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    Policing the Monstrous

    Essays on the Supernatural Crime Procedural

    by Ashley Szanter ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 50 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This collection of new essays examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre. These shows complicate the predictable and comforting patterns of the procedural with the inherently unknowable nature of the supernatural. From Sherlock to Supernatural, essays cover a ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Policing the Monstrous

    Essays on the Supernatural Crime Procedural

    Edited by Ashley Szanter ...
    This collection of new essays examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre. These shows complicate the predictable and comforting patterns of the procedural with the inherently unknowable nature of the supernatural. From Sherlock to Supernatural, essays cover a range of topics including the gothic, the post ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Romancing the Zombie

    Essays on the Undead as Significant "Other"

    Edited by Ashley Szanter, Jessica K. Richards ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    The zombie--popular culture's undead darling--shows no signs of stopping. But as it develops to suit changing audience tastes, its characteristics transform. This collection of new essays examines the latest incarnation, the romantic zombie, a re-humanized monster we want to help, heal and connect with rather than destroy. The authors discuss our increasingly sympathetic view of the reanimated ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    by Simon Bacon, Jessica Birch, Scott Culpepper, Paul E. H. Davis, Sarah Heaton, Darren Hibbs, C. Austin Hill, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Tommy Kuusela, Kayleigh Murphy, Andrea Shaw Nevins, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Masaya Shimokusu, Ashley Szanter, Mark David Ryan, Matthias Teichert, Cynthia Vinney, Caryn Wiley-Rapoport, Todd K. Platts ...
    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    Rick, Lori, Shane, Carl, Dale, Andrea, and Michonne--human survivors of a zombie apocalypse--don't know much about philosophy, but philosophical ideas continue to shamble on through their world, and there's no excape from them.The Walking Dead is both a hugely successful comics series and a popular TV show. This epic story of a zombie apocalypse is unique. It focuses on the long-term individual, ... Read more

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    New Life for the Undead

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    Sometimes, Evil is its Own Reward

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