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Popular Ghosts The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture

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ISBN-10: 1441164014

ISBN-13: 9781441164018

Edition: 2010

Authors: Esther Peeren, Maria del Pilar Blanco, Esther Peeren

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Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.
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Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Introduction
Genealogies of the Ghost
Ghosts: Of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy, Heidegger, James, and Woolf
Beckett's Ghost Light
Uncanny Marxism: Or, Do Androids Dream of Electric Lenin?
Where Are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity
The Skeptical Ghost: Alejandro Amen�bar's The Others and the Return of the Dead
Spectral Politics of the Contemporary
National Hauntings: Specters of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewar
Shadow of the Colossus: The Spectral Lives of 9/11
Everyday Ghosts and the Ghostly Everyday in Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri, and Achille Mbembe
The Gentle Irruption of the Hereafter in This Life: Jean Echenoz's Au piano and Robin Campillo's Les revenants
Specters of the U.S. Prison Regime: Haunting Tourism and the Penal Gaze
Chasing Ghosts In(to) the Twenty-first Century
The Liveness of Ghosts: Haunting and Reality TV
Ghost Hunters: Simulated Participation in Televisual Hauntings
The Haunted Lecture Theater: Ghosts in the Academy in the BBC's Sea of Souls
Other Ghostly Spheres
Genius Loci: Memory, Media, and the Neo-Gothic in Georg Klein and Elfriede Jelinek
Haunted Habitability: Wilderness and American Haunted House Narratives
Gothic Affects: Digitally Haunted Houses and the Production of Affect-Value
Ghosts in the Machine: The Body in Digital Animation
The Ghost Worlds of Modem Adolescence
Ambient Ghosts: Spectral Images, Sounds, and Bodies
The Haunting of the Everyday in the Thoughtographs of Ted Serios
"Following the Ghost": The Psychogeography of Alternative Country
Haunted by a Melody: Ghosts, Transgression, and Music in Twin Peaks
Occultic Inscriptions: The Modern Ghost-Tattoo in Japan, from Ky�sai to Horiyoshi III
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