American Horrors

American Horrors
Title American Horrors PDF eBook
Author Gregory Albert Waller
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 252
Release 1987
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780252014482

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Since the release of Rosemary's Baby in 1968, the American horror film has become one of the most diverse, commercially successful, widely discussed, and culturally significant film genres. Drawing on a wide range of critical methods---from close textual readings and structuralist genre criticism to psychoanalytical, feminist, and ideological analyses---the authors examine individual films, directors, and subgenres. In this collection of twelve essays, Gregory Waller balances detailed studies of both popular films (Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, and Halloween) and particularly problematic films (Don't Look Now and Eyes of Laura Mars) with discussions of such central thematic preoccupations as the genre's representation of violence and female victims, its reflexivity and playfulness, and its ongoing redefinition of the monstrous and the normal. In addition, American Horrors includes a filmography of movies and telefilms and an annotated bibliography of books and articles about horror since 1968.

Sexual Attraction

Sexual Attraction
Title Sexual Attraction PDF eBook
Author James Giles
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 257
Release 2015-06-30
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1440830029

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How and why does sexual attraction happen? This book is an exploration of the universal yet highly individualized experience of being sexually attracted to another person. Incorporating interviews, research findings, and excerpts from romantic and erotic literature, lyrics, and film, Sexual Attraction: The Psychology of Allure explores a subject that is central to the human experience and highly relevant in not only personal, intimate interactions but also other relationships. Although the causes and effects of sexual attraction have been studied, sexual attraction itself-how we experience others in terms of their sexual attractiveness-remains a neglected, rarely researched topic. James Giles presents jargon-free information that is accessible and fascinating to the general reader as well as highly useful and informative to students and researchers in social psychology, sexology, sex and marital therapy, and relationship counseling. The book explores subjects such as how sexual attraction is fundamentally different from other forms of interpersonal attraction and how at the heart of sexual attraction lies the experience of allure-something that makes one feel helplessly drawn toward an intimate physical joining with the sexually attractive person. The allure of strangers, cross-sex friends, sexual friends ("friends with benefits"), and romantic partners are all addressed, revealing the often subtle heterosexual attraction that typically exists between men and women in all their relationships, including between those who are ostensibly "just friends."

Through Eyes Unseen

Through Eyes Unseen
Title Through Eyes Unseen PDF eBook
Author Calvyn Ee Han Xen
Publisher Calvyn Ee Han Xen
Pages 42
Release 2021-06-18
Genre Poetry
ISBN

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An anthology of poems written between 2008 to 2021, Through Eyes Unseen offers a collection of freeform poems that touch on a variety of topics - from sadness, to unrequited love, to even the hallmarks of capitalism.

Chambers's Journal

Chambers's Journal
Title Chambers's Journal PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 450
Release 1839
Genre
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The New Yorker

The New Yorker
Title The New Yorker PDF eBook
Author Horace Greeley
Publisher
Pages 434
Release 1838
Genre
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Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics

Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics
Title Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics PDF eBook
Author Evelina Lundmark
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 134
Release 2023-02-24
Genre Religion
ISBN 1000842924

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This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States. Lundmark suggests that the atheist self as performed online exists in tension between a perception of atheism as sinful and amoral in relation to hegemonical Christianity in the U.S., and the hyperrational, male-centered discourse that has characterized the atheist movement. She argues that women atheist vloggers co-effect third spaces of emotive resonance that enable a precarious counterpublicness of performing atheist visibility. The volume offers a valuable contribution to the discussion of how the public, the private, and areas in-between are understood within digital religion, and opens up new space for engaging with the increased visibility of atheist identity in a mediatized society.

Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun
Title Tears of the Sun PDF eBook
Author Al Lacy
Publisher Multnomah
Pages 273
Release 2011-05-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307780554

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Book Four of the Journeys of the Stranger series finds the legendary John Stranger summoned to Apache Junction, Arizona, where a hard-fought land dispute between the local Apache and Zuni Indians has led to the wedding-day kidnapping of the son of Arizona's governor. As terms for his return, the warriors demand weapons that can only escalate the fighting between the tribes, as well as the white men who come to the area looking for gold or-as it's known to the Indians-"Tears of the Sun." Readers will experience the drama and adventure as John Stranger fights to rescue Ben Wheeler and shares the tears of a very different "Son" in a dramatic new installment of the Journeys of the Stranger.