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Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, ...

Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, ...

Aaron Kerner

Interestingly,Caroline JoanS. Picart ... See Caroline Joan S. Picart, and Jason Grant McKahan, “Apt Pupil's Misogyny, Homoeroticismand Homophobia: ... 45 ( 2002): availableat http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc45.2002/picart/index.html.
Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and ...

Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and ...

Caroline Joan Picart

Between Laughter and Horror Caroline Joan Picart. 1. Frankenstein. as. Enduring. Cinemyth. The dark cavern of the cinema is reminiscent of a ceremonial sweat lodge, an initiation pit, the dark soul of the night, the belly of the fish, the ...
Inside Notes from the Outside

Inside Notes from the Outside

Caroline Joan Picart

In this innovative work of autoethnography, Caroline Picart weaves across letters, diary entries, newspaper articles, and visual art in an attempt to reconcile her personal experience with her professional identity as a philosopher and ...
The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film: Critical ...

The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film: Critical ...

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Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning (Palgrave Macmillan: 2012), 271–90, reproduced with permission of ... version of this publication is available from: http://us. macmillan.com/speakingofmonsters/CarolineJoanS Picart).
Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film

Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film

Caroline Joan Picart

In Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film, Picart and Frank challenge this classic horror frame—the narrative and visual borders used to demarcate monsters and the monstrous.
From Ballroom to DanceSport: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body ...

From Ballroom to DanceSport: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body ...

Caroline Joan Picart

An insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport.
The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer, ...

The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer, ...

Caroline Joan Picart

Showcases the versatility of the Frankenstein myth as expressed in the horror genre and provides a sustained critical analysis of the story's evolution over many decades, many studios, and many different styles of filmmaking.
Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance: ...

Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance: ...

Caroline Joan S. Picart

See AntheaKraut, “White Womanhood, PropertyRightsand theCampaign for ChoreographicCopyright: LoïeFuller's Serpentine Dance,” DanceResearch Journal43,no.1(Summer 2011):3. 81. SeeAlbright, Traces of Light, 185. 82. See Fullerv.
Critical Race Theory, Gender, American Modern Dance and ...

Critical Race Theory, Gender, American Modern Dance and ...

Caroline Joan Picart

I begin by examining the conditions of possibility within which a white and nonwhite aesthetic in relation to American dance may be characterized, not to totalize these analytic categories, but as a rough heuristic in order to do a ...
Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in ...

Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in ...

Christopher J. Olson

Jason C. Bivins, “By Demons Driven: Religious Teratologies,” in Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology, eds. Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2012), 107. 46. Cowan, “Horror and the ...
Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, ...

Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, ...

Caroline Joan Picart

This book traces in critical detail how Thomas Mann labors ambivalently on his own political artistry under the shadow of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings.
The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook

The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook

Caroline Joan Picart

Costumes: Rosemary Burrows Cast: Peter Cushing (Baron Victor Frankenstein/ Dr. Victor Stein), Francis Matthews (Dr. Hans Kleve), Eunice Gayson (Margaret), Michael Gvvynn (Karl/monster), John Welsh (Bergman), Lionel Jeffries (Fritz), ...
Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Lynn Avery Hunt

In the work's seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices.
Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond

Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond

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SocialScience&Medicine4(1):97–111. ———. 1969.“The Ritual Drama of the SanniDemons: Collective Representations of Disease in Ceylon.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 11(2): 174–216. Picart, Caroline JoanS. and Browning ...
Run Caroline Run: Caroline Rose

Run Caroline Run: Caroline Rose

J Fulton

Caroline has no choice but to protect her family. The Barbosa's go on the run, and Brackett has a field day discrediting Caroline within the United States government as long-time allies and friends turn their backs on her.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
The Secret of Caroline Rose

The Secret of Caroline Rose

Victoria Turner

Did he somehow think she could be linked in some way with Caroline Rose? But how could that be? She suddenly had an idea. Perhaps it might help if she read a little on the background of Caroline Rose and past members of the Royal ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

The night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Robin Blaetz

In Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson

G. Harcourt

This section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Deborah A. Fraioli

(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Dirk Arend Berents

The appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
A Dreadful Murder: The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard

A Dreadful Murder: The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard

Minette Walters

A body is found in the woods . . . Based on the true story of the shocking murder of Mrs Caroline Luard, which took place in Kent in August 1908. Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate.
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

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I am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in  ...
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography

Paul Douglass

I am indebted to Catriona Mills for insights into Lady Caroline's composition of the preface to Ada Reis. See “The Disappearing Author in Lady Caroline Lamb's Ada Reis,” paper delivered at the Work in Progress Conference, University of ...
The Operatic State: Cultural Policy and the Opera House

The Operatic State: Cultural Policy and the Opera House

Ruth Bereson

... to thank: Dr Desmond Allison, Dr Malcolm Anderton, Jo Caust, Professor Ian Eagles, Dr Doranne Fenoltea, Alison Fraser, Dr Fujin Gao, Professor Caroline Gardiner, Sarah Gardner, Dr France Guillemonat, Dr Michael Hammet, Joan Jeffri , ...
Shark Island

Shark Island

Joan Druett

Praise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
The Fordhams and related families

The Fordhams and related families

Jane Whitaker Fordham

Alice Joan Koonce married first Dr. J. H. Scarborough and a second time to Charles C. Smith. ... Susan Caroline Koonce married a second time to Frank S. Koonce and became the mother of the following children: Fannie Koonce, Clyde  ...
Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, ...

Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, ...

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Caroline's revelation will change the way you think. This book is the owner's manual for how our brains work.

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