Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture

Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture
ISBN-10
1441149775
ISBN-13
9781441149770
Category
Social Science
Pages
360
Language
English
Published
2010-04-01
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Authors
María del Pilar Blanco, Esther Peeren

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.

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