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  • Blumhouse Productions

    The New House of Horror

    Series series Horror Studies
    Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse’s cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and toxic masculinity. Blumhouse’s business strategies and funding model are considered – including the ... Leer más

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  • A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies

    Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfounded Films about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy. But while horror fans are attracted to movies designed to scare us, others shudder already at the thought of the sweat-drenched nightmares that terrifying movies often trigger. The fear of sleepless nights and the widespread ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Why Horror Seduces

    From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social sciences. ... Leer más

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  • Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This pioneering volume offers an expansive introduction to the relatively new field of evolutionary studies in imaginative culture. Contributors from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and the humanities probe the evolved human imagination and its artefacts. The book forcefully demonstrates that imagination is part of human nature. Contributors explore imaginative culture in seven main areas ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies

    Narrado por Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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    Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfoundedFilms about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy. But while horror fans are attracted to movies designed to scare us, others shudder already at the thought of the sweatdrenched nightmares that terrifying movies often trigger. The fear of sleeplessnights and the widespread ... Leer más

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  • Telling True Stories

    A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

    Edición de Mark Kramer, Wendy Call ...
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  • The Storytelling Animal

    How Stories Make Us Human

    "Insightful...draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us."— The New York Times Book ReviewHumans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's ... Leer más

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  • Language at the Speed of Sight

    How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It

    In this "important, alarming" (New York Times) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel.The way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot continue. We have largely abandoned phonics-based reading instruction, despite research that supports its importance for word recognition. Rather than treating Black English as a ... Leer más

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  • Children's Literature

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  • Neurodiversity

    Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences

    A new term has emerged from the disability movement in the past decade to help change the way we think about neurological disorders: Neurodiversity.ADHD. Dyslexia. Autism. The number of categories of illnesses listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the past fifty years. With so many people affected by our growing -- culture of disabilities, -- it no longer makes sense to ... Leer más

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  • Frames of Mind

    The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

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  • Everything and Less

    The Novel in the Age of Amazon

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