Bøger udgivet af Creation Books

A newly elected bishop peruses parish reports and is alarmed at the declining numbers. She wants answers, but a veteran pastor advises her that neither clergy nor church members are likely to speak to a bishop with candor. The only way to get answers to her questions is to visit congregations "under cover." Her visits erase her preconceptions. She discovers gems of innovative ministry taking place in congregations with the least amount of professional leadership. This modern parable is the result of one small congregation's unique project. Members visited 80 neighboring congregations whom they discovered they barely knew. Their findings, presented in fictional form, are true. The people and congregations you will meet are composites of actual congregations and the many unsung leaders encountered over the course of three years.

Bestriding the many visual deceits and narratives to be found in early cinema was the singular figure of Satan, the Devil incarnate. From Goethe's Faust to Dante's graphic renderings of the Inferno, classic art and literature were the well whence sprang the first cinematic depictions of the Devil, his deeds and his dwelling-place. These feverish imaginings led to more elaborate and complex films which vividly explored the terrors of the fallen angel's relentless war against humanity. From Georges Méliès' diabolic trick-film "Le Manoir Du Diable", shot in 1896, to such mysterious silent works as "Witchcraft Through The Ages", "Faust" and "Birth Of The Anti-Christ", and beyond to the burgeoning sound era, SATANIC SHADOWS documents all of the key filmic invocations of Satan, his victims and his worshippers unleashed in the first four decades of commercial cinema. SATANIC SHADOWS shows how narratives of sin, temptation and damnation were central to the roots of cinema's horror and phantasy genres, and how the Devil's dark, horned figure overshadowed all others in the race to astonish and terrify the spectator. With a wide array of more than 100 illuminating production photographs - many assembled from global film archives and seldom, if ever, previously published - this comprehensive illustrated filmography references over 250 films, and also includes a full index of titles.

A major horror and fantasy sub-genre of cinema''s first decades was that dealing with rampaging gorillas - either jungle-wild, circustamed or trained to serve wicked masters - killer apes, and a range of ape-human hybrids, either evolutionary ''missing links'' or creatures spawned by medical experimentation and radical surgeries. Inspirations for this genre came from both fantasy-horror literature and the populist cultural trope of gorillas as abductors and ravishers of human females, a fear which arose from early European expeditions into Africa. This idea found its apex expression in RKO''s King Kong (1932) - with Fay Wray as the blonde snatched away by a giant ape - while its unspoken logical conclusion, a grotesque miscegenation of species, was shown in the infamous Ingagi (1931). Charles Gemora, Ray ''Crash'' Corrigan, Emil Van Horn and Hollywood''s other delinquent gorilla men - seen in feature films, shorts and serials alike - persisted into the 1940s and only began to slow with the m

The music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for maximal acoustic destruction and aimed at the negation of all existing value systems. THE ART OF NOISE collects together these and other writings for the first time in English, showing how the origins of modern noise music actually date from a century ago, forming an invaluable insight into Futurist thought and its most enduring and relevant legacies, and revealing how an understanding of noise-art is key to a complete comprehension of Futurist painting. THE ART OF NOISE collects five key Futurist manifestos: Luigi Russolo''s The Art Of Noises and The Futurist Noise Machines, and Balilla Pratella''s Manifesto Of Futurist Musicians, Technical Manifesto Of Futurist Music, and Destruction Of Quadrature; plus Carlo Carra''s related sensory manifesto The Painting Of Sounds, Noises And Smells; Bruno Corra''s notes on

Introducing 'Beasts Of The Blood-stained Jackboot', a gripping narrative that will take you on a thrilling journey. This masterpiece was penned down by an adept author and saw the light of the day in the year 2022. The genre of the book is captivating, making it a must-read for all book lovers. Published by Creation Books, the book is a testament to the publisher's commitment to bringing high-quality literature to readers. The book is written in English, making it accessible to a broad audience. 'Beasts Of The Blood-stained Jackboot' is sure to leave a lasting impression on your mind long after you have turned the last page. Don't miss out on this literary gem.

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, perhaps the best-known of all 19th century ukiyo-e artists, created illustrations of mythic warriors and legendary battles throughout his career, including years spent documenting contemporaneous civil conflicts. This book collects 100 such prints by Yoshitoshi, often violent and bloody in nature, ranging in subject from the internecine decapitation wars of the 12th to 16th centuries to the uprising of the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, the last stand of Japan''s samurai class against the new imperial government. The selection of works is also limited to the triptych format, which gave ukiyo-e artists the freedom to express their phantasies as narratives in a kinetic, detailed image frame. Editor Ringo Yoshida was born and lives in Osaka, Japan. He is a longterm collector and historian of 19th century ukiyo-e.

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery '' not least in the Western genre, where the invention of the ''Spaghetti Western'' gave abrasive new life to a dying form of cinematic narrative. ULTRA WILD WEST collects more than 80 film poster designs by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, in full-color, full-page reproductions showcasing some of the world''s most innovative and eye-blasting graphic artwork, enhanced by rare production photographs which bring the book''s total images to over 100.

Film poster art and design from Japan is renowned as being among the most striking and dynamic in the world, with kanji logograms adding an extra dimension of graphic integration for the Western eye. TOKYO CINEGRAPHIX TWO focuses solely on Japanese cinema, and its infamous ''bad girl'' or ''pinky violence'' blend of sex and crime '' from murdered strippers to female assassins, yakuzamolls, delinquent highschool girls, sword-wielding female gamblers, killer prostitutes, female prisoners, girl gangs and tattooed she-bikers.

Men''s adventure magazines were a form of pulp publishing which flourished in ''50s and ''60s America, pandering to the cruelty and lust of young men with luridly illustrated stories of war, sleaze and savagery. They arose partly in response to the inauguration of the Comics Code in 1954 by presenting material in a new, ''adults-only'' format. Soft Nudes for the Devil''s Butcher is a new anthology which collects prime examples of text and artwork from a range of men''s adventure magazines published during the golden age of the genre. Includes more than 30 features and stories.

The definitive guide to musha-e, or warrior prints.

Muzan-e (cruel pictures'') and Chimidoro-e (''bloody pictures'') together constitute a significant strand of Ukiyo-e, the populist art of late Edo-period Japan. Yoshiiku''s contributions to this series are matched in horror by many other of his prints, ranging from illustrations of misogynistic murder to kabuki scenes of torture and images of warriors harvesting severed heads in battle. These gory pictures were also produced by other artists, including Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi, Yoshiyuki, Kunichika and the unsung creators of garish Osaka sex-crime news-sheets.''

FREAK BABYLON is a sometimes startling, sometimes disturbing documentary of the history of one of mankinds most fascinating sciences teratology and its dubious cultural correlative, the Freakshow, from ancient times to the present day. The book features over 200 rare and intriguing photos of human anomalies and covers the areas of scientific research, sideshows, cinema and body modification. By tracing the history of teratology the classification of human anomalies and looking at some famous case histories such as the Elephant Man and Johnny Eck, FREAK BABYLON shows how medical research and exploitation are often interlinked and poses the question whether new sciences of cloning and genetic engineering are taking us back to the "dark days" of man-made freaks. Bonus features include: The Elephant Man by Sir Frederick Treves. Long out-of-print, this is the true account, which inspired David Lynchs film of the same name. NEW: Dissection of a Symelian Monster by R C Benington. A classic illustrated account of an autopsy on a real-life human anomaly, from 1891 medical journals. An in-depth illustrated review of the controversial 1932 horror film Freaks, directed by Tod Browning. NEW: Tod Robbins classic short story Spurs, which inspired Brownings Freaks.