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Manchester: Headpress, 2002. Trade paperback Magazine, Fine,. Manchester: Headpress:, 2002. Trade paperback Magazine, Fine, 160 pp. This copy appears unread. Consistently cool, always s… Más…

Manchester: Headpress, 2002. Trade paperback Magazine, Fine,. Manchester: Headpress:, 2002. Trade paperback Magazine, Fine, 160 pp. This copy appears unread. Consistently cool, always somewhat controversial, usually touching on issues like sex, drugs, crazy culture and literature of all stripes this is a groovy mag. In this new issue read about (and see pictures and illustrations relating to) John 'Buttman' Stagliano, the Italian porn film guy and learn a great deal about the modern porn industry. Chuck 'FIGHT CLUB' Palahniuk does an illuminating interview as do Lech Kowalski, Gunther Von Hanens and David X. Young. There's a bunch of great features from Colin Wilson to lap dancing in Greece. British sitcoms (HEADPRESS comes to us from England, who says the Brits have no sense of humor?) , obscure periodicals of yesteryear, the last porn palace on 42nd Street, mental hygiene, UK TV wrestling, and more. If you can't get fourteen bucks worth of giggles and yelps out of this sucker you may as well turn in your avant-lit card and start collecting paper clips., Headpress, 2002, 5, It Books. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., It Books, 2.5, New. Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that. As Darryl Jones shows, the horror genre is huge. Ranging from vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to mad scientists, Satanists, and deranged serial killers, the cathartic release of scaring ourselves has made its appearance in everything from Shakespearean tragedies to internet memes. Exploring the key tropes of the genre, including its monsters, its psychological chills, and its love affair with the macabre, this Very Short Introduction discusses why horror stories disturb us, and how society responds to literary and film representations of the gruesome and taboo. Should the enjoyment of horror be regarded with suspicion? Are there different levels of the horrific, and should we distinguish between the commonly reviled carnage of contemporary torture porn and the culturally acceptable bloodbaths of ancient Greek tragedies? Analysing the way in which horror manifests multiple personalities, and has been used throughout history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current generation, Darryl Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre today. As horror is mass marketed to mainstream society in the form of romantic vampires and blockbuster hits, it also continues to maintain its former shadowy presence on the edges of respectability, as banned films and violent internet phenomena push us to question both our own preconceptions and the terrifying capacity of human nature. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. First published in hardback as Sleeping with the Lights on., 6, Playboy, 1977 March 1977 VG small price in marker to cover, rubbed spine, still VG, centrefold detached but present and VG contents include; Henry Miller / Paul Theroux / on location at porn movie / Jimmy Carter Playboy and the media / interview senator Pat Moynihan . First Edition. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Magazine., Playboy, 1977, 2.5, New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The invention of moving pictures is almost certainly the most powerful shaper of the unique consciousness of the modern age. For almost a century now we have all been at the movies, and our brains are overcrowded with the ghostly traces of all we have seen and 'experienced.' By now the movies are our mental wallpaper and, perhaps, even the medium through which we perceive the world. The Phantom Empire is the first book that truly captures and explains this peculiar and now universal state of thought and feeling. It focuses on the global proliferation of film, a worldless, irrational lingua franca, infinitely rich in images but conveying a knowledge radically different from the culture of the word. What, finally, do we internalize from the endlessly multiplying scenes from already ancient silent films, 'real' documentary footage of massacres and bombardments, classic movies whose unerasable performers (Keaton, Astaire, Shirley Temple) never age, such mutating genres as Italian spy movies, German westerns, Chinese gangster flicks, Japanese vampire movies, porn films and splatter films of every national origin .? Their grammar bypasses poetry, history, and philosophy to create a parallel universe, an invented landscape of the supernatural whose ghosts haunt the denatured landscape of our postindustrial civilization. Still, we love movies. The Phantom Empire measures the degree and nature of that love by mixing the modes of fiction and criticism and by blurring the distinctions between objective and subjective in a completely original way. It is not so much concerned with what happens on the screen as with what happens inside the person watching it. Geoffrey O'Brien's brilliant book communicates, as no other prose work has done, the visceral power of film, rooted as it is in terror, longing, and obsessive devotion. In doing so it erases the artificial distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993, 5<

1993, ISBN: 9780393035490

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. &qu… Más…

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "The invention of moving pictures is almost certainly the most powerful shaper of the unique consciousness of the modern age. For almost a century now we have all been at the movies, and our brains are overcrowded with the ghostly traces of all we have seen and 'experienced.' By now the movies are our mental wallpaper and, perhaps, even the medium through which we perceive the world. The Phantom Empire is the first book that truly captures and explains this peculiar and now universal state of thought and feeling. It focuses on the global proliferation of film, a worldless, irrational lingua franca, infinitely rich in images but conveying a knowledge radically different from the culture of the word. What, finally, do we internalize from the endlessly multiplying scenes from already ancient silent films, 'real' documentary footage of massacres and bombardments, classic movies whose unerasable performers (Keaton, Astaire, Shirley Temple) never age, such mutating genres as Italian spy movies, German westerns, Chinese gangster flicks, Japanese vampire movies, porn films and splatter films of every national origin .? Their grammar bypasses poetry, history, and philosophy to create a parallel universe, an invented landscape of the supernatural whose ghosts haunt the denatured landscape of our postindustrial civilization. Still, we love movies. The Phantom Empire measures the degree and nature of that love by mixing the modes of fiction and criticism and by blurring the distinctions between objective and subjective in a completely original way. It is not so much concerned with what happens on the screen as with what happens inside the person watching it. Geoffrey O'Brien's brilliant book communicates, as no other prose work has done, the visceral power of film, rooted as it is in terror, longing, and obsessive devotion. In doing so it erases the artificial distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993, 5<

1993, ISBN: 9780393035490

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. &quo… Más…

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "The invention of moving pictures is almost certainly the most powerful shaper of the unique consciousness of the modern age. For almost a century now we have all been at the movies, and our brains are overcrowded with the ghostly traces of all we have seen and 'experienced.' By now the movies are our mental wallpaper and, perhaps, even the medium through which we perceive the world. The Phantom Empire is the first book that truly captures and explains this peculiar and now universal state of thought and feeling. It focuses on the global proliferation of film, a worldless, irrational lingua franca, infinitely rich in images but conveying a knowledge radically different from the culture of the word. What, finally, do we internalize from the endlessly multiplying scenes from already ancient silent films, 'real' documentary footage of massacres and bombardments, classic movies whose unerasable performers (Keaton, Astaire, Shirley Temple) never age, such mutating genres as Italian spy movies, German westerns, Chinese gangster flicks, Japanese vampire movies, porn films and splatter films of every national origin .? Their grammar bypasses poetry, history, and philosophy to create a parallel universe, an invented landscape of the supernatural whose ghosts haunt the denatured landscape of our postindustrial civilization. Still, we love movies. The Phantom Empire measures the degree and nature of that love by mixing the modes of fiction and criticism and by blurring the distinctions between objective and subjective in a completely original way. It is not so much concerned with what happens on the screen as with what happens inside the person watching it. Geoffrey O'Brien's brilliant book communicates, as no other prose work has done, the visceral power of film, rooted as it is in terror, longing, and obsessive devotion. In doing so it erases the artificial distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993, 5<

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[EAN: 9780393035490], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York and London], COLLECTIBLE, Jacket, 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"Fi… Más…

[EAN: 9780393035490], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York and London], COLLECTIBLE, Jacket, 281 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated"First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "The invention of moving pictures is almost certainly the most powerful shaper of the unique consciousness of the modern age. For almost a century now we have all been at the movies, and our brains are overcrowded with the ghostly traces of all we have seen and 'experienced.' By now the movies are our mental wallpaper and, perhaps, even the medium through which we perceive the world. The Phantom Empire is the first book that truly captures and explains this peculiar and now universal state of thought and feeling. It focuses on the global proliferation of film, a worldless, irrational lingua franca, infinitely rich in images but conveying a knowledge radically different from the culture of the word. What, finally, do we internalize from the endlessly multiplying scenes from already ancient silent films, 'real' documentary footage of massacres and bombardments, classic movies whose unerasable performers (Keaton, Astaire, Shirley Temple) never age, such mutating genres as Italian spy movies, German westerns, Chinese gangster flicks, Japanese vampire movies, porn films and splatter films of every national origin .? Their grammar bypasses poetry, history, and philosophy to create a parallel universe, an invented landscape of the supernatural whose ghosts haunt the denatured landscape of our postindustrial civilization. Still, we love movies. The Phantom Empire measures the degree and nature of that love by mixing the modes of fiction and criticism and by blurring the distinctions between objective and subjective in a completely original way. It is not so much concerned with what happens on the screen as with what happens inside the person watching it. Geoffrey O'Brien's brilliant book communicates, as no other prose work has done, the visceral power of film, rooted as it is in terror, longing, and obsessive devotion. In doing so it erases the artificial distinction between spectator and commentator and virtually reinvents film writing in our time." - Publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<

1993, ISBN: 0393035492

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