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Posted on 04/22/2007 2:32:07 PM PDT by Yardstick
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One book sold on the account, "Men, Women and Chainsaws," is an academic text about gender roles in horror films. The book advances the feminist theory of a "Final Woman" in modern slasher films, the idea that while many victims die at the hands of a killer, one plucky, independent woman always survives.
Among the actresses cited in the book are Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween," Betsy Palmer in "Friday the 13th" and Jennifer Jason Leigh in "Eyes of A Stranger."
ABCNews has learned the book was used in an academic course called "Contemporary Horror" which was taught at Virginia Tech as recently as last semester. Another book sold through the same half.com account — "Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha" — was written by Ed Falco, one of Cho's English professors at Virginia Tech. Falco's niece, Edie Falco, stars in HBO's mob drama "The Sopranos."
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(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
His eBay feedback is still up.
1. He didn’t buy ammo, he bought empty magazines. He bought the ammo locally around the New River Valley—eBay doesn’t sell ammo.
2. The Final Woman also has to look really good in her underwear.
}:-)4
-—Cho apparently purchased a two-pack of 10-round ammunition clips for a Walther P22 on March 22, 2007, less than a month before killing 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech. The ammunition was purchased on eBay from Elk Ridge Shooting Supplies. Police have said Cho used a Walther P22 during his bloody rampage Monday.-—
Are these people morons or do they think we are? “Ammunition clips” are not ammo and they’re not clips either. If these MSM bozos ever get it right it’ll be raining 5 carat diamonds.
Ebay doesn’t sell ammo and the things you put in your pistol tht have ammo in them are called magazines. I honestly think it’s some point of honor with these empty heads to always get it wrong.
I just searched their academic web site. Contemporary Horror was taught in the English Department in 2006. Here’s the course description, which is found in a pdf file:
English 3984: Special Studies: Contemporary Horror
Stevens
It used to be that horror films came out at a prescribed time: October. But now it seems as if every week a new film invades the multiplex. We are consuming horror on an
unprecedented scale. But the rules have changed. Until recent years, lead characters could be counted on to survive the invasion of zombies/ homicidal maniacs/ vampires.
But this margin of safety no longer exists; horror has become a masochistic pleasure. How do these texts construct us as spectators? How does identity affect our readings of
these works? What do they say about our current societal fears?
In order to answer these questions, we’ll watch films such as Saw and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and we’ll read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, considered the first
gothic horror novel; William Beckford’s Vathel, a forgotten gem that tells the Faustian myth from an Eastern perspective; some tales by Poe, Lovecraft, King, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Joyce Carol Oates, and Dean Koontz. We will also read Patricia Cornwell’s semi-nonfiction book on Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, and one book of criticism: Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol Clover. And finally, we will read one graphic novel, From Hell by Alan Moore, one of the most popular and accomplished writers in the medium. There will be two papers, a midterm and a final as well as a fear journal in which students will write narratives about their personal fears and catalogue their interactions with the texts we encounter. WARNING: Not for the faint of heart.
http://www.english.vt.edu/ug/Fall%202006.pdf
ABC is a fraud and so are the moonbat news orgs that ran with the story. I’ve already blasted the moonbat editor at my commie local fish wrapper.
One last time...EBAY SELLS NO AMMO!!!!
You can buy almost anything else. Everything but the reciever or frame. Those are the only parts you need a FFL for.
"It's apparent that he purchased the empty magazine clips," eBay spokesman Hani Durzy told the AP. "They're similar to what could be purchased in any sporting goods store around the country."
ABC certainly got it wrong yesterday. I’m not sure if it’s a malign attack on the internet (hillary would love to help) or sheer ignorance and laziness. Probably both.
The excitement is because the last semiautomatic handgun to use "ammunition clips" was the 1896 Mauser Broomhandle and the MSM are flucking idiots for using 'clip', that's why.
Not to mention that eBay doesn't sell ammunition.
Ergo the article is bullsh*t written by two sissy-boy morons.
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