UID:
almahu_9949508671002882
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350087132
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9781350087125
Content:
"Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion this book explores popular media's fascination with dreams, pagan gods and goddesses, vampires, and spirits. The book does so in the light of anthropological studies of societies in which other than human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. Films and programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Twin Peaks, Star Trek and the films of Hitchcock. Louise Child draws attention to how they both depict and challenge ideas and practices rooted in psychology, while quality television has also facilitated a wave of programming that can explore the interaction of characters in complex social worlds over time. As well as drawing on theories of film from Freudian psychology and feminist theory, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts also uses approaches derived from a combination of Jungian film studies and anthropology that offer fresh insights for exploring film and television. This book draws attention to explicit and subtle ways in which cinematic narratives engage with myth and religion while at the same time exploring collective dimensions to social and personal life. It advances new developments in genre studies and gender as well as contributing to the growing field of implicit religion using in depth analyses of communicative dreaming, the shadow, and mystical lovers in film and television."--
Note:
1. From Ritual Drama to Melodrama: Anthropology, Religion, and the Study of Film and Serial Television -- 2. Dreams as Detection: Surrealism and Psychology in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. -- 3. Animism, the Anima and the Demonic Shadow: Twin Peaks -- 4. A Fairy Tale Heroine?: Myth, Sacred Duty, and Society in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- 5. Ghosts and Spirits: Ghost, Poltergeist , and Afterlife -- 6. Aliens and Deities: Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- 7. Rituals and Motherhood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and True Blood -- 8. Dreams Reprise: Mythical Worlds and Mad Love in Heavenly Creatures, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Total Recall -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350087101
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350087132
URL:
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