
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438428588
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Vampire God written by Mary Y. Hallab and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Frightening Fiction

Author : Kimberly Reynolds
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826453104
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Frightening Fiction written by Kimberly Reynolds and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the horror genre in childrenÆs literature has been a startling phenomenon û one that has provoked strong, but mixed, reactions. Frightening Fiction provides a lucid and lively guide to that genre, ranging from analyses of such popular series as Point Horror, Goosebumps, the X Files and the Buffy Stories, to the work of individual authors such as Robert Westall, David Almond, Philip Gross and Lesley Howarth.

Cultural Studies 11.3

Author : Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135107432
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Studies 11.3 written by Lawrence Grossberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective.

York Notes Companions: Gothic Literature

Author : Susan Chaplin
Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 1292003847
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book York Notes Companions: Gothic Literature written by Susan Chaplin and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernist and postmodernist takes on the form. The volume surveys key debates such as Female Gothic, the Gothic narrator and nation and empire, and focuses on a wide range of texts including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Magic Toyshop and The Shining.

The Apprentice Economist

Author : Filip Palda
Publisher : Cooper-Wolfling
ISBN 13 : 0987788043
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The Apprentice Economist written by Filip Palda and published by Cooper-Wolfling. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When faced with material crises governments do not call upon historians, anthropologists, political scholars, or psychologists. They call on economists. These have developed the most coherent and convincing description of how society organizes itself through a system of accounting amenable to precise analysis. Mastering this analysis is the challenge of the apprentice economist. Learn to become a master from Filip Palda, who earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. Here is what Nobel Prize winners have said about Palda's previous books: "Interesting and well written." Gary S. Becker. Nobel Prize in economics 1992. "Palda offers a novel and interesting perspective." James M. Buchanan. Nobel Prize in economics 1987.

Sermons on Various Subjects

Author : Thomas Rennell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Sermons on Various Subjects written by Thomas Rennell and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Worlds of Uncertainty

Author : Peter Haldén
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009392719
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Uncertainty written by Peter Haldén and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years we have faced huge uncertainty and unpredictability across the world: Covid-19, political turbulence, climate change and war in Europe, among many other events. Through a historical analysis of worldviews, Peter Haldén provides nuance to the common belief in an uncertain world by showing the predictable nature of modern society and arguing that human beings create predictability through norms, laws, trust and collaboration. Haldén shows that, since the Renaissance, two worldviews define Western civilization: first, that the world is knowable and governed by laws, regularities, mechanisms or plan, hence it is possible to control and the future is possible to foresee; second, that the world is governed by chance, impossible to predict and control and therefore shocks and surprises are inevitable. Worlds of Uncertainty argues that between these two extremes lie positions that recognize the principal unpredictability of the world but seek pragmatic ways of navigating through it.

Horror Comes Home

Author : Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637695
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Horror Comes Home written by Cynthia J. Miller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered--including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House--along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.