Treat or trick? : Halloween in a globalising world /
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| Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009. |
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| Description: | viii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7552629 |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing Halloween
- Introduction
- Flexible Halloween: Longevity, Appropriation, Multiplicity and Contestation
- Part I. (Re)inventing Halloween
- The Halloween Feast
- Escaping Through Flames: Halloween as a Christian Festival
- Hallowe'en and the Church: Great Pumpkins! or How to Take All the Fun out of Life
- Part II. Experiencing Halloween (1) The British Isles
- "The Apple at the Glass": Halloween and Scottish Poetry
- Neo-Pagan Celebrations of Samhain
- Hop Tu Naa, my father's gone away---a Personal and Cultural Account of the Manx "Halloween"
- Part III. Experiencing Halloween (2) Continental Europe
- Halloween: Tradition as Snobbery
- How the Pumpkins Conquered Germany. Halloween, Media and Reflexive Modernization in Germany
- Tradition without History
- Halloween in Russia: What Makes an Unwelcome Guest Stay?
- The Fun of Fear: Performing Halloween in the Netherlands
- Part IV. (Re)interpreting Halloween
- Cultural Propriety at Hallowe'en and the Avoidance of Mass Tourism
- Halloween and Tourism in Salem, Massachusetts
- Halloween in Transylvania
- Part V. (Re)presenting Halloween
- Halloween in a Situation Comedy: Postmodernity, Tradition and Identity
- "Stay Tuned for Tricks, Treats and Terror": Halloween and Horror Radio in the Golden Age of American Live Broadcasting
- Dracula was a Woman: Lexx and "Walpurgis Night"
- Celtic Twilight and the American Other on TF1
- Resisting Halloween in Slovenia: A Case of Anti-Americanism
- Trick or Treat?: Competing Constructions of Young People at Halloween
- Reviewing Halloween
- Conclusion: Halloweening
- Contributors
