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  • 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

  • Beasts of the Forest

    Denizens of the Dark Woods

    Edited by Jon Hackett, Seán Harrington ...
    An interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monsters through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video and animation.Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives: film and media ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beasts of the Forest

    Denizens of the Dark Woods

    Edited by Jon Hackett, Seán Harrington ...
    Beasts of the Forest: Denizens of the Dark Woods offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video and animation.Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Beasts of the Sky

    Strange Sightings in the Stratosphere

    by Jon Hackett, Seán Harrington, Damian O'Byrne ...
    Often the sky is conceptualised as a place of infinite possibilities, past the limits of our scientific explorations – and into the realms of our fiction and speculation; it is the site for our thoughts on the future, of the extra-terrestrial and beyond. Our representations in the media of space, sky and the infinite invariably mediate social and cultural anxieties that are current, looming and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

    The Victim Journey

    by Anne-Marie Greenslade, Anta Brachou, Kathryn Hodges, Sarah Burch, Ruth Van Dyke, Mike Dottridge, Anna Westin, Imogen Fell, Sasha Jesperson, Rune Heriksen, Craig Barlow, Diem-Tu Tran, Karen Sanders, Jon Hackett, Neena Samota, Debbie Ariyo, Karen Anstiss, Colleen Theron, Trevor Stammers ...
    Throughout the world, vulnerable people are being deceived into entering abusive journeys. Whether in the organ trade, exploitative labour businesses or forced criminality, their lives will never be the same.This book traces the journey of victims/survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking into and within the UK, from recruitment to representation to (re)integration. Using global ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Scary Monsters

    Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music

    by Dr. Mark Duffett, Professor Jon Hackett ...
    Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than might at first be imagined. Attention to such individuals and cultures can say things about the operation of genre and gender, myth and meaning. Indeed, monstrosity has recently become a growing focus of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Science Fiction

    by Dr Mark Bould ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and examines the interrelationships between spectacle, narrative and self-reflexivity, paying particular attention to the role of special effects in creating meaning and affect. It explores ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Futures and Fictions

    Edited by Simon O'Sullivan, Henriette Gunkell, Ayesha Hameed ...
    Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present.In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Xeno Fiction: More Best of Science Fiction

    A Review of Speculative Fiction

    Edited by Damien Broderick, Van Ikin ...
    Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Here Be Dragons

    Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings

    by Stefan Ekman, Stefar Ekman ...
    First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literatureWinner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016)Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2

    A Beginner's Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

    by Tiffani Angus, Val Nolan ...
    Series Book 2 - Spec Fic for Newbies
    Beam aboard your own Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror classroom with the next volume of the BSFA-shortlisted writing-guide series!Join Tiffani Angus (Ph.D.) and Val Nolan (Ph.D.) for a whirlwind introduction to the storytelling basics of 30 more subgenres and major tropes from across the limitless realms of Speculative Fiction.Learn about Space Opera, Folk Horror, Climate Fiction, Werewolves, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD