Download or read book Troubling Masculinities written by Glen Donnar and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Across a broad range of subgenres—including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and home invasion horror, action-thrillers, and frontier westerns—author Glen Donnar examines the impact of “terror-Others,” from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of national turmoil. Donnar demonstrates that the reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Taking up critical arguments about Hollywood’s attempts to resolve male crisis through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this failure reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they are supposed to be fighting. Donnar concludes that interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nationhood continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, the volume offers an important counternarrative to this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history.
Download or read book Home Grown Terror written by Patrick Gorman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Maynard is an English mobile telecoms engineer, and happily married to his Filipina wife of some three years. Peter takes on a 3 month contract in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is at this time whilst the engineer is carrying out his work on a rooftop site, one Friday morning that he makes a sinister discovery. Whilst looking in one of the three rooftop outbuildings for spare parts, the engineer discovers something very sinister, a terrorist sleeper cell. Apart from weaponry, concealed with a blanket, and other suspicious objects, he discovers a manual with disturbing data. There are names of prominent MP's (POLITICIANS?), addresses, dates, newspaper cuttings, and what appears to be, planned attacks for some time into the near future, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UK and USA. Peter hurriedly takes the manual back to his hotel, where he photocopies some of the pages, as evidence for the British security authorities. On his return to the rooftop site, he finds it impossible to replace the book, as the four occupants of the outbuilding have returned. He therefore, has to conceal the book, and he returns to the radio room. The terrorists soon discover their precious manual missing, and over the course of time, the engineer, under suspicion, is followed, spied upon, hounded, and gradually, matters go from bad to worse, with unexpected twists and turns along the way... Throughout the book there is a thread of tragedy, sorrow, emotion, humour, and in some cases a spiritual element. The reader is kept in suspense as to what will happen next, with an unexpected outcome!
Download or read book Rooftop Terror written by Joseph Bellande and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late August 2005, authorities in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, read the warning signs and instructed residents to leave ahead of the approaching storm known as Hurricane Katrina-and most people did as they were told. But for a few stalwarts, including Joseph Bellande and his wife, Linda, fleeing with their lives wasn't the obvious choice. With a sophisticated disaster preparedness plan and plenty of experience with hurricanes and tropical storms, Joseph and Linda decided to shelter in place at their St. Bernard Parish home just outside of New Orleans. This decision proves nearly fatal, however, and leaves the Bellandes weathering Hurricane Katrina while tethered to the roof of the house, just fighting to survive. It is the early morning hours of August 30th when Joseph realizes that no one is coming to rescue them. So along with their son, the Bellande family decides to try to save themselves by climbing into a boat and taking their chances against the great storm. True Hurricane Katrina Story tells the harrowing tale of the Bellande family's fight to survive against the odds during one of the nation's deadliest natural disasters.
Download or read book City of the Undead written by CL Werner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of unlikely heroes are all that stand in the way of humanity’s demise as the zombie apocalypse engulfs the kingdom in this high fantasy adventure set in the world of Zombicide: Black Plague. Witch Hunter Helchen mourns her dear friend, one of many heroes The Black Plague has sent to their grave as it consumes the kingdom. Yet she is determined to save what remains of humanity. Helchen and her companions travel to the labyrinthine canals of Zanice to obtain magical resources that would change the course of the zombie plague. Horrendous swaths of the undead mark their journey, and the companions are pursued relentlessly by necromantic forces of evil. When they discover a friend turned foe, Helchen must decide if all zombies are monsters… or if a new darkness is taking shape across the land.
Download or read book Homeland Terror written by Don Pendleton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ENEMY WITHIN Mack Bolan's hard probe into the coordinated movement between domestic militia groups exposes a conspiracy deep within the U.S. government. Someone has spent years fanning the fires of discontent, fueling righteous ideology, doing whatever it takes—blackmail, murder, selling out the American public—to pave the way for armed and angry Americans to take down their own government. After an unauthorized attack on CIA headquarters by a renegade on the payroll, the plan of action turns immediate. The Executioner must move fast to establish countermeasures against a revolution poised to derail the government…and a senator willing to betray his country for absolute power.
Download or read book Scavengers written by Duncan Ralston and published by Shadow Work Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is how you tell a horror story or a story of terror and keep your audience hooked from the first paragraph to the very last."- Nev Murray, Confessions of a Reviewer How well do you know your neighbors? When successful restaurant owners Jim and Leanne Taymor confess to a grisly series of small town murders, their neighbor learns the gruesome truth that led them to kill. In Knee High, Nebraska, someone–or something–has been stalking household pets in the dead of night… but would they rather be hunting us? This NOVELLA is included in the collection, GRISTLE & BONE.
Download or read book RACE WITH TERROR written by Shyam Sundar Bulusu and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A faceless terrorist. A secret modus operandi. A looming threat. An unstoppable enemy. The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is under the threat of a terrorist attack. The sketchy information intercepted by the intelligence agencies does not reveal the name of the terrorist, the date, the place or the modus operandi of the attack. The Chief Minister’s key to counter offence is a commando who had resigned from the forces years ago. Will the commando return to save the Chief Minister and Tamil Nadu? Can he thwart the terrorists’ plot and expose the real culprits? He has every resource at his behest…except time. Can he?
Download or read book Gristle Bone written by Duncan Ralston and published by Shadow Work Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven Terrifyingly Delectable Short Stories and Novellas in the vein of Stephen King and Clive Barker. "Intelligent, character-driven horror tales." - Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door Baby Teeth - When doctors tell her she can never be pregnant, Candace learns that not every child is a gift. Beware of Dog - Disgraced soldier Dean Vogel returns to his hometown and confronts the bullies, and a violent incident, from his past. Viral - A reporter uncovers what really happened to the latest internet sensation, a troubled teenage girl who vanished on camera. Artifact (#37) - Gonzo pornographers learn a brutal lesson following a tragedy they inadvertently caused when life imitated "art." //END USER - Anti-social conspiracy theorist Mason Adler's life is turned upside-down when he begins receiving eerily personal and prophetic spam that could be heralding the Apocalypse. Fat of the Land - A couple discovers the secret of a tourist town's prosperity may lie in its sinfully delicious cuisine, and they might be on the menu. Scavengers - When successful restaurant owners confess to a grisly series of small town murders, their neighbor learns the gruesome truth that led them to kill. In Knee High, Nebraska, someone--or something--has been stalking household pets in the dead of night... but would they rather be hunting us? Short and novella-length fiction from the twisted imagination of Duncan Ralston, author of Salvage and WOOM. Includes an Introduction from Chris Hall of DLS Reviews.
Download or read book The Mind of Terror written by Tass Saada and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivates Islamic terrorists? What is in the mind of terror? Our news reports from the Middle East cover events—bombings, massacres, and suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are—from Hezbollah to the Iranian Quds, from ISIS to the Palestinian National Authority. But there is something underneath these events and players that fuels atrocity after atrocity in the Middle East. What is it? Tass Saada provides the answer to that question as he delves into the mind of terror, explaining what motivates extremist groups throughout the Middle East. A former Muslim and a onetime sniper with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, Tass has lived it himself. At age 42, he steered his life in a radical new direction, committing it to Jesus. Tass not only describes the motivations and aspirations of those who live in the Middle East, he also outlines a peaceful solution. We can plant seeds of hope that will transform not only the Middle East, but also our increasingly diverse neighborhoods at home. Discover the mind behind terror and how to oppose its grip.
Download or read book Sins of Commission written by Cordelia Frances Biddle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A society woman struggles to solve cases of arson and abduction in Victorian-era Philadelphia, in the series praised as “a fine mix of history and mystery” (Booklist). In nineteenth-century Philadelphia, a case of arson turns lethal—but who was the perpetrator and what was the motive? While Thomas Kelman, Martha Beale’s beau, investigates the blaze, her adoptive daughter, Ella, is abducted. Then another fire destroys the home of industrialist Darius Rause, killing his adulterous wife. Is there a connection between the crimes? Martha and Kelman work to find an answer as they fight to rescue Ella before she also perishes, in this fast-paced historical crime novel in which duplicity reigns and the destinies of rich and poor collide. Praise for the Martha Beale Mysteries “Exceptional attention to period detail helps transport the reader to a past very unlike our own and yet so similar.” —Publishers Weekly “First-rate.” —Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times–bestselling author of Hid from Our Eyes “Biddle successfully uses 19th-century Philadelphia, mining the landscape for the kinds of jewels that illuminate a good mystery, and shaping characters that ring true to the elements of their creation.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Download or read book Roof Explorer s Guide 101 New York City Rooftops written by Leslie Adatto and published by Leslie Adatto. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! By choosing this book, you've taken the first step toward experiencing New York City from an entirely fresh perspective - from the rooftops. Roof Explorer's Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops is the only guide book that shows you and takes you - to a wondrous variety of New York City rooftops. I'm Leslie Adatto, the New York City roof explorer. I have discovered hundreds of rooftops throughout the boroughs and can't wait to share 101 of my fabulous ones with you. Roof Explorer's Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops gives veteran New Yorkers and visitors alike my personal map to explore a huge variety of New York City roofops.Go to trendy bars and restaurants, take a swim or play some tennis, attend a movie, go to a farm, visit 19th century historical sites, check out a museum or a play, or snooze on a park bench, all on New York City rooftops. I hope the lush photography and well-researched information throughout this book will inspire you to venture out, whether on foot, by bicycle, via subway or anyway, to explore and enjoy 101 New York City rooftops.
Download or read book Special Forces in the War on Terror written by Leigh Neville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into US and Coalition Special Forces operating in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Mali. Within weeks of 9/11, United States Special Operations Forces were dropping into Afghanistan to lead the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. For over a decade, special forces have been fighting a hidden war in Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Mali and Afghanistan, facing off against a range of insurgents from organisations like al Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram and the Taliban. Leigh Neville draws on recently declassified material and first-hand-accounts from his SOF contacts to lift the veil of secrecy from these operations, giving an unprecedented blow-by-blow description of major Special Forces operations, culminating in SEAL Team 6's Operation Neptune Spear and the killing of Osama bin Laden. Detailing the special equipment, tactics, machinery and training that these Special Operatives received and used this impressive volume shows how the world's elite soldiers fought against overwhelming odds around the world.
Download or read book Cinematic Sociology written by Jean-Anne Sutherland and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology Through Film uses feature films to teach central areas in sociology such as culture, race/ethnicity, social class, and gender/sexuality. By using Film to introduce the sociological imagination, students will 'experience' social context being studied, and reinforce critical thinking skills. An introductory chapter includes a discussion of the significance of film in modern society, a consideration of the ways that film both reflects and shapes social reality, an explanation of how sociologists analyze film, and coverage of sociological tools for 'reading' film as text. Films will provide an illustrative framework for understanding the social world, and therefore the films discussed will not go 'out of date'.
Download or read book Maskerade written by Suzanne Brent and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evil Rising written by D.C. Claymore and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biron Coomra, a child created by a biophysicist from Rylaxon and a powerful witch from a distant alien world planet called Earth, has struggled to find his place in a society that shuns difference. As a civil war threatens to tear Rylaxon apart, determined factions struggle to protect what they hold dear. Biron and those viewed as genetically different, through no fault of their own, are deemed a threat to Rylaxon purity. A consortium of Zealots has vowed to rid their society of anyone judged genetically inferior. In Evil Rising, book two of the Children of Enoch series, the fragile peace that holds Rylaxon together is about to crumble. As a cybernetic boy with magical abilities, Biron is targeted for extinction at the hands of these self-proclaimed puritans. An evil entity bent on destroying humanity manipulates a cloning experiment based on Biron's DNA, to create a new race. Gorgos, the first of a bloodthirsty tribe of Vampeer, will stop at nothing to destroy Biron and conquer humanity. The fanged clone joins forces with the Zealots to frame Biron and turn the public against the young crusader. The brutal murder of a beloved religious leader only enflames the passions on both sides. While on the run, the young hero Biron mysteriously loses his magical abilities, and he and his family race for their lives. When unknown forces appear, no one can predict the surprising outcome of their intervention.
Download or read book Patricians written by Ryan Browning and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is more desirable than power, but nothing is more offensive. Henry Williams founded Muse Industries to develop cybernetic implants designed to obsolete human frailty. Cybertechnology revolutionized the world, propelling the Williams family to the highest strata of society. Governments, business, and people demanded cybernetic implants with an insatiable thirst. Power breeds envy, creating silent enemies seeking to destroy the business magnate. In a world unable to enforce international laws, corporations wage a shadow war of espionage and sabotage. A failed attempt to abduct Henrys daughter, Julia, alerted him to a conspiracy against his company. Seven powerful families compete against the Williams expanding wealth and influence. Surrounded by enemies, Henry must discern friends from foes in order to protect his daughter. Business is warfare that ensures only the strong or cunning survive.
Download or read book Cocaine Death Squads and the War on Terror written by Oliver Villar and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1990s, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize Colombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the official reasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in Colombia plausible, or are there other, deeper factors at work? Scholars Villar and Cottle suggest that the answers lie in a close examination of the cocaine trade, particularly its class dimensions. Their analysis reveals that this trade has fueled extensive economic growth and led to the development of a "narco-state" under the control of a "narco-bourgeoisie" which is not interested in eradicating cocaine but in gaining a monopoly over its production. The principal target of this effort is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who challenge that monopoly as well as the very existence of the Colombian state. Meanwhile, U.S. business interests likewise gain from the cocaine trade and seek to maintain a dominant, imperialist relationship with their most important client state in Latin America. Suffering the brutal consequences, as always, are the peasants and workers of Colombia. This revelatory book punctures the official propaganda and shows the class war underpinning the politics of the Colombian cocaine trade.
