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Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history Since his death in 1980 Fishers reputation has grown from relative obscurity and his influence on the development of the modern horror film has been widely recognized However Fishers importance should not be limited to the context of the fantasy and horror film genres His films should also be recognized as expressions of his generalizations about human spirituality This critical study of Fishers films begins with an introduction that provides biographical information on his film career summaries of all of the films he directed and examples of his impact on contemporary cinema All of Fishers films are analyzed in terms of their Christian and religious themes as well as their mythical sources Chapters are devoted to Fishers work on the subjects of Frankenstein Dracula curses The Devil Rides Out the ancient goddess The Gorgon the divided self The Man Who Could Cheat Death and the redeemer hero The Stranglers of Bombay The concluding chapter analyzes the role and influence of Biblical narratives in Fishers films Also included is a filmography the work is fully indexed
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Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history Since his death in 1980 Fishers reputation has grown from relative obscurity and his influence on the development of the modern horror film has been widely recognized However Fishers importance should not be limited to the context of the fantasy and horror film genres His films should also be recognized as expressions of his generalizations about human spirituality This critical study of Fishers films begins with an introduction that provides biographical information on his film career summaries of all of the films he directed and examples of his impact on contemporary cinema All of Fishers films are analyzed in terms of their Christian and religious themes as well as their mythical sources Chapters are devoted to Fishers work on the subjects of Frankenstein Dracula curses The Devil Rides Out the ancient goddess The Gorgon the divided self The Man Who Could Cheat Death and the redeemer hero The Stranglers of Bombay The concluding chapter analyzes the role and influence of Biblical narratives in Fishers films Also included is a filmography the work is fully indexed
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Films of Terence Fisher sold at 22.03 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Tracing the entire career of the British director Terence Fisher best known for his Gothic horror films for Hammersuch as The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 and Dracula 1958The Films of Terence Fisher covers not only his horror films but also his film noirs comedies and early apprenticeship work to create a full picture of Fishers life and work Based on the work Dixon did in his groundbreaking study The Charm of Evil this is an entirely revised and rewritten work with new research new details and fresh critical insightsBrimming with rare stills interviews and detailed analysis of Fishers filmsboth for Hammer as well as his earlier workthis is the ultimate onestop book on Terence Fisher both in his horror films and his entire body of work as well as his legacy to the British cinema
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Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors including The Curse of Frankenstein Dracula and The Devil Rides Out But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror In a busy twentyfiveyear career he directed fifty films not just horrors but also thrillers comedies melodramas and sciencefiction This book offers an appreciation of all of Fishers films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history Looking at Fishers career as a whole not only underlines his importance as a filmmaker but also casts a new interesting light on the areas in which he worked Gainsborough melodrama the 1950s B film 1960s sciencefiction and of course Hammer one of the most successful independent film companies in the history of British cinema
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Victor Pelevin the wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist who The New Yorker named one of the Best European Writers Under 35 upends any conventional notions of what mythology must be with his unique take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur By creating a mesmerizing world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide The Helmet of Horror is a radical retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur set in an Internet chat room They have never met they have been assigned strange pseudonyms they inhabit identical rooms that open out onto very different landscapes and they have entered a dialogue they cannot escape a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown The Helmet of Horror is structured according to the way we communicate in the twentyfirst century using the Internet yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology It is a labyrinthine examination of epistemological uncertainty that radically reinvents this myth for an age where information is abundant but knowledge ultimately unattainable
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Profondo Argento The Man Myths sold at 64.43 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Overview of the life and career of the master of Italian horror cinema from his first script for Leones Once Upon a Time in the West to producing Dawn of the Dead to his Terror Trilogy with his Hollywood superstar daughter Asia Argento This is the first exploration of the psyche and methodology of the man who galvanized global horror with his supershock sensation Suspiria Meticulously collated into one unique volume are every feature interview review of Argentos work new material and neverbeforepublished facts and secrets exclusive Argento interviews rare stills posters and candid behindthescenes photos from private collections fulllength interviews with 28 collaborators including George Romero Max Von Sydow and Julian Sands
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Professor Terence CopleyÆs new biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of ArnoldÆs influence as an educator a theologian and a churchman Arnold was only a Victorian for five years he died in 1842 but he has been remembered as a major figure of the age not least because Lytton Strachey chose him as one of his objects of ridicule and pillory in Eminent Victorians 1918He stands as a monument to the development of the 19thcentury public school system whose influence spread far beyond BritainÆs upperclass Arnold was the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School and HughesÆs Tom BrownÆs Schooldays 1857 fixed him in the public imaginationCopley assesses both the uncritical Victorian versions of ArnoldÆs lifeincluding Hughes and Dean StanleyÆs original Lifeand the sneering assessment of his influence perpetuated by Strachey to provide the first rounded portrait of Arnold In conclusion Copley explores the possible legacy that this great but neglected figure has left to our age
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Anselm Kiefer Paul Celan Myth, priced at 270 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Through Celans linguistic innovations and Kiefers intense exploration of past and present artistic creation becomes both an expression of horror and an act of commemorationThe art of Anselm Kiefer is rich with references to writers philosophers and poets and his relationship with Paul Celan has been the most complex and intense of these dialogues with the past Celans poetry inextricably linked with the memory of the Holocaust has haunted Kiefers work for more than twentyfive years and has influenced him on every level from the naming of works and exhibitions to the incorporation of symbolic materials from Celans imagerysand straw hair and ashesinto his paintingsLike other German artists of his generation Kiefer began by questioning his own artistic heritage focusing on the iconographic and mythological elements of German culture that had been taken over by Nazi propaganda and subsequently repressed and buried deep in the collective unconscious It was his encounter with Celans work in the early 1980s that first enabled him to escape from the vicious circle of fascination and disgust at the cultural ties that bound him to the Third Reich leading him to confront the subject of the Holocaust and Jewish memory as a whole and to embrace this body of traditions within his artMagnificently illustrated throughout with reproductions of Kiefers bestknown works this book explores the intricate web of associations between the poet and the painter a network that is extended to embrace other artistic and literary figures such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Joseph Beuys 157 illustrations 140 in color
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With a wealth of new material and interviews exclusively conducted for this exhaustive overview of Argentos extraordinary body of work Alan Jones reveals never before published facts and secrets about the man who changed the face of global horror with the supershock sensation SuspiriaIllustrated with rare stills posters and candid behindthescenes photos from the authors private collection Jones probes deep into the psyche and methodology of one of the worlds most celebrated genre directors and in doing so also uncovers the luminous chaos of the entire Italian Film Industry itself
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Poetry and Myths of the sold at 35.49 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The First World War has obsessed twentiethcentury society as the conflict which marked a watershed in European history and which brought home to that continent the full horror of modern industrialized war It is also the only war where literature played a major part in forming societys perception of it so much so that the phrase war poets is now taken to mean the poets of the First World War Poetry and Myths of the Great War examines the various myths that have grown up around the war It explores the historical and sociological myths of the Edwardian Summer the supposedly banal nature poetry of the prewar Georgian poets and the image of the British public schools as factories for unthinking cannonfodder It analyses the top command of the British Army and the idea that the British were lions led by donkeys Using contemporary material it examines the life mood and morale of junior officers and private soldiers It offers a partial revaluation of the work of the most famous trench poets and examines in detail poetry from lesserknown authors together with the work of authors not usually associated with the war In part a confirmation and in part a rebuttal of many conventional views contemporary diaries and letters as well as popular literature and verse of the day are used to challenge many of our preconceptions A recent critic noting the conformity of opinion about writers of the First World War commented that societys vision of the war and its literature faced death by orthodoxy Poetry and Myths of the Great War is an attempt to show the announcement of that death a little premature a task for which Martin Stephen is well qualified
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At the dawn of civilization An exotic stranger appears in a Mesopotamian village and is venerated as a goddess until she unleashes a horror beyond anything humankind has ever known At the sunset of civilization A mercenary unit in northern Iraq led by Sergeant Jason Yaeger has trapped radical Islams most wanted target in a mysterious cave that sits at the heart of the Genesis story When a Marine platoon seeks to control the extraction mission a threat far more ominous is found lurking beneath the mountains Meanwhile in Boston Massachusetts Agent Thomas Flaherty helps archaeologist Brooke Thompson escape assassination by a Las Vegas televangelist intent on using the caves deepest secret to bring the Middle East to its knees
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Overview of the life and career of the master of Italian horror cinema from his first script for Leones Once Upon a Time in the West to producing Dawn of the Dead to his Terror Trilogy with his Hollywood superstar daughter Asia Argento This is the first exploration of the psyche and methodology of the man who galvanized global horror with his supershock sensation Suspiria Meticulously collated into one unique volume are every feature interview review of Argentos work new material and neverbeforepublished facts and secrets exclusive Argento interviews rare stills posters and candid behindthescenes photos from private collections fulllength interviews with 28 collaborators including George Romero Max Von Sydow and Julian Sands
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Myth pervades heavy metal With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema the genres themes of chaos dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the conventional In dialogue with the modern world heavy metal draws imaginatively on myth and folklore to construct an aesthetic and worldview embraced by a vast global audience The author explores the music of Black Sabbath Iron Maiden Judas Priest Metallica and many others from a mythological and literary perspective
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The US military detention center at Guantánamo Bayknown to the public as Gitmohas been called the American Gulag a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered tortured and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic medical servicesGordon Cucullu a retired army colonel was so appalled by these reports that he decided to see for himself In a series of visits he inspected every corner of the camp and interviewed dozens of personnel from guards and interrogators to cooks and nurses The resultcoming just as the Obama administration wants to close the facilityis a riveting description of daily life for both prisoners and guards Cucullu describes the six camps reserved for different levels of compliance details the treatment of prisoners and examines their experiences in detail including the techniques used to interrogate them the food they eat their medical care how they communicate with one another and the many ingenious ways they contrive to assault and injure their guards While some prisoners were indeed treated harshly in the early days when the hastily built camp was flooded with battlefield captures and fears ran high of another 911style attack Cucullu finds that these excesses were quickly corrected Current treatment and oversight routines exceed the standards of any maximumsecurity prison in the world Despite what the public has heard these are not innocent goatherds but dedicated jihadists whose overriding goalas they themselves candidly sayis to kill Americans Should they now be released to return to the fight perhaps on American soil Read this book and decide for yourself
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From Booklist Morton and his family have just moved into a creepy old Victorian mansion Unlike most kids Morton a big fan of the horror comic Scare Scape is thrilled by the homes spooky cobwebbed corners and secret passageways While mowing the lawn Morton comes across a stone gargoyle buried in the dirt with three wishgranting fingers and one ominous warning about getting what you ask for Morton and his brother and sister each make a wish and Monkeys Pawstyle they get way more than they bargained for The kids battle a series of grotesque and powerful monsters all illustrated like trading cards in the opening pages investigate a townwide case of missing cats and discover the truth behind the mysterious death of John King the renowned reclusive author of Scare Scape who just so happens to have lived in the house before them Throw in some maggotinfested steaks wallscaling demons and an evil teacher and youve got a Lovecraftlite debut full of monsterfighting action and a darkmagic mystery that while flimsy at times will nonetheless appeal to burgeoning horror fans Grades 47 Sarah Hunter This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition
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This is an exploration of the malaise of our time the woundedfeeling function through the mystic stories of The Fisher King and The Handless Maiden Johnson looks to the heightened magical language of myth for an analysis of and a prescription for curing this contemporary malaise The Fisher King story can be seen as an experience of the masculine in either gender so too the tale of The Handless Maiden explores both a womans interior experience as well as being an allegory of the feminine element in us all
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Macabre meetings sinister excursions and deadly relationships uncanny encounters a classic ghost story featuring an American god a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration innovative Lovecraftian turns shadowy fairy tales and weird myths strange children the unexpected the supernatural the surreal and the alltoo real tales of the dark Such stories have always fascinated us and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us Chosen from a wide variety of venues these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows This volume of 2015s best dark fantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some of todays finest writers of the fantastiquesure to delight as well as disturb
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In this anthology Rubert author and advertising executive who became editor of Arkham House in 1997 probes into the firms history and its controversial founder August Derleth In the 21 essays he explores some of the myths that have surfaced since Derleths death in 1971 the Lovecraft legacy the circumstances surrounding the Donald Wandrei litigation key Arkham House writers of horror and fantasy fiction and new biographical and historical information about legendary pulp writers He also includes 21 unusual stories by each writer that are either unpublished or have never been published in a previous Arkham House collection The volume is not indexed Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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David Piries acclaimed A Heritage of Horror was the first book on the British horror movie and the first to detect and analyse the roots of British horror identifying it as the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own It has long been regarded as a trailblazing classic having the force of a revelation according to one recent study of the subject and heralded by Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese Now with A New Heritage of Horror David Pirie has revised his original work bringing the story up to date and into the 21st century Alongside the classic films of the twentieth century all explored within the full context of their production and appearance on our screens he examines the latest horror boom inaugurated by such films as The Others and 28 Days Later He has also uncovered fresh documentation from the original files for this new edition to add more revelations abuot the history of UK horror and Hammer Films not least the largely untold story of their desperate battles against censorship He has further updated the original text and added new illustrations The New Heritage of Horror promises to be one of the key film books of 2008
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