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  • The Monstrous-Feminine

    Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

    by Barbara Creed ...
    Series series Popular Fictions Series
    This is a timely update of a seminal text which re-interprets key films of the horror genre, including Carrie, The Exorcist, The Brood and Psycho.In the first edition, Creed draws on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to challenge the popular view that women in horror are almost always victims, and argues that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous in relation to her sexuality and ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Phallic Panic

    by Barbara Creed ...
    Vampires, werewolves, cannibals and slashers-why do audiences find monsters in movies so terrifying? In Phallic Panic, Barbara Creed ranges widely across film, literature and myth, throwing new light on this haunted territory. Looking at classic horror films such as Frankenstein, The Shining and Jack the Ripper, Creed provocatively questions the anxieties, fears and the subversive thrills behind ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Return of the Monstrous-Feminine

    Feminist New Wave Cinema

    by Barbara Creed ...
    This follow-up to the classic text of The Monstrous-Feminine analyses those contemporary films which explore social justice issues such as women’s equality, violence against women, queer relationships, race and the plight of the planet and its multi-species.Examining a new movement – termed by Creed as Feminist New Wave Cinema – The Return of the Monstrous-Feminine explores a significant change ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Darwin's Screens

    Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema

    by Barbara Creed ...
    Darwin's Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship—the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. Much has been written on the effect of other great thinkers such as Freud and Marx but very little on the important role played by Darwinian ideas on the evolution of the newest art form of the twentieth century. Creed argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Knowing Your Place

    Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed ...
    Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated.The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Body Trade

    Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific

    Edited by Barbara Creed, Jeanette Hoorn ...
    Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguiung comtribution to the study of the postcolonial body. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    Pursued

    by Shilo Creed ...
    Narrated by Daniel Bond, Barbara Smith ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Three Worlds

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    Jacob Carter:I escaped Admiral Ash’s experiment. He wants me back.Now Sage and I are running through a country wired for surveillance, where drones sweep the sky, cameras watch every street, and Ash’s power reaches farther every day. He wants what the experiment made me—my altered blood, connection to the spirit, and whatever he thinks he can turn into a weapon.Staying ahead of Ash would be easier ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Plunged

    by Shilo Creed ...
    Narrated by Daniel Bond, Barbara Smith ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Three Worlds

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    Jacob Carter built his life around one vow: never be helpless again.As a Navy SEAL, fear is buried under discipline, muscle, and mission. He runs toward danger, protects the weak, and survives what breaks other men.Then an admiral forces him into Project 157.The experiment tears him through the hull of a weaponless ship and strips away everything he mistook for strength. Jacob wakes in a spiritual ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Horror

    by Brigid Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Horror

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • David Cronenberg

    Author or Filmmaker?

    by Mark Browning ...
    For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Horror

    Edited by Thomas Fahy ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over, when they are able to close their books or leave the movie theater. Whether serious, kitschy, frightening, or ridiculous, horror not only arouses ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD