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Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and…
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Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture looks at the recent proliferation of the 'final girl' young heroines who have entered popular consciousness as symbolising the…
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An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s…
The 21st century has produced a singular historical moment that has created distinctive expressions of death. This companion shows what kinds of visions of death we have and what they…
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This book is the first of its kind to explore the role of aliens in popular culture from a global and multidisciplinary perspective. Exploring topics such as gender, posthumanity, religion…
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of the polymathic influences that shaped Through the Looking-Glass. With contributions from the history of science, philosophy, literature, visual culture, data science and…
Simon Bacon
1000 Vampires on Screen is a truly unique collection written by award-winning author and vampire-genre expert Simon Bacon that in two packed volumes covers the history of vampires on film…
Explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies. These essays investigate the consequences of immersion and why the undead world of the transmedia vampire is…
Beginning at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, this book describes the settings of Transylvania, Mars, and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire…
Surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but…
Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre-the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and…
Examines the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of these texts and films show the vampire to be an essential part of a global ecosystem…
What is Horror? This terrifying genre gives shape to our anxieties as humans, and as a society. Short, accessible essays offer an introduction to horror in old and new media…
Murnau’s seminal vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens on the 100th anniversary of its release in 1922. The movie remains a dark mirror to the troubled world we live…
What are Monsters? Monsters serve as a warning about something amiss in our surroundings. This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature…
This volume offers a fresh approach to transmedia cultures, including not only franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter but also contemporary transmedia worlds like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The…
What is toxic? Connoting many forms of negativity, denial or disillusion, ‘toxic’ cultures are part of living in the twenty-first century. Including topics such as cancel culture, environmental denialism, #MeToo…
Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is often read as Victorian society’s absolute Other - an outsider representative of the fears and anxieties of the age. This book is…
The twenty-first century is truly the age of the undead. This collection of 30 original essays explains how the fears and anxieties we have around contagion, the environment, geopolitics, ageing…
What is the Gothic? This volume offers a new look at the world of the Gothic, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its reemergence today. Invaluable for students…
Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary exploration into how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference. Focusing on the films Let…
Toxic Nostalgia on Screen examines our understanding of nostalgia and its misuses in the present cultural environment. Twenty original essays show how undead memory has become an embodiment of monstrous…
Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children…
In 2016, Star Trek - arguably the most popular science fiction franchise of all time - turned 50. This collection of new essays provides a timely study of how well…
Undead Memory explores the role that vampires play in how we remember our pasts and imagine our futures. From keepers of archives to symbols of memorial practice, the vampire in…
This companion explores myths and legends of merfolk and sea monsters to navigate our transcultural pasts and environmental presents and explain our endless fascination with the sea. From mythological sea…
From The Lottery to The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson’s oeuvre has created an influential apocalyptic vision of America. This collection of essays offers new insights into her work…
This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the…
Caryl Brahms,S J Simon
Out of print since 1985, but much-discussed in the press following the release of the Oscar-showered film Shakespeare in Love, the novel fizzes with wit, warmth and the occasional custard…
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Simon Strauss
This coming-of-age novel is the most reviewed, discussed, and recommended German language debut of the last decade, earning Strauss praise as one of the greatest talents of his generation –and…
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David Carroll Simon
In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this…
Sophie Hatchwell,Simon Shaw-Miller
The fourth in the Nobile Index series, this publication explores the auction history of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud since 1990.
Simone D'Agostino
This book supports the idea that the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life does not disappear in early modernity, but is transformed into a search for how…
Gothic Afterlives examines the intersections between contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship from various disciplinary perspectives. The essays in the collection cover a wide range of transmedia examples, including literature…
James Heat
The 'What if' Series The 'What if' series explores those questions you have never asked. Come to think of it often answers questions you have never even thought of. Often…
Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction)
The first collection of essays to address Satan’s ubiquitous and popular appearances in film
Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since…
Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes recent novels and films, to show that folk horror as a genre uniquely captures the anxieties of the twenty-first century and…
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts…
Since 1966, Swiss painter Niele Toroni (born 1937) has applied paint imprints of a number 50 brush at regular intervals of 12 inches, irreverently challenging accepted notions of authorship and…
This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and…
