Overview :Since it came on the air in 1997, Comedy Central's top-rated animated program, South Park, has been criticized for its crude, scatological h... Read More
Overview :Edgar Allan Poe is a popular author, and students have often read his work by the time they reach the college or university classroom. His w... Read More
Overview :The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. Thi... Read More
Overview :A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning--across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time--from foundational texts to t... Read More
Overview :From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sen... Read More
Overview :Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyama... Read More
Overview :A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes--fe... Read More
Overview :Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tr... Read More
Overview :Introduction: It Starts With Doors Chapter One: Bridges to Fantasy: Neverwhere and Genre Chapter Two: "Mind the Gap" Neverwhere, Language, a... Read More
Overview :The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and ... Read More
Overview :Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist... Read More