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The Paranormal and Popular Culture

Author: Darryl Caterine
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351731815
Rating: 4.1/5 (15 downloads)

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Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g. novels, comic books, and films) as well as the cultural practices they inspire. After an introduction analyzing the paranormal’s relationship to religion and entertainment, the book presents essays exploring its spiritual significance in a postmodern society; its (post)modern representation in literature and film; and its embodiment in a number of contemporary cultural practices. Contributors from a number of discplines and cultural contexts address issues such as the shamanistic aspects of Batman and lesbianism in vampire mythology. Covering many aspects of the paranormal and its effect on popular culture, this book is an important statement in the field. As such, it will be of utmost interest to scholars of religious studies as well as media, communication, and cultural studies.

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Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend

Author: June Michele Pulliam
Publsiher: ABC-CLIO
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2016-09-26
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1440834911
Rating: 4.4/5 (11 downloads)

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With entries that range from specific works to authors, folklore, and popular culture (including music, film, television, urban legend, and gaming), this book provides a single-volume resource on all things ghostly in the United States and in other countries. • Provides accessible, interesting, and fun-to-read information authored by expert researchers and coedited by scholars who are experts on the topic of ghosts across human culture • Presents analytical discussions of the figure of the ghost in each work that will be beneficial to students in film studies, English, or other classes tasked with writing an essay on the horror genre or ghost films and books • Explores how the idea of the ghost implies belief in there being more to human existence than the physical body and is intrinsically connected to the concept of the afterlife—and how these concepts often coexisted uneasily with beliefs regarding afterlife in religious theologies

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Paranormal Media

Author: Annette Hill
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136863176
Rating: 4.3/5 (76 downloads)

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The paranormal has gone mainstream. Beliefs are on the rise, with almost half of the British population, and two thirds of Americans, claiming to believe in extra sensory perceptions and hauntings. Psychic magazines like Spirit and Destiny, television shows such as Fringe, Ghost Whisperer and Most Haunted, ghost-cams and e-poltergeists, bestselling books on mind, body and spirit, and magicians like Derren Brown have moved from the outer limits to the centre of popular culture, turning paranormal beliefs and scepticism into revenue streams. Paranormal Media offers a unique, timely exploration of the extraordinary, unexplained and supernatural in popular culture, looking in unusual places in order to understand this phenomenon. Early spirit forms such as magic lantern shows or the spirit photograph are re-imagined as a search for extraordinary experiences in reality TV, ghost tourism, and live shows. Through a popular cultural ethnography, and critical analysis in social and cultural theory, this ground-breaking book by Annette Hill presents an original and rigorous examination of people's experiences of spirits and magic. In popular culture, people are players in an orchestral movement about what happens to us when we die. In a very real sense the audience is the show. This book is the story of audiences and their participation in a show about matters of life and death. Paranormal Media will be a highly interesting read for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics, on a wide range of television, media, cultural studies, and sociology courses.

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Pop Culture Magick

Author: Taylor Ellwood
Publsiher: Taylor Ellwood
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2018-09-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1720194386
Rating: 4.4/5 (86 downloads)

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Learn how to get consistent results with pop culture magick Turn the pop culture you love into a source of spiritual power that changes your life. Do you feel like you can’t relate to the available books on magic, because you’re told you have to work with ancient cultures and deities? In Pop Culture Magick I show you how to take the core techniques and practices of magic and apply them to the pop culture you love, so you can practice magic and get consistent results that change your life. In this book you will learn: How to apply pop culture to magic and get results. How to create relationships with pop culture spirits. How to create practical magic techniques from pop culture. Why pop culture magic is real magic that can change your life. In Pop Culture Magick you will learn how to apply practical magic to the pop culture you love and use it to get results.

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Pop culture Magic 2.0

Author: Taylor Ellwood
Publsiher: Taylor Ellwood
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1723724777
Rating: 4.4/5 (77 downloads)

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In Pop Culture Magic 2.0, Taylor Ellwood delves deeper into the power of pop culture magic and shows how the modern mythology of pop culture can be used to create magical workings that get you consistent results. You will learn: How to develop deeper and stronger relationships with pop culture spirits. How to develop your own system of pop culture magic How to integrate social media and modern technology into your magical practice. How to use contemporary holidays in your magical workings How role playing games can help you with your identity work and much, much more! Pop Culture Magic 2.0 can help you develop a modern system of magic that is relevant to you and allows you to take the pop culture you love and turn it into a spiritual practice that gets results and changes your life.

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures

Author: Olu Jenzen
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317042190
Rating: 4.2/5 (9 downloads)

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Despite the much vaunted ’end of religion’ and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own ’spiritualities of life’. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international scholars across the social sciences and humanities to question how and why people are seeking meaning in the realm of the paranormal, a heretofore subjugated knowledge. With contributions from the UK and other European countries, the USA, Australia and Canada, this ground-breaking book attends to the paranormal as a position from which to critique dominant forms of knowledge production and spirituality. A rich exploration of everyday life practices, textual engagements and discourses relating to the paranormal, as well as the mediation, technology and art of paranormal activity, this book explores themes such as subcultures and mainstreaming, as well as epistemological, methodological, and phenomenological questions, and the role of the paranormal in social change. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures constitutes an essential resource for those interested in the academic study of cultural engagements with paranormality; it will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies, popular culture, sociology, cultural geography, literature, film and music.

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Religion and Popular Culture

Author: Adam Possamai
Publsiher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2005
Genre: Heroes
ISBN: 9789052012728
Rating: 4.2/5 (127 downloads)

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This book views itself as the 'hyper-real testament' of new religious phenomena by addressing the theories, among many others of Baudrillard, Jameson and Lipovetsky, and by exploring the use of fictions such as those from Harry Potter, The Matrix, Star Trek, Buffy and Lord of the Rings.

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What Happens Next? Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture

Author: Gail de Vos
Publsiher: ABC-CLIO
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598846345
Rating: 4.6/5 (45 downloads)

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This fascinating book uncovers the history behind urban legends and explains how the contemporary iterations of familiar fictional tales provide a window into the modern concerns—and digital advancements—of our society. • Extended examples of the literature and references to contemporary legends • Relevant, insightful comments from seasoned authors in the genre • A comprehensive overview of recent available research • A list of Internet sites that debunk or confirm urban legends

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Integrating Pop Culture Into the Academic Library

Author: Melissa Edmiston Johnson
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538159422
Rating: 4.9/5 (22 downloads)

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This book explores how pop culture is used in academic libraries for collections, instruction, and programming. It also describes the foundational basis for implementing pop culture and discusses how it promotes conversations between librarians and the students, making not only the information relatable, but the library staff, as well.

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Paranormal Media

Author: Annette Hill
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136863184
Rating: 4.3/5 (84 downloads)

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Paranormal Media offers a unique, timely exploration of the extraordinary, unexplained and supernatural in popular culture, looking in unusual places in order to understand this phenomenon.

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Handbook of Death and Dying

Author: Clifton D. Bryant
Publsiher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 2003
Genre: Death
ISBN: 0761925147
Rating: 4.5/5 (47 downloads)

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Review: "More than 100 scholars contributed to this carefully researched, well-organized, informative, and multi-disciplinary source on death studies. Volume 1, "The Presence of Death," examines the cultural, historical, and societal frameworks of death, such as the universal fear of death, spirituality and varioius religions, the legal definition of death, suicide, and capital punishment. Volume 2, "The Response to Death," covers such topics as rites and ceremonies, grief and bereavement, and legal matters after death."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

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Popular Ghosts

Author: Esther Peeren
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441149775
Rating: 4.9/5 (75 downloads)

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Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday.

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A History of Evil in Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal About America [2 volumes]

Author: Sharon Packer MD
Publsiher: ABC-CLIO
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313397716
Rating: 4.7/5 (16 downloads)

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Evil isn't simply an abstract theological or philosophical talking point. In our society, the idea of evil feeds entertainment, manifests in all sorts of media, and is a root concept in our collective psyche. This accessible and appealing book examines what evil means to us. • Includes the insights of scholars from widely different academic fields to inspect evil from various points of view, giving readers a broader perspective on the topic • Compiles expert opinions from American, American expatriate, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern contributors • Covers the portrayal of evil in many different forms of media—film, television, music, art, video games, literature, poetry—as well as in politics, current events, and the legal arena

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Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture

Author: Ramos-Garcia Maria
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2020-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 1498589391
Rating: 4.9/5 (91 downloads)

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Religion and American Cultures: Tradition, Diversity, and Popular Expression, 2nd Edition [4 volumes]

Author: Gary Laderman
Publsiher: ABC-CLIO
Total Pages: 1766
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610691105
Rating: 4.1/5 (5 downloads)

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This four-volume work provides a detailed, multicultural survey of established as well as "new" American religions and investigates the fascinating interactions between religion and ethnicity, gender, politics, regionalism, ethics, and popular culture. • Comprises contributions from more than 100 top scholars covering a breadth of topics such as Día de los Muertos, Heathenry, Islam, Pentecostalism, roadside shrines, Sufism, Wicca, and Zen from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives • Provides thought-provoking insights into religion's interactions with cultural backdrops throughout America, including in education, entertainment, the Internet, the environment, politics, and at home • Contains photographs and illustrations depicting a wide range of religious figures and activities as well as significant religious sites in the United States • Supplies an entire volume of primary source documents illustrating the religious diversity in American culture, including Cecil B. DeMille's essay "The Screen as Religious Teacher" as well as more conventional materials on Christian Science, the New Age, and Buddhism

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The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Author: Justin Edwards
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136337873
Rating: 4.7/5 (73 downloads)

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This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.

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Writing the Paranormal Novel

Author: Steven Harper
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1599633019
Rating: 4.3/5 (19 downloads)

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Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! Writing a paranormal novel takes more than casting an alluring vampire or arming your hero with a magic wand. It takes an original idea, believable characters, a compelling plot, and surprising twists, not to mention great writing. This helpful guide gives you everything you need to successfully introduce supernatural elements into any story without shattering the believability of your fictional world or falling victim to common cliches. You'll learn how to: • Choose supernatural elements and decide what impact the supernatural will have on your fictional world • Create engaging and relatable characters from supernatural protagonists and antagonists to supporting players (both human and non-human) • Develop strong plots and complementary subplots • Write believable fight scenes and flashbacks • Create realistic dialogue • And much more Complete with tips for researching your novel and strategies for getting published, Writing the Paranormal Novel gives you everything you need to craft a novel where even the most unusual twist is not only possible - it's believable.