Reel Terror

Author : David Konow
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250013590

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Reel Terror by David Konow Pdf

From the author of the definitive heavy metal history, Bang Your Head, a behind-the-scenes look a century of horror films Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome fear. His on-set stories and insights delve into each movie and its effect on American culture. For novices to all out film buffs, this is the perfection companion to this Halloween's movie marathons.

Author : Sebastian Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000311337

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Reel Terror by Sebastian Wolfe Pdf

Author : Kevin T Hall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253052629

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Terror Flyers by Kevin T Hall Pdf

Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed Lynchjustiz as well. Initially occurring as a spontaneous reaction to the devastation of the Allied air campaign against the cities of the Third Reich, Lynchjustiz offered the Nazi regime a unique propaganda opportunity to harness the outrage of the German population. Fueled by inspiration from America's own history of the lynching of African Americans, Nazi propaganda exploited the very same imagery found in US publications to escalate the anger of the German people. Drawing heavily on the accounts of the downed airmen themselves, testimonies from the "flyer trials" held in Dachau during 1945–48, and rarely seen Nazi propaganda, Terror Flyers offers a new narrative of this previously overlooked aspect of the Allied campaign in Europe and suggests that at least 3,000 cases of lynch justice likely occurred between 1943 and 1945.

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476684352

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Journeys into Terror by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives.This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the "geographies of evil" and how our notions of "terrible places" and their inhabitants change over time. The volume's five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.

Author : Ved Nanda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004479807

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Law in the War on International Terrorism by Ved Nanda Pdf

Recent legal responses to international terrorism have been unprecedented and, in certain instances, controversial. Challenges for the legal community, especially scholars, are to explore alternatives and recommend measures within a legal framework to solve this multi-faceted problem. Contributors to this important book have accepted and risen to this challenge. They describe and provide a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the pertinent domestic, bilateral, regional and international legal developments in the war against terrorism. Subjects covered include Terrorism, International Law and International Organizations; The U.N. in the War Against International Terrorism; Lawful and Unlawful Wars Against Terrorism; The Threat of Nuclear Terrorism; Detention of Terrorists As Unlawful Combatants and Their Trial by American Military Tribunals; and much more. The authors include distinguished legal scholars and award winning jurists and practitioners, among them Peter Kovacs, Mary Ellen O'Connell, Larry D. Johnson, Robert Hardaway, Christopher Hardaway, James Siegesmund, Spencer J. Corona, Neal A. Richardson, Claude d'Estree, James A. R. Nafziger, Ronald R. Robinson, and Ved P. Nanda. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857729750

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Digital Horror by Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake Pdf

In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear 'real': comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and 'digital haunting' (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies). This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn. Digital horror, it demonstrates, is a product of the post 9/11 neo-liberal world view - characterised by security paranoia, constant surveillance and social alienation. Digital horror screens its subjects via the transnational technologies of our age, such as the camcorder and CCTV, and records them in secret footage that may, one day, be found.

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350145146

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Freak Show Legacies by Gary S. Cross Pdf

Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual 'freak' as 'the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entailed. It will use the phenomenon of 'the freak' to understand the transformation of American popular culture across the 20th century, identify elements of 'the freak' in popular culture both past and present, and ask how it has prevailed despite its apparent unpopularity.

Author : Adam Rockoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476761831

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The Horror of It All by Adam Rockoff Pdf

A horror film aficionado and screenwriter reflects on a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics and everything in between, tracing the highs and lows of the horror genre as reflected by his own fandom. By the author of Going to Pieces.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042027039

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From Solidarity to Schisms by Anonim Pdf

From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.

Author : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474413831

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American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 by Terence McSweeney Pdf

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film. Through a dynamic critical analysis of the defining films of the turbulent post-9/11 decade, the volume explores and interrogates the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema and culture. In a vibrant discussion of films like American Sniper (2014), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Spectre (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), Lincoln (2012), The Mist (2007), Children of Men (2006), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), noted authors Geoff King, Guy Westwell, John Shelton Lawrence, Ian Scott, Andrew Schopp, James Kendrick, Sean Redmond, Steffen Hantke and many others consider the power of popular film to function as a potent cultural artefact, able to both reflect the defining fears and anxieties of the tumultuous era, but also shape them in compelling and resonant ways.

Author : Bruce Peabody,Gloria Pastorino
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642628

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Beyond the Living Dead by Bruce Peabody,Gloria Pastorino Pdf

In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fiction, film, television, and video games. Romero's creativity and enduring influence make him a worthy object of inquiry in his own right, and his long career helps us take stock of the shifting interest in zombies since the 1960s. Examining his work promotes a better understanding of the current state of the zombie and where it is going amidst the political and social turmoil of the twenty-first century. These new essays document, interpret, and explain the meaning of the still-budding Romero legacy, drawing cross-disciplinary perspectives from such fields as literature, political science, philosophy, and comparative film studies. Essays consider some of the sources of Romero's inspiration (including comics, science fiction, and Westerns), chart his influence as a storyteller and a social critic, and consider the legacy he leaves for viewers, artists, and those studying the living dead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : American literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172119877929

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Copyright
ISBN : PSU:000059864431

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Motion Pictures, 1940-1949 by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433019412521

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Exhibitors Daily Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Amateur films
ISBN : UCSC:32106006259722

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Film Making by Anonim Pdf