The Monster as War Machine
Author | : Mabel Moraña |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781621963875 |
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Author | : Mabel Moraña |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781621963875 |
Author | : Mabel Moraña |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781604979862 |
In The Monster as War Machine, European monster tradition intersects with American mass-media production and new philosophical approaches to examine topics of community, political power, alternative representations of race and gender, identity, hybridity, political agency, and collective subjectivity. In this book, cultural theory, close readings of literary texts, and interpretations of visual materials come together, covering a wide and diversified cultural territory. Some of the authors included in this study are Agamben, Badiou, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Esposito, Foucault, Freud, Haraway, Hardt, Kristeva, Marx, Negri, and Zizek, whose works illuminate the disruptive and at times emancipatory role of monstrosity as a representation of excess, instinct, evil, truth, and rebelliousness. This book is an important resource for those studying film, contemporary literature, and popular culture. This book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series headed by Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.
Author | : Alan Gratz |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466838523 |
The Monster War is the third book in the action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz. Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny. Wielding the Dragon Lantern, the maniacal Philomena Moffett has turned her back on the Septemberist Society, creating her own Shadow League and unleashing a monster army on the American continent. Archie and his friends must race to find the last two members of their league in time to thwart Moffett's plan and rescue humanity once more. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Patrick Wright |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Chronicles the creation and evolution of the tank, discussing the tank's infancy during the First World War and the Russian Revolution, through its use in the Six Day War and the Gulf War.
Author | : Diarmuid Jeffreys |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2010-01-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466833297 |
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF—continue to play key roles in the global market. IG Farben itself, however, is remembered mostly for its infamous connections to the Nazi Party and its complicity in the atrocities of the Holocaust. After the war, Farben's leaders were tried for crimes that included mass murder and exploitation of slave labor. In Hell's Cartel, Diarmuid Jeffreys presents the first comprehensive account of IG Farben's rise and fall, tracing the enterprise from its nineteenth-century origins, when the discovery of synthetic dyes gave rise to a vibrant new industry, through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the company's fateful role in World War II. Drawing on extensive research and original interviews, Hell's Cartel sheds new light on the codependence of industry and the Third Reich, and offers a timely warning against the dangerous merger of politics and the pursuit of profit.
Author | : Greg Pak |
Publisher | : Marvel Entertainment |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2014-03-05 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 078517981X |
Collects War Machine #6-12.ÿ When Jim Rhodes returns home he comes face-to-face with American Eagle, two visions of America clash with earth-shattering results that may irrevocably change War Machine and the nation he loves!
Author | : Chris Peers |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783400560 |
As a soldier and general, statesman and empire-builder, Genghis Khan is an almost legendary figure. His remarkable achievements and his ruthless methods have given rise to a sinister reputation. As Chris Peers shows, in this concise and authoritative study, he possessed exceptional gifts as a leader and manager of men - he ranks among the greatest military commanders - but he can only be properly understood in terms of the Mongol society and traditions he was born into. So the military and cultural background of the Mongols, and the nature of steppe societies and their armies, are major themes of his book. He looks in detail at the military skills, tactics and ethos of the Mongol soldiers, and at the advantages and disadvantages they had in combat with the soldiers of more settled societies. His book offers a fascinating fresh perspective on Genghis Khan the man and on the armies he led.
Author | : Dave Gibbons |
Publisher | : Kitchen Sink Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781568620183 |
Author | : Carl Boggs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 135154361X |
The newly expanded and revised edition of The Hollywood War Machine includes wide-ranging exploration of numerous popular military-themed films that have appeared in the close to a decade since the first edition was published. Within the Hollywood movie community, there has not been even the slightest decline in well-financed pictures focusing on warfare and closely-related motifs. The second edition includes a new chapter on recent popular films and another that analyzes the relationship between these movies and the bourgeoning gun culture in the United States, marked in recent years by a dramatic increase in episodes of mass killings.
Author | : Steffen Hantke |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-06-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1496805666 |
During the 1950s and early 1960s, the American film industry produced a distinct cycle of films situated on the boundary between horror and science fiction. Using the familiar imagery of science fiction--from alien invasions to biological mutation and space travel--the vast majority of these films subscribed to the effects and aesthetics of horror film, anticipating the dystopian turn of many science fiction films to come. Departing from projections of American technological awe and optimism, these films often evinced paranoia, unease, fear, shock, and disgust. Not only did these movies address technophobia and its psychological, social, and cultural corollaries; they also returned persistently to the military as a source of character, setting, and conflict. Commensurate with a state of perpetual mobilization, the US military comes across as an inescapable presence in American life. Regardless of their genre, Steffen Hantke argues that these films have long been understood as allegories of the Cold War. They register anxieties about two major issues of the time: atomic technologies, especially the testing and use of nuclear weapons, as well as communist aggression and/or subversion. Setting out to question, expand, and correct this critical argument, Hantke follows shifts and adjustments prompted by recent scholarly work into the technological, political, and social history of America in the 1950s. Based on this revised historical understanding, science fiction films appear in a new light as they reflect on the troubled memories of World War II, the emergence of the military-industrial complex, the postwar rewriting of the American landscape, and the relative insignificance of catastrophic nuclear war compared to America's involvement in postcolonial conflicts around the globe.