Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld

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Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005 - 329 sayfa
Close your eyes and picture -- just for a moment -- hell. Fire? Demons? Eternal torment?

Well, yes -- that's the place, in one very hot nutshell. But that's not all there is to the forbidding world beneath us. For a few millennia now, we mortals have imagined and reimagined hell in countless ways: as a realm of damnation, as an inspiration for highest art, as a setting for the lowest of lowbrow comedy. One might conclude that for all our good intentions to enter para- dise, we can't seem to get enough vivid details of its counterpart, hell.

Provocative, colorful, and damned entertaining, "Go to Hell" takes readers on a tour of the underworld that is both darkly comical and seriously informative. From the frozen hell of the Vikings to the sun-drenched Cayman Islands' town of Hell (where tourists line up to have their postcards aptly postmarked), from Dante's circles of hell to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer's" Hellmouth, "Go to Hell" embraces our evolving relationship with the sinner's final destination, revealing how we truly think of ourselves in "this" world.

What's down below?

Meet HEL, the hideous, half-rotting goddess of the Viking underworld.

Beware the Egyptians' AM-MUT, an unsightly mix of lion, crocodile, and hippo parts, and insatiably hungry for wicked souls.

Visit JIGOKU, a Buddhist realm of eight fiery hells and eight icy hells: an all-you-can-suffer hot-and-cold buffet.

Step into the INFERNO for a tour of Dante's nine circles of the damned...

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Yazar hakkında (2005)

Chuck Crisafulli,a writer and journalist, andKyra Thompson,an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, have collaborated previously on a variety of film scripts, teleplays, and series treatments. Crisafulli is the author of two nonfiction books,Teen SpiritandMoonlight Drive.As a freelance journalist, he has covered pop culture for theLos Angeles Times,theHollywood Reporter,andRolling Stone,and he was a contributing editor withOptionmagazine. Thompson's award-winning and -nominated documentary work includesDying to Tell the Story,a film about war journalists, andThe Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful,a history of women in film. They both live in California. Chuck Crisafulli,a writer and journalist, andKyra Thompson,an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, have collaborated previously on a variety of film scripts, teleplays, and series treatments. Crisafulli is the author of two nonfiction books,Teen SpiritandMoonlight Drive.As a freelance journalist, he has covered pop culture for theLos Angeles Times,theHollywood Reporter,andRolling Stone,and he was a contributing editor withOptionmagazine. Thompson's award-winning and -nominated documentary work includesDying to Tell the Story,a film about war journalists, andThe Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful,a history of women in film. They both live in California.

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BaşlıkGo to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld
YazarlarChuck Crisafulli, Kyra Thompson
YayıncıSimon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005
ISBN1416906029, 9781416906025
Uzunluk329 sayfa
  
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