"This book examines research relevant to the question of life after death, drawing together the observations of social science regarding such phenomena as reincarnation, possession, and apparitions. It considers possibilities including survival of consciousness and survival of p…
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"This book examines research relevant to the question of life after death, drawing together the observations of social science regarding such phenomena as reincarnation, possession, and apparitions. It considers possibilities including survival of consciousness and survival of p…
"This book examines research relevant to the question of life after death, drawing together the observations of social science regarding such phenomena as reincarnation, possession, and apparitions. It considers possibilities including survival of consciousness and survival of p…
For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their Japanese captor…
"This collection of new essays explores how children's film can be re-examined alongside recent developments in their production. These analyses consider the effect of multimedia strategies on the child audience, and the opportunities for participation and their pedagogical impl…
These 18 essays examine the relationships between narrative fiction films and documentary filmmaking, focusing on how each influenced the other and how the two were merged in diverse films and shows.
"Practical how-to essays on managing stress as working librarians. Creative methods of diffusing stress are emphasized, adaptive to various types of libraries and job descriptions. Facing budget and staff cuts, increasingly diverse patrons, and rapidly changing technology, libra…
"Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant idea of the sexual zombie is itself provocativ…
"An international bestseller and the inspiration for a blockbuster film series, Suzanne Collins's dystopian, young adult trilogy The Hunger Games has also attracted attention from literary scholars. While much of the criticism has focused on traditional literary readings, this i…
This book describes the thematic and structural traits of a recent and popular development within the realm of anime: series adapted from visual novels. Anime based on visual novels capitalize on the parent games' attributes, yielding thought-provoking yarns and complex personal…
"This book examines Eastern and Western approaches to magic in anime. It then explores the collusion of anime and magic with reference to specific topos. A close study of cardinal titles is complemented by allusions to ancillary productions in order to situate the medium's fasci…
"Rather than questions of quality and how a cover song measures up as "better or worse" than other versions, this book focuses on ideological and social stakes of the "same old songs" as they are reconfigured in numerous ways to consider, comment on, and confront political issue…
Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. Case studies include a comparative analysis of Jimi Hendrix's and Whitney Houston's versions of ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" as well as …
