Popular ghosts : the haunted spaces of everyday culture /: the haunted spaces of everyday culture. (2010 copyright 2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren.
• Other Names: Pilar Blanco, María del; Peeren, Esther
• Contents: Mar í a <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /> 'on'> 'on'>del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, 'Introduction' I. Genealogies of the Ghost Julian Wolfreys, 'Ghosts: Of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy, Heidegger, James, and Woolf' Martin Harries, 'Beckett's Ghost Light' Peter Hitchcock, 'Uncanny Marxism: Or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin?' Justin Sausman, 'Where are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity' Colin Davis, 'The Skeptical Ghost: Alejandro Amen á bar's The Others and the Return of the Dead' II. Spectral Politics of the Contemporary Caroline Herbert, 'National Hauntings: Specters of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewar' Georgiana Banita, 'Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11' Esther Peeren, 'Everyday Ghosts and the Ghostly Everyday in Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, and Achille Mbembe' Michael Cuntz, 'The Gentle Irruption of the Hereafter in This Life: Jean Echenoz's Au piano and Robin Campillo's Les revenants' Benjamin D'Harlingue, 'Specters of the -region w:st='on'> 'on'>U.S. -region> Prison Regime: Haunting Tourism and the Penal Gaze' III. Chasing Ghosts In(to) the 21st Century Karen Williams, 'The Liveness of Ghosts: Haunting and Reality TV' Alissa Burger, 'Ghost Hunters: Simulated Participation in Televisual Hauntings' Catherine Spooner, 'The Haunted Lecture Theater: Ghosts in the Academy in the BBC's 'on'> 'on'>Sea of 'on'>Souls ' IV. Other Ghostly Spheres Arno Meteling, 'Genius Loci: Memory, Media, and the Neo-Gothic in Georg Klein and Elfriede Jelinek' Christine Wilson, 'Haunted Habitability: Wilderness and American Haunted House Narratives' Bruno Lessard, 'Gothic Affects: Digitally Haunted Houses and the Production of Affect-Value' Alla Gadassik, 'Ghosts in the Machine: The Body in Digital Animation' Pamela Thurschwell, 'The Ghost Worlds of Adolescence' V. Ambient Ghosts: Spectral Images, Sounds, and Bodies Mar í a 'on'> 'on'>del Pilar Blanco, 'The Haunting of the Everyday in the Thoughtographs of Ted Serios' Anthony Hutchison, ''Following the Ghost': The Psychogeography of Alternative Country' Isabella van Elferen, 'Haunted by a Melody: Ghosts, Transgression, and Music in 'on'>Twin Peaks ' Sean Somers, 'Occultic Inscriptions: The Modern Ghost-Tattoo in -region w:st='on'> 'on'>Japan -region>, from Ky ô sai to Horiyoshi III' Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: 133.1; General & world history; Ghosts; Haunted places; Literary studies: general; History -- General; Literary Criticism -- Gothic & Romance; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441149770; 1441149775
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.