Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004535861
The presidency of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, impacted many sectors of society. One of these was comedy, which became obsessed with Trump, who was himself a comedic figure. This book looks at this impact, called the Trump Effect, on American comedy—an effect that has changed its historical forms drastically.
Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Dr. Strangelove (Motion picture)
ISBN : 9780231177085
With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film.
Author : Lela Gwenn
Publisher : Maverick
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781952303265
High school student Alexa Bowman moved to Savannah, Georgia to get away from her old life. Too bad her past is a Google search away and her family’s criminal past quickly made her an outcast. From tormenting cheerleaders to dreamy football players, Alexa can’t keep up, especially when Fae, Skye, and Chloe take her into their group of outsiders. But after a night in the woods, a power has awakened within them, a power that’s equal parts magical and terrifying. But there are no coincidences in Savannah, and once they find out how to control their powers the town is in for a rude awakening.
Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher :
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Police murders
ISBN : 9781939795250
Author : Jack Sharkey
Publisher : Samuel French Trade
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573618123
Jack Sharkey Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Interior Set Take a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this nightmare comedy." Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Camille is giving the party. Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife, Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent. But by the time Don realizes this he has already shot Ben, Alice and even Camille. Camille wishes that things might have turned out differently and that is what happens. All concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again and again doomed to live that same hour over and over again until they get it right. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits to a shocker of an ending.
Author : Shane Burcaw
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 162672007X
"With acerbic wit & a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's YA memoir describes the challenges he faces as a 20-year-old with muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to trying to finding a girlfriend and everything in between"--
Author : John R.L. Moxon
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161533013
Did Luke intend Peter's visionary command to eat 'unclean animals' in Acts 10 to suggest the dissolution of the Jewish Law? Whilst scholars have argued over sources, inconsistent redaction and later reception, many have failed to notice here the novel use of a type of transgression anxiety dream. John Moxon shows how by the incorporation of such naturalistic motifs, Luke takes "revelation" in a new and decidedly psychological direction, probably imitating similar developments in Graeco-Roman biography. If the vision reveals an illegitimate transfer of disgust within an exaggerated halakha of separation, then its target is prejudice and inconsistency, not the Jew-Gentile divide as such, as underlined by the ironic contrast with the pious Cornelius. In this reading, Luke's non-supercessionism is maintained, whilst showing him acutely aware of the kinds of nightmare holding many back from the nascent Gentile mission.
Author : Thomas Mallon
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307824306
From the acclaimed novelist (Henry and Clara, Two Moons), essayist (A Book of One's Own), and critic (1998 National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing)—an engaging new collection of essays. In Fact gathers the best of Thomas Mallon's superb criticism from the past twenty-two years—essays that appeared in his GQ column, "Doubting Thomas," and in The New York Times Book Review, The American Scholar, The New Yorker, and Harper's, among other publications. Here are his evaluations of the work of contemporary writers such as Nicholson Baker, Peter Carey, Tom Wolfe, Do DeLillo, Joan Didion, and Robert Stone, and reassessments of such earlier twentieth-century figures as John O'Hara, Sinclair Lewis, Truman Capote, and Mary McCarthy. Mallon also considers an array of odd literary genres and phenomena—including book indexes, obituaries, plagiarism, cancelled checks, fan mail, and author tours. And he turns his sharp eye on historical fiction (his own genre) as well as on the history, practice, and future of memoir. Smart, unorthodox, and impassioned, this collection is an integral piece of an important literary career and an altogether marvelous read.
Author : Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Humanism in literature
ISBN : 147445433X
This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction. With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.
Author : Clay Adams
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781736362600
NIGHTMARE THEATER is a 272 page trade paperback anthology collecting horror stories by some of the biggest names in indie comics. Over thirty-five incredible comic teams bring you frightful tales steeped in all manner of morbid mayhem. Creators include David Pepose (Spencer & Locke, The O.Z.), Shawn Gabborin (Puppet Master, Let's All Die!) Jessica Maison (Plastic Girl), Charlie Stickney (White Ash), Dave Dwonch (Prom of the Dead), Newton Lilavois (Crescent City Monsters), Karla Nappi (Duplicant), Richard Fairgray (Black Sand Beach, Blastosaurus), David Avallone (Drawing Blood, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Russell Nohelty (Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter), Terry Mayo (The Wicked Righteous), Don Nguyen (Pablo the Gorilla), James Powell (House of Fear), Kayden Phoenix (Jalisco), Peter Murrieta (Rafael Garcia: Henchman), Tony Fabro (Three Panel Crimes), M.L. Miller (Gravetrancers), Sebastian Kadlecik (Quince), Steven Prince (Monster Matador) and artists like Mick Beyers, Fabio Alves, Silvia Califano, Gian Carlo Bernal, Kyle Roberts, Carlos Granda, and many, many more! Stories inspired by horror cinema--from Poe to Lovecraft, ghosts and ghouls, slasher films, tales of terror, B-Movie scream fests, monster movies, stylized hauntings, zombies, demon possession, occult, and otherwise. This book is all killer, no filler.
