Douglas E. Cowan 
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes [EPUB ebook] 
How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

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Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because pop culture has run out of good ideas. Rather, it is precisely because these stories are so fantastic, some resonating so deeply that we elevate them to the status of religion. Illuminating everything from
Buffy the Vampire Slayer to
Dungeons and Dragons, and from
Drunken Master to
Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today.
 

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Preface
1. Here Be Dragons
2. Once Upon a Time . . .
3. Imagining Magic
4. Between Puer Aeternus and Vitam Aeternam
5. The Mythic Hero: East
6. The Mythic Hero: West
7. Imagining the Warrior-Heroine
8. The Stuff of Legends
9. . . . Happily Ever After?
Mediography
Bibliography
Index

关于作者

Douglas E. Cowan is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies at Renison University College. He is the author of Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen, Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television, and, most recently, America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 240 ● ISBN 9780520967274 ● 文件大小 5.2 MB ● 出版者 University of California Press ● 发布时间 2019 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6810362 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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