1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457631203321

Autore

Katz Steven T.

Titolo

The paranoid apocalypse [[electronic resource] ] : a hundred-year retrospective on the Protocols of the elders of Zion / / edited by Richard Landes and Steven T. Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8147-4893-7

0-8147-4945-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

LandesRichard Allen

KatzSteven T. <1944->

Disciplina

305.892/4

Soggetti

Antisemitism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Conceptual prelude -- pt. 2. Medieval prologue -- pt. 3. The early years -- pt. 4. Post-Holocaust protocals : non-western variations -- pt. 5. Protocals at the turn of the millennium : the return of the repressed -- pt. 6. Quo vadis?

Sommario/riassunto

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized from satirical anti-Semitic texts, it had a major impact throughout Europe during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Germany. After World War II, the text was further denounced. Anyone who referred to it as a genuine document was seen as an ignorant hate-monger.Yet there is abundant evidence that The Protocols is resurfacing in many places. The Paranoid Apocalypse re-examines the text’s popularity, investigating why it has persisted, as well as larger questions about the success of conspiracy theories even in the face of claims that they are blatantly counterfactual and irrational. It considers the medieval pre-history of The Protocols, the conditions of its success in the era of early twentieth-century secular



modernity, and its post-Holocaust avatars, from the Muslim world to Walmart and Left-wing anti-American radicalism. Contributors argue that the key to The Protocols’ longevity is an apocalyptic paranoia that lays the groundwork not only for the myth’s popularity, but for its implementation as a vehicle for genocide and other brutal acts.The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized from satirical anti-Semitic texts, it had a major impact throughout Europe during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Germany. After World War II, the text was further denounced. Anyone who referred to it as a genuine document was seen as an ignorant hate-monger.Yet there is abundant evidence that The Protocols is resurfacing in many places. The Paranoid Apocalypse re-examines the text’s popularity, investigating why it has persisted, as well as larger questions about the success of conspiracy theories even in the face of claims that they are blatantly counterfactual and irrational. It considers the medieval pre-history of The Protocols, the conditions of its success in the era of early twentieth-century secular modernity, and its post-Holocaust avatars, from the Muslim world to Walmart and Left-wing anti-American radicalism. Contributors argue that the key to The Protocols’ longevity is an apocalyptic paranoia that lays the groundwork not only for the myth’s popularity, but for its implementation as a vehicle for genocide and other brutal acts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787144803321

Autore

Lennard Dominic

Titolo

Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / / Dominic Lennard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5330-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema

Disciplina

791.43/6164

Soggetti

Horror films - History and criticism

Children in motion pictures

Villains in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Figures ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Little Horrors: Introduction ""; ""To Catch Them Unawares: Horror's Evil Innocents ""; ""The Plot""; ""It's Only a Movie ""; ""1. Reaching the Age of Anxiety: The 1950's and the Horror of Youth ""; ""Troubled Teens: The Juvenile Delinquent on Film ""; ""Sowing Bad Seeds: Creating the Child as Monster ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""2. Spoiled Rotten: Horror's Bourgeois Brats ""; ""Killing with Class: The Bad Seed ""; ""Heirs Aberrant: Village of the Damned ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""3. A Scary Sight: The Looking Child ""

""An Uncertain Zoom: Power and Perspective in Halloween """"The To-Be-Looked-At Child ""; ""Eyes That Paralyze: Village of the Damned ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""4. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: The Child Villain's Malignant Mom ""; ""Treachery on the Home Front ""; ""Sons of Bitches: The Brood ""; ""All of them Witches: Maternal Alienation and Rosemary's Baby ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""5. Vicious Videos, Missing Mothers: The Ring ""; ""Murderous Work: The Career Mom and the Killer ""; ""Home Alone and Hating It: The Postmodern Child ""; ""Anxiety Reruns from the Golden Age ""

""Conclusion """"6. Little Bastards: Patriarchy's Errant Offspring in It's Alive and The Omen ""; ""The End Times for Patriarchy: The Omen ""; ""Black Majesties ""; ""Somehow the identities get all mixed up: Fatherhood, Science, and Semen in It's Alive ""; ""Semen Stains "";



""Conclusion ""; ""7. Past Incarnations: The Exorcist and the Tyranny of Childhood ""; ""Little Dimi ""; ""Why you do this to me? ""; ""Come into me . . .""; ""Conclusion ""; ""8. All Fun and Games till Someone Gets Hurt: Hating Children's Culture ""

""No Place Like Home: Deep Red and the Iconography of Childhood """"Model Behavior: Child's Play ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""9. Too Close for Comfort: Child Villainy and Pedophilic Desire in Hard Candy and Orphan ""; ""Naughty but Nice: Hard Candy ""; ""Surgical Separation: The Viewer and the Pedophile ""; ""Adult Irresponsibility, or the Child with No Name ""; ""The Reveal That Conceals: Excusing Improper Desire in Orphan ""; ""Fucking Children ""; ""I don't know what to do!: Blurred Vision, Blurred Boundaries ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Notes ""; ""Works Cited""

""Index""