Download or read book The Monster in the Machine written by Zakiya Hanafi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian life and culture from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries to show how monsters were conceptualized at this particular locale and historical juncture—a period when the sacred was being supplanted by a secular, decidedly nonmagical way of looking at the world. Noting that the word “monster” is derived from the Latin for “omen” or “warning,” Hanafi explores the monster’s early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Although monsters have always been considered “whatever we are not,” they gradually were tranformed into mechanical devices when new discoveries in science and medicine revealed the mechanical nature of the human body. In analyzing the historical literature of monstrosity, magic, and museum collections, Hanafi uses contemporary theory and the philosophy of technology to illuminate the timeless significance of the monster theme. She elaborates the association between women and the monstrous in medical literature and sheds new light on the work of Vico—particularly his notion of the conatus—by relating it to Vico’s own health. By explicating obscure and fascinating texts from such disciplines as medicine and poetics, she invites the reader to the piazzas and pulpits of seventeenth-century Naples, where poets, courtiers, and Jesuit preachers used grotesque figures of speech to captivate audiences with their monstrous wit. Drawing from a variety of texts from medicine, moral philosophy, and poetics, Hanafi’s guided tour through this baroque museum of ideas will interest readers in comparative literature, Italian literature, history of ideas, history of science, art history, poetics, women’s studies, and philosophy.
Download or read book The Monster Machine written by Nicola L Robinson and published by Pavilion Children's. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award 2013! Great fun with hilarious monsters and a message about working together Vibrantly illustrated with masses to look out for on every page by the illustrator of Jasper Fforde's The Last Dragonslayer Wonderful text to read aloud When a boy and his Dad build an amazing monster-making machine, all sorts of monsters come tumbling out – big ones, small ones, funny ones and even ever-so-slightly scary ones. The monsters love to have fun and spend the days playing until they discover that other monsters live in an amazing land far away. Once again it is time to make an amazing machine, this time a flying one to take them to the land of the monsters. Approximately 400 words/Age range: 3-6 years.
Download or read book Monsters on Machines written by Deb Lund and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make way for this MONSTEROUS construction crew!
Download or read book Monsters in the Machine written by Steffen Hantke and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mighty Monster Machines Blaze and the Monster Machines written by Nickelodeon Publishing and published by Nickelodeon. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaze and the Monster Machines is Nickelodeon's new animated action-adventure series! It stars Blaze, a problem-solving truck that can transform into multiple machines, and his best friend and driver, AJ. This action-packed book is sure to thrill kids. This Nickelodeon read-along contains audio narration.
Download or read book The Monster as War Machine written by Mabel Moraña and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mighty Monster Machines written by Clark Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monster in the Forest written by Rachel Chlebowski and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Halloween-themed coloring book featuring Blaze and the Monster Machines! Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 can enjoy hair-raising hijinks with Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines! Join Blaze and friends as they meet a new, spooky monster truck in this fright-filled coloring book with over 50 shiny stickers.
Download or read book Doctor Frankenstein s Monster Drawing Machine written by Klutz Press and published by . This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick your parts and trace your creation! Just like his more famous cousin, Dr Frankenstein, Frankensketch started by collecting parts of other creatures-the legs of a skeleton, the torso of a gorilla, the head of a rabid one-eyed, space-alien octopus, and so on. Lay those parts into the patented Monster Drawing machine, a covered tray that securely holds them in the formation of one beastly body. Now trace your monster and laugh maniacally as lightning flashes in the sky! (That last bit isn't really necessary but it's a nice effect.) The book includes 20 complete monsters ready to be punched into interchangeable body parts. Plus piles of tracing paper to make a host of new monster friends. And of course, the most important tool of all, the pencil. The whole thing is scary simple and frightfully fun.
Download or read book Pacific Rim written by David S Cohen and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' epic sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim. When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are piloted by an international crew of soldiers in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee—team up to pilot a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger on a mission to halt the mounting apocalypse. Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters chronicles the production of the film with stunning concept art, captivating photography, and cast and crew descriptions of the shoot.
Download or read book Monsters of the Market written by David McNally and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Monsters of the Market" investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining "Frankenstein," Marx s "Capital" and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism.
Download or read book When a Monster Moves Into Your Washing Machine written by Randy Johnson and published by Thewordverve Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would YOU do if a monster moved into YOUR family's washing machine? And not the garden-variety snake or lizard either . . . Nope, an eight-legged, purple creature from unknown depths that has rendered clean clothes impossible and apparently has no intention of ever leaving. Step inside for a whimsical tale that culminates in an unlikely collaboration by two young siblings. Laugh along as they attempt to solve one family's sudden and unfortunate laundry dilemma in the most outrageous way imaginable. Then stick around for a BONUS STORY from this new author who is sure to become a favorite of kids everywhere.
Download or read book Monstrous written by Carlyn Beccia and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body? Why should vampires drink from veins and not arteries? What body parts are best for zombies to eat? (It's not brains.) This fascinating encyclopedia of monsters delves into the history and science behind eight legendary creatures, from Bigfoot and the kraken to zombies and more. Find out each monster's origin story and the real-world history that informed it, and then explore the science of each creature in fun and surprising ways. Tips and infographics--including monster anatomy, how to survive a vampire attack, and real-life giant creatures of the deep sea--make this a highly visual and fun-to-browse book.
Download or read book Monster Trucks written by Ian Graham and published by Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces various types of monster trucks, including those used in monster truck competitions and those used to haul extremely heavy loads.
Download or read book Blaze and the Monster Machines Little Golden Book Library Blaze and the Monster Machines Five of Nickeoldeon s Blaze and the Monster Machines Littl written by Various and published by Little Golden Book. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five of Nickelodeon's Blaze and the Monster Machines Little Golden Books in a keepsake slipcase! Join Blaze and his Monster Machine friends on their daring adventures in this boxed set that includes five Nickelodeon Blaze and the Monster Machines Little Golden Books! It's the perfect gift for boys and girls ages 2 to 5. Race into action with Blaze and the Monster Machines! Preschoolers will learn about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) as they help Axle City's greatest hero overcome Crusher's cheating ways and save the day with Blazing Speed, spectacular stunts, and awesome transformations!
Download or read book Sekret Machines Book 1 Chasing Shadows written by Tom DeLonge and published by To The Stars. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who know... that something is going on... The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn’t. Most, but not everyone. Among those who know what they’ve seen, and—like the toll of a bell that can’t be unrung—are forever changed by it, are a pilot, an heiress, a journalist, and a prisoner of war. From the waning days of the 20th century’s final great war to the fraught fields of Afghanistan to the otherworldly secrets hidden amid Nevada’s dusty neverlands—the truth that is out there will propel each of them into a labyrinth of otherworldly technology and the competing aims of those who might seek to prevent—or harness—these beings of unfathomable power. Because, as it turns out, we are not the only ones who can invent and build...and destroy. Featuring actual events and other truths drawn from sources within the military and intelligence community, Tom DeLonge and A.J. Hartley offer a tale at once terrifying, fantastical, and perhaps all too real. Though it is, of course, a work of... fiction?
Download or read book Apocalypse Machine written by Jeremy Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Robinson returns to the Kaiju Thriller genre he popularized with the largest Kaiju to ever appear in fiction: the Apocalypse Machine. Bursting with all the epic action, desperate struggle and complex characters that readers have come to expect, Robinson takes the world to the brink once more.
