Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation.
A cynical and narcissistic Italian journalist travels around Scotland to report on the Scottish independence referendum. His encounters and adventures provide a complex yet humorous take on the question of nation in the present day.
Allan Cameron's second volume of poetry is more varied in style and content, but continues with some narrative poetry in the mix and to dispense almost entirely with the "self-as-subject" as Seumas Heaney defined poetry since the Romantics.
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Excerpt from Great Men and Movements of the Christian ChurchThe lectures make no claim to original research or academic merit, and I regret the ministerial duties of a large congrega tion have prevented me from complete and thorough-going revision, and on that account I cannot vouch for absolute accuracy in detail.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...
Excerpt from The Religious Communities of the Church of EnglandIn some of the Active Communities it has been found possible and advantageous to have an Inner Community of Contemplatives, and this is perhaps the best way of proceeding when the whole or a portion of a Community is feeling the gradual draw to the Life of pure contempla tion and Interior Prayer, especially where it is centred round the Blessed Sacrament.About the PublisherForgotte...
Visceral Screens argues eloquently for horror's centrality to essential debates in contemporary film and media studies theory. By framing horror beyond conventional notions of cautionary or anxious relations to media technologies, Allan Cameron presents a fascinating new account of horror as an 'intermediate' genre: between meanings encompassing bodies, images, and image-bodies.' Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh Horror cinema grants b...
A collection of short stories that explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity, generational change, single parenthood, domestic violence, the tragic complexity of revolution, police brutality, artistic hubris, and the limitations of rationalism.
This collection of radical, now humorous now dark and pessimistic short stories was conceived as a whole, and some characters populate more than one story. Stylistically bold and varied, the books challenges the conformism that dominates so much witing in this consumerist age.
Set in England in 2048, this political satire tells the story of how Adolphus Hibbert's Berlusconi Bonus, a licence to a life of uninhibited decadence, leads him into a sequence of sexual enconters and a sinister geometry of loyalties and betrayals. This new edition has an introduction by Ilan Pappe and an aferword by Alessandro Barbero.
A collection of poetry in English and Italian, with an introductory essay on the need to move away from "self-as-subject" and towards a more public discourse in poetry. (The Italian poems come with translations into English).
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A miscellaneous work consisting of three sections: aphorisms, essays and poetry. It deals with Scottish independence, the arts, religion, class in modern Britain, and host of other issues. Some overlap between the subject matter in the three sections, so the different approaches produce slightly different understandings.
In Praise of the Garrulous examines how language developed and was influenced by technology (mainly writing and printing). This raises some important questions concerning the "ecology" of language, and how any degradation it suffers might affect "not only our competence in organising ourselves socially and politically, but also our inner selves.
