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  • Folkloresque

    Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert ...
    This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Möbius Media

    Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Michael Dylan Foster ...
    Möbius Media explores the interplay of popular and traditional cultures, reminding readers that expressive cultural forms are never mutually exclusive but exist in a state of creative tension and interconnection, merging and (re)defining one another. With this insightful volume, editors Jeffrey Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster build on their earlier work, The Folkloresque, by considering how ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Animals, Robots, Gods

    Adventures in the Moral Imagination

    by Webb Keane ...
    A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Avatar and Nature Spirituality

    Edited by Bron Taylor ...
    Series Book 8 - Environmental Humanities
    Avatar and Nature Spirituality explores the cultural and religious significance of James Cameron's film Avatar (2010), one of the most commercially successful motion pictures of all time. Its success was due in no small measure to the beauty of the Pandora landscape and the dramatic, heart-wrenching plight of its nature-venerating inhabitants. To some audience members, the film was inspirational, ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Critical Play

    Radical Game Design

    by Mary Flanagan ...
    An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Folk Horror

    New Global Pathways

    Edited by Dawn Keetley, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the assumptions that have guided critical writing on the genre in the face of such expansions, with chapters ... Read more

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  • Fandom, Second Edition

    Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

    by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington ...
    A completely updated edition of a seminal work on fans and how fandom shapes the culture, social relations, economic models, and politics of our age.We are all fans. Whether we follow our favorite celebrities on Twitter, attend fan conventions such as Comic Con, or simply wait with bated breath for the next episode of our favorite television drama—each of us is a fan.Recognizing that fandom is not ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folklore: The Basics

    by Simon J. Bronner ...
    Series series The Basics
    Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Ecologies of the Moving Image

    Cinema, Affect, Nature

    by Adrian J. Ivakhiv ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities
    Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe.This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: an account of the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Uneven Futures

    Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction

    Edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, Gerry Canavan ...
    Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium.The explosion in speculative/science fiction (SF) across different media from the late twentieth century to the present has compelled those in the field of SF studies to rethink the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Beasts of the Deep

    Sea Creatures and Popular Culture

    Edited by Jon Hackett, Seán Harrington ...
    Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games.Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invented Religions

    Imagination, Fiction and Faith

    by Carole M. Cusack ...
    Series series Routledge New Religions
    Utilizing contemporary scholarship on secularization, individualism, and consumer capitalism, this book explores religious movements founded in the West which are intentionally fictional: Discordianism, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of the SubGenius, and Jediism. Their continued appeal and success, principally in America but gaining wider audience through the 1980s and 1990s, is chiefly as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD