Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture By Cynthia Erb
2009 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 081433430X | PDF | 3 MB
In Tracking King Kong Cynthia Erb charts the cultural significance of the character of King Kong, from the early 1930s, when Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's classic film King Kong was first released, to Peter Jackson's 2005 remake. Although King Kong has received much academic attention over the past twenty-five years, the bulk of these analyses deal with the film's human characters rather than Kong himself. In this revised edition of an influential study, Erb argues that King Kong is a particular kind of cultural outsider who represents a cross-penetration of American notions of exoticism and monstrosity. Tracking King Kong considers problems such as race and gender in the King Kong tradition, as well as historical, international, and contemporary audience and fan responses to this classic film and its popular protagonist. Erb begins her examination of King Kong in the 1930s, when the original film was produced and released, extending through the 1970s, when the film and its hero reached the height of their cultural visibility in a remake by Dino De Laurentiis, and concluding with a look at Peter Jackson's version in 2005. The book includes a detailed production history of the original 1933 film based on primary historical and archival sources; a genre study examining Kong's relations to horror, jungle adventure, and travel documentary genres; an analysis of Kong's influence on the Japanese film Godzilla; and a look at sequels, remakes, and spinoffs related to King Kong, such as Mighty Joe Young. Erb also analyzes Jackson's remake of King Kong, to determine how and why Jackson revised the main character, casting him as a melancholy hero. The revised edition of Tracking King Kong updates a groundbreaking study of King Kong as the iconic character enters the twenty-first century. Scholars of film and television studies as well as general readers interested in film and popular culture will appreciate this significant volume.
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers by Paul Morland
2022 | ISBN: 1529045991, 1529046009 | English | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.
Time-Life Book of Repair and Restoration: Making the House You Own the Home of Your Dreams by Tony Wilkins
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0737003073 | 257 pages | Scan PDF | 102 MB
Easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques illustrated with full-color photography to show you how to improve your home; pages filled with inspirational photographs of newly decorated rooms to fire your imagination; alternative treatments let you customize your decorations to suit your own tastes; practical hints and lists of tools and materials make sure your home improvements go smoothly; directories tell you the skill level required and the time you should put aside to complete the project
Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 27) by Edited by Giovanni Tarantino, University of Florence
English | Sep 23, 2021 | ISBN: 9004464913 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The focus of this volume is the early modern self-critical appropriation of the "religious other". Processes of selfing/othering are observed through the lens of people dwelling in an 'in-between' space undermining binary conceptions of the Self and the Other.
Julia Kristeva, Beverley Bie Brahic, "This Incredible Need to Believe"
English | 2009 | pages: 136 | ISBN: 0231147848 | EPUB | 15,3 mb
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."
The Year I Stopped to Notice by Miranda Keeling
English | ISBN: 1785787969 | 192 pages | EPUB | 17 Mar. 2022 | 10 Mb
'This book is a delight ... the world is full of little surprises, momentary little fountains of pleasure and beauty, that could be visible to all of us if we learned to stop and notice as Miranda Keeling does.' Philip Pullman
The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema , Historical Trauma and National Identity By Linnie Blake
2008 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0719075939 | PDF | 2 MB
TheWoundsof Nationsexplores the ways in which horror films allow international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history--from genocide to terrorist outrage andnuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror (whether it be from 1970s America, 1980s Germany, post-Thatcherite Britain or post-9/11 America) is in fact a highly political and potentially therapeutic film genre that enables us to explore, and potentially recover from, the terrors of life in the real world.Exploring a wide range of stylistically distinctive and generically diverse film texts, Blakeproffers a radical critique of the nation-state and the ideologies of identity it promulgates, showing that horror cinema can offer us a disturbing, yet perversely life affirming, means of working through the traumatic legacy of recent times.
Adam Kirsch, "The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0393051978 | EPUB | pages: 299 | 0.6 mb
"One of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times) examines a revolutionary generation of poets.
The Wounded Healer: The Pain and Joy of Caregiving by Omar Reda
English | March 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1324019239 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.82 MB
Finding meaning in trauma work, as a traumatized healer yourself.
The Wounded Body: Memory, Language and the Self from Petrarch to Shakespeare
English | 2022 | ISBN: 303091903X | 411 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a 'cultural symptom' and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someone's body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges those who look at it to engage in an introspective and analytical process. By studying and describing the transmission of this metaphoric paradigm through the literary tradition, the contributors show how the image of the bodily wound―from Petrarch's representation of the Self to the overt crisis that affects the heroes and the poetic worlds created by Ariosto and Tasso, Spenser and Shakespeare―could respond to the emergence of Modernity as a new cultural feature.