Status
Available
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Publication
Lexington Books (2016), Edition: Reprint, 166 pages
Description
Television, Religion, and Supernatural: Hunting Monsters, Finding Gods is the first book-length treatment using a theory-based inquiry of the nuanced religious messages in Supernatural, a popular, long-running television series. As a popular culture artifact, Supernatural presents religious themes via entertainment, relying on a combination of horror and fantasy genres to convey
User reviews
LibraryThing member lycomayflower
I think this might have done a good job at what it was doing, I'm just not sure what that *was*. It for sure wasn't doing what I wanted it to. Engstrom and Valenzano's interests and areas of study seem to be along the lines of communication and media studies, and the book, I guess, (and I'm not
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being dismissive here, this is just really not my area) reflects that. To my mind, their study tells us more about the society the TV show Supernatural exists within and about how it intersects with religion within that society and for its audience. Which, okay, that's cool, it's just not what I wanted from it. I wanted criticism that would tell me more about the text of Supernatural, and that would explore how the text uses religion, and how the ways it uses religion informs the text. I also found the writing pretty dry, but that may have been at least partly a function of my frustration that I wasn't getting what I wanted from the book. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
166 p.; 5.94 inches
ISBN
1498550398 / 9781498550390