'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit...(展开全部)

Danny's going to camp––and he's taking the dinosaur! First introduced in 1958 with Danny and the Dinosaur and the recent stars of Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur, this popular pair is together again in an adventure sure to please beginning readers and happy campers alike. Children's Choices for 1997 (IRA/CBC)

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word “camp”: the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning, Chri...(展开全部)

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word “camp”: the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning, Chri...(展开全部)

The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just soc...(展开全部)

De l art de découper un homme en lui procurant une extase infinie à l origine de l invention du papier toilettes en passant par le club des adorateurs d excroissances corporelles monstres, ces 13 carnets de massacre sont autant d explorations de pulsions sexuelles obsessionnelles et extrêmes. Vibrant hommage à Edogawa Rampo, l inventeur du genre ero-guro (contraction d érotique...(展开全部)

劳伦斯·莱特（Lawrence Wright）是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人，发表过一部小说《上帝的最爱》以及六部非小说类的著作，包括《在新世界》（In the New World）、《圣徒和罪人（Saints and Sinners）》、《记住撒旦》（Remembering Satan）、《巨塔（The Looming Tower）以及《走向清醒》（Going Clear）。他还是一个编剧和剧作家。他和他妻子一直住在德克萨斯州奥斯丁市。

劳伦斯·莱特（Lawrence Wright）是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人，发表过一部小说《上帝的最爱》以及六部非小说类的著作，包括《在新世界》（In the New World）、《圣徒和罪人（Saints and Sinners）》、《记住撒旦》（Remembering Satan）、《巨塔（The Looming Tower）以及《走向清醒》（Going Clear）。他还是一个编剧和剧作家。他和他妻子一直住在德克萨斯州奥斯丁市。

The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makers were rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The films of the New Wave in Japan have, until now, been largely overlooked. Eros plus Massacre (taking its title from a 1969 Yoshida Yoshishige film) is the first major study devoted to the examination and explanation of Japanese New Wa...(展开全部)

When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end?...(展开全部)