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Author : Philip L. Rife
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595194131
MEET SOME OF AMERICA'S SCARIEST REAL-LIFE MONSTERS ...* El Chupacabras* The Jersey Devil* Mothman* dragons* Lizardman* living dinosaurs* giant snakes* werewolves* vanishing hitchhikers* Men In Black... AND MANY MORE
Author : W. Scott Poole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 1481308823
Monsters are here to stay.--Christopher James Blythe "Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"
Author : Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780399165542
From pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surrounding the most mysterious monsters in America—including Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and more. Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and thunderbirds aren’t just figments of our overactive imaginations—according to thousands of eyewitnesses, they exist, in every corner of the United States. Throughout America’s history, shocked onlookers have seen unbelievable creatures of every stripe—from sea serpents to apelike beings, giant bats to monkeymen—in every region. Author, investigator, and creature expert Linda S. Godfrey brings the same fearless reporting she lent to Real Wolfmen to this essential guide, using historical record, present-day news reports, and eyewitness interviews to examine this hidden menagerie of America’s homegrown beasts.
Author : Matt Graves
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781604940947
Jonathan Fairchild saw a side of his father that he'd never seen before on April 3, 1974-the night the tornadoes touched down in Oakwood Falls, Alabama. The coming of the tornadoes seems to foretell a terrifying passage in young Jonathan's life, and all too soon he learns the dark secrets of his small town.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786495054
"Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
Author : Jon Towlson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786494743
Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and "sex pictures," horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational content. Exploiting a loophole in the Hays Code, which made no provision for on-screen "gruesomeness," studios produced remarkably explicit films that were recut when the Code was more rigidly enforced from 1934. This led to a modern misperception that classic horror was intended to be safe and reassuring to audiences. The author examines the 1931 to 1936 "happy ending" horror in relation to industry practices and censorship. Early works like Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) and The Raven (1935) may be more akin to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Hostel (2005) than many critics believe.
Author : Adam Golub,Heather Richardson Hayton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476663272
Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essays describes innovative teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with monsters to enhance learning in high school and college courses. The contributors discuss the implications of inviting fearsome creatures into the classroom, showing how they work to create compelling narratives and provide students a framework for analyzing history, culture, and everyday life. Essays explore ways of using the monstrous to teach literature, film, philosophy, theater, art history, religion, foreign language, and other subjects. Some sample syllabi, assignments, and class materials are provided.
Author : Richard A. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216047506
The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture. Since the 1980s, pop culture has focused on what makes a villain a villain. The Joker, Darth Vader, and Hannibal Lecter have all been placed under the microscope to get to the origins of their villainy. Additionally, such bad guys as Angelus from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows have emphasized the desire for redemption—in even the darkest of villains. Various incarnations of Lucifer/Satan have even gone so far as to explore the very foundations of what we consider "evil." The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television seeks to collect all of those stories into one comprehensive volume. The volume opens with essays about villains in popular culture, followed by 100 A–Z entries on the most notorious bad guys in film, comics, and more. Sidebars highlight ancillary points of interest, such as authors, creators, and tropes that illuminate the motives of various villains. A glossary of key terms and a bibliography provide students with resources to continue their study of what makes the "baddest" among us so bad.
Author : Andrew Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Horror films
ISBN : UOM:39015031744918
Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118608425
A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available
Author : Robin Wood
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814345245
Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood’s interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted unwavering attention. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques. In September 1979, Wood and Richard Lippe programmed an extensive series of horror films for the Toronto International Film Festival and edited a companion piece: The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film — the first serious collection of critical writing on the horror genre. Robin Wood on the Horror Film now contains all of Wood’s writings from The American Nightmare and nearly everything else he wrote over the years on horror—published in a range of journals and magazines—gathered together for the first time. It begins with the first essay Wood ever published, "Psychoanalysis of Psycho," which appeared in 1960 and already anticipated many of the ideas explored later in his touchstone book, Hitchcock’s Films. The volume ends, fittingly, with, "What Lies Beneath?," written almost five decades later, an essay in which Wood reflects on the state of the horror film and criticism since the genre’s renaissance in the 1970s. Wood’s prose is eloquent, lucid, and convincing as he brings together his parallel interests in genre, authorship, and ideology. Deftly combining Marxist, Freudian, and feminist theory, Wood’s prolonged attention to classic and contemporary horror films explains much about the genre’s meanings and cultural functions. Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and film genre.
Author : Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822009314808
Author : Troy Rondinone
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421432670
Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.
Author : Michael J. Collins,Gavin Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009292818
Comprising new work by leading scholars, this book traces the history of American short fiction and provides original avenues for research.
Author : Mark Duffett,Jon Hackett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501313387
Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of cultural theory. This is in part because monsters raise shared concerns about transgression, subjectivity, agency, and community. Attention to monstrosity evokes both the spectre of projection (which invokes familial trauma and psychoanalysis) and shared anxieties (that in turn reflect ideologies and beliefs). By pursuing a series of insightful case studies, Scary Monsters considers different aspects of the connection between music, gender and monstrosity. Its argument is that attention to monstrosity provides a unique perspective on the study of masculinity in popular music culture.
