Author : C. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230627412
Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them.
Author : Renée L. Bergland
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874519440
A unique look at Native American ghosts and US literature.
Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1978807759
Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like The Witch and The Babadook, which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is. Watch a video of the author discussing the topic Haunted Homes (https://youtu.be/_irTEfvtZfQ).
Author : Ethan Kleinberg
Publisher : Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503603387
This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida.
Author : Megan Corbin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1469664305
Examining testimonial production in Southern Cone Latin America (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Haunted Objects analyzes how the changed relationship between the subject and the material world influenced the way survivors narrate the stories of their detentions in the wake of the political violence of the 1970s and 80s. It explores descriptions of objects within testimonial narratives and uses these descriptions to inform an analysis of how the objects that survived the violence--items recovered by archeologists from former detention centers, the personal belongings of disappeared peoples, the prison craftwork created by political prisoners during their detention, and the bodies of the second generation children of the disappeared, all join together in memory projects in the post-dictatorship to offer "spectral testimony" about the past.
Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1469626349
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
Author : Jeff Belanger
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1601630824
Featuring new listings and new information on existing haunts, thhis book offers supernatural tourists a guide to points of interest through the eyes of the world's leading ghost hunters.
Author : Ron Ripley
Publisher : Scare Street
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The game of death has only just begun… Professor Abel Worthe’s experiment in terror continues. But as Marcus Holt battles against these supernatural killers, a new terror rises up from the village’s haunted grounds—terror that even the Professor can’t control. Book 4 - Soul Harvest: Trapped in Worthe’s haunted village, Marcus and his team discover a frightened young mother eager to reunite with her child. But they soon become the target of a wrathful spirit that longs to carve out the heart of any mother he can find. Book 5 - Poisonous Whispers: When a new building appears in the village’s snow-swept streets, Marcus and his team are haunted by the cries of panicked children. But they soon find themselves stalked by the ghost of a bitter old woman, whose touch brings a painful death to her victims. Book 6 - Brutal Lessons: As Marcus and the others navigate a rotting old schoolhouse, they are hunted by the vengeful spirit of its former headmaster. This blood-thirsty ghost is forever bound to an old wooden cane… a weapon he uses to beat people to death. Now known as Subject B, Marcus Holt struggles to survive one terrifying encounter after another. He swore he would do whatever it took to escape. But against enemies such as these, death may be the only way out…
Author : Jessica Catherine Lieberman
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Ron Ripley
Publisher : Scare Street
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Welcome to the ultimate experiment in terror… Professor Abel Worthe is brilliant, wealthy, and utterly immoral. He is an expert in a very particular field: the study of fear and death. Using his vast resources, Worthe has transported a collection of haunted houses and paranormal sites to his hidden village. And kidnapped civilians are forced to confront unknown horrors in the chilling name of research. Marcus Holt thought his worst memories were behind him. A veteran of the Vietnam War, this old soldier is haunted by nightmares of brutal conflict. But he’s about to discover that his battle for survival has only just begun… Book 1 - Worthe’s Village: Marcus Holt finds himself kidnapped and thrust into Worthe’s village of horrors. Now known as ‘Subject B’, this tough as nails combat veteran is determined to survive long enough to find and kill his malicious captor. Book 2 - Hell’s Hammer: Trapped in the shadowy streets of a haunted village, Marcus and his young friend Alex must deal with a new threat: the ghost of a vicious murderer, who kills with a bloody mason’s hammer. And the sadistic Professor Worthe is about to learn that a caged animal is the most dangerous subject of all… Book 3 - Butcher’s Hands: There is a new test subject in Worthe’s haunted village: a Roman Catholic priest. This new victim’s faith and devotion are put to the test when the group is hunted by a vicious ghost welding a bloody meat cleaver. Marcus must put his courage, experience, and iron will to the test, as he clashes with the diabolical professor Worthe and his grisly collection of supernatural killers. Can he survive this ordeal and win his freedom? Or will the final result of Worthe's experiment be too much fear for one man to take…
