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Author: Sakurako Gokurakuin
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Published: 2006-03-28
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781597960953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Talk about freaky beginnings ... Asagi - director of the Nanami Detective Agency - is a talented sleuth and his 'Special' abilities make him a formidable fighter. But has the HDA bitten off more freak than they can chew in this next sultry but exciting volume?"--Publisher description.
Author: Gakurakuin Sakurako
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Published: 2007-02-20
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781597960960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The world is occupied by evil spirits preying off human weaknesses and desires. But what mortal can resist possession by these "freaks" when they can make dreams reality? And what price is there to pay for the wicked union of these spirits and their human hosts? Enter Nanami Paranormal Investigations where director Asagi Nanami utilizes his own talents and supernatural aid to keep these spirits away from the folly of human weaknesses. But can they succeed when the fruit of evil is so sweet?
Author: Xebec
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Published: 2005-09-13
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781597960601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shima joins the space academy and begins her training as a programmer and pilot.
Author: Gokurakuin Sakurako
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Published: 2005-07
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781588993007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The shocking identity of the JUNK suit is revealed! But now, Hiro must save the pop idol Manami and her fans from the ticking time bomb. Also, his secret crush Ryoko is missing and Hiro, even beyond JUNK's x-ray and thermograph search. Will he be able to rescue her before any harm is done to her?
Author: Nancy Bombaci
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780820478326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms «late modernist freakish aesthetics» - a creative fusion of «high» and «low» themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about «freaks» by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies. These works are marked by an acceptance of the disteleology, anarchy, and degeneration that racist discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries associated with racial and ethnic outsiders, particularly Jews. In a period of American culture beset with increasing pressures for social and political conformity and with the threat of fascism from Europe, these late modernist narratives about «freaks» defy oppressive norms and values as they search for an anarchic and transformational creativity.
Author: Damien Echols
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0595357016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Almost Home" is a message to you from a faraway place. It is a message from a 12-foot by 9-foot cell in a cinderblock building surrounded by coils of razor wire in the middle of a dirt field in Arkansas. It was written by a young man named Damien Echols and it chronicles his life and his experiences in a way that clearly illuminates him, not as a monster, but as a human being. For over 10 years Damien has been an inmate on death row for a crime he did not commit. He, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley have become known as The West Memphis Three, and though the story of their arrest and conviction is widely known, most people don't know the real people behind the sound bites and the TV news segment clips. Damien has spent much of his time behind bars diligently maintaining his integrity and his sanity by writing."Almost Home" is the product of that self-discipline, and in it you will meet someone who has survived an ordeal many of us would find impossible to live through. There are a few who still believe that Damien is a devil-worshipping child killer, but as time passes and more facts rise to the surface, it becomes even more clear that he is the victim of a peculiar species of hysteria. Read this book and know the truth about him. It is an urgent message from death row; the whole story of who Damien Echols really is.
Author: Niall Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1317007395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, arguing that popular cultural representations create the transgressive or freak body and then proceed to either contain its threat or (s)exploit it. Through studies of extreme bodybuilding, obesity, disability and transsexed bodies, it examines the implications of such transgressive bodies for gender politics and sexuality. Transgressive Bodies engages with contemporary cultural debates, always relating these to concrete studies of media and cultural representations. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural theory.
Author: Angela Smith
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012-01-24
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0231527853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of sexual repression or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, yet Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. She finds instead a fascination with eugenics and physical and cognitive debility in the narrative and spectacle of classic 1930s horror, heightened by the viewer's desire for visions of vulnerability and transformation. Reading such films as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Freaks (1932), and Mad Love (1935) against early-twentieth-century disability discourse and propaganda on racial and biological purity, Smith showcases classic horror's dependence on the narratives of eugenics and physiognomics. She also notes the genre's conflicted and often contradictory visualizations. Smith ultimately locates an indictment of biological determinism in filmmakers' visceral treatments, which take the impossibility of racial improvement and bodily perfection to sensationalistic heights. Playing up the artifice and conventions of disabled monsters, filmmakers exploited the fears and yearnings of their audience, accentuating both the perversity of the medical and scientific gaze and the debilitating experience of watching horror. Classic horror films therefore encourage empathy with the disabled monster, offering captive viewers an unsettling encounter with their own impairment. Smith's work profoundly advances cinema and disability studies, in addition to general histories concerning the construction of social and political attitudes toward the Other.
Author: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1996-10
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780814782224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal. Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.
Author: Hiroshi Ohnogi
Publisher: DrMaster Publications
Published: 2005-08-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781597960007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relive events from the anime plus untold stories from a 1st person perspective, seen through the eyes of the various characters in the Raxephon mythos. Tokyo has been quarantined off from the rest of the world in every way by the mysterious otherworldly "Mu". As a result, a new liberation force rises from the confusion.
