The Many Lives Of Scary Clowns
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| Author | : Ron Riekki |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2022-05-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476680914 |
The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.
| Author | : Ron Riekki |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2024-07-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476652473 |
With a worldwide box office of more than a half-billion dollars, The Purge franchise has become one of the top horror franchises in film history, with many reviewers wowed by the concept of the series and differentiating on the execution. With five films and a TV show (and another film possibly in the works), the series seems unstoppable. The franchise's main concept taps into underlying tensions throughout America. The vast differences between the films are largely due to the ever-changing casts, including actors, writers, and directors, so that each film has its own unique commentary, sometimes getting right at the nerve of social issues that seem to be best discussed in fictional worlds' metaphors and parables. Acclaimed film and television critics and horror scholars such as Dale Bailey, Jason V. Brock, Chesya Burke, Lisa Morton, Katherine A. Troyer, and Kevin J. Wetmore give a wide range of analyses of just what The Purge films are saying about modern-day America and the world. Essays in the collection examine politics, violence, Trump, Freud, class issues, feminism, race, and more.
| Author | : Ron Riekki |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476681015 |
More than sixty years after the The Twilight Zone debuted on television, the show remains a cultural phenomenon, including a feature film, three television reboots, a comic book series, a magazine and a theatrical production. This collection of new essays offers a roadmap through a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. Scholars, writers, artists and contributors to the 1980s series investigate the many incarnations of Rod Serling's influential vision through close readings of episodes, explorations of major themes and first-person accounts of working on the show.
| Author | : Mark A. Fabrizi |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2023-12-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1538166054 |
Stories of vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches, goblins, mummies, and other supernatural creatures have existed for time immemorial, and scary stories are among the earliest types of fiction ever recorded. Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature is an invaluable aid in studying horror literature, including influential authors, texts, terms, subgenres, and literary movements. This book contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries covering authors, subgenres, tropes, awards, organizations, and important terms related to horror. Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about horror literature.
| Author | : Kitty Wells |
| Publisher | : Balboa Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2018-10-05 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1504395522 |
Ho'oponopono is an elegant and easy ancient Hawaiian healing and forgiveness practice, available to everyone. Although designed for middle grade readers, I Love You, Clowns Are Scary appeals as well to the inquiring minds of college students and their grandparents. Book One tells the story of Dakota's dream-like inner quest to save a lost and frightened child and the discovery of a magical way for a very scary problem to be transformed. In Book Two, Dakota continues to explore Ho'oponopono at school with the help of some mentors and friends and shares with the reader a fun way, Slo-mo-pono, to have a similar letting go experience. Throughout this introduction to Ho'oponopono, the conscious and subconscious are explored, as well as the superconscious, the spiritual center deep within the mind. The chapter of meditations offers simple ways to clear the mind and strengthen one’s Ho’oponopono practice.The Many Teachers section introduces the reader to important aspects of the Ho’oponopono perspective: the freeing gifts of healing energy, meditation, responsibility, letting go, gratitude, and love. The last chapter, the Psychotherapeutic Connection, is for parents, teachers, therapists and students of psychology of any age. Included are the author’s journey and an exploration of psychotherapeutic approaches using Ho’oponopono.
| Author | : Alissa Burger |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2023-01-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1802078975 |
Drawing on critical analysis of film, the horror genre, the Gothic, and Stephen King scholarship, this book considers Andy Muschietti’s IT Chapter One (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019) on multiple levels: as film (both as individual films and through their interconnected narrative), as adaptation, and as a barometer of the horror film’s popularity among fans. Key points of consideration include the significance of the fictional town of Derry as a traditionally Gothic “bad place,” the role of 1980s nostalgia in these two films, the complex navigation of memory and trauma, gender representation, queer representation, and the return of the repressed. The terrifying figure of Pennywise the clown is central to this analysis, including consideration of performance, costuming, and significance within the larger landscape of the “scary clown” popular culture trope, and through comparison to Tim Curry’s iconic performance in Tommy Lee Wallace’s 1990 miniseries. This Devil's Advocate contextualizes Muschietti’s films within the larger landscape of King’s literary and popular culture influence, as well as the debate surrounding “elevated” horror and the “horror boom” of the late 2010s.
| Author | : Benjamin Radford |
| Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0826356664 |
A short history of the earliest clowns -- The despicable rogue Mr. Punch -- The unnatural nature of the evil clown -- Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns -- Bad clowns of the Ink -- Bad clowns of the Screen -- Bad clowns of the Song -- The carnal carnival: Buffoon boffing and clown sex -- Creepy, criminal, and killer clowns -- Activist clowns -- Crazed caged carny clowns -- The phantom clowns -- Troll clowns and the future of bad clowns
| Author | : Raymond Christian |
| Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2013-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1621475603 |
The train appears a little dark in color and mysterious. Its boxcars have titles like spray-painted graffiti on its walls, with their doors half open with a dark, mysterious interior. As you are now stuck in traffic and look into one of the slightly open doors of one of the boxcar's dark portions, a familiar face emerges from the shadows. Unfamiliar sights and sounds begin to occur around you. The train continues to very slowly move forward. From another boxcar, you hear a prophetic voice calling your name from the darkness. You look, but no one is there. Like a slow-moving train, author Raymond Christian presents a number of stories to his readers. Each story passes on the tracks and allows the reader a peek inside the car. In each car lies wisdom and truth. Readers can use this book a resource for Bible studies, small groups, and even simply as entertainment. Read Raymond Christian's The Storyteller for a deeper look into your faith and the power of the story.
| Author | : Debra L. Gridley |
| Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2021-04-12 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1098065662 |
A good life is when you smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how blessed you are for what you have.If you are an introvert or someone who experiences bouts of depression, do you want to laugh more and be more engaging with people in your life? If so, then this book is for you. I hope some of these stories, poems, and facts about overcoming deep challenges may encourage you too.Ralph Waldo Emerson says, "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."I have researched the Bible and other sources on laughter. In this book, I share personal stories that will have you seeking more avenues on how to laugh yourself out of times that are most difficult. Even with depression or anxiety, you can make changes that create a positive spin in your life.Laughter is necessary to our well-being and to our aliveness. Some people think it is a waste of time. They say it's something to indulge in only sporadically. I say: laughter every day keeps the doctor away. If you are not well, laughter helps us to get better; if we are well, it helps us to stay well. Choosing to laugh gives us power to affect how we feel.
| Author | : Michael Azerrad |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2012-12-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0316247189 |
The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized American rock with punk's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is an indie rock classic in its own right. The bands profiled include: Sonic Youth Black Flag The Replacements Minutemen Husker Du Minor Threat Mission of Burma Butthole Surfers Big Black Fugazi Mudhoney Beat Happening Dinosaur Jr.
