Author: Luke Howie
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0982806132
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"Through dazzling close readings of a wide variety of cultural texts, from the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot to post-9/11 pornography, Howie is able to demonstrate how the politics and poetics of witnessing' have come to structure the experience of American popular culture in the past decade."--Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusett, Boston.
Terror on the Screen
Author: Luke Howie
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0982806132
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"Through dazzling close readings of a wide variety of cultural texts, from the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot to post-9/11 pornography, Howie is able to demonstrate how the politics and poetics of witnessing' have come to structure the experience of American popular culture in the past decade."--Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusett, Boston.
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0982806132
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"Through dazzling close readings of a wide variety of cultural texts, from the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot to post-9/11 pornography, Howie is able to demonstrate how the politics and poetics of witnessing' have come to structure the experience of American popular culture in the past decade."--Jeff Melnick, University of Massachusett, Boston.
Screens of Terror
Author: Phil Hammond
Publisher: Abramis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The essays in this collection first came together at a conference, held at London South Bank University's Centre for Media and Culture Research in September 2010, on representations of the 'war on terror' in film and television.
Publisher: Abramis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The essays in this collection first came together at a conference, held at London South Bank University's Centre for Media and Culture Research in September 2010, on representations of the 'war on terror' in film and television.
Sacred Terror
Author: Douglas E. Cowan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781481304900
Category : Horror films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781481304900
Category : Horror films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
Screens of Terror
Author: Phil Hammond
Publisher: Abramis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The essays in this collection first came together at a conference, held at London South Bank University's Centre for Media and Culture Research in September 2010, on representations of the 'war on terror' in film and television.
Publisher: Abramis
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The essays in this collection first came together at a conference, held at London South Bank University's Centre for Media and Culture Research in September 2010, on representations of the 'war on terror' in film and television.
Terrors of the Screen
Author: Frank Manchel
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780139067921
Category : Horror films
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Discusses the history, techniques, characters, and plots of horror films from around the world.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780139067921
Category : Horror films
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Discusses the history, techniques, characters, and plots of horror films from around the world.
Screening Torture
Author: Michael Flynn
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526970
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films appear for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities, represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions. This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Featuring essays by sociologists, psychologists, historians, journalists, and specialists in film and cultural studies, the collection approaches the representation of torture in film and television from multiple angles and disciplines, connecting its aesthetics and practices to the dynamic of state terror and political domination.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526970
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, scenes of brutality and torture in mainstream comedies, dramatic narratives, and action films appear for little other reason than to titillate and delight. In these films, torture is devoid of any redeeming qualities, represented as an exercise in brutal senselessness carried out by authoritarian regimes and institutions. This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Featuring essays by sociologists, psychologists, historians, journalists, and specialists in film and cultural studies, the collection approaches the representation of torture in film and television from multiple angles and disciplines, connecting its aesthetics and practices to the dynamic of state terror and political domination.
The War on Terror
Author: Derek Paget
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783162465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book explores the ways in which television has engaged directly and indirectly with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. It offers detailed analysis of a number of key programmes and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of the events of September 11 in the USA and what is unavoidably through problematically and contentiously referred to as the resulting ‘war on terror’. The substantive part of the book is a series of independent chapters, each written on a different topic and considering different programmes. It includes series and single dramas representing the invasion of Iraq (The Mark of Cain, Occupation and Generation Kill), comedic representations (Gary, Tank Commander), documentary (the BBC Panorama’s coverage of 9/11), ‘what if’ docudramas (Dirty War), 9/11 in popular series (CSI:NY) and representations of Tony Blair in drama and docudrama. The book concludes with an extended reflection on contemporary docudrama and an interview with filmmaker and docudramatist Peter Kosminsky.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783162465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book explores the ways in which television has engaged directly and indirectly with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. It offers detailed analysis of a number of key programmes and series that engage with, or are haunted by, the aftermath of the events of September 11 in the USA and what is unavoidably through problematically and contentiously referred to as the resulting ‘war on terror’. The substantive part of the book is a series of independent chapters, each written on a different topic and considering different programmes. It includes series and single dramas representing the invasion of Iraq (The Mark of Cain, Occupation and Generation Kill), comedic representations (Gary, Tank Commander), documentary (the BBC Panorama’s coverage of 9/11), ‘what if’ docudramas (Dirty War), 9/11 in popular series (CSI:NY) and representations of Tony Blair in drama and docudrama. The book concludes with an extended reflection on contemporary docudrama and an interview with filmmaker and docudramatist Peter Kosminsky.
Reframing 9/11
Author: Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441119051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441119051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.
Screens
Author: Christopher Laine
Publisher: Garden Path
ISBN: 9781735699202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Sometime in 2016, dark web posts began appearing about a document known only as "The Manuscript." Originally written with a manual typewriter and impossible to digitise, the Manuscript can only be read by those who can procure one of its precious few handwritten copies. It is said that The Manuscript contains horrific knowledge and those who have read it have immediately disconnected from the internet, vanished off the digital grid, never to return. In short order, all online posts regarding the Manuscript were gone without a trace. Everyone with any knowledge or connection to them has disappeared or been gruesomely murdered. "You've found this, Chumley. Good for you. Now take my advice and put it back down. This isn't meant for you. You don't have the stomach."
Publisher: Garden Path
ISBN: 9781735699202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Sometime in 2016, dark web posts began appearing about a document known only as "The Manuscript." Originally written with a manual typewriter and impossible to digitise, the Manuscript can only be read by those who can procure one of its precious few handwritten copies. It is said that The Manuscript contains horrific knowledge and those who have read it have immediately disconnected from the internet, vanished off the digital grid, never to return. In short order, all online posts regarding the Manuscript were gone without a trace. Everyone with any knowledge or connection to them has disappeared or been gruesomely murdered. "You've found this, Chumley. Good for you. Now take my advice and put it back down. This isn't meant for you. You don't have the stomach."
Valley of Terror
Author: Haohui Zhou
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
ISBN: 9781542046558
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mysterious "fear disease" is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what's really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis. As the trio ventures to the primitive jungles and mountains of Yunnan, they're haunted by tales of a seventeenth-century general whose demonic soul, said to have been sealed away in a vial of his blood, has been unleashed on the modern world. Now, trekking deep into the legendary Valley of Terror, they find themselves being stalked by someone--or something--daring them to uncover the truth. And as superstition, science, and history collide, their discovery could be as heart-stopping as fear itself.
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
ISBN: 9781542046558
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A mysterious "fear disease" is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what's really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis. As the trio ventures to the primitive jungles and mountains of Yunnan, they're haunted by tales of a seventeenth-century general whose demonic soul, said to have been sealed away in a vial of his blood, has been unleashed on the modern world. Now, trekking deep into the legendary Valley of Terror, they find themselves being stalked by someone--or something--daring them to uncover the truth. And as superstition, science, and history collide, their discovery could be as heart-stopping as fear itself.