immediate Past President of the Iowa Library Association, and the current ILA Government Affairs chair. Helmick is a current member of the ALA Executive Board and previously served as chair-elect on the Freedom to Read Foundation as well as chair of the Iowa Governor’s Commission of Libraries....
Well, it was very interesting what was happening when we did the first season of “American Gods.” The country has taken a serious lurch to the right, as much as they’d love to say it’s taken a serious lurch to the left. I don’t think America would know a socialist if they f...
(Closet Space,Walking Distance) andBrandan Kankel.Imagofollows Jennifer, a young woman with a dark past, as she goes on a search for her missing brother. Jennifer soon discovers that her brother's disappearance was anything but planned...and related to something not of this world. Get your...
for the first hundred years, has been within this proscenium…but that doesn’t mean it has to stay that way,” he said. “You have this unlimited technology; you can do anything. I’m the product of a certain place in time. You’re younger, it’s very different, and it’s up to...
atop developments in a field that is changing even as he writes. He seems to feel that he has to "cover," as quickly as possible, every aspect of the industry in the past decade, saying at least something about a huge number of films. As a result many of his chapters consist of ...
1. The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s 2. The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn Section Two: Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film 3. The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma 4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Mille...
" her arguments about space are particularly important for horror fiction. Certainly the viewer ofThe Blair Witch Projectis fully aware of the danger inherent in this film from the very beginning—well before anything "scary" happens—through its association with curious investigation; culturally we ...
“Ferns can be planted inside or outside the home for protection, thrown on hot coals to exorcize evil spirits or worn to guide the bearer to treasure” (p. 102). Ferns, despite their association with fairies and devils, can also be used to drive them away, and kept on one’s person...