Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties! Join your hosts Quest and Annabelle on cultural ghost tour in Ghosts Were People Too, a podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities.
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Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties! Join your hosts Quest and Annabelle on cultural ghost tour in Ghosts Were People Too, a podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities.
In this episode Quest and Annabelle introduce themselves and explain the mission of this podcast. We ask the question "What is a ghost?" and discuss some foundational theories that will guide us in the ensuing episodes including a brief history of ghosts, types of ghosts, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's Monster theory, gothic literature, and abjection.
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Bibliography
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” published in Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. Cohen
“To Be Haunted” by Jessie Lynn McMains
Chapter 1: Introduction and Chapter 2: What Are (And Are Not) Ghosts? from Ghosts: A Haunted History by Lisa Morton
“Introduction: Conceptualizing Spectralities” from The Spectralities Reader: Ghosts and Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory, ed. María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren
“The Gothic-Theory Conversation: An Introduction” and “Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection” from The Gothic and Theory, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle and Robert Miles
Goddu T. A. (1997). Gothic America: Narrative History and Nation. Columbia University Press.
Ghosts Were People Too
Where do ghosts dwell? It seems just about everywhere: television, film, photography, theater, video games, folk songs, and even your family vacations. Oh the humanties! Join your hosts Quest and Annabelle on cultural ghost tour in Ghosts Were People Too, a podcast that investigates ghosts through the lens of the arts & humanities.
