27.12.2021

“The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition and Embrace the Force That Connects Us All” by Helane Wahbeh

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"The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition and Embrace the Force That Connects Us All" by Helane Wahbeh
"From the director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)—a nonprofit parapsychological research institute cofounded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell—this groundbreaking guide explores the cutting-edge science behind channeling, and offers powerful tools to help you hone your own abilities. Do you have an event in your life that can’t be explained? Perhaps it presented itself as a feeling of intuition, an image, a sense of knowing, or even a full-blown premonition. You may have felt judged when you told someone about it, or even wondered, “did that really happen, or did I just imagine it?” Chock-full of cutting-edge research, this guide will show you just how common this type of phenomenon is—and how you...>>
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27.12.2021

“Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media” edited by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen and Michael Newton

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"Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media" edited by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen and Michael Newton
"Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland."...>>
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27.12.2021

“Gothic Cinema” by Xavier Aldana Reyes

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"Gothic Cinema" by Xavier Aldana Reyes
"Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton. But what is Gothic cinema? Is the iconography of the Gothic film equivalent to that of the horror genre? Are the literary origins of the Gothic what solidified its aesthetics? And exactly what cultural roles does the Gothic continue to perform for us today? Gothic Cinema covers topics such as the chiaroscuro experiments of early German cinema, the monster cinema of the 1930s, the explained supernatural of the old dark house mystery films of...>>
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27.12.2021

“The Gothic World” edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend

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"The Gothic World" edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend
"The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its...>>
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