Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Culture Wars And Horror Movies full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Culture Wars And Horror Movies ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031538366
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars and Horror Movies written by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031538353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars and Horror Movies written by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating this polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty[1]first-century horror films critically frame and engage conflicting and divisive ideological issues. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in Post-2010 Horror Cinema analyses the ways in which these “culture wars” make their way into and through contemporary horror films, focusing on the post-2010 US context and its fundamental political divisions.
Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031532783
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars and Horror Movies written by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031532771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars and Horror Movies written by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating a polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty-first-century horror films critically frame conflicting and divisive ideological issues. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Gender Debates in post-2010 US Horror Cinema analyses the ways in which these “culture wars” make their way into gender, focusing on the post-2010 US context and its fundamental political divisions. Approaching these topics from feminist and postfeminist theories to ecocritical views, this volume explores how contemporary horror movies engage with the current context of “culture wars.”
Author : William D. Romanowski
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597525774
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Pop Culture Wars written by William D. Romanowski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment has long been a source of controversy in American life. On the one hand, American popular culture is enormously desired, captivating audiences around the world. On the other hand, more and more critics blame it for the breakdown of morals and even civilizations itself. Surely Christians and other religious citizens have something to contribute to what is, after all, a discussion of morality. But too often their contributions have been ill-informed, unreflective and reactionary. In this groudbreaking book, William Romanowski brings something desperately needed to the discussion: an informed, systematic and challenging Christian perspective. Comprehensive and historically revealing, Pop Culture Wars bids to accomplish nothing less than to reframe and render more constructive a crucial but angry cultural debate.
Author : Sarah Rehberg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638626857
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Horror movies as a part of American Popculture written by Sarah Rehberg and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut für Angelistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Beliefs and Popular Culture, language: English, abstract: “Fear is the most powerful emotion in the human race and fear of the unknown is probably the most ancient. You are dealing with stuff everybody has felt...If you are making a horror film, you get to play with the audiences feelings.” John Carpenter Horror movies originate from fictional work that portrays the dark side of life with the primary aim of frightening and terrifying its audience. By presenting horrifying images, of several incorporating sub-genres and repeated themes, such as vampires and werewolves, demonic possessions, evil children, cannibals and zombies, alien invasion and mindcontrol, film makers like John Carpenter create a world where the worst nightmares become true. According to the adolescents who are providing the genre’s target group, monster movies always deal with the irresistible temptation of the unknown and forbidden, and therefore shock with a horrific impact of terrifying elements. (...) Since horror and monster movies stand for an important part of the American film industry and with it of its popular culture throughout the last eight decades, it is useful to look at the development of the horror genre in its historical and cultural context, and thus to focus again on the question of interpretive perspective. As horror movies, despite all obscurity, still deal with real fears of a society or the urge to break with social conventions, concentrating on the change of themes, styles and characters of the genre, means to learn more about the American collective consciousness and what was bothering a whole society during the 20th century.
Author : Roger Chapman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765622505
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars written by Roger Chapman and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2010 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters from a cross-section of Japanese citizens to a leading Japanese newspaper, relating their experiences and thoughts of the Pacific War.
Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470771
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Found Footage Horror Films written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.
Author : Ernest Mathijs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444396439
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Cult Cinema written by Ernest Mathijs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinema Offers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debate Covers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult cinema, as well as historical insights into the topic
Author : Caetlin Benson-Allott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275101
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens written by Caetlin Benson-Allott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse of US movie culture. Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens examines how prerecorded video reframes the premises and promises of motion picture spectatorship. But instead of offering a history of video technology or reception, Caetlin Benson-Allott analyzes how the movies themselves understand and represent the symbiosis of platform and spectator. Through case studies and close readings that blend industry history with apparatus theory, psychoanalysis with platform studies, and production history with postmodern philosophy, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens unearths a genealogy of post-cinematic spectatorship in horror movies, thrillers, and other exploitation genres. From Night of the Living Dead (1968) through Paranormal Activity (2009), these movies pursue their spectator from one platform to another, adapting to suit new exhibition norms and cultural concerns in the evolution of the video subject.
Author : Telly Davidson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625700
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Culture War written by Telly Davidson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What didn’t you like about the 1990s—the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a candid look at the decade after the Cold War and before 9/11, when America’s culture war began with the election of a media-savvy, Baby Boomer president (and his liberal feminist wife). Bill Clinton’s postmodern administration betokened gay equality, an education-based labor force and a race and gender-diverse workplace and government, panicking conservatives and sparking the 1994 Republican Revolution. Meanwhile, with the advent of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the Internet, a media “punditocracy” arose. Parsing every event from the O.J. Simpson trial to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, commentators and talk show hosts spun news, politics and pop culture until they became one thing. Beginning with the “Red and Blue” partitioning of America that would nurture the Tea Party, and ending with the 9/11 attacks, this examination of the 1990s demonstrates how the decade shaped the world we live in today.
Author : Peter Gibian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135208549
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Mass Culture and Everyday Life written by Peter Gibian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday lives in recent years: from Hillary's hairdo to tampons, exercise fads and fashion trends; from soaps to opera to rythmn and blues; from horror movies to the interrelation of cats, pigs and mothers in Babe. This volume includes ground-breaking essays on: the boom of talk radio and talk TV; shopping as cinematic spectacle; and how "everyday life" in the university community has become a key battleground in America's "culture wars." The direct, accessible, and refreshingly personal work speak not only to an academic audience but to a wide general readership.
Author : Tom Mes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000855287
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video written by Tom Mes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema was an exceptionally diverse and vibrant film scene. It highlights how, although the V-Cinema industry declined from around 1995, the explosion in quantity and variety of such movies established and cemented many specific genres of Japanese film. Importantly the book argues that film scholars who have long looked down on video as a substandard medium without scholarly interest have been wrong to do so, and that V-Cinema challenges accepted notions of cultural value, providing insight into the formation of cinematic canons and inviting us to rethink what is meant by "Japanese cinema".
Author : Scott A. Lukas
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739124897
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation written by Scott A. Lukas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume explore the themes of fear, cultural anxiety, and transformation as expressed in remade horror, science fiction, and fantasy films. While opening on a note that emphasizes the compulsion of filmmakers to revisit issues concerning fear and anxiety, this collection ends with a suggestion that repeated confrontation with these issues allows the opportunity for creative and positive transformation.
Author : Cynthia Hendershot
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728502
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (285 download)
Download or read book I was a Cold War Monster written by Cynthia Hendershot and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror films provide a guide to many of the sociological fears of the Cold War era. In an age when warning audiences of impending death was the order of the day for popular nonfiction, horror films provided an area where this fear could be lived out to its ghastly conclusion. Because enemies and potential situations of fear lurked everywhere, within the home, the government, the family, and the very self, horror films could speak to the invasive fears of the cold war era. I Was a Cold War Monster examines cold war anxieties as they were reflected in British and American films from the fifties through the early sixties. This study examines how cold war horror films combined anxiety over social change with the erotic in such films as Psycho, The Tingler, The Horror of Dracula, and House of Wax.
Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017964
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Projected Fears written by Kendall R. Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically—every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come up with another twist—it has been one of the most often-dissected genres. Here, author Kendall Phillips selects ten of the most popular and influential horror films—including Dracula, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Silence of the Lambs, and Scream, each of which has become a film landmark and spawned countless imitators, and all having implications that transcend their cinematic influence and achievement. By tracing the production history, contemporary audience response, and lasting cultural influence of each picture, Phillips offers a unique new approach to thinking about the popular attraction to horror films, and the ways in which they reflect both cultural and individual fears. Though stylistically and thematically very different, all of these movies have scared millions of eager moviegoers. This book tries to figure out why.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Culture Wars written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
