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The paranormal and popular culture : a postmodern religious landscape. /Darryl V. Caterine.

By: Caterine, Darryl VContributor(s): Darryl V. CaterineMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryagang, New Delhi.Publication details: , Oxon : Routledge , 2019Description: xiii, 300p. : 24cmISBN: 9780367731779Subject(s): Culture populaire | Parapsychology | Popular Culture | Religion | MythologyDDC classification: 130 CAT

Contents:

Part I The return of the sacred. What can the paranormal in popular culture tell us about our relationship with the sacred in contemporary society? Paranormal medicine The right to a narrative: metamodernism, paranormal horror, and agency in The Cabin in the Woods The Dark Knight Rises: shamanic transformations in Gotham City These lovers are out of this world: sex, consent, and the rhetoric of conversion in abductee narratives The mystery of everything out there: Bigfoot and religion in the 21st century The haunters and the hunters: popular ghost hunting and the pursuit of paranormal experience Part II The spell of occulture. Religions of the red planet: fin de siècle Martian romances Paranormal women: the "sexual revolution" and female sexuality in Hammer Studios' Karnstein Trilogy "We're ready to believe you!" Spiritualism and the interpretation of paranormal experience in Ghostbusters (1984) Jesus and the undead: resurrected bodies in scripture and the zombie apocalypse Haunting the ghost of Mark Twain Accounts of high strangeness: a Brazilian perspective on the paranormal and popular culture How the Necronomicon became real: the ecology of a legend Miranda Barbour and the construction of a "satanic cult" murder "What would you do when . . .?": Ostensive play in the zombie apocalypse narrative Paranormal beliefs, new religious movements, and the New Age spiritual milieu Cryptofiction! Science fiction and the rise of cryptozoology When did fairies get wings? A contactee canon: Gray Barker's Saucerian Books

Summary: Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g. novels, comic books, and films) as well as the cultural practices they inspire. After an introduction analyzing the paranormal's relationship to religion and entertainment, the book presents essays exploring its spiritual significance in a postmodern society; its (post)modern representation in literature and film; and its embodiment in a number of contemporary cultural practices. Contributors from a number of discplines and cultural contexts address issues such as the shamanistic aspects of Batman and lesbianism in vampire mythology. Covering many aspects of the paranormal and its effect on popular culture, this book is an important statement in the field.

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Part I The return of the sacred. What can the paranormal in popular culture tell us about our relationship with the sacred in contemporary society?
Paranormal medicine
The right to a narrative: metamodernism, paranormal horror, and agency in The Cabin in the Woods
The Dark Knight Rises: shamanic transformations in Gotham City
These lovers are out of this world: sex, consent, and the rhetoric of conversion in abductee narratives
The mystery of everything out there: Bigfoot and religion in the 21st century
The haunters and the hunters: popular ghost hunting and the pursuit of paranormal experience
Part II The spell of occulture. Religions of the red planet: fin de siècle Martian romances
Paranormal women: the "sexual revolution" and female sexuality in Hammer Studios' Karnstein Trilogy
"We're ready to believe you!" Spiritualism and the interpretation of paranormal experience in Ghostbusters (1984)
Jesus and the undead: resurrected bodies in scripture and the zombie apocalypse
Haunting the ghost of Mark Twain
Accounts of high strangeness: a Brazilian perspective on the paranormal and popular culture
How the Necronomicon became real: the ecology of a legend
Miranda Barbour and the construction of a "satanic cult" murder
"What would you do when . . .?": Ostensive play in the zombie apocalypse narrative
Paranormal beliefs, new religious movements, and the New Age spiritual milieu
Cryptofiction! Science fiction and the rise of cryptozoology
When did fairies get wings?
A contactee canon: Gray Barker's Saucerian Books

Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g. novels, comic books, and films) as well as the cultural practices they inspire. After an introduction analyzing the paranormal's relationship to religion and entertainment, the book presents essays exploring its spiritual significance in a postmodern society; its (post)modern representation in literature and film; and its embodiment in a number of contemporary cultural practices. Contributors from a number of discplines and cultural contexts address issues such as the shamanistic aspects of Batman and lesbianism in vampire mythology. Covering many aspects of the paranormal and its effect on popular culture, this book is an important statement in the field.

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