Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s.
The "e;Gothic"e; style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre.
A staple of television since the early years of the BBC, British crime drama first crossed the Atlantic on public broadcasting stations and specialty cable channels, and later through streaming services.
Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre.
Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal.
The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021).
Straight, traducida por Juan Pablo Pizarro de Trenqualye, da cuenta de que, durante mucho tiempo, Sudáfrica fue marginada del resto del mundo por causa del apartheid.
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.
The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings.
The idea of the frontier--once, the geographical borderline moving further and further West across the North American continent--has shaped American science fiction television since its beginnings.
El Sistema ha sido creado tras un periodo de extremada turbulencia mundial donde, prácticamente, todo el orden político establecido hasta los años treinta del siglo XXI ha tenido que ser destruido para que esta creación funcionara.
En el interior de este libro se esconde un sastre que era un desastre y lo hacía todo al revés; un viejo duende perdido en la noche de los tiempos, que durante siglos mantuvo desimantada la aguja de su rosa de los vientos; un sabio mercader que, para vender, tomaba tres tés y contaba cuentos; un bonito corazón lleno de color, que camuflaba su bondad pintando de gris el arco iris de la sociedad que le tocó vivir; un mundo triste que nos llevará a pensar en la felicidad; un universo de sueños para recuperar la fantasía; un canto a la ilusión y a la alegría; un sentido para sentir, y un bella forma para vivir… En paz.
Abbott and Costello were the most popular comedians of the 1940s, with burlesque-inspired routines that enthralled audiences on both radio and television.
The films, television shows, and graphic novel series that comprise the Whedonverse continually show that there is a high price to be paid for love, rebellion, heroism, anger, death, betrayal, friendship, and saving the world.
Fruto de una resaca y de unas palabras que nunca debió haber pronunciado en voz alta, el protagonista de esta novela revive ciertos episodios de su vida, a un lado de Emilio, su mejor amigo, quien lo acompaña durante aquel viaje en búsqueda del amor.
As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest, he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a work of science fiction.
The presentation of technology as a response to human want or need is a defining aspect of Black Mirror, a series that centers the transhumanist conviction that ontological deficiency is a solvable problem.
This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond.
American filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler may forever be remembered for his cult classic The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!
How did Friday the 13th begin as a movie about a grieving mother killing camp counselors and spawn a movie in which a nanobot enhanced, hockey masked man destroys a space station?
Science fiction and horror television shows predict how the world might be different if zombies were real, or if artificial intelligence could develop consciousness.
He aquí el desarrollo de diversos temas contemporáneos en que se advierte la capacidad prolífica del autor con la cual, además de mostrar un cierta originalidad, se pasea por temas cruciales de la filosofía y de las ciencias, como la relación entre razón analítica y razón dialéctica, la cultura y la educación, estos últimos en el marco de la Ilustración; el tema del amor y la felicidad; el desarrollo crítico de la ideología de la delincuencia de Michel Foucault, las determinaciones de la escuela de Frankfurt.
Un hombre atrapado en la rutina de una vida estable, sin riesgos, pero infeliz, recibe la visita de su yo interior a las 3: 30 de una noche cualquiera, y le asegura que todo va a estar bien.
El encuentro fortuito con un amor platónico de su juventud, tras veinte años de silencio y olvido, activará en Montesinos la evocación de una época que, bajo el dictamen implacable del tiempo y la experiencia, comenzará a mostrar las verdaderas fisuras de un orden que suponía inalterable.
Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms - Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl - mediate the tense relationship between neoliberalism and masculinities.
Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.
Revelaciones desde la llanura de mis privilegios es una antología poética consagrada a la valoración de la existencia como sujeto antagonista de la normatividad.
Using a range of interdisciplinary ideas, Major Reward and Recognition Events: Transformations and Critical Perspectives is an expert-led, informative volume exploring the global growth of major award shows and prize-giving ceremonies since the start of the twentieth century and outlining their key multimodal components, core functions and transformations over time.
Screen Style celebrates the beautiful, stylish and often covetable outfits and costumes featured in 50 iconic and diverse series of the small screen: from Mad Men to Call My Agent, Bridgerton to Empire.
