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Author : Michael Barkun
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807877692

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Chasing Phantoms by Michael Barkun Pdf

Although a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism concluded that biological or nuclear weapons were very likely to be unleashed in the years soon after 2001, what Americans actually have experienced are relatively low-tech threats. Yet even under a new administration, extraordinary domestic and international policies enacted by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11 remain unchanged. Political scientist and former FBI consultant Michael Barkun argues that a nonrational, emotion-driven obsession with dangers that cannot be seen has played and continues to play an underrecognized role in sustaining the climate of fear that drives the U.S. "war on terror." Barkun identifies a gap between the realities of terrorism--"violence without a return address--and the everyday discourse about it among government officials and the general public. Demonstrating that U.S. homeland security policy reflects significant nonrational thinking, Barkun offers new recommendations for effective--and rational--policymaking.

Author : Alexandre Korganoff
Publisher : Crecy
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800350083

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The Phantom of Scapa Flow by Alexandre Korganoff Pdf

On the night of 13/14 October 1939, the German commander of U-boat U-47, Günther Prien, steered past the sunken block ships and chains which inadequately protected the British naval base at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. The U-Boat sank the old British World War I battleship HMS Royal Oak and then escaped into the North Sea. The loss of the Royal Oak was insignificant in naval terms though over 800 men perished with her, however this was a bitter blow to British moral.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1846 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32436010790556

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Cumulated Index Medicus by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Hogle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137112880

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The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera by J. Hogle Pdf

This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day. It proposes answers to the question, 'why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?' by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several theories of cultural study, this book argues that we need this tale told and reconfigured because it provides us ways to both confront and disguise how we have fashioned our senses of identity in the Western middle class. The Phantom of the Opera - in varying ways over time - turns out like the 'Gothic' tradition it extends, to be deeply connected to Western self-fashioning in the face of conflicted attitudes about class, gender, race, religious beliefs, Freudian psychology, economic and international tensions, and especially the shifting and permeable boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture. This book should interest all students of the history of Western culture, as well as those especially fascinated by Gothic fiction, opera, musical theatre, and film.

Author : Dixa Ramírez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479867561

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Colonial Phantoms by Dixa Ramírez Pdf

Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted—miscategorized or erased—the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance.

Author : A. Fuchs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230589728

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Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse by A. Fuchs Pdf

Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays on contemporary German literature are complemented by explorations of heritage films and museum discourse. Together these essays put forward a compelling theory of family narratives and a critical evaluation of generational discourse.

Author : Gerry Boudreau
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781595827753

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Eerie Archives by Gerry Boudreau Pdf

Slithering upon the heels of Dark Horse's archive collections of the seminal horror comics magazine Creepy comes its terror-filled cousin publication Eerie! Collected for fans for the first time ever, and packaged in the same amazing oversized format as the Creepy Archives, Dark Horse Comics has taken great, gruesome care in presenting this groundbreaking material to readers who have been waiting decades to get their claws on it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Club Lighthouse Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781927337493

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Bring on The Phantoms by Anonim Pdf

Author : Seloua Luste Boulbina
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253041937

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Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa by Seloua Luste Boulbina Pdf

Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and political theorist, shows how the colony's structures persist in the subjectivity, sexuality, and bodily experience of human beings who were once brought together through force. This text, which combines two works by Luste Boulbina, shows how France and its former colonies are haunted by power relations that are supposedly old history, but whose effects on knowledge, imagination, emotional habits, and public controversies have persisted vividly into the present. Luste Boulbina draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant to build a challenging, original, and intercultural philosophy that responds to blind spots of inherited political and social culture. Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.

Author : Kehinde Adeola Ayeni
Publisher : Fisher King Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981393926

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Feasts of Phantoms by Kehinde Adeola Ayeni Pdf

How is a well meaning mother to protect her daughter from a culture where the birth of a baby girl is met with despair because the only future open to her is that of sexual assault and teenage pregnancy, which would doom her to a life of illiteracy and poverty as it has doomed her lineage before her? Genital mutilation has many causes but at the root of all of them is fear. A fear that pushes a mother to do the unthinkable to a daughter that she loves? What does a scapegoat do with the fate she has been handed? Accept it and roll with it, or reject it? How is she to reject it when the acceptance of her role is needed for her culture's psychic equilibrium? In the theater of the mind where all springs forth, is there such a thing as an innocent victim, and a victimizer? Feasts of Phantoms is a novel that explores of all of these questions.

Author : Barbara Ellison,Thomas Bey William Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501347030

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Sonic Phantoms by Barbara Ellison,Thomas Bey William Bailey Pdf

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.

Author : J. Hoberman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781595587275

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An Army of Phantoms by J. Hoberman Pdf

The film critic’s sweeping analysis of American cinema in the Cold War era is both “utterly compulsive reading [and] majestic” in its “breadth and rigor” (Film Comment). An Army of Phantoms is a major work of film history and cultural criticism by leading film critic J. Hoberman. Tracing the dynamic interplay between politics and popular culture, Hoberman offers “the most detailed year-by-year look at Hollywood during the first decade of the Cold War ever published, one that takes film analysis beyond the screen and sets it in its larger political context” (Los Angeles Review of Books). By “tell[ing] the story not just of what’s on the screen but of what played out behind it,” Hoberman demonstrates how the nation’s deep-seated fears and wishes were projected onto the big screen. In this far-reaching work of historical synthesis, Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe (The American Scholar). From cavalry Westerns to apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars; from movies to media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, An Army of Phantoms “remind[s] you what criticism is supposed to be: revelatory, reflective and as rapturous as the artwork itself” (Time Out New York). “An epic . . . alternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema.” —Cineaste “There’s something majestic about the reach of Hoberman’s ambitions, the breadth and rigor of his research, and especially the curatorial vision brought to historical data.” —Film Comment

Author : Frew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Phantom's World by Frew Pdf

Author : John D Lyons
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748653799

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Phantom of Chance by John D Lyons Pdf

Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489202

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Borderlands by Anonim Pdf

Boundaries, borderlines, limits on the one hand and rites of passage, contact zones, in-between spaces on the other have attracted renewed interest in a broad variety of cultural discourses after a long period of decenterings and delimitations in numerous fields of social, psychological, and intellectual life. Anthropological dimensions of the subject and its multifarious ways of world-making represent the central challenge among the concerns of the humanities. The role of literature and the arts in the formation of cultural and personal identities, theoretical and political approaches to the relation between self and other, the familiar and the foreign, have become key issues in literary and cultural studies; forms of expressivity and expression and question of mediation as well as new enquiries into ethics have characterized the intellectual energies of the past decade. The aim of Borderlands is to represent a variety of approaches to questions of border crossing and boundary transgression; approaches from different angles and different disciplines, but all converging in their own way on the post-colonial paradigm. Topics discussed include globalization, cartography and ontology, transitional identity, ecocritical sensibility, questions of the application of post-coloniality, gender and sexuality, and attitudes towards space and place. As well as studies of the cinema of the settler colonies, the films of Neil Jordan, and 'Othering' in Canadian sports journalism, there are treatments of the Nigerian novel, South African prison memoirs, and African women's writing. Authors examined include Elizabeth Bowen, Bruce Chatwin, Mohamed Choukri, Nuruddin Farah, Jamaica Kincaid, Pauline Melville, Bharati Mukherjee, Michael Ondaatje, and Leslie Marmon Silko.