Authors: Claude Lecouteux

Description: A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics • Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi • Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial records Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers. Digging through these forgotten records, Claude Lecouteux unearths a very different figure of the vampire in the many accounts of individuals who reportedly would return from their graves to attack the living. These ancestors of the modern vampire were not all blood suckers; they included shroud eaters, appesarts, nightmares, and the curious figure of the stafia, whose origin is a result of masons secretly interring the shadow of a living human being in the wall of a building under construction. As Lecouteux shows, the belief in vampires predates ancient Roman times, which abounded with lamia, stirges, and ghouls. Discarding the tacked together explanations of modern science for these inexplicable phenomena, the author looks back to another folk belief that has come down through the centuries like that of the undead: the existence of multiple souls in every individual, not all of which are able to move on to the next world after death.

Langue: en

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit

Authors: Estelle Valls de Gomis

Description: Etude issue d'une thèse de doctorat de littérature anglaise, sur les vampires, leurs représentations et leurs caractéristiques dans la littérature, l'imaginaire populaire, les adaptations littéraires au cinéma, etc.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions Cheminements

Categories: Vampires

Authors: Claude Lecouteux

Description: O vampiro faz parte da história desconhecida da humanidade, ele tem um papel e uma função; não brotou do nada no século XVII ou XVIII! Ele se inscreve num conjunto complexo de representações da morte e da vida, que sobreviveu até nossos dias, certamente com uma riqueza bem menor do que naquele passado distante que temos tendência a confundir com séculos de obscurantismo, aquelas épocas remotas e ignorantes que baniram as Luzes da razão. Apoiando-se em testemunhos de primeira mão, o objetivo desse livro é fazer um trabalho de desmistificação, encontrar o objeto de uma crença ancestral e descobrir o contexto mental em que se arraigou a noção de vampiro, porque essa ancoragem no real é o que há de mais importante, nem que seja apenas por sua dimensão antropológica.

Langue: pt-BR

Publisher: UNESP

Categories: Social Science

Authors: Albert Montagne

Description: 3 parties : d'abord les monstres humains, ensuite les hybrides (créatures de l'imaginaire) et les non humains. Le spectacle de tant de créatures difformes, pantelantes, cruelles, attirantes, désespérantes, est au fond le prétexte à interroger la complexité de l'homme par le truchement d'un miroir volontairement déformant.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Charles Corlet

Categories: Horror films

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Description: Philosophy, Religion, Social sciences, Law, Education, Economy, Exact and natural sciences, Medicine, Science and technology, Agriculture, Management, Architecture, Art, History, Sport, Biography, Literature.

Langue: un

Publisher:

Categories: Translations

Authors: Matthew Bunson

Description: With over 2,000 entries in A-to-Z format,THE VAMPIRE ENCYCLOPEDIAis a one-stop reference for everything and anything to do with vampires, from books and films to the history of the vampire legend and ways to RESIST THESE IRRESISTIBLE CREATURES. The vampire is alive and flourishing in books, hit television shows, clubs, even comic books—there's no end in sight for the immortal ones!

Langue: en

Publisher: Gramercy

Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit

Authors: Dan Dietz

Description: Despite an often unfair reputation as being less popular, less successful, or less refined than their bona-fide Broadway counterparts, Off Broadway musicals deserve their share of critical acclaim and study. A number of shows originally staged Off Broadway have gone on to their own successful Broadway runs, from the ever-popular A Chorus Line and Rent to more off-beat productions like Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. And while it remains to be seen if other popular Off Broadway shows like Stomp, Blue Man Group, and Altar Boyz will make it to the larger Broadway theaters, their Off Broadway runs have been enormously successful in their own right. This book discusses more than 1,800 Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, showcase, and workshop musical productions. It includes detailed descriptions of Off Broadway musicals that closed in previews or in rehearsal, selected musicals that opened in Brooklyn and in New Jersey, and American operas that opened in New York, along with general overviews of Off Broadway institutions such as the Light Opera of Manhattan. The typical entry includes the name of the host theater or theaters; the opening date and number of performances; the production's cast and creative team; a list of songs; a brief plot synopsis; and general comments and reviews from the New York critics. Besides the individual entries, the book also includes a preface, a bibliography, and 21 appendices including a discography, filmography, a list of published scripts, and lists of musicals categorized by topic and composer.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Performing Arts

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Langue: en

Publisher: R. R. Bowker

Categories: Reference

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Langue: en

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Categories: Paperbacks

Authors: A. Sims

Description: In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells s fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America s use of lynching as a tool to regulate behavior and the manner in which public opinion is shaped and lived out in the private sector. Ethical Complications of Lynching highlights the residual effects of lynching as a twenty-first century moral impediment in the fight to actualize ethical possibilities.

Langue: en

Publisher: Springer

Categories: Philosophy

Authors: Hillstrom

Description: Each of the 635 entries in this revised and illustrated edition includes a biography and a complete filmography for each of the film stars.

Langue: en

Publisher: Saint James Press

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Tom Pendergast ,Sara Pendergast

Description: Contains over two thousand entries, arranged alphabetically within four volumes, that provide information about significant films, actors and actresses, directors, and writers and production artists in North American, British, and West European cinematic history. Includes photographs and indexes.

Langue: en

Publisher: Saint James Press

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

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Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Audiobooks

Authors: Tom Dalzell

Description: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.

Langue: en

Publisher: Routledge

Categories: Foreign Language Study

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature

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Langue: en

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Categories: Motion pictures

Authors: John Walker

Description: More than 23,000 entries provide plot summaries, a star rating, and information on casts, writers, directors, producers, awards, and alternate titles, with quotations from contemporary reviews.

Langue: en

Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Jim Craddock

Description: Reviews movies that are available on DVD or tape. Each entry includes title, alternate title, one-to four-bone rating, year released, MPAA rating, brief review, length, format, country of origin, cast, technical personnel, awards and made-for-television/cable/video designations.

Langue: en

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Categories: Performing Arts

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature