The unspoken details about Dracula's tortured, trusted pawn, R.M. Renfield--the insectivorous lunatic who acts as a haunted harbinger of Dracula's arrival in England in Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula"--are brought to light.
A novel about the obsession of a man for a movie, and for the secrets illuminated in its flickering frame. In a fading porno cinema a young man watches a movie called "Throat Sprockets" and is irrevocably changed. He becomes so obsessed by the movie that he is willing to sacrifice everything else.
Released in 1983, David Cronenberg's Videodrome is one of his most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. Crossing the boundary between science fiction, horror, and social criticism, Videodrome remains a unique and brilliant work in the oeuvre of cinema's greatest maverick. Tim Lucas ...
Many fish species that occur in fresh water make journeys between habitats in response to seasonal changes, reproductive patterns, feeding needs and so on. Many workers are familiar with the migrations made by salmon and anguillid eels for example, but may be less so with many other freshwater species. This new title redresses this balance by ...
Tara Chace is a spy - a Minder for Britain's Special Section. Her missions are dangerous, clandestine, and, more often than not, require a rather grey sense of morality. Greg Rucka is her writer - a prose novelist who has also lent his pen to several award-winning comic books. His work is topical, extremely well-researched, and totally ...
Thanks to the recent successes of directors and actors like John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat, the cinema of Hong Kong is increasingly popular worldwide, and there is much more to this diverse film culture than most Western audiences realize. Beyond martial arts and comedy, Hong Kong films are a celebration of the grand diversity and ...
Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics, anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through a time-span from Ancient Greece to the present day, and a geographical coverage ...
The study of race has become increasingly important in many academic disciplines, feeding on the trend in cultural theory to move more towards considerations of perception and representation of other landscapes, peoples and societies, and from a questioning of colonial and post-colonial influences on literature in general. This text presents the ...
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