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Monstrous Forms
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Author : Adam Charles Hart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Monstrous Forms written by Adam Charles Hart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Performing Arts categories.
It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, video games, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, video games including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address, and dissects the forms that make that address so effective.
Grotesque
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Author : Justin Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-29
Grotesque written by Justin Edwards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.
Encyclopaedia Of Religion And Ethics
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Author : James Hastings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Encyclopaedia Of Religion And Ethics written by James Hastings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Ethics categories.
The Things Of Greater Importance
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Author : Conrad Rudolph
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
The Things Of Greater Importance written by Conrad Rudolph and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Art categories.
The "Things of Greater Importance" provides a close look into the social and cultural context of medieval art, primarily as expressed in Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia, the central document in the greatest artistic controversy to occur in the West prior to the Reformation and the most important source we have for understanding medieval attitudes toward art. Bernard wrote the Apologia during the medieval efflorescence of monumental sculpture and stained glass, of advanced architecture, of pilgrimage art, of high Romanesque, and of the origins of Gothic art. Rudolph places the Apologia, traditionally seen as a condemnation either of all religious art or of all monastic art, in a broader context, using it to explore the role of art in medieval society. He shows that Bernard was interested in the impact of art on contemporary monasticism in a more complex way than previously believed. The book offers the most thorough study available of the theoretical basis of medieval art as it functioned in society; and its implications for the art of both the Romanesque and Gothic periods, which were spanned by Bernard's life, are significant.
Monster Culture In The 21st Century
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Author : Marina Levina
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-05-23
Monster Culture In The 21st Century written by Marina Levina and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with Social Science categories.
In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and disease have produced great social, political, and economical uncertainty. The essays in this collection examine how monstrosity has been used to manage these rising fears and tensions. Analyzing popular films and televisions shows, such as True Blood, Twilight, Paranormal Activity, District 9, Battlestar Galactica, and Avatar, it argues that monstrous narratives of the past decade have become omnipresent specifically because they represent collective social anxieties over resisting and embracing change in the 21st century. The first comprehensive text that uses monstrosity not just as a metaphor for change, but rather a necessary condition through which change is lived and experienced in the 21st century, this approach introduces a different perspective toward the study of monstrosity in culture.
Heaven And Hell
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Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-01-18
Heaven And Hell written by Emanuel Swedenborg and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-18 with Religion categories.
In Heaven and Hell, Swedenborg gives the reader a detailed description of the afterlife. He deals with God, heaven, hell, angels, spirits, and devils; and he addresses the issues of who is in heaven and hell. Are there any Jews, Muslims, and people of pre-Christian times such as pagan Romans and Greeks in heaven? He posits that the love of self or of the world drives one towards hell, and love of God and fellow men towards heaven. Here is the most influential and important book ever written on the subject!
Blake S Human Form Divine
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Author : Ann K. Mellor
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Blake S Human Form Divine written by Ann K. Mellor and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Blake’s Human Form Divine, the profound interplay between philosophy and stylistic principles in William Blake’s work comes to life. This study delves into Blake’s evolving perception of "form," focusing on its dual role as a philosophical concept and a defining feature of his visual-verbal art. Through detailed analysis, the book explores a central paradox in Blake’s creative journey: his simultaneous rejection of form as a constraining "Urizenic tyranny" and his reliance on bounded, outlined forms in his artwork. By 1795, Blake grappled with the dilemma of expressing divinity and imaginative freedom within the constraints of mortal, finite forms, a conflict central to both his artistic and philosophical pursuits. The study illuminates Blake’s struggle to reconcile these opposing forces, charting his journey through the interplay of visual style and poetic vision. Blake’s stylistic roots in the late eighteenth-century neoclassical idiom of romantic classicism provide the backdrop for this exploration. Characterized by clear outlines, linear rhythms, and idealized human forms, this style shaped Blake’s early illuminated works, such as Songs of Innocence, which reflect a harmonious, self-contained vision of human divinity. However, as his philosophical outlook shifted toward a critique of reason’s dominance in society, Blake began to question the aesthetic and philosophical implications of bounded form. This internal conflict between his artistic reliance on romantic classicism and his philosophical denunciation of reason’s constraints culminated in iconic works like The Ancient of Days. Through a nuanced analysis of Blake’s poetry and visual art, this book examines how he sought to transcend these tensions, offering fresh insights into the evolution of his radical imagination. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
A Concordance To The Poems Of John Keats
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Author : Michael G. Becker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-05
A Concordance To The Poems Of John Keats written by Michael G. Becker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and authoritative headings, and virtually all of the variant readings considered substantive in the riches of the Keats manuscript materials. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Pasts Beyond Memory
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Author : Tony Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-07-31
Pasts Beyond Memory written by Tony Bennett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-31 with Social Science categories.
Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.
The Natural Philosophy Of Plant Form
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Author : Agnes Arber
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1970
The Natural Philosophy Of Plant Form written by Agnes Arber and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Science categories.
First published in 1950, this monograph on the morphology of flowering plants explores the relationship between philosophy and botany.