Haunting Experiences Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

Name: Haunting Experiences Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
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ISBN: 9780874216363

ISBN-10: 0874216362

ISBN-13: 9780874216363

Edition: 2007

Authors: Diane Goldstein, Sylvia Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas

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Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. InHaunting Experiences,three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 9/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.52" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Illustrations


Introduction: Old Spirits in New Bottles



Taking Ghosts Seriously



The Usefulness of Ghost Stories



Scientific Rationalism and Supernatural Experience Narratives



Narrating Socialization and Gender



Gender and Ghosts



Children's Ghost Stories



Old Spirits in New Contents



Haunted Houses



The Commodification of Belief


Conclusion: The "Spectral Turn"


Notes


Bibliography


Filmography


Index