Books written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema

This collection explores how the devil is not just one monster among many, nor is he the “prince of darkness” merely because he has repeatedly flickered across cinema screens in darkened rooms since the origins of the medium.
Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture

In goth, I am thought by my darkly clad friends, I am thought by a Victorian water fountain, by absinthe, and, as the next paragraphs will argue, by music. As the absinthe example illustrates, the actions circulating through social ...
Charles Brockden Brown

Philip Barnard and Stephen Shapiro (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006 [1805]), pp. ... See Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel (New York: Anchor Books, 1992 [1960]); Norman S. Grabo, The Coincidental Art of ...
Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface

Dacre, Charlotte, 30 Dalby, Richard, 15n26 Dalke, Anne, 28n3 Darwinism, 4, 6 Davidson, Cathy N., 2n2, 17n28, 137 Davis, M. E. M., 41n20, 56-57n2 “At La Glorieuse,” 131n13 “A Room on the Roof,” 41n20, 56_57n2 Davis, Rebecca Harding, ...
Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture

For artists such as Warhol, according to Andrew Ross in No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture, Pop was a discursive practice whose commitment to the disposable, mass-produced artifact was a “direct affront to those who governed ...
Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination

“ The more a man can mourn for his sins , ” Sibbes explained , “ the less he will mourn for other matters ” ( 270 ) . ... Benjamin Tompson declares that he has “ penned ” his elegy on sister - in - law Mary “ for the imitation of the ...
The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

The triffid is a species of monstrous plant (see PLANTS, MONSTROUS) first featured in the 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham. Their name comes from the Latin for “divided into three,” referring to the ambulatory plant's ...
The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters

In From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, edited by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells. ... BEELZEBUB—see ANGEL; DEVIL, THE BEETLE—see MUTANT AND FREAK BEGEMOT—see DEMON BEHEMOTH It is in the Biblical ...
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

In A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832, he describes the success of his translations from the German Romantic playwright Kotzebue's Gothic dramas. His own verse drama Fountainville Abbey (1795) was based on Ann ...
The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema

This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire.
Taking South Park Seriously: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.
Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television

In order to situate the mirror scenes in relation to the larger narrative, they should be understood as the clarifying moments that render explicit the soldering of the subject to BOB's traces as the Lacanian letter.
A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"

... it has been published as a comic book series as well as issued in an illustrated edition; and it has also adapted as a ... a book is not the same as watching a movie, and both experiences are different from listening to a podcast or ...
Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture

Goth music, this book asserts, engenders a musical timespace of its own, a musical chronotope that is driven by nostalgic yearning.
Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting between Weather and the Void

This edited collection of scholarly essays—the very first of its kind on a podcast—attempts to redress this lack of attention to Night Vale by bringing together an international group of scholars from different disciplines to consider ...
The Monster Theory Reader

First, it seems to me that the initial reaction to the freakish and the monstrous is a perverse kind of sexual curiosity. People think to themselves, “How do they do it?” What kind of sex lives are available to Siamese twins, ...
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition: A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing

Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments.
The Age of Lovecraft

With contributions from scholars including Gothic expert David Punter, historian W. Scott Poole, musicologist Isabella van Elferen, and philosopher of the posthuman Patricia MacCormack, this wide-ranging volume brings together thinkers from ...
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor.
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

“Is There an Indigenous Gothic?” A Companion to American Gothic. Ed. Charles L. Crow. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2014. 225–37. Crafts, Hannah. The Bondwoman's Narrative. New York: Warner Books, 2005. Crow, Charles L. A Companion to ...