Emily McAvan

Postmodern Sacred

Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres

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From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and produce a sense of the religious. This work examines this pop-culture spirituality, or postmodern sacred, showing how consumers use the symbols contained in explicitly unreal texts to gain a secondhand experience of transcendence and belief. Topics include how media technologies like CGI have blurred the lines between real and unreal, the polytheisms of Buffy and Xena, the New Age Gnosticism of The DaVinci Code, the Islamic Other and science fiction's response to 9/11, and the Christian Right and popular culture. To… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-7864-6388-6
EAN: 9780786463886
Produktnummer: 12985393
Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Sprache: Englisch / Malaiisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 293 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 293

Über den Autor

Emily McAvan teaches cultural, media and gender studies at Murdoch University and Curtin University, both in Perth, Australia. Her work on religion and culture has appeared in print in The Journal of Literature & Theology, The Bible and Critical Theory, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing.