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This book builds upon the author’s extensive previous work on the movies, adopting a more comprehensive and inquisitive stance for the study of moving pictures as a cultural movement and ludenic innovation. It returns to earlier analysis and commentary on this new invention and recreation quickly termed “the movies”, and develops the initial impression of both moviegoers and observers that the movies appealed because they were fun. As such, the book examines the characteristics that made films so enjoyable, namely their use of magic, presentation of myth, and persistence of mnemonic recollection. The enduring appeal of moving pictures remains consistent, even though the medium has proliferated and diversified, so much so that now a good portion of the human race spends a great deal of time looking at moving pictures. The book is eclectic and exploratory, designed to urge consideration of moving pictures in this larger perspective as something that has changed and perhaps enriched the lives of many people, leaving inquirers the task of calculating the enormous significance and consequences of our motion picture experience for the conduct of our lives. Such an effort is not without merit, since it now seems quite clear that the whole world is watching.
Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in creating a sense of regional distinctiveness, Lisa Hinrichsen brings a wealth of critical scholarship to her consideration of memory and southern literature. Hinrichsen's nuanced readings of a diverse group of southern authors, including William Faulkner, Roberto Fernández, Erna Brodber, Monique Truong, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, offer new ways of conceptualizing memory, place, and history. She unravels southern literature's critical confrontation with the region's history through complex systems of remembrance and erasure, and she traces how fantasy mediates trauma and adjudicates identity. Expansive in its psychoanalytical approach, her work explores issues of law, testimony, and social justice; the role of nostalgic fantasies of gentility at midcentury; the relationship between white empathy and social fantasy; the resemblance of regional patterns of disavowal to national ideologies of forgetting in Vietnam-era fiction; and the impact of contemporary multicultural literature on memory and community. Possessing the Past broadens the theoretical framework used to conceptualize memory and trauma, while grounding traumatic testimony in the specifics of time and place amply offered by southern literature. It provides new readings of an array of southern writers and deepens our understanding of the continuing importance of history, memory, and fantasy in the literature of the U.S. South.
"In this book, Peter Adey explores the idea of levitation within our cultural, scientific and spiritual lives. From science to illustration, poetry, philsophy, law, technology and a wider popular, spiritual and visual imagination, Levitation casts the levitator as a far more vulnerable figure than we previously have thought"--Jacket flap
Guardians of Chaos Volume 1 The Guardians of Chaos have sworn a vow to keep magic free. Tossed into a fight between supernaturals, will finding their mates be the tie that binds, or will it weaken their cause? Inside: Wolf Shield Tossed into a fight between supernaturals, the human woman is about to get got unless he steps in. Dragon Shield He’s the leader of an elite force fighting a supernatural war, she’s been under a magic spell that’s kept her captive for centuries, can they find peace in each other? Stallion Shield He knows she’s his mate, but this stubborn kitchen Witch isn’t making things easy. Keywords: alpha, guardians of chaos, guardians, werewolf, shifter, wolf shifter, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, HEA paranormal romance, best friend's sister shifter romance, wolf pack series, werewolf romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, friends to lovers, rejected love, unrequited love, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, wolf shifter pack fated mates series, wolf shifter mates ebook, paranormal romance series, wolf guard fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha wolf hero, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom, romcom series, dragon shifters, stallion shifters, witch romance
Love Urban Fantasy Paranormal Romance books? Meet the Guardians of Chaos! They have sworn a vow to keep magic free. Tossed into a fight between supernaturals, will finding their mates be the tie that binds, or will it weaken their cause? He knows she’s his mate, but this stubborn kitchen Witch isn’t making things easy. Furio Lo Duca is a Stallion Shifter with a serious problem. Set in his ways, the Guardian has a reputation for being tough as nails, but a certain kitchen Witch sees straight through to the heart of things. Will he continue to fight his destiny? With Loyalists threatening to disrupt the balance of magic, the Guardians must pull together. They need to be at their strongest. Can this Jersey boy claim the sassy, smart-mouthed Jessenia, taking his rightful place among his team, or will self-doubt destroy all he’s worked for? Find out in this Urban Fantasy Paranormal Romance featuring a Stallion Shifter and his Kitchen Witch Mate. Keywords: alpha male hero, guardians of chaos, guardians, stallion shifter, kitchen witch, horse shifter fated mate, kitchen witch love story, jersey girl romance, jersey boy romance, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, HEA paranormal romance, shifter pack series, witch romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, friends to lovers, rejected love, unrequited love, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, dragon shifter pack fated mates series, wolf shifter mates ebook, paranormal romance series, guardians fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha wolf hero, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom
Some battles can’t be won with fangs and claws alone. 6 books of shifters and sorcery. 1,900+ pages of nonstop paranormal suspense. It all started with a shocking murder in a dark alley, a beloved pack member’s life cut tragically short. Suddenly surrounded by supernatural threats, Joey and Chris face ruthless witches, fierce rivals, vicious hunters, and much, much more. But the greatest challenge of all? Holding their pack together when fate seems determined to rip it apart. The Grant Wolves box set contains all six books in Lori Drake’s riveting urban fantasy werewolf series. If you like feisty heroines, fur-raising suspense, and edge-of-your-seat twists and turns, you’ll love this spellbinding series. Buy The Grant Wolves box set to shift into a gripping urban fantasy today!
Dead man walking. Joey thought Chris was gone forever. Now he’s back, and all the rules have changed. A fresh start in a new city may be just what the Alpha ordered, but it won’t come easy. From the moment the Grant wolves meet the Seattle pack, they know something is wrong. And when an uninvited guest crashes their “welcome to the neighborhood” party, Joey and Chris are caught in the crossfire. As the body count rises, can Chris and Joey regain their balance and stop the killer before they, too, fall prey? Shallow Grave is a fast-paced, page-turning urban fantasy that continues the Grant Wolves’ story and introduces a brand new pack into the mix. If you like werewolves, spooky stories, creepy old houses, shocking betrayals, and thrilling heroics, this is the book for you.
Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist approach with theoretical speculation, Massimo Fusillo identifies a few interpretive patterns of object fetishism, such as seduction (from Apollonius of Rhodes to Max Ophüls), memory activation (from Goethe to Louise Bourgeois and Pamuk), and the topos of the animation of the inanimate. Whereas all these patterns are characterized by a projection of emotional values onto objects, modernism highlights a more latent component of object fetishism: the fascination with the alterity of matter, variously inflected by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. The last turning point in Fusillo's analysis is postmodernism and its obsession with mass media icons-from DeLillo's maximalist frescos and Zadie Smith's reflections on autographs to Palahniuk's porn objects; from pop art to commodity sculpture.
On Hallowe’en night, Mathilda Honeycutt finds out she’s a SuperWitch. Not the modern, hippy kind… the real, wand-wielding, pixie dust kind. After a life devoted to retail and coffee drinks, Mathilda is thrown into the secret world of witches, warlocks, werewolves, vampires, faeries, headless horsemen, you name it, it exists… even whirling dervishes! As Mathilda discovers her magic, she also discovers she’s prophesied to save the world. Problem is, she’d rather spend her time on online auctions, bidding on cut-rate but fabulous designer shoes. Now, she’s got to save the world, run her coffee house, battle against her friend and co-worker in “The War of the Wooden Spoons” and figure out what’s going on with the silent, watchful (but yummy) Sebastian Wilding, a member of a centuries old Secret Society who has vowed to keep her safe and brainy, sweet (and hot) Dr. Aidan Seymour, a maverick member of The Royal Institute of Psychical Research. Making matters worse, her nemesis is a powerful witch who doesn’t mind fighting dirty. Will Mathilda be able to save the world while still being perfectly accessorized? And how is she going to pick between Luscious Sebastian and Dreamy Aidan? And will she be able to talk The Witches Council into updating their uniform? And, lastly, will she ever get the hang of riding around on a broom?
The Spice Ghosts have descended on Roshaven accusing Jenni of stealing their sacred bones and are threatening to destroy the city if they are not returned but Jenni the sprite has no idea what they’re talking about. With the help of her boss, Chief Thief-Catcher Ned Spinks, Jenni promises to find and return them however the skeletal trail leads them into the dark and dangerous waters of the dread Sea Witch. Ned is out of his depth and frantically treading water while Jenni must fight to avoid becoming catch of the day. The Bone Thief is the third quirky magical mystery adventure set in the Roshaven series of humorous fantasy novels.