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Author : Michael David O'Brien
Release : 2010
Genre : Children's stories, English
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 015/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture by : Michael David O'Brien
Download or read book Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture written by Michael David O'Brien. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez
Release : 2019-08-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 603/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cultural Politics in Harry Potter by : Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez
Download or read book Cultural Politics in Harry Potter written by Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, such as death, fear and biopolitics in J.K. Rowling’s work from controversial and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection brings together recent theoretical and applied cultural studies and focuses on three key areas of inquiry: (1) wizarding biopolitics and intersected discourses; (2) anxiety, death, resilience and trauma; and (3) the politics of fear and postmodern transformations. As such, this book: provides a comprehensive overview of national and gender discourses, as well as the transiting bodies in-between, in relation to the Harry Potter books series and related multimedia franchise; situates the transformative power of death within the fandom, transmedia and film depictions of the Potterverse and critically deconstructs the processes of subjectivation and legitimation of death and fear; examines the strategies and mechanisms through which cultural and political processes are managed, as well as reminding us how fiction and reality intersect at junctions, such as terrorism, homonationalism, materialism, capitalism, posthumanism and technology. Exploring precisely what is cultural about wizarding politics, and what is political about culture, this book is key reading for students of contemporary literature, media and culture, as well as anyone with an interest in the fictional universe and wizarding world of Harry Potter.
Author : Sara Robinson
Release : 2012
Genre : Culture and globalization
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Harry Potter and the Magic of Global Culture by : Sara Robinson
Download or read book Harry Potter and the Magic of Global Culture written by Sara Robinson. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael D. O'Brien
Release : 2013-11-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 143/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Voyage to Alpha Centauri by : Michael D. O'Brien
Download or read book Voyage to Alpha Centauri written by Michael D. O'Brien. This book was released on 2013-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.
Author : Amanda Firestone
Release : 2018-02-09
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 537/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Harry Potter and Convergence Culture by : Amanda Firestone
Download or read book Harry Potter and Convergence Culture written by Amanda Firestone. This book was released on 2018-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1997 publication of the first Harry Potter novel, the "Potterverse" has seen the addition of eight feature films (with a ninth in production), the creation of the interactive Pottermore© website, the release of myriad video games, the construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, several companion books (such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), critical essays and analyses, and the 2016 debut of the original stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. This collection of new essays interprets the Wizarding World beyond the books and films through the lens of convergence culture. Contributors explore how online communities tackle Sorting and games like the Quidditch Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, and analyze how Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are changing fandom and the canon alike.
