Terrors of the Flesh. The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film, Paperback - David Huckvale

The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedr...

Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. By examining depictions of the p...

Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reels explores images of shoes in cinema. It questions what shoes mean in the co...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Tony MagistraleIllustration(s): 6 ill.Number of pages: 213Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 155 x 22...

This book works to make apparent the rhetorical play of pain demonstrating its social and political imperatives.

Reducere. Videodrome. Scanners. The Brood. Crash. The Fly. The films of David Cronenberg have haunted and inspired generations. His name has become synonymou...

Drawing on phenomenologies of the flesh and the erotic, this book provides a constructive approach to the incarnation. It offers a typology of crit...

Reducere. In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey ...

Reducere. Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the productio...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1921 a Pennsylvania preacher hauled his four teen-agers from a prosperous Pennsylvania farm to a bleak and arid spot on the Saskatche...

His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were ...

Reducere. "Since the religious revolution of the sixteenth century, to no man has the Catholic Church in Scotland been so much indebted as to Bishop Hay. He ...

Reducere. In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only v...

Reducere. DescriptionMost theologians believe that in the human life of Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter God. Yet how the divine and human come together in th...

Reducere. O sedinta socanta de exorcism scapa de sub control, curmand viata unei adolescente. La cateva luni de la eveniment, fosta politista, Megan Reed (Sh...

Reducere. [STARRED REVIEW] "Hugo Award-winning editor Datlow (Edited By) brings together 29 spine-tingling tales of body horror to terrify even the most seas...

The Book of Horror introduces the reader to the scariest movies ever made and examines the factors that make them so frightening.Illustrations: 50 ...

Reducere. Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the a...

Reducere. Since the earliest creation myths, womens' bodies have been a site of conflict, venerated and feared in equal measure. In this collection, talented...

Reducere. Long the province of connoisseurs, collectors, hipsters, and eccentrics, the music and art of the margins has begun to find its way into the mainst...

DescriptionMaterialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end o...

55 chapters cover the cutting edge in this dynamic field. Includes foundational perspectives, reasoning, ontology, design processes, methods, value...

What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the cente...

Reducere. Our son, Jonathan, was diagnosed in 2013 with Legg-Calve Perthes disease. He went from an athletic child prodigy to a little boy bound by A-frames ...

Reducere. O sedinta socanta de exorcism scapa de sub control, curmand viata unei adolescente. La cateva luni de la eveniment, fosta politista, Megan Reed (Sh...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong i...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that hew both to the earthy traditions and ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn early work expressing the outlook of the scientist who pioneered X-Ray crystallography.

Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fifth edition, explores perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the best in both cl...

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment hav...

Reducere. Your nose is to the grindstone, day after day. You spend your work hours overworked and underappreciated, only to return home and deal with bills, ...

Reducere. The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoi...

Reducere. The Gospel of John presents Christ, right from the beginning, as the tangible reality of God's plan for the world. John's gospel, written between 9...

Reducere. An inside look at sex magic in Eastern and Western Mystery traditions - Details the sex magic practices of P. B. Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Austin...

Reducere. Christ's Body, Human Flesh If we're honest, no one really cares about theology unless it reveals a gut-level view of God's presence. According to p...

Reducere. The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that hew both to the earthy traditions and blaze new t...

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh. Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society - Matthew Fox

Reducere. The Philosophy of the Universe and the Dimensions of the Multiverse takes us through a journey of discovery into the nature of spirituality and our...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Thomas Deane (Chadron State College) TuckerIllustration(s): 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. This title leads ...

Reducere. The purpose of this mini book is to help believers develop a deeper grasp of what it means to be "in Christ, " that together we might embrace this ...

Reducere. Daca un copil dintr-o alta lume a aterizat pe Pamant, dar in loc sa devina erou pentru omenire, s-a dovedit a fi ceva mult mai sinistru?

Reducere. The Fiends in the Furrows II: More Tales of Folk Horror is a collection of short stories of Folk Horror, honoring its rich and atmospheric traditio...

The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture - Yoram Hazony

Did Christ assume a fallen human nature? "What is not assumed is not healed." So goes the Chalcedonian maxim articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus re...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard SennettFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spa...