While giving due consideration to body parts and strange sounds from locked rooms, this examination of horror films and their directors focuses on the themes of isolation, alienation, death and transformation. Diana Royer (English, Miami U., Ohio) and Carl Royer explain the techniques that make Hitchcock's films part of the horror genre and connect
While giving due consideration to body parts and strange sounds from locked rooms, this examination of horror films and their directors focuses on the...
Examines the work of several of the genre's most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and transformation have helped build the foundation of horror cinema.
Examines the work of several of the genre's most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and tr...
For more than a hundred years, outsiders enamored of the perceived strengths of American Indian cultures have appropriated and distorted elements of them for their own purposes--more often than not ignoring the impact of the process on the Indians themselves. This book contains eight original contributions that consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community. It goes beyond studies of "white shamanism" to focus on commercial ventures, challenging readers to reconsider how Indian cultures have been commercialized in the twentieth century.
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For more than a hundred years, outsiders enamored of the perceived strengths of American Indian cultures have appropriated and distorted el...
