Haunting experiences ghosts in contemporary folklore 1st Edition by Diane E Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie B Thomas ISBN 0874216362 9780874216363

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ISBN 10: 0874216362

ISBN 13: 9780874216363 

Author: Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie B. Thomas

Ghosts and the supernatural appear throughout modern culture, in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts. Popular media’s commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from what people believe about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Belief and tradition and the popular or commercial nevertheless continually feed off each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from multiple angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously. They draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes the basis of belief in experience and the usefulness of ghost stories. And they look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. Together, they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Old Spirits in New Bottles
Part I: Taking Ghosts Seriously
One: The Usefulness of Ghost Stories
Two: Scientific Rationalism and the Structure of Supernatural Experience Narratives
Part II: Narrating Socialization and Gender
Three: Gender and Ghosts
Four: Children’s Ghost Stories
Part III: Old Spirits in New Contexts
Five: Haunted Houses in Tradition and Popular Culture
Six: The Commodification of Belief in Contemporary Culture
Conclusion: The “Spectral Turn” in Folklore, Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Technology
Endnotes
Bibliography
Filmography

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