Atlas of Hispanic-American History, Revised Edition chronicles the important cultural, historical, political, and social experiences of Hispanic Americans through the years. Completely updated and revised, this comprehensive atlas examines Spanish, Native American, and African influences and how they combine in different ways to form the varied cultures of Hispanic America.

Chronicles the important cultural, historical, political, and social experiences of Hispanic Americans through the years. This atlas examines Spanish, Native American, and African influences and how they combine in different ways to form the varied cultures of Hispanic America. It also includes maps, facts, figures, and images of everyday life.

Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Answers to that question include everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the horror film's primary purpose is to present monsters, best understood as deformed and destructive beings. These monsters satisfy the audience's desire to know the extremities of being, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. The text illuminates many aspects of the horror film genre, including epistemology, ethics, evaluation, history, monster taxonomy, and filmmaking...