Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznan, Poland. He has written extensively on vampires, monsters and the construction of difference in contemporary culture.
Leo Ruickbie is a writer, editor and social scientist specialising in controversial areas of human belief and experience. He is the author of several books on witchcraft, magic and the supernatural.
29 Ebooks bởi Simon Bacon
Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Gothic Afterlives
Gothic Afterlives examines the intersecting dimensions of contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship, bringing together innovative perspectives from different areas of study. The research com …
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€154.41
Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan: Supernatural Revamped
This 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 cul …
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€144.08
Farghaly Nadine Farghaly & Bacon Simon Bacon: To Boldly Go
In 2016, Star Trek–arguably the most popular science fiction franchise of all time–turned 50. During that time the original series and its various offshoots have created some of the genre’s most ic …
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€25.67
Bronk Katarzyna Bronk & Bacon Simon Bacon: Growing Up with Vampires
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. They emerge as expressions …
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€25.51
Bacon Simon Bacon: Dracula as Absolute Other
Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is often read as Victorian society’s absolute Other–an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and …
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€25.67
Simon Bacon & Leo Ruickbie: The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings …
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€38.99
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock & Regina M. Hansen: Giving the Devil His Due
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 inte …
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€29.99
Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Superhero Multiverse
The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on …
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€38.05
Simon Bacon & Leo Ruickbie: The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings …
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€39.99
Simon Bacon & Simon Bacon: Anthropocene and the Undead
The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end …
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€38.32
Regina M. Hansen & Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Giving the Devil His Due
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 intert …
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€30.50
Simon Bacon: Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultu …
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€45.05
Simon Bacon: Future Folk Horror
Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman …
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€44.94
Simon Bacon: Contagion and the Vampire
This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease—even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable dis …
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€42.79
Simon Bacon & Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon: Gothic Nostalgia
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory are used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics in contemporary popular culture. …
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€128.39
Simon Bacon: Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
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 …
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€98.24
Simon Bacon: Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
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 …
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€98.30
Simon Bacon: Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so …
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€51.36
Simon Bacon: Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so …
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€51.38
Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Disney Gothic
Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The c …
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€48.44
Simon Bacon: Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire
This Handbook MRW will be a unique encompassing overview of the figure of the vampire. Not only covering the list of usual suspects, this volume will provide coverage from the very first reports of v …
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€620.26
Simon Bacon: Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture
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, this book posits th …
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€97.02
Simon Bacon: Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture
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, this book posits th …
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€97.25
