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Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on ¿ominous matter¿ and ¿thing power.¿ In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Gothic Things argues that the Gothic has always been about ...

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Fantasy author Neil Gaiman¿s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock¿s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman¿s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work, situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in particular to the Herös Journey, urban fantasy, word p...

Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on ¿ominous matter¿ and ¿thing power.¿ In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Gothic Things argues that the Gothic has always been about ...

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman¿s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock¿s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman¿s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work, situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in particular to the Herös Journey, urban fantasy, word p...

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This concise encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market. Over 200 entries written by experts in the field are accompanied by an overview introduction by the editor. Generic entries such as 'ghost' an

Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan¿s ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind¿s greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure evil, the cinematic devil embodies our own culturally specific anxieties and desires, reflecting moviegoers¿ collective conceptions of good and e...

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A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning‿across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time‿from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human imagination, giving shape to the fears and desi...

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This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Edgar Allan Poe is a popular author, and students have often read his work by the time they reach the college or university classroom. His writings have inspired film, television, and musical adaptations--sources for much of students' knowledge about Poe. Thus the challenge for teachers is to reacquaint students with Poe as a complex literary figure. This volume equips teachers with the tools necessary to meet that challenge.Part 1 identifies ...

From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster "The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time. From the Puritans' conviction that a thousand preternatural beings appear every day before our eyes, to today's resurgence of spirits in fiction and film, the culture of the United States has been ...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's «The Yellow Wall-paper» is one of the most frequently taught short stories in secondary and college classrooms around the world. What is especially unusual about the text is the large variety of academic contexts in which the story is included. The Pedagogical Wallpaper provides educators, students, and researchers with accessible and practical approaches to the story, with an emphasis on the text as a tool for teach...

The first scholarly collection devoted to  The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.

Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt Hills, and Katherine Fowkes, explore the Hollywood blockbusters from The Sixth Sense to The Happening in terms of their themes, aesthetics, and mar...

The first scholarly collection devoted to  The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.