![]() ![]() Benshoff’s somewhat exhaustive study Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film Barker remains a somewhat marginal figure. As Richard Dyer points out in The Culture of Queers, “We will miss much lesbian and gay cultural production if we restrict ourselves to what fits in with our own codes and conventions of lesbian/gay culture.” 2Ĭlive Barker is an openly gay author, painter and film director, but while elements of his novels are celebrated for their queerness, it often seems that his films are regarded not as queer they are simply films that happen to be made by a gay man. Clive Barker’s debut feature Hellraiser (1987) is viewed by many as a landmark feature in the horror genre, but is seldom included in the canon of queer cinema. What is it that makes a film queer? Is it the overall content, that degree of camp in the actor’s portrayals, the sexual orientation of the director, or the message that it carries? Sometimes a film is unabashedly and undeniably queer, and other times it may take a more rigorous study to find the elements that identify it as such. Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser "Demons to some, angels to others"īy Colin Arason Volume 18, Issues 6-7 / July 2014 14 minutes (3385 words)įor some of us, monsters are welcome opportunities to be different, to act in anti-normal ways, hideous and beautiful at the same time… ![]()
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USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture ![]() ![]() Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latinx and Latin American Studies ![]() ![]() The new edition updates and corrects the previous edition, adds a new Foreword, and changes the subtitle to describe more precisely what the book is about–The Politics of Food Safety. How concerned should we be about such problems? Who is responsible for preventing them? Who benefits from ignoring them? Who decides? Finally, the events of September 11, 2001, heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists. 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Thanks to this deeper, innate understanding of the conceptual metaphor, we are able to replace the first domain, the professor, with any representative of the second domain, the snake. “For example, the expression the professor is a snake is really a token of something more general, namely, the conceptual metaphor ” (Danesi, 2004: 107). ![]() The example provided by Danesi is particularly appropriate for considering the messages of advertising. They refer to the result of the linkage as a conceptual metaphor” (Danesi, 2004: 107). “The two scholars add a remarkable twist to the Aristotelian distinction, namely that abstract concepts are linked systematically to concrete ones via metaphor. The concept of the conceptual metaphor is brought forward by Lakoff and Johnson, who were building off the ideas of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. 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Fifty year old Aubrey de Gray is the heavily bearded (think "Duck Dynasty") founder of the SENS Foundation, which is dedicated to stopping/correcting the aging process. Andrews is convinced human beings can live forever. Bill Andrews is 61 years old, runs ultra-marathons, and his catchphrase is "cure aging, or die trying". Co-directors David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg introduce us to two of the world's leading anti-aging scientists, and neither of them specializes in facelifts. These days most tend to define anti-aging as the desire to look younger vitamins, lotions, botox, and plastic surgery all thrive in a society obsessed with never looking old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Flux By: Kim Fielding Narrated by: Joel Leslie Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins Unabridged. Your first book is Free with trial Sign In Browse. Audible provides the highest quality audio and narration. ![]() ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Flux (Ennek Trilogy Book 2). 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As such, it will not help the handful of people who want mathematical models to summarise MMT. The Deficit Myth is aimed at a wide audience, which means that it is largely non-technical. I expect that I will have pieces later discussing the contents of the book in detail.) Other than the old MMT/post-Keynesian internecine conflicts, almost no citations are made of any texts written by academic MMTers.īook Audience (Note: I am mainly focusing on discussing the audience for this book, and not attempting to do a formal review. ![]() There has been fairly intense criticism of MMT in traditional and social media as well as financial market commentary for over a year now, and my estimate that over 90% of those critiques were based on beliefs that were largely made up, and quite often the opposite of the MMT view. This is welcome, as by putting MMT on the map, we might see something resembling a debate around it. So far, the book has sold well, and generated discussion and reviews. The book provides a clean introduction to MMT, and how it fits in with fiscal policy and the political process. Stephanie Kelton's the Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (affiliate link) has been a long-awaited book from a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) proponent that was the Chief Economist for the Democratic Party on the Senate Budget Committee. ![]() |