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  • Catholic Horror on Television

    Haunting Faith

    by Ralph Beliveau, Laura Bolf-Beliveau, Erika Engstrom, Ruth DeFoster ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores the significant intersection of horror media and the Catholic Church. Religious themes enjoy a long history in film and television, with narratives featuring the supernatural, science fiction, and horror making use of Roman Catholicism in particular. The horror genre frequently tells fantastic stories about the mysteries that we seek to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Gramsci and Media Literacy

    Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies

    by Erika Engstrom, Ralph Beliveau ...
    Gramsci and Media Literacy: Critically Thinking about TV and the Movies offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media delivery, historical storytelling, and gender in today’s mass media environment become the commonsense viewpoints that maintain power structures in civil society. Through a media literacy ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community

    Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television

    by Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Mary Erickson, Lauren Bratslavsky, Elizabeth L. Cohen, Teri Del Rosso, Erika Engstrom0, Fran Hassencahl1, Alexander L. Lancaster2, Kathryn L. Lookadoo3, Sabrina K. Pasztor4, Siobhan E. Smith5, John Shrader6, William David Hart7, Norman C.H. Wong8, Jane Marcellus9, David Staton0, Jan Whitt1 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Communication and Storytelling
    Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of scholars who used a variety ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Television, Religion, and Supernatural

    Hunting Monsters, Finding Gods

    by Erika Engstrom, Joseph M. Valenzano III ...
    Television, Religion, and Supernatural examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that offers viewers myriad religious-based antagonists through the portrayals of monsters, which its two main characters “hunt” and destroy, as well as storylines based on the Bible. Even as the series’ producers claim a nonreligious perspective, the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Mad Men and Working Women

    Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness

    by Erika Engstrom, Tracy Lucht, Jane Marcellus, Kimberly Wilmot Voss ...
    This book was featured as one of thirty-four Epic Feminist Books in Teen Vogue magazine.This book offers interpretive and contextual tools to read the AMC television series Mad Men, providing a much-needed historical explanation and exposition regarding the status of women in an era that has been painted as pre- or non-feminist. In chapters aimed at helping readers understand women’s lives in the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Religion Across Television Genres

    Community, Orange Is the New Black, The Walking Dead, and Supernatural

    by Erika Engstrom, Joseph M. Valenzano III ...
    Religion Across Television Genres: Community, Orange Is the New Black, The Walking Dead, and Supernatural connects communication theories to the religious content of TV programs across an array of platforms and content genres, specifically the NBC comedy Community, the critically acclaimed Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, AMC’s international megahit The Walking Dead, and the CW’s long ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    A Reckoning

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Sacredness of Questioning Everything

    Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

    by David Dark ...
    The freedom to question—asking and being asked—is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings to the table threats of excommunication, violence, and hellfire, it does not allow people to discover for themselves ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Besides the Bible

    100 Books that Have, Should, or Will Create Christian Culture

    by Dan Gibson, Jordan Green, John Pattison ...
    So many books, so little time. How do you decide what to read? Walking into a bookstore, a library, or looking online can be an intimidating and overwhelming experience, to say the least. With so many options and not knowing what's best for you, it's easy to just end up making an impulse buy or giving up on reading altogether. We barely spend as much time reading as we'd like, and then we often ... Read more

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  • The Road Trip that Changed the World

    The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself

    by Mark Sayers ...
    Can’t find no satisfaction?There’s no shortage of prescriptions for restlessness out there: Seek adventure. Live your life. Don’t hold back.Sound familiar?The Road Trip that Changed the World is a book challenging the contemporary conviction that personal freedom and self-fulfillment are the highest good.Like the characters in a Jack Kerouac novel, we’ve dirtied the dream of white picket fences ... Read more

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  • Cults

    In Too Deep From Jonestown to Scientology

    by Lightning Guides ...
    Cults: In Too Deep From Jonestown to Scientology explores 20th and 21st Century cults and the 1960's American culture by which many of them were birthed. From Then Manson Family to The Ripper Crew to Scientology, Cults provides an in-depth look at America's religious and social cults, their nefarious leaders, and the millions of lives they have stolen. ... Read more

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  • The Vertical Self

    How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in an Age of Self Obsession

    by Mark Sayers ...
    It's time for a return to Radical Holiness.Welcome to the 21st century where you can now purchase and exchange personalities, depending on mood and circumstance; where you are told that you can be anyone you want to be, and identity is no longer based in a sense of self but rather in the imagery you choose at that moment.The Bible contains a radically different way of understanding our identity. ... Read more

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