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Author: Kristen Wright Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004360158 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 283
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Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity’s desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture.
Author: Magick Pen Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781519355164 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
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Meet the Carters (Alonzo and Aliyana, Tyrone and Toya, Uncle Joe and Delisa). They desperately want to launch the family business--a soul food restaurant--but the banks in Myrtle Beach denied the loan. Then Alonzo runs into his ex-girlfriend, Hazel Lynx. She's rich now, is being stalked and needs a bodyguard. Still hooked on Alonzo, she offers to bankroll the restaurant in exchange for his protection. But this is no ordinary seduction, and Aliyana wasn't born yesterday. She stole Alonzo back in college and feels Hazel is out for revenge. Then exposed secrets unleash a cyclone of drama on all the Carters. They had a triple wedding 3 years ago, now everyone's blaming Alonzo for the bad luck in their marriages. Hazel knows she's a black man's kryptonite. Can Alonzo resist his only weakness?
Author: Xavier Mendik Publisher: Noir Publishing ISBN: 9780953656448 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 236
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The Necronomicon Shocking Cinema of the Seventies continues the acclaimed journal's exploration of film culture with a special edition devoted to film from this special era. In a series of innovative articles, leading critics and scholars consider the social and cinematic issues which shaped the films of the decade. Covering genres such as horror, the disaster movie, blaxploitation, and kung fu, the authors discover the truth behind one of the most prolific, turbulent, and challenging periods of cinema history.
Author: Ruth Hsu Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 9780824823641 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 316
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This collection of essays and poems examines various recent literary texts and cultural arenas in North America and the Asia and Pacific regions for what they reveal of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people and people of colour for justice and autonomy.
Author: Ruth Bienstock Anolik Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786427108 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
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Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors. The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated onto the figure of the racial and social Other, the Other who replaces the supernatural ghost or grotesque monster as the code for mystery and danger, ultimately becoming as horrifying, threatening and unknowable as the typical Gothic manifestation. The range of essays reveals that writers from many canons and cultures are attracted to the Gothic as a ready medium for expression of racial and social anxieties. The essays are grouped into sections that focus on such topics as race, religion, class, and centers of power.
Author: Josiah Howard Publisher: ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 244
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Dazzling, highly stylised, excessively violent and brimming with sex, blaxploitation films enjoyed a brief but memorable moment in motion picture history. Never before, and never since, have so many African-American performers been featured in films, not in bit parts, but in name-above-the title starring roles. Here's a new and appreciative look back at a distinctly American motion picture phenomenon, the first truly comprehensive examination of the genre, its films, its trends and its far-reaching impact, covering more than 240 Blaxploitation films in detail. This is the primary reference book on the genre, covering not just the films' heyday (1971-1976) but the entire decade (1970-1980). Includes: film posters and ads
Author: Valerie Babb Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108210279 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 499
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A History of the African American Novel offers an in-depth overview of the development of the novel and its major genres. In the first part of this book, Valerie Babb examines the evolution of the novel from the 1850s to the present, showing how the concept of black identity has transformed along with the art form. The second part of this History explores the prominent genres of African American novels, such as neoslave narratives, detective fiction, and speculative fiction, and considers how each one reflects changing understandings of blackness. This book builds on other literary histories by including early black print culture, African American graphic novels, pulp fiction, and the history of adaptation of black novels to film. By placing novels in conversation with other documents - early black newspapers and magazines, film, and authorial correspondence - A History of the African American Novel brings many voices to the table to broaden interpretations of the novel's development.