The Nocturnals Explore Unique Adaptations of Nighttime Animals

This book examines the themes and variations of Phantom of the Opera, exploring the story's appeal to multiple generations through numerous incarnations. After discussing Gaston Leroux's original 1910 novel, the work turns first to Phantom on film from Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom through Dario Argento's 1998 film.

Chicago Gargoyles, Grotesques, and Dragons: An Architectural Survey of Fantasy Animals introduces the weird world of scary and strange beasts, of fire-breathers, and of creepy crawlers.

Chicago Street Zoo: A Children's Survey of Architectural Animals is an urban menagerie for children and adults alike! Over two hundred skillfully composed, full-color images of birds, mammals, fish, and insects discovered on the walls of Chicago's buildings are presented in this delightful volume.

Traditional historiography has always viewed Calvin's Geneva as the benchmark against which all other Reformed communities must inevitably be measured, judging those communities who did not follow Geneva's institutional and doctrinal example as somehow inferior and incomplete versions of the original. "Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe" builds upon recent scholarship that challenges this concept of the 'fragmentation' of Calvinism, and instead offers a more positive view of Reformed communities beyond Geneva. The essays in this volume highlight the different paths that Calvinism followed as it took root in Western Europe and which allowed it to develop within fifty years into the dominant Protestant confession. Each chapter reinforces the notion that whilst many reformers did try to duplicate the kind of community that Calvin had established, most had to compromise by adapting to the particular political and cultural landscapes in which they lived.

Literature and film studies students will find plenty of materialto support their courses and essay writing on how the film versionsprovide different readings of the original text.