Subhuman

Father of the Bride of Frankenstein , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 381min

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, creating the iconic concept, and incidentally creating modern science fiction.In 1935, Elsa Lanchester married the monster.And now, Daniel M. Kimmel updates the myth, and tells us the tale from the point of view of the most important character: the Father of the Bride of Frankenstein.This is not Ms. Shelley's monster, but (dare we say it?) a dazzling urbanite, literate and thoughtful....and Jewish?Science has always outrun the guidelines of ethics. It's not unthinkable that interspecies relationships will be the next big question. And with those relationships will come a father's love for his daughter, and that father's fears for his bankbook when his doting daughter plans the most outrageous of weddings.Making your daughter happy can be a wild ride when her fiancé is being called subhuman, sued because of his very existence, and trying to keep a good Jewish home.Film critic and award-winning author Daniel M. Kimmel is the author of the Hugo-finalist non-fiction volume Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies, and the novels Shh! It's a Secret: a novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide, and Time On My Hands: My Misadventures In Time Travel. He is the winner of the 2018 Skylark Award (formally known as the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction), which is given by the New England Science Fiction Association for lifetime contributions to science fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Benjamin Fife. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150772/bk_acx0_150772_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 391min

The first genocide of the 20th century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman - lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion - and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze", an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis.In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the trope of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Baer explores the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust - concepts such as racial hierarchies, racial shame, final solution, that were deployed by German authorities in 1904 and again in the 1930s and 1940s to justify genocide. She also notes the use of shared methodology - concentration camps, death camps, intentional starvation, rape, indiscriminate killing of women and children - in both instances."An essential book, a necessary reading and a path breaking piece of scholarship." (Patrice Nganang, co-author of German Colonialism Revisites)"A brilliant contribution to genocide studies and post-colonial studies scholarship." (Carol Rittner, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Stockton University)"Important and timely." (Jeremy Silvester, Museums Association of Namibia) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alice C. Schoo-Jerger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129835/bk_acx0_129835_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Horror in the Air: Tales of Terror, Weirdness, and the Occult, Hörbuch, Digital, 531min

Encounter the death who walks, rats, descents into madness, ghosts, mad scientists, crimes against nature, and much more in this classic collection presenting 22 tales of the supernatural from authors such as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, and Ambrose Bierce. Features performances from Peter Lorre, Hal Holbrooke, Boris Karloff, and the work of many leading radio directors, writers, and actors of the day. Also included are episodes from Strange, a rarely heard series narrated by Walter Gibson, creator and author of The Shadow. Includes 22 digitally mastered and restored episodes from nine different series. Episodes Include: Quiet Please: Whence You Came 02-16-48, The Thing on the Fourble Board 08-09-48; Lights Out: Death Robbery 07-16-47, The Signalman 08-24-46; Strange: Greenwood Acres 1955, Great Eastern 1955; The Weird Circle: Frankenstein 02-20-44, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot 05-28-44; Hall of Fantasy: He Who Follows Me 03-11-50, The Shadow People 09-21-53, The Judge's House 04-03-47; Inner Sanctum: The Black Seagull 03-07-43, The Unforgiving Corpse 05-28-51; Dark Fantasy: The Demon Tree 12-05-41, Spawn of the Subhuman 02-27-42, Pennsylvania Turnpike 03-20-42; Murder at Midnight: The Kaballah 12-30-46, The House That Time Forgot 01-13-47; Strange: Flying Dutchman 1955, The Ghost Train 1955; The Hermit's Cave: Buried Alive, It Happened on Sunday PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/radi/001781/bk_radi_001781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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