Originally published in 1988 as Aberrations of Mourning: Writing on German Crypts (Detroit: Wayne State University Press), this resurrection of Rickel's first book about mourning and melancholia attem
"Aside from its perfect fit of critic and subject, Laurence A. Rickels's book provides the most thorough and exhaustive reading of Philip K. Dick's literary work that exists. He goes through all the n
Rickels (German and comparative literature, U. of California-Santa Barbara) searches out representations of the Christian bad guy in popular culture and high science, most particularly the work of Sig
Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a substantial body of films that explore a world of difference defined by the tension and transfer between settled and nomadic ways of life. I
?The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called "psychos" if they exhibited
?The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called "psychos" if they exhibited
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In Paris Calligrammes the filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds Ulrike Ottinger links historical archival material with her own art and film works to create a sociogram of the era in which s
