This two-volume set provides a comprehensive guide to the vast array of feminine divine figures found throughout the world. A fascinating exploration of the relationship between American culture and music as defined by musicians, scholars, and critics from around the world. This new edition of the most comprehensive A-Z e-guide to DC's pantheon of Super Heroes and Super-Villains includes the latest earth-shaking developments in the DC Multiverse, with profiles of more than 1, characters.
Created in full collaboration with DC, the encyclopedia features characters and art from every key crossover event, including Dark Nights: Metal and its sequel Dark Nights: Death Metal. With a foreword by DC legend Jim Lee, a brand-new cover design, and thrilling comic artwork, the fun and excitement of more than 80 years of comics history explodes off every page. Entertainment Inc. Monsters figure prominently in classic works of literature as well as in films and stories intended for a wide audience.
Since Darwin's time, most of these imaginary beasts have taken the form of natural creatures, rather than supernatural ones. This volume explores both literary and cinematic texts that are especially explicit in their depiction of beasts in Darwinian terms, though these same monsters retain an archaic mythological aspect.
The myth of Leviathan and Behemoth, for instance, is at the heart of Jaws as much as it is central to Moby-Dick; indeed, Jaws inherits the myth directly from Moby-Dick, as does King Kong.
These and other monster tales keep the myth alive by retelling it in the context of biological and cultural evolution. There is a pattern of alternating bestialization and anthropomorphism in many monster tales, suggesting that these images are being displayed in repeated attempts to define who we are in relation to animals.
As fables of identity, these tales dramatize our anxieties and fears concerning our own animal nature and help us come to terms with our own evolution. This supplement covers topics ranging from academic library funding to visual information querying.
The first edition of ELL , Ron Asher, Editor was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.
The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field. An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since , plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series. Spanning the decades from the s onward it examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A.
The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality. The encyclopedia is divided into two volumes: Topics and Cultures. The combination of topical overviews and varying cultural portraits is what makes this encyclopedia a unique reference work for students, researchers and teachers interested in gender studies and cross-cultural variation in sex and gender.
It deserves a place in the library of every university and every social science and health department. Contents:- Glossary. Cultural Conceptions of Gender. Gender Roles, Status, and Institutions. Sexuality and Male-Female Interaction. Sex and Gender in the World's Cultures.
Culture Name Index. Subject Index. With more gold albums than any other American band, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in This encyclopedia of all things KISS provides detailed information on their songs, albums, tours, television and movie appearances, merchandise, solo work and much more, including replacement members Eric Carr, Vinnie Vincent, Bruce Kulick, Mark St.
John, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer. But one day, an absolute announcement declares that the number of magical girls has risen too high and must be cut down to half. Sixteen young maidens are thrust into a merciless, deadly contest to survive They, with older brothers Bill and Ray, had a strong love of the movies, which was aided by their father building their first television set in After growing to adulthood, Ray made a living as a screenplay writer, and Tom and Jim pursued a less successful career as actors.
They also turned to writing, having a book, Growing Up on the Set, a book based on former child performers in Hollywood, published in They have also interviewed over one hundred and fifty actors—these interviews serve as the basis for this book. They reside in Ben Lomond, California, where they are active in the local theater.
In between their writing and acting they enjoy travel, having recently visited Nepal and India where they trekked in the Himalaya Mountains. The compendium serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor volume The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia McFarland [] , which covered movies from up until the late s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents.
An appendix offers shorter entries for more than shorts and serials. He was stolen as a child from his home in New Jersey, yoked to servitude for more than forty years in Kentucky and Alabama, and finally freed with the help of a pair of Jewish brothers.
It is the only nineteenth-century slave narrative to show the participation of the Jews in the antislavery movement before the Civil War. The reader follows Still through a succession of brutal masters, a clandestine courtship, marriage involving separation, births and deaths, the formation of a daring plan for freedom, and harrowing action.
No stage drama could be as wrenching as this true rendering of a slave's experience in America. Kate E. The original introduction by Rev. Samuel J. May, an abolitionist, has been retained. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages.
It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market. Over entries written by experts in the field are accompanied by an overview introduction by the editor. Generic entries such as 'ghost' and 'vampire' are cross-listed with important specific manifestations of that monster.
In addition to monsters appearing in English-language literature and film, the Encyclopedia also includes significant monsters in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, African and Middle Eastern traditions. Alphabetically organized, the entries each feature suggestions for further reading.
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