Ferocious Fatherhood examines the evolving representation of fatherhood in horror cinema from the early 1970s to the present, developing a new theoretical framework to understand how paternal figures embody shifting cultural anxieties.Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, feminist film scholarship, and socio-political analysis, the book introduces a taxonomy of archetypes, including the Faux Father, Cannibal Father, Haunted Father, Fragmented ...

These family lawyers said they'd never fall in love...Griffin Remington takes center stage as he moves in with his ex-girlfriend to spend more time bonding with the daughter he didn’t know he had and certainly didn’t expect to fall madly in love with. Now, if he can just keep himself from falling for her mother, too, then he might have a prayer of keeping the vow he made with his siblings to stay single no matter what. After two Remington brothers broke th...

Joan Crawford's remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry's longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford's risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. She teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?...

At the best of times leadership is messy. It's about a way of being, not doing. It's nebulous, nuanced and elusive, as much to do with feeling and energy as thinking and planning. It's contextual and responsive and can never be one size fits all. When great leaders are in balance, they are both ferocious about the moral purpose and courageously making a stand, while warmly building strong and enduring relationships. This seeming paradox comes together in what Tracey Ezard calls Ferocious W...

Gwynedd, 2024. Sadistic work coach James Burgess has finally bagged his dream job after three years of trying, two hundred miles from home in rural north Wales. But with promotion firmly in mind, slashing the jobcentre's wage bill soon becomes his seedy sport.With house prices soaring and job prospects scarce, 91-Day Sanction follows a host of James' 'casualties of war', many of whom wind up at Morywelon Homeless Hostel, where the waiting ...

A flying bat was trapped in a home and is trying to escape from this cat.

To protect my little brother, I plead guilty to three counts of theft. I have no prior convictions, so I should be safe, right? Wrong. The judge has had a bad day and orders me to leave the mining station my family lives on. Next stop: Corudeen 7, the infamous outlaw prison planet. I've heard everyone there has gone insane. I've heard all men on the planet have turned feral. I've also heard those ferocious men haven't seen a woman in forever …An over-the-top dark reverse harem s...

Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker declared: “There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached on...

A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and nine essential daily practices—by the first female, Black senior minister at the historic Collegiate Churches of New York“Fierce Love teaches us that with spiritual faith we can transcend the darkest moments and come through stronger.”—Gabrielle Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Universe Has Your Back...

Rumours of walking mushrooms and other pecullar plants entice the curious crew of Rain, Stone and Sean deep into "Green Hell". Things soon go from placid to perilous as they find themselves cut off from the outside world! Alone against an array of unseen uncanny antogonists, and running out of supplies, how can they survive this land of FEROCIOUS FLORA, where the weeds whack YOU?

A powerhouse portrait of **Jimmy Breslin,**the acclaimed writer who pummeled politicians, profiled Mafia kingpins, and gave voice to the poor and powerless.Sometimes a towering figure from our past can help us understand our present.Jimmy Breslin is that figure—a journalist who spent most of his prodigious energy rising to the defense of ordinary people fighting forces greater than themselves. In The People*’*s Voice, Mike...

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enoughFrank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for The New York Times in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend a...