Dreams Vampires And Ghosts

Author : Louise Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350087101

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Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts by Louise Child Pdf

Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media's fascination with dreams, pagan gods and goddesses, vampires, and spirits. Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts does so in the light of anthropological studies of societies in which human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. Films and programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Twin Peaks, Star Trek and the films of Hitchcock. Louise Child draws attention to how they both depict and challenge ideas and practices rooted in psychology, while quality television has also facilitated a wave of programming that can explore the interaction of characters in complex social worlds over time. As well as drawing on theories of film from Freudian psychology and feminist theory, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts also uses approaches derived from a combination of Jungian film studies and anthropology that offer fresh insights for exploring film and television. This book draws attention to explicit and subtle ways in which cinematic narratives engage with myth and religion while at the same time exploring collective dimensions to social and personal life. It advances new developments in genre studies and gender as well as contributing to the growing field of implicit religion using in depth analyses of communicative dreaming, the shadow, and mystical lovers in film and television.

Author : Louise Child
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350087125

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Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts by Louise Child Pdf

Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media's fascination with dreams, vampires, demons, ghosts and spirits. Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts does so in the light of contemporary animist studies of societies in which other-than-human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. Films and television programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Truly Madly Deeply and the films of Hitchcock. Louise Child draws attention to how they both depict and challenge ideas and practices rooted in psychology, while quality television has also facilitated a wave of programming that can explore the interaction of characters in complex social worlds over time. In addition to drawing on theories of film from Freudian psychology and feminist theory, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts uses approaches derived from a combination of Jungian film studies and anthropology that offer fresh insights for exploring film and television. This book draws attention to explicit and subtle ways in which cinematic narratives engage with myth and religion while at the same time exploring collective dimensions to social and personal life. It advances new developments in genre studies and gender as well as contributing to the growing field of implicit religion using in-depth analyses of communicative dreaming, the shadow, and mystical lovers in film and television.

Author : Devendra P. Varma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000015315670

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Voices from the Vaults by Devendra P. Varma Pdf

"Tales of seduction... and death. In one of the most terrifying collections every assembled., Voices From the Vaults brings together 20 irresistibly bizarre tales of vampires and vampirism from the dripping pens of such all-time masters of the macabre as F. G. Loring, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Théophile Gautier, Alexis Tolstoy, Peter Underwood, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and many others. Here are classic accounts of the undead--some fact, some fiction--from all over the world, including the histories of such legendary members of vampiredom as the Italian Count, whose castle bell-rope was made of human hair; England's Countess Sarah, who had children served up at her midnight feasts; France's lovely Clarimonde, who made a specialty of seducing young priests; Serbia's sentimental vourdalaks, who devoured only their closest relatives and dearest friends -- and many more stories. Sensuous, shocking, and unforgettable, Voices From the Vaults is not a book for the faint of heart. Within these pages are recorded some of the scariest -- and most seductive -- stories ever told anywhere on earth... or beneath it!" --Back cover.

Author : Frederick Lyle Von Thrauthemburg Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798649630115

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Dreams of an Immortal by Frederick Lyle Von Thrauthemburg Morris Pdf

Have you ever seen a Vampire, a ghost, or the undead? I've seen them, I've been touched by them and I have had a Vampire look at me in wonder as if contemplating my existence. Society may never believe in ghosts or vampires, perhaps no one will believe but I tell you, they are real. Real, like a bump in the night, a whisper only you hear, a touch but there is no one else in the room. Dreams are those things we see but are too afraid to tell, they are the pathway tour soul and sometimes they are the only things that make us human. What is an immortal? Do they love, to they feel for those they fall in love with? Journey with me, come into my world and allow your dreams to touch mine.

Author : Barbara H. Solomon,Eileen Panetta
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101544020

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Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts by Barbara H. Solomon,Eileen Panetta Pdf

They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity’s nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny beings that frighten and fascinate the imagination. Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts collects classic stories from literary masters inspired by folklore and mythology who dared to explore the darker side of human nature and crafted tales that defied convention, stirred up controversy, and gave life to a storytelling genre that has endured for generations. With stories by Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Anne Sexton, Oscar Wilde, Yvonne Navarro, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Angela Carter, and others…

Author : Steve Pile
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847871541

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Real Cities by Steve Pile Pdf

′...this is a book with an interesting thesis, and a welcome contribution to the literature. Pile has opened up a productive theoretical and empirical space for further study and exploration′ - RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and exciting case studies. In this study, four substantial phantasmagorias are identified: dreams, magic, vampires and ghosts. The investigation of each phantasmagoria is developed using a wide variety of clear examples. Thus, voodoo in New York and New Orleans shows how ideas about magic are forged within cities. Meanwhile vampires reveal how specific fears about sex and death are expressed within, and circulate between, cities such as London and Singapore. Taken together, such examples build a unique picture of the diverse roles of the imaginary, fantastic and the emotional in modern city life. What is "real" about the city has radical consequences for how we think about improving city life, for all too often these are over-looked in utopian schemes for the city. Real Cities forcefully argues that an appreciation of urban phantasmagorias must be central to what is considered real about city life.

Author : Frederick Lyle Morris
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798649580281

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Dreams of an Immortal (Finnish) by Frederick Lyle Morris Pdf

Have you ever seen a Vampire, a ghost, or the undead? I've seen them, I've been touched by them and I have had a Vampire look at me in wonder as if contemplating my existence. Society may never believe in ghosts or vampires, perhaps no one will believe but I tell you, they are real. Real, like a bump in the night, a whisper only you hear, a touch but there is no one else in the room. Dreams are those things we see but are too afraid to tell, they are the pathway tour soul and sometimes they are the only things that make us human. What is an immortal? Do they love, to they feel for those they fall in love with? Journey with me, come into my world and allow your dreams to touch mine.

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030890544

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Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories by Gina Wisker Pdf

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women’s ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women’s ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker’s book demonstrates that in terms of women’s ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.

Author : Martin Dines,Timotheus Vermeulen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472510327

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New Suburban Stories by Martin Dines,Timotheus Vermeulen Pdf

Exploringfiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leadinginternational scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, hometo a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing inparticular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the bookconsiders how suburban communities have taken control of their ownrepresentationto tell their own storiesin contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and publicart tell the story of how suburban.

Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0201001578

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Vampires and Other Ghosts by Thomas G. Aylesworth Pdf

Presents lore and myths from various parts of the world about vampires, zombies, and other supernatural creatures and examines their basis in actual events.

Author : Jayne Gackenbach,Anees A Sheikh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351844680

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Dream Images by Jayne Gackenbach,Anees A Sheikh Pdf

This new text is a state-of-the-art collection of essays representing varying points of view about dreams and the major research conducted in dream therapy today. Renewed interest into serious dream investigation in recent years has supplied a variety of conceptual and research applications into dream study. At long last, "Dream Images: A Call to Mental Arms", brings these current works together, in one complete, comprehensive volume.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Dreams
ISBN : OCLC:10573752

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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang Pdf

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Dreams
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004932344

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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang Pdf

Author : Asli Niyazioglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148111

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Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul by Asli Niyazioglu Pdf

Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book demonstrates that dreams provided biographers not only with a means to form learned communities in a politically fragile landscape but also with a medium to debate the correct career paths and social networks in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Istanbul. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices of remembrance in Habsburg Spain, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ming China. Recent studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there is now a strong interest in comparative approaches to examining cultural life. This first English-language monograph on Ottoman dreamscapes addresses this interest and introduces a world where dreams changed lives, the dead appeared in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.

Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1567180906

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Gypsy Dream Dictionary by Raymond Buckland Pdf

Buckland shows how to accurately interpret personal dreams and dreams of family and friends and learn how to interpret major symbols and main characters in order to decipher what the subconscious is trying to reveal.