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    "Evil will walk once more": phantasmagoria - the stalker film as interactive movie?
    NDALIANIS, ANGELA (New York University Press, 1999)
    Two distinct tales of horror. Two heroines. Two psycho-killers. Two small-town communities. In the first story, the horror begins when a deranged murderer (possibly also the bogeyman himself) interrupts the peace of a small town. Lurking in the shadows, he emerges only to butcher a stream of unsuspecting young victims. At the end of the tale, the story's victimized and only surviving character, Laurie, rises to status of hero as she confronts the "bogeyman" head-on. Trapped in a house with him, her life balancing on a fine line, she has no option but to bring him out in the open and lure him to his own destruction. In the second story, the horror emerges when the heroine-to-be's husband develops psychotic, serial killer tendencies. The peace of their idyllic home and community is shattered and the psycho-killer's victim list builds up. Then Adrienne, the killer's wife, is left with no other option: she must engage him in final battle and, likewise, set him up for his own bloody annihilation. Two defeated psycho-killers. Two female victors.
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    Style, spectacle, excess and The bold and the beautiful
    NDALIANIS, ANGELA ( 1994)
    Much of the writing on daytime soap opera has focused on the genre's melodramatic form with particular emphasis being placed on the idea of excess: the excess of emotion, narrative form and style. John Fiske, among others, has argued that the hyperbolic excess that dominates the genre has the potential for opening up numerous and complex interpretative positions that reject the 'singular' meanings favoured by the classic realist text that has dominated Hollywood cinema. Among the American soap operas currently broadcast on Australian daytime television , 'The Bold and the Beautiful' epitomises the genre's capacity for producing a form that tests the boundaries, not only of the classical narrative, but of the soap form itself.
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    Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology in the Caucasus
    Kohl, Philip L. ; Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
    This chapter examines the politics of archaeology in an area that can justly be viewed either as part of the northern frontier of the modern Middle East (and ancient Near East) or the southeastern boundary of Europe.
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    Makhzan and Siba in Morocco: an examination of early modern attitudes
    Pennell, C. R. (Middle East & North African Studies Press (MENAS), 1991)
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    The devil (as I'me sure hee will) take 'um': a seventeenth century English consul and his views of Tripoli
    Pennell, Richard (Editions Du Centre National De La Recherche Scientlfiqu, 1991)