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PCA/ACA Call for Participants: A Roundtable on Contemporary American Horror Cinema

November 17th, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, conference, pop culture

Call for Participants: “‘Oh Yes, There Will Be Blood’: A Roundtable on Contemporary American Horror Cinema” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference Chicago, IL USA April 16-19, 2014 This roundtable discussion is centered upon recent scholarship, research and criticism concerning contemporary American horror cinema. Participants will read the volumes American Horror Film: The […]

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Christopher Knowles: Gods and Geeks in American Pop Culture

August 29th, 2010 | Posted in comics, fan cultures, geek cultures, myths, Paganism, pop culture, superheroes

Patheos is a website that presents information on a variety of religious traditions. Over the course of the summer months the site has been looking at what the future holds for these religions, and in a recent focus on Paganism an essay was included that dovetails with the focus of TheoFantastique. Christopher Knowles wrote a […]

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Call for Papers on “Vampire Love”

May 22nd, 2010 | Posted in call for papers, horror, pop culture, vampire

The Popular Culture and American Culture Associations are issuing their last call for papers on the topic of “Vampire Love:” 2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television, November 11-14, 2010, Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory Third Round Deadline: June 1, 2010, AREA: Vampire Love. The history of film is regularly punctuated […]

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The Church of Jediism and Religious Conflict in the Workplace

March 21st, 2010 | Posted in Adam Possamai, hyper-real spiritualities (or fiction-based), Jediism, pop culture, science fiction

While catching up on various blogs and websites dealing with the fantastic in the blogosphere I came across a news item at SF Gospel. It touched on a conflict between a religious group and an employer on appropriate attire in the workplace. What sets this conflict apart from others that have taken place in the […]

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2012 and Mayan Calendar of the End

November 19th, 2009 | Posted in 2012 Mayan prophecy, apocalypticism, millenarianism, pop culture

Several weeks ago I first saw the trailers for 2012 in movie theaters and on television. The trailer depicted a man and his family making a last second escape from apparently worldwide destruction as homes, buildings, freeways, and entire landscapes crumbled around them in a catastrophic upheaval. A small private airplane with the family on […]

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The Old West Meets the Undead: PCA/ACA Call for Papers

October 12th, 2009 | Posted in call for papers, pop culture, vampire, zombie

The combination of certain genres don’t work for me. In this case the Old West connecting with horror, specifically in the form of cowboys combined with zombies, vampires, and other horror icons, but apparently they work for some people and have become the focus of academic consideration. Following is a call for papers from the […]

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Horror, Pop Culture, and Current Events

August 12th, 2009 | Posted in horror, pop culture

In the past I’ve connected aspects of the fantastic to popular culture and current events. With this post I do so again, first in serious fashion, and second with tongue in cheek. In a recent post I asked readers to consider America’s continuing struggles with the legacy of racism through reflection on Conquest of the […]

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The Otherkin: Fantastic Texts, Pop Culture, and Neo-Religiosity

September 17th, 2008 | Posted in Adam Possamai, cultures, fantasy, hyper-real spiritualities (or fiction-based), Jediism, Matrixism, myths, Neo-Paganism, occulture, Otherkin, pop culture

At times the lines between fact and fiction are blurred when it comes to the fantastic in popular culture and identification with the various characters and creatures that inhabit it. At times the lines are not so much blurred as they are dissolved. Christopher Partridge speaks of “fact-fiction reversals” that exist, and that as a result […]

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Pop Culture Explores the Apocalypse

February 11th, 2008 | Posted in apocalypticism, pop culture

The January 28, 2008 issue of TIME magazine includes an interesting article in its Arts section title “Apocalypse New” by Lev Grossman. The article can also be found online here. The article is worthy of reflection in that it notes the continued exploration of the end of human life and dominance on this planet through […]

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The Monster Show: Horror, Ritual and Pilgrimage

January 31st, 2008 | Posted in Gothic horror, pop culture, ritual

One of the books I have been reading in my spare time is one that I received as a Christmas gift, David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, rev. ed (New York: Faber and Faber, 2001). This book does a nice job of bringing together various elements of approach to the […]

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