Popular ghosts
Subtitle: the haunted spaces of everyday culture
By: edited by María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren.
Contributors: Pilar Blanco, María del.; Peeren, Esther.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781441163691; 9781441164018
Subjects: Ghosts; Haunted places
Description: "Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.