Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror

Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children.

Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked.

The preaching of God's Word happens tens of thousands of times each week across the world.

Supernatural is one of the most successful horror TV shows ever, providing fifteen seasons of the adventures of Dean and Sam Winchester as they hunt monsters and save the world.

The films, television shows, and graphic novel series that comprise the Whedonverse continually show that there is a high price to be paid for love, rebellion, heroism, anger, death, betrayal, friendship, and saving the world.

Science fiction cinema has dramatically affected the perception of science by the general population.

Despite the fact that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended over twenty-five years ago, there has yet to be a stand-alone assessment of the series.

The Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016.

Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most inventive American films of the 1980s.

This anthology of sermons is compiled from a sixty-year practice of preaching.

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television.

The first of its kind, this guide to California filming sites covers five decades of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in chapter plays.

From the trashy to the epic, from the classics to today's blockbusters, this cinefile's guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic science fiction!

Once you come to know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, what is the next step?

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race.

From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, the science fiction western has captivated audiences for more than fifty years.

Drawing together strands of film theory and psychology, this book offers a fresh assessment of the found footage horror subgenre.

While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens.

Faith horror refers to a significant outcropping of mid-1960s and 1970s films and adaptative novels that depict non-Christian communities of evil doers and their activities.

How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates?

Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "e;Hermione-Approved"e; MuggleNet podcast by the same name.

';Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines.

As Andrzej Sapkowski was fleshing out his character Geralt of Rivia for a writing contest, he did not set out to write a science textbook--or even a work of science fiction.

Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been periodic outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal.

This book is a comprehensive history of the most successful straight-to-video horror franchise of all time: Puppet Master.

Drawing together strands of film theory and psychology, this book offers a fresh assessment of the found footage horror subgenre.

Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author.

Small churches need the work of all of their people to survive, and this means that there's a productive place in the church family for every person, no matter how gifted or challenged.

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What, exactly, makes us afraid?

The villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc.

Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

George Lucas's first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism.

Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distracts those around him, one who represents the fears and anxieties of the age.

It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewolf.

The Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016.

This collection of new essays examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre.

In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis.

This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's hit television series Arrow--based on DC Comic's Green Arrow--and its spin-offs The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl.

Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as "e;thinking things.

The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Valentine's "e;vomit gore"e; films.

Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings.

This book is a comprehensive history of the most successful straight-to-video horror franchise of all time: Puppet Master.

In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated reality.

Science fiction cinema has dramatically affected the perception of science by the general population.

A brief guide to the real science of interstellar travelWith known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps even colonizing distant worlds may one day become a reality.

Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre.

Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author.