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  • Geography of Horror

    Spaces, Hauntings and the American Imagination

    by Marko Lukić ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive reading of a space/place-based experience from the birth of the American horror genre (nineteenth century American Romanticism) to its rise and evolution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring a series of narratives, this study focuses on the role of space and place as key elements for successful articulation of horror. The analysis, therefore, ... Read more

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  • Urban Legends

    and the Cultural Geography of Horror

    Series series Horror Studies
    Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban‑legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated backrooms. Across three themed sections, international scholars trace how tales of hook‑handed killers and countless other spectres migrate through oral tradition, cinema, television, board games and video ... Read more

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  • Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media

    Edited by Madelon Hoedt, Marko Lukic ...
    Series series Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
    Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to become invisible—the threat of horror implies the need for a victim, whose function never alters, often becoming a blank slate for audiences to project their desires and fears onto. This volume seeks ... Read more

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  • Supercritical CO2 Extraction

    From Basic Principles to Industrial Applications

    Series Book 10 - Supercritical Fluid Science and Technology
    Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) has become one of the most recognized and widely applied technologies in green processing, with supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) leading the way as the fluid of choice. It represents not only the first but also the most established industrial application of supercritical fluids, paving the path from laboratory research to large-scale production.This book, ... Read more

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  • The Medium Is the Monster

    Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

    Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Canadian ... Read more

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