The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television
by Douglas E. Cowan
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481314879
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
326 Pages
As humans, it is our trust in something larger than ourselves that invests our lives with meaning and value. We hope that outside the boundaries of everyday living there lies something greater. As Doug...
Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
by W. Scott Poole
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481308823
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2018
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2018-07-13
Imprint: Baylor University Press
335 Pages
Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, these monsters are an important part of our past--a hideous obsession...
Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to...
Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit--Joel and Ethan Coen make movies. They make movies that matter. But do these movies matter for religion? Coen is a masterful...
Mary and the Politics of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater
by Mirzam C. Pérez
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602586451
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2012
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2012-09-24
Imprint: Baylor University Press
183 Pages
Few characters were as ubiquitous in the collective consciousness of early modern Spain as the Virgin Mary. By the 1600s, the cult of the Immaculate Conception had become so popularized that the Hapsburg...
In Genesis of an American Playwright Horton Foote, one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century, reflects upon his journey from his childhood in Wharton, Texas, through his early...
