Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this paradoxical experience? The...
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The way deviant women - murderesses, witches, vampires - are perceived and represented reveals much about what a society considers the norm for acceptable female behaviour. Drawing on ext...
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Examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful nations around the globe--including the U.S., Britain and the U.S.S.R.--to rely on traditional power politics after World War II, desp...
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A collection of twenty-four short stories by the influential horror writer--either by himself or in collaboration with others--includes masterful works of the macabre, dark fantasy, and t...
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