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Cli-Fi
A Companion
Av Axel Goodbody, Adeline Johns-Putra
Häftad, 2018
414 kr
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What is Cli-Fi?Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, …
Gothic
A Reader
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2018
427 kr
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What is the Gothic?From ghosts to vampires, from ruined castles to steampunk fashion, the Gothic is a term that evokes all things strange, haunted and sinister.This volume offers a new look at the world of the Gothic, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its reemergence today. Each short …
Horror
A Companion
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2019
427 kr
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What is Horror? Horror is an inherently sensational and popular phenomenon. Extreme violence, terrifying monsters and jarring music shock, scare and excite us out of our everyday lives. The horror genre gives shape to the particular anxieties of society but also reveals the fundamental nature of …
Sci-Fi
A Companion
Av Jack Fennell
Häftad, 2019
427 kr
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What is Sci-Fi?Science fiction is a non-realist genre that foregrounds a sense of material plausibility, insisting that despite seeming outlandish, it is consonant with history and the laws of nature. By turns subtle and bombastic, sci-fi revels in discovery and revelation, whether through human …
Monsters
A Companion
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2020
427 kr
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What are Monsters?Monsters are everywhere, from cyberbullies online to vampires onscreen: the twenty-first century is a monstrous age. The root of the word «monster» means «omen» or «warning», and if monsters frighten us, it’s because they are here to warn us about something amiss in ourselves and …
Transmedia Cultures
A Companion
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2021
371 kr
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What is Transmedia?The Transmedia Cultures companion demonstrates that transmedia, and indeed transmedia storytelling, are fundamental to the human experience of being in the world and creating the stories of who we are, both as individuals and communities. Transmedia is not just limited to the …
Undead in the 21st Century
A Companion
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2022
371 kr
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«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the gothic. With each chapter, the book …
Toxic Cultures
A Companion
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2022
371 kr
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«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying, this book is paradoxically a …
Shirley Jackson
A Companion
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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2021 Bram Stoker Awards(R) Nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionFrom the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson’s popular, often bestselling works experimented with popular generic forms (melodrama, …
Deep
A Companion
Av Marko Teodorski, Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2023
371 kr
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What’s in the Deep? This companion explores the myths and legends of merfolk and sea monsters to navigate our transcultural pasts and environmental presents and explain our endless fascination with the sea. More than any other time in human history, our relationship to the oceans and the creatures …
Death in the 21st Century
A Companion
Av Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2024
427 kr
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In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, death has become an all too familiar feature of the early 2020s.The 21st century has in fact produced a singular historical moment with its unique intersection of popular politics, environmental extremes, globalisation and technological innovation, which has …
Margaret Atwood
A New Companion
Av Gina Wisker
Häftad, 2025
427 kr
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‘This diverse collection, edited by Gina Wisker, offers a range of fresh perspectives on Margaret Atwood, one of today’s most important authors. Spanning feminism, ecology, posthumanism, storytelling and more, it provides new analysis into her work from her early novels to recent poetry, revealing …
Aliens
A Companion
Häftad, 2024
427 kr
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This book is the first of its kind to explore the role of aliens in popular culture from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. Space aliens are everywhere: from cinematic franchises, such as Star Wars, to bestselling novels; from religious cults to conspiracy theories; from UFO subcultures to …
Fairies
A Companion
Av Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2025
382 kr
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Fairies: A Companion provides a unique and unparalleled view of the ubiquity of fairies and fairy culture across the world, in its many expressions and manifestations. As well as providing historical perspectives on our belief in the fae, the companion also uniquely traces their ongoing evolution …
Alice Through the Looking-Glass
A Companion
Av Franziska E. Kohlt, Justine Houyaux
Häftad, 2024
476 kr
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«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so marks the arrival of an exciting …
Weird
A Companion
Av Carl H. Sederholm, Kristopher Woofter
Häftad, 2025
427 kr
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Weird works unsettle, decentering humanity on a cosmic scale and, at other times, breaking down the human barriers erected around race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring a comprehensive editors’ introduction to the Weird as a mode engaging with forms of knowledge, transcendence, and …
IndigePop
A Companion
Av Svetlana Seibel, Kati Dlaske
Häftad, 2024
371 kr
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Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining increasing momentum since the turn of the twenty-first century. This edited collection brings together contributions by scholars, artists and practitioners who work with and in the field of …
Ray Bradbury
A Companion
Häftad, 2026
427 kr
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"A scholarly and joyous collection which examines Ray Bradbury's works not only along familiar lines (nostalgia, Halloween, rockets and robots) but from refreshing and new angles. It’s particularly pleasing to see scholars from so many countries applying their critical scrutiny to Bradbury." — Dr …
Magic
A Companion
Häftad, 2022
394 kr
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What is Magic?Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. Defined as supernatural powers, an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment, magic persists to this day in new kinds of magical thinking in our highly technical, digitized …
