Popular Ghosts
Title | Popular Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Maria del Pilar Blanco |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1441164014 |
Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.
Famous Ghosts and Haunted Places
Title | Famous Ghosts and Haunted Places PDF eBook |
Author | Johnathan Sutherland |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2011-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1448859859 |
Chronicles ghosts and hauntings, including famous cases, celebrity ghosts, and ghostly creatures.
Ghosts of the Rich and Famous
Title | Ghosts of the Rich and Famous PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Raij |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2015-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1491440791 |
From musicians to adored actors, stories of famous ghosts are certainly entertaining. Are the spirits of deceased celebrities still roaming the Earth? Let young readers decide for themselves as they dig into the details of these spooky reports.
The World's Most Famous Ghosts
Title | The World's Most Famous Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Axelrod-Contrada |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1429665165 |
"Describes reports of encounters with the ghosts of several deceased entertainers and celebrities"--Provided by publisher.
Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend
Title | Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend PDF eBook |
Author | June Michele Pulliam |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2016-09-26 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1440834911 |
With entries that range from specific works to authors, folklore, and popular culture (including music, film, television, urban legend, and gaming), this book provides a single-volume resource on all things ghostly in the United States and in other countries. The concept of ghosts has been an ongoing and universal element in human culture as far back as recorded history can document. In more modern popular culture and entertainment, ghosts are a popular mainstay—from A Christmas Carol and Casper the Friendly Ghost to The Amityville Horror, Ghostbusters, Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, and Ghost Whisperer. This book comprehensively examines ghost and spirit phenomena in all its incarnations to provide readers with a holistic perspective on the subject. It presents insightful information about the contribution of a specific work or author to establish or further the evolution of ghost lore, rather than concentrating solely on the film, literature, music, or folklore itself. The book focuses on ghosts in western culture but also provides information about spirit phenomena and lore in international settings, as many of the trends in popular culture dealing with ghosts and spirits are informed by authors and filmmakers from Germany, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom. The writers and editors are experts and scholars in the field and enthusiastic fans of ghost lore, ghost films, ghost hunting, and urban legends, resulting in entries that are informative and engaging—and make this the most complete and current resource on ghost and spirit lore available.
Haunting Experiences
Title | Haunting Experiences PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Goldstein |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2007-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0874216818 |
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Famous Ghosts
Title | Famous Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Teitelbaum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2006-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781592967292 |
Describes famous ghosts stories and leaves it up to the reader to decide if they are real or imagined.