(Išleidimo metai: 26-Aug-2020, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781788746649)
What are Monsters? Monsters are everywhere, from cyberbullies online to vampires onscreen: the twenty-first century is a monstrous age. The root of the word monster means omen or warning, and if monsters frighten us, its because they are here...Daugiau...
This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelgänger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical mome...Daugiau...
This book explores the captivating intersection of lunar influence and the Gothic imagination, revealing how the moon has shaped narratives of horror, mystery, and transformation across cultures and media. Edited by Elana Gomel and Simon ...Daugiau...
Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture looks at the recent proliferation of the final girl young heroines who have entered popular consciousness as symbolising the potential and power as one that might change the futur...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781800799370)
Fairies: A Companion provides a unique and unparalleled view of the ubiquity of fairies and fairy culture across the world, in its many expressions and manifestations. As well as providing historical perspectives on our belief in the fae,...Daugiau...
Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America, and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. Examining the figure of the...Daugiau...
Simon Bacon, Carl H. Sederholm, Kristopher Woofter
Serija: Genre Fiction and Film Companions
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781803741383)
Featuring a comprehensive editors introduction defining the Weird mode, this collection offers a broad-reaching discussion of Weird fiction, film, art and theory. Its 31 broad-ranging chapters explore Weird theory and philosophy, as well as key t...Daugiau...
Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populis...Daugiau...
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memoryare used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics incontemporary popular culture. The essays collected here cover top...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Dec-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781803743080)
This edited collection explores the field of Indigenous popular culture, or IndigePop. Bringing together contributions by scholars and practitioners, it promotes a dialogue between diverse sites of knowledge production of and on the Indigenous pop...Daugiau...
Simon Bacon, Cristina Diamant, Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer, Simon Bacon, Andrew M. Boylan, John Conlan, Cathleen Allyn Conway, Miranda Corcoran, Aksel Dadswell, Matthias De Bondt...
Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate...Daugiau...
A study that classifies zombies as a vehicle to communicate humanitys pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time. Exploring depictions of zombies across literature, poetry, comics, television, film and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781800798953)
This book is the first of its kind to explore the role of aliens in popular culture from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. Exploring topics such as gender, posthumanity, religion and more, ranging from India to Latin America, Africa to Chin...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781800799844)
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of the polymathic influences that shaped Through the Looking-Glass. With contributions from the history of science, philosophy, literature, visual culture, data science and more, this c...Daugiau...
This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and diseaseeven more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jul-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781800796744)
In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, death has become an all too familiar feature of the early 2020s. The 21st century has in fact produced a singular historical moment with its unique intersection of popular politics, environmental extremes, g...Daugiau...
