Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1903254868 ISBN 13: 9781903254868

Casa editrice: Fab Pr, 2016

Riassunto

In the 1980s, it seemed impossible to escape Satan's supposed influence. This percolating cultural hysteria is now known as the Satanic Panic, a period in which a fascinating cultural legacy of Satan-battling media. This book is an in-depth exploration of how a controversial culture war played out during the decade and how widespread fear of a Satanic conspiracy was illuminated and propagated through almost every culture pathway, from heavy metal to Dungeons & Dragons role playing games, Christian comics, direct-to-CHS scare films and even home computers.

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An electrifying descent into 80s-era cultural terror. --Mike McPadden, Heavy Metal Movies

A wormhole to a not-so-distant era that is at once somehow a dystopian future, a contemporary worry and a horrifying reminder of centuries past. --Michele ''Izzy'' Galgana, Fangoria

An often hilarious, sometimes terrifying view into the damage that can be caused when belief outweighs reason. --Daniel XIII, Famous Monsters of Filmland

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Satanic Panic features essays and interviews by authors and media critics including Adam Parfrey (Apocalypse Culture), Gavin Baddeley (Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship and Rock 'n' Roll), Liisa Ladouceur (Encyclopedia Gothica), David Flint (Sheer Filth!), Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Rape Revenge Films: A Critical Study), Adrian Mack (The Georgia Straight), Forrest Jackson (Cosmic Suicide: The Tragedy and Transcendence of Heaven's Gate), Alison Nastasi (Flavorwire), Leslie Hatton (Popshifter), David Canfield (Twitch), David Bertrand (Fangoria; Spectacular Optical), Alison Lang (Rue Morgue, Broken Pencil), Kevin L. Ferguson (Eighties People), Wm Conley (Deathwound), Kurt Halfyard (Twitch), Samm Deighan (Satanic Pandemonium), Stacey Rusnak (The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction), Ralph Elawani (C est complet au royaume des morts), Gil Nault (Liturgie apocryphe), one-man band John Schooley and Joshua Benjamin Graham, alongside co-editors Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films) and Paul Corupe (Canuxploitation). The book also features comic art by Rick Trembles (Motion Picture Purgatory) and original illustrations by Toronto artist Mike McDonnell.

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• Editore: Fab Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1903254868
• ISBN 13: 9781903254868
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 362
• Redattore: Janisse Kier-la, Corupe Paul