Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

by Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas, Diane E. Goldstein, et al.

Book Overview

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874216362
• ISBN13: 9780874216363
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher