{"product_id":"the-supernatural-revamped-from-timeworn-legends-to-twenty-first-century-chic-9781611478662","title":"The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the “undead and still dead” include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe third collection edited by Brodman and Doan—after The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (CH, Aug'14, 51-6535)—this volume offers 17 brief essays written by international scholars in various disciplines and focused on a range of supernatural beings in literature, film, and other forms of popular culture. The first section, 'Ethereals and Terrestrials,' emphasizes the seemingly endless variety of supernatural creatures from the ancient world to the present; the second, 'The Undead and Still Dead,' focuses more on various versions of zombie narratives in popular culture. Highlights include treatments of culture-specific supernatural creatures in popular culture, including essays by Tommy Kuusela, Claudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, and Masaya Shimokusu, writing on Swedish, Mexican, and Japanese culture, respectively.... Summing Up: Recommended.... Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction  \tBarbara Brodman and James E Doan   Part One: Ethereals and Terrestrials 1\tOf Angels and Demons: Staging the Demise of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” through Supernatural Allegory \t  \tC. Austin Hill 2\tNo More Mr. Nice Angel: Angelic Ethics from Paradise Lost to Supernatural  \tScott Culpepper 3\tThe Nightmare Tales of J. S. Le Fanu  \tPaul E. H. Davis 4\tOf Fairies and Sorcerers: Dichotomous Depictions of Race and Ethnicity in 1980s Fantasy  \tKathleen W. Taylor Kollman 5\tPhilosophers and Demons: Socrates, Descartes and the Search for Certainty\t \t Darren Hibbs 6\tThe Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and the Making of Caribbean Nationhood \tAndrea Shaw Nevins  7\tAn American Werewolf in Trelleborg: Representation of the Werewolf in Swedish Folk Belief and Popular Culture \t  \tTommy Kuusela 8\tMagic Mexican Modernity: The Shifting Image of Witches and Witchcraft in the Movies  \tClaudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández 9\tDeborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, Supernatural Heredity, and \"Creature\" Genetics  \tAshley Szanter  Part Two: The Undead and Still Dead 10\tAn Anime Dullahan: The Irish Death Messenger Adapted in Japanese Popular Culture  \tMasaya Shimokusu 11\tRe-dressing Revenants: Anxieties of the Body, the Self and Desire When the Undead Make a Stylish Return  \tSarah Heaton 12\tFrom Vampires to Zombies: The Revisionist Recreation of I Am Legend  \tJessica E. Birch 13\tDying to Love You: The Evolution of the Romantic Zombie  \tSimon Bacon 14\tUndead Yakuza: The Japanese Zombie Movie, Cultural Resonance and Generic Conventions\t  \tKayleigh Murphy and Mark David Ryan  15\t“Look at the Flowers”: Female Evolution in the Face of the Zombie Hordes of The Walking Dead  \tCynthia Vinney and Caryn Wiley-Rapoport 16\tFrom White Zombies to Night Zombies and Beyond: The Evolution of the Zombie in Western Popular Culture  \tTodd K. Platts 17\tFrom Saga to Skyrim: The Literary and Multimedia Reception of the Norse-Icelandic Draugr Myth\t  \tMatthias Teichert  Selected Bibliography\t  Index\t  About the Editors and Contributors","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041694351703,"sku":"9781611478662","price":39.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-supernatural-revamped-from-timeworn-legends-to-twenty-first-century-chic-9781611478662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}