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Virgin Territory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Virgin Territory

A critical investigation of how virginity is represented in film. It considers virginity as it is produced and marketed in film. With chapters that span a range of periods, genres, and performances, it intends to prove that although it seems like an obvious quality at first glance, virginity in film is anything but simple.

Monsters and the Monstrous
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Monsters and the Monstrous

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection. This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.

The Fatal Touch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Fatal Touch

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-29
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

In the early hours of a Saturday morning, a body is discovered in Piazza de’ Renzi. If it was just a simple fall that killed him, why is a senior Carabiniere officer so interested? Commissioner Alec Blume is immediately curious and the discovery of the dead man’s notebooks reveals that there is a great deal more at stake than the unfortunate death of a down-and-out... What secrets did he know that might have made him a target? What is the significance of the Galleria Orpiment? And why are the authorities so intent on blocking Blume’s investigations?

Classical Reception
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Classical Reception

In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover new ways to draw on our discipline and the material it studies to engage in meaningful ways with these new academic and societal challenges. The chapters included in the collection interrogate the very processes of reception and continue the work of destabilising the concept of a pure source text or point of origin. Our aim is to break through the boundaries that still divide our ancient texts and ...

An Evil Was Born
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

An Evil Was Born

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-15
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  • Publisher: Akirim Press

An Evil Was Born (a Christian psychological historical thriller) After a tragic loss, a young couple discovers something sinister that has entered their home, and it's toying with their daughter. Will they be able to hold on to their faith and save their family, or will fear take such a solid grip on their lives that the silent intruder becomes unstoppable? African American, Christian Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, multicultural, fiction, historical fiction

Serial Killers and Serial Spectators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Serial Killers and Serial Spectators

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Serial murder is a global entertainment industry where the serial killer emerges as one of the most significant cultural figures of our time. No longer an exclusively Anglo-American phenomenon, narratives of serial killing are widespread in India, China, Japan, and other cultures. This book asks why this is the case, and how serial violence has been aestheticized in different contexts. It raises important questions regarding the ethics of spectatorship, complicity, and resistance. Unique in its transnational reach, it covers both novels and visual media, both West and East, both perpetrators and witnesses.

EMP: Return of the Wild West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 896

EMP: Return of the Wild West

Experience the harrowing, post-apocalyptic series now available in a box set of over 1,200 pages! Survival of the fittest becomes harsh reality in the blink of an eye. After an EMP attack, Greg Healy must safely navigate his daughter and estranged father through the treacherous Canadian wilderness to reunite with those holding down the family’s ranch, where frightening responsibilities have fallen on his son’s seventeen-year-old shoulders. But more than miles separate them in this post-apocalyptic nightmare as shocking secrets come to light and vicious adversaries threaten to tear apart the fractured family. As the Healys struggle to overcome the distance between them, ruthless enemies a...

New Philosophies of Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

New Philosophies of Film

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-13
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

A concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. It covers adaptations such as film and TV versions of the novel and student-friendly features include discussion points and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic experimentation.

Black Screens, White Frames
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Black Screens, White Frames

  • Categories: Art

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy and pursuing an affirmative approach to non-images through the concept of the filmmaking machine, author Tanya Shilina-Conte shows how absence can be a productive mode that alters the way we study film.