Film Bodies

Enjoy this Listening to the Horse-inspired book, packed full of stories, lessons, case studies, and exercises for you and your horse. This book is the first book in the Equine Listenology trilogy.

The History of Body Horror Films: From Grotesque Origins to Modern Mutation is the ultimate guide for horror lovers, film students, and pop culture enthusiasts who want to dive deep into one of cinema’s most disturbing and thought-provoking subgenres. This comprehensive, 6000-word book explores the evolution of body horror movies from their eerie beginnings in early cinema to their grotesque peaks during the golden age of gore, all the way to their reemergence in today’s era of prestige horror. Discover how visionary directors like David Cronenberg, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Julia Ducournau...

Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, Cinemascope and Vistavision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios, the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.

Superstar, Sybil Cantrell, has a twitchy feeling about her trip to Cannes. Something bad will happen. She's Right As bodyguard to a famous international film and Broadway star, Lolita has to deal with international jewel thieves from Serbia who have targeted her client's fabulous collection of gold and gems, as she attends the famous Cannes Film Festival in France. To pursue their goals, the Pink Panther gang of jewel thieves decide that it would be much easier to get rid of Ms. Cantrell's bodyguard, leaving the actress vulnerable. Lo fights off her attackers as they try to get rid of her ...

Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews truth.

From Scott Colbert, the author of Barbed Wire Kisses, Detritus, and A Journey Through Perversion: The Films of John Waters comes another collection of essays this time chronicling the work of David Cronenberg. From Rabid to Cosmopolis and all stops in between, Colbert offers his informal, yet unique perspective on a body of work, from one of the greatest directors of our time.

In his analysis of films, novels, paintings, photographs, popular music, jokes, and videos, Peter Lehman investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body, and especially male genitals, out of sight.