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Author: Outi Hakola
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783203802
Size: 21.56 MB
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Release Date: 2015
Category: Death in motion pictures
Language: en
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Download PDF Rhetoric Of Modern Death In American Living Dead Films eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence, and audiences' hunger for such films, tell us about American views of death? In this book, Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. She focuses on films from the 1930s, including Dracula, The Mummy and White Zombie, films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Night of the Living Dead and The Return of Dracula, as well as more recent fare like Bram Stoke.

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Book Detail:
Author: Outi Hakola
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783203811
Size: 53.74 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2015-01-01
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Rhetoric Of Modern Death In American Living Dead Films eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences’ hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here, Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. She focuses on films from the 1930s, including Dracula, The Mummy and White Zombie, films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Night of the Living Dead and The Return of Dracula, as well as more recent fare like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Mummy and Resident Evil.

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Author: Robert Yeates
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800080980
Size: 12.76 MB
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Release Date: 2021-11-15
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF American Cities In Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in literary magazines, before taking in radio dramas, film, video games and expansive transmedia franchises, Robert Yeates argues that post-apocalyptic representations of the American city are uniquely suited for explorations of contemporary urban issues. Examining how the post-apocalyptic American city has been repeatedly adapted and repurposed to new and developing media over the last century, this book reveals that the content and form of such texts work together to create vivid and immersive fictional spaces in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Chapters present media-specific analyses of these texts, situating them within their historical contexts and the broader history of representations of urban ruins in American fiction. Original in its scope and cross-media approach, American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction both illuminates little-studied texts and provides provocative new readings of familiar works such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, placing them within the larger historical context of imaginings of the American city in ruins.

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Book Detail:
Author: Outi Hakola
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 178320379X
Size: 67.27 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2015-06-01
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rhetoric Of Modern Death In American Living Dead Films eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence, and audiences’ hunger for such films, tell us about American views of death? In this book, Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. She focuses on films from the 1930s, including Dracula, The Mummy and White Zombie, films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Night of the Living Dead and The Return of Dracula, as well as more recent fare like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Mummy (1999) and Resident Evil. In doing so, the book frames the tradition of living dead films, discusses the cinematic processes of addressing the films’ viewers, and analyzes the films’ sociocultural negotiation with death in this specific genre.

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Author: Gary Laderman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199881243
Size: 40.53 MB
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Release Date: 2003-03-06
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rest In Peace eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it? In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the century, to the increasing subordination of priests, ministers, and other religious figures to the funeral director throughout the twentieth century. In doing so he shows that far from manipulating vulnerable mourners, as Jessica Mitford claimed in her best-selling The American Way of Death (1963), funeral directors are highly respected figures whose services reflect the community's deepest needs and wishes. Indeed, Laderman shows that funeral directors generally give the people what they want when it is time to bury our dead. He reveals, for example, that the open casket, often criticized as barbaric, provides a deeply meaningful moment for friends and family who must say goodbye to their loved one. But he also shows how the dead often come back to life in the popular imagination to disturb the peace of the living. Drawing upon interviews with funeral directors, major historical events like the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Rudolf Valentino, films, television, newspaper reports, proposals for funeral reform, and other primary sources, Rest in Peace cuts through the rhetoric to show us the reality--and the real cultural value--of the American funeral.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kyle William Bishop
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455543
Size: 59.71 MB
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Release Date: 2010-03-08
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF American Zombie Gothic eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even greater singularity. This book provides a cultural and critical analysis of the cinematic zombie tradition, starting with its origins in Haitian folklore and tracking the development of the subgenre into the twenty-first century. Closely examining such influential works as Victor Halperin's White Zombie, Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie, Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2, Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, and, of course, Romero's entire "Dead" series, it establishes the place of zombies in the Gothic tradition. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephanie Boluk
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486732
Size: 51.25 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011-07-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Generation Zombie eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity today, zombies are epidemic. Their presence is pervasive, whether they are found in video games, street signs, hard drives, or even international politics. These eighteen original essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars examine how the zombie has evolved over time, its continually evolving manifestations in popular culture, and the unpredictable effects the zombie has had on late modernity. Topics covered include representations of zombies in films, the zombie as environmental critique, its role in mass psychology and how issues of race, class and gender are expressed through zombie narratives. Collectively, the work enhances our understanding of the popularity and purposes of horror in the modern era. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Book Detail:
Author: Elaine Jeffreys
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783204842
Size: 10.80 MB
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Release Date: 2015-12-01
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Celebrity Philanthropy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. There is no question that celebrities these days are some of the most prominent faces of philanthropic activity – yet their participation raises questions about efficacy, motivations and activism overall. This book presents case studies of celebrity philanthropy from around the globe – including such figures as Shakira, Arundhati Roy, Zhang Ziyi, Bono and Madonna – looking at the tensions between celebrity activism and ground-level work and the relationship between celebrity philanthropy and cultural citizenship.

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Book Detail:
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375703837
Size: 71.75 MB
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Release Date: 2009-01-06
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF This Republic Of Suffering eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daniel LaChance
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022606672X
Size: 67.20 MB
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Release Date: 2016-11-18
Category: Law
Language: en
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Download PDF Executing Freedom eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “Breaks new ground . . . shows compellingly and convincingly that punishment provides a major gateway to exploring a society and culture.”—Journal of American History In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn’t trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States. “Fiercely provocative . . . A must-read for socio-legal studies and punishment scholars who want to know more about how the phenomenon of capital punishment took on a life of its own in the modern US cultural imagination.”—Theoretical Criminology

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Book Detail:
Author: Gregory Albert Waller
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Size: 21.30 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1987
Category: Horror films
Language: en
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Download PDF American Horrors eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Helen Prejean
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307787699
Size: 34.28 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2011-02-02
Category: Law
Language: en
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Download PDF Dead Man Walking eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.

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Book Detail:
Author: Scott L. Newstok
Publisher: Early Modern Literature in His
ISBN:
Size: 31.96 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2009-01-15
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Quoting Death In Early Modern England eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "An innovative study of the emergent Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. This book argues that the post-Reformation preoccupation with textual remembrance led to a remarkable proliferation of epitaphs beyond the putative tomb. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers have recited these texts within new contexts. This book modifies conventional genre studies by detailing the situatedness of quoted text - a compositional habit that became markedly prevalent with the continued expansion of printing and literacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

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Book Detail:
Author: Francesco Pascuzzi
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622738632
Size: 19.65 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2020-01-16
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF The Spaces And Places Of Horror eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This volume explores the complex horizon of landscapes in horror film culture to better understand the use that the genre makes of settings, locations, spaces, and places, be they physical, imagined, or altogether imaginary. In The Philosophy of Horror, Noël Carroll discusses the “geography” of horror as often situating the filmic genre in liminal spaces as a means to displace the narrative away from commonly accepted social structures: this use of space is meant to trigger the audience’s innate fear of the unknown. This notion recalls Freud’s theorization of the uncanny, as it is centered on recognizable locations outside of the Lacanian symbolic order. In some instances, a location may act as one of the describing characteristics of evil itself: In A Nightmare on Elm Street teenagers fall asleep only to be dragged from their bedrooms into Freddy Krueger’s labyrinthine lair, an inescapable boiler room that enhances Freddie’s powers and makes him invincible. In other scenarios, the action may take place in a distant, little-known country to isolate characters (Roth’s Hostel films), or as a way to mythicize the very origin of evil (Bava’s Black Sunday). Finally, anxieties related to the encroaching presence of technology in our lives may give rise to postmodern narratives of loneliness and disconnect at the crossing between virtual and real places: in Kurosawa’s Pulse, the internet acts as a gateway between the living and spirit worlds, creating an oneiric realm where the living vanish and ghosts move to replace them. This suggestive topic begs to be further investigated; this volume represents a crucial addition to the scholarship on horror film culture by adopting a transnational, comparative approach to the analysis of formal and narrative concerns specific to the genre by considering some of the most popular titles in horror film culture alongside lesser-known works for which this anthology represents the first piece of relevant scholarship.

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Book Detail:
Author: Cleanth Brooks
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN:
Size: 51.86 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1979
Category: English language
Language: en
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Download PDF Modern Rhetoric eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kari Kallioniemi
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783206012
Size: 44.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2016-09-01
Category: Music
Language: en
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Download PDF Englishness Pop And Post War Britain eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. English pop music was a dominant force on the global cultural scene in the decades after World War II – and it served a key role in defining, constructing and challenging various ideas about Englishness in the period. Kari Kallioniemi covers a stunning range of styles of pop – from punk, reggae and psychedelia to jazz, rock, Brit Pop and beyond – as he explores the question of how various artists (including such major figures as David Bowie and Morrissey), genres and pieces of music contributed to the developing understanding of who and what was English in the transformative post-war years. Publication Forum (Finland) lists this book as a Level 2 publication, where ‘the highest-level publications are directed as a result of extensive competition and demanding peer-review’.For Intellect’s full listings in this catalogue, please click here.

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Book Detail:
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143036531
Size: 39.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2005-12-27
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Amusing Ourselves To Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

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Book Detail:
Author: Johannes Brusila
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
ISBN: 9781783206025
Size: 33.35 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016
Category: Music
Language: en
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Download PDF Memory Space Sound eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Memory, Space and Sound presents a collection of essays from scholars in a range of disciplines that together explore the social, spatial, and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice. The contributors deploy different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches from musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, cultural history, media studies, and cultural studies as they analyze an array of examples, including live performances, music festivals, audiovisual material, and much more.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sam B. Girgus
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030760316
Size: 20.25 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2021-08-11
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Generations Of Jewish Directors And The Struggle For America S Soul eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From generation to generation, three outstanding American Jewish directors—William Wyler, Sidney Lumet, and Steven Spielberg--advance a tradition of Jewish writers, artists, and leaders who propagate the ethical basis of the American Idea and Creed. They strive to renew the American spirit by insisting that America must live up to its values and ideals. These directors accentuate the ethical responsibility for the other as a basis of the American soul and a source for strengthening American liberal democracy. In the manner of the jeremiad, their films challenge America to achieve a liberal democratic culture for all people by becoming more inclusive and by modernizing the American Idea. Following an introduction that relates aspects of modern ethical thought to the search for America’s soul, the book divides into three sections. The Wyler section focuses on the director’s social vision of a changing America. The Lumet section views his films as dramatizing Lumet’s dynamic and aggressive social and ethical conscience. The Spielberg section tracks his films as a movement toward American redemption and renewal that aspires to realize Lincoln’s vision of America as the hope of the world. The directors, among many others, perpetuate a “New Covenant” that advocates change and renewal in the American experience.

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ISBN:
Size: 80.33 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1973
Category: Motion pictures
Language: en
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Download PDF The Film Journal eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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