Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture: A Critical Study of Film, Television and Literature, Laura J. Getty

Автор: Stoddart Scott F.
Название: Exploring Downton Abbey: Critical Essays
ISBN: 0786476885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786476886
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Описание: The BBC television series Downton Abbey (2010-2016) developed and produced by Academy Award winner Julian Fellowes, became a cultural barometer with American viewers harkening back to the days when televised serial dramas ruled the airwaves.

Автор: Bobby Susan Redington, Harney Eileen M.
Название: The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture: Essays on Fiction, Film and Television
ISBN: 0786478462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786478460
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Описание: Many female figures in recent fiction, film and television embody the Artemis archetype, modelled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. Examining both iconic and lesser-known works, this collection of new essays analyses the independent and capable female figure as an ideal representation of women in popular culture.

Автор: Green Paul
Название: Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives: Supernatural and Paranormal Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media
ISBN: 1476678006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476678009
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Описание: The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colourful history. This encyclopaedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.

Автор: Jones Matthew, Ormrod Joan
Название: Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film
ISBN: 0786478071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786478071
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Описание: Something has happened to time. In recent years the media have produced numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and videogames that bend, shatter and rebuild the clock. What caused this fascination with time travel? This book explores time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts.

Автор: Wickham Clayton, Sarah Harman
Название: Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon
ISBN: 1780766653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780766652
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Описание: Screening Twilight unpacks how this popular group of films work as cinematic texts, what they have to say about cinema and culture today, and how fans may seek to re-read or subvert these messages.

Автор: Roberts Robin
Название: Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
ISBN: 1496815564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496815569
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Описание: The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows – the female ghost. Inherently liminal, often literally invisible, the female ghost has nevertheless appeared in all genres. Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture brings this figure into the light, exploring her cultural significance in a variety of media from 1926 to 2014. Robin Roberts argues that the female ghost is well worth studying for what she can tell us about feminine subjectivity in cultural contexts. Subversive Spirits examines appearances of the female ghost in heritage sites, theater, Hollywood film, literature, and television in the United States and the United Kingdom. What holds these disparate female ghosts together is their uncanny ability to disrupt, illuminate, and challenge gendered assumptions. As with other supernatural figures, the female ghost changes over time, especially responding to changes in gender roles. Roberts’s analysis begins with comedic female ghosts in literature and film and moves into horror by examining the successful play The Woman in Black and the legend of the weeping woman, La Llorona. Roberts then situates the canonical works of Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison in the tradition of the female ghost to explore how the ghost is used to portray the struggle and pain of women of color. Roberts further analyzes heritage sites that use the female ghost as the friendly and inviting narrator for tourists. The book concludes with a comparison of the British and American versions of the television hit Being Human, where the female ghost expands her influence to become a mother and savior to all humanity.

Автор: Helford Elyce Rae, Carroll Shiloh, Gray Sarah
Название: The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture
ISBN: 1496818512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496818515
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Описание: Contributions by: Marleen S. Barr, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Elyce Rae Helford, Michael R. Howard II, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, Tosha Taylor, Katherine A. Wagner, and Rhonda V. Wilcox.Although the last three decades have offered a growing body of scholarship on images of fantastic women in popular culture, these studies either tend to focus on one particular variety of fantastic female (the action or sci-fi heroine), or on her role in a specific genre (villain, hero, temptress). This edited collection strives to define the ""Woman Fantastic"" more fully. The Woman Fantastic may appear in speculative or realist settings, but her presence is always recognizable. Through futuristic contexts, fantasy worlds, alternate histories, or the display of superpowers, these insuperable women challenge the laws of physics, chemistry, and/or biology.In chapters devoted to certain television programs, adult and young adult literature, and comics, contributors discuss feminist negotiation of today's economic and social realities. Senior scholars and rising academic stars offer compelling analyses of fantastic women from Wonder Woman and She-Hulk to Talia Al Ghul and Martha Washington; from Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series to Cinda Williams Chima's The Seven Realms series; and from Battlestar Gallactica's female Starbuck to Game of Thrones's Sansa and even Elaine Barrish Hammond of USA's Political Animals. This volume furnishes an important contribution to ongoing discussions of gender and feminism in popular culture.

Название: Dark california
ISBN: 1476667837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476667836
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Описание: Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a central theme of darkness through literature, video games, music, TV series, and film. Providing insight into the significance of Californian icons, the contributors explore the interplay between positive stereotypes and ambivalent responses connected with the myth of the Golden State.

Автор: Cusack Carole M., Morehead John W., Robertson Venetia Laura Delano
Название: The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom: Essays on the Intersection of Religion and Pop Culture
ISBN: 1476670838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476670836
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Описание: A range of canonical texts - including Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sherlock - are examined in this volume in terms of the pleasure and enchantment of repeated viewing. Popular culture is revealed to be a fertile source of religious and spiritual creativity in the contemporary world.

Автор: Tom Pollard
Название: Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession
ISBN: 0786497785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786497782
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Описание: Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society`s most sensitive subjects - sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class - and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture`s vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power.

Автор: Coker Cait, Palumbo Donald E., Sullivan III C. W.
Название: The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World
ISBN: 1476675945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476675947
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Описание: Features over a dozen interdisciplinary scholars reading popular texts through critical lenses that range from traditional literary studies, to video game scholarship, to ecocriticism. Challenging the field of popular vampire studies, this book asks the question: What is the vampire in different global contexts, and what does it represent?

Автор: Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark
Название: Resist and Persist: Essays on Social Revolution in 21st Century Narratives
ISBN: 1476676674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476676678
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Описание: At the close of the 2010s, to many, the world appears to be in a state of dangerous change. News and fictional media alike report that these are dark times, and narratives of social resistance imbue many facets of Western culture. This book examines different events and themes of the 2010s that readily acknowledge the struggling state of things.