Showing posts with label shark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shark. Show all posts
Sunday, April 25, 2021

"Man Overboard" by Sir Winston Churchill: A Commentary

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman   Deceptively simple, Sir Winston Churchill's 1899 short story “ Man Overboard: An Episode of the Red...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Truly Monstrous: The Alligator Snapping Turtle

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman An apex predator is at “the top of a food chain” and itself has no “natural predators” (excep...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Making Every Word (or Image) Count

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman The opening sequence of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) is well known to many moviegoers. Each mo...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Horror Film Structure: Some Thoughts, None Definitive

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman “Analyses of film structure are never theory-neutral . . . . Once the analyst determines which of the ...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Man Overboard: Questioning Nature and Its Creator

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman It is not generally known, but Sir Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain during World War...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Toward a Taxonomy of Horror Fiction

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman “Taxonomy” is a fancy word for classification system--a sort of intellectual file cabinet for grouping thi...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Intriguing Chapter Titles

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Although it isn’t a horror story--at least not in the conventional sense--Ihara Saikaku’s short story, “Wh...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Threat Recognition: Keeping It Real

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Most of us, if we survive our childhoods--no easy task, often--develop the ability to distinguish threaten...