In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. 'Ecce Monstrum' investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and th…
"In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and t…
In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. 'Ecce Monstrum' investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and th…
Contains full-color and black-and-white photographs of supposed monsters caught on film, along with explanations of what each image shows and whether these unusual creatures could actually exist.
Contains full-color and black-and-white photographs of supposed monsters caught on film, along with explanations of what each image shows and whether these unusual creatures could actually exist.
"Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established ico…
What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares? Tales of the yeti, the 'Abominable Snowman' of the Himalayas, have been recorded for centuries. This huge, ape-like, hairy creature has tantalised explorers, mountaineers and …
A look at the legend behind The Mothman Prophecies film.
