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67 produkter
Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture
Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2026
480 kr
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An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health …
Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2024
2516 kr
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Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing …
Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2025
707 kr
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Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing …
Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2025
2516 kr
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Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American …
Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2026
707 kr
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Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American …
Global Vampire and National Identity
Postcolonialism, Indigeneity, and National Identity
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2027
2480 kr
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The Global Vampire and National Identity explores vampire cinema and media from cultures and nations beyond the dominant influence of Hollywood, examining the cultural, political and social significance of the vampire across diverse cultures and societies.Each chapter uses a single film or …
Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2024
813 kr
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Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing …
Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2024
831 kr
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Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing …
Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2025
831 kr
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Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American …
Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2025
831 kr
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Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American …
Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2023
1473 kr
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Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics …
Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2023
520 kr
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Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics …
Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2023
520 kr
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Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics …
Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2025
480 kr
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Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics …
Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture
Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2024
1391 kr
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An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health …
Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture
Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2024
520 kr
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An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity''s pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health …
Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture
Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century
Av Simon Bacon
E-bok, 2024
520 kr
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An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity''s pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health …
To Boldly Go
Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe
Av Nadine Farghaly, Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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In 2016, Star Trek--arguably the most popular science fiction franchise of all time--turned 50. During that time the original series and its various offshoots have created some of the genre's most iconic characters and reiterated a vision of an egalitarian future where humans no longer discriminate …
Dracula as Absolute Other
The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2019
429 kr
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Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age.This book is a study of Dracula's role of absolute Other as it appears on …
Growing Up with Vampires
Essays on the Undead in Children's Media
Av Simon Bacon, Katarzyna Bronk
Häftad, 2018
373 kr
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Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight …
Transmedia Vampire
Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2021
420 kr
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This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. Stories and characters such as Dracula, Carmilla and even Draculaura from Monster High have been made more "real" through their depictions in narratives produced in and across different …
Eco-Vampires
The Undead and the Environment
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2020
429 kr
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This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampire to be an essential part of a global ecosystem and an organism that can no longer tolerate the all-consuming forces of globalization and consumerism. …
Vampires from Another World
The Cinematic Progeny of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Bram Stoker's Dracula
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2021
429 kr
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This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania, Mars, and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire. It explores the "vampire from another world" in all its various forms, as a manifestation …
Faith and the Zombie
Critical Essays on the End of the World and Beyond
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2023
601 kr
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Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's …
Spoofing the Vampire
Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2022
667 kr
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Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, …
All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts
Av Jessica Doble, Simon Bacon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
895 kr
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All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts
Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts
Av Jessica Doble, Simon Bacon m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
802 kr
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Future Folk Horror
Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2023
1351 kr
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Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan …
Toxic Nostalgia on Screen
Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2024
1422 kr
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Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a …
Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
Essays on Anomalous Children From 1595 to the Present Day
Inbunden, 2020
1318 kr
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The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the …
