Popular Ghosts : The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture
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| Title: | Popular Ghosts : The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Esther Peeren, Maria del Pilar Blanco |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Ghosts, Haunted places |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781441164018 9781441163691 9781441109132 9781441149770 |
