How does it feel to live in a 'haunted home'? How do people negotiate their everyday lives with the experience of uncanny, anomalous or strange events within the domestic interior? What do such experiences reveal of the intersection between the material, immaterial and temporal …
The popular and critical successes of films like 'The Sixth Sense' and the 'Ring' film and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countr…
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- The Gothic Tradition -- Freud and Motifs -- 2. Three Major Predecessors -- The Haunted House -- The Changeling (Peter Medak, Canada, 1979) -- The Malevolent Hotel -- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, GB, 1980) -- The Avengin…
The popular and critical successes of films like 'The Sixth Sense' and the 'Ring' film and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countr…
"This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture: the pervasive nature of discussions and representations of "spirits" (tama or tamashii). Ancestor cults have played a central role in Japanese culture and religion for many centuries; in recent dec…
Tibetan Demonology discusses the rich taxonomy of gods and demons encountered in Tibet. These spirits are often the cause of, and exhorted for, diverse violent and wrathful activities. This Element consists of four thematic sections. The first section, 'Spirits and the Body', ex…
"'The world today is as furiously religious as it ever was.' This quote from Peter Berger now appears to be undisputed in the contemporary social and cultural sciences. A look around the globe reveals that modernization does not necessarily lead to a decline of religion, neither…
Viele glauben, dass sie eine Seele besitzen, die den Tod des Körpers überleben kann. Und viele glauben, dass es außer den Dingen unserer Erfahrungswelt auch noch Wesen und Kräfte gibt, die einer transzendenten Welt angehören. Die Wissenschaften zeigen uns heute ein anderes Bild.…
"In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting…
