Irwin / Dunn / Housel True Blood and Philosophy

We Wanna Think Bad Things with You
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-64101-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

The first look at the philosophical issues behind CharlaineHarris's New York Times bestsellers The Southern VampireMysteries and the True Blood television series
Teeming with complex, mythical characters in the shape ofvampires, telepaths, shapeshifters, and the like, TrueBlood, the popular HBO series adapted from Charlaine Harris'sbestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries, has a richcollection of themes to explore, from sex and romance to bigotryand violence to death and immortality. The goings-on in themythical town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, where vampires satiate theirblood lust and openly commingle with ordinary humans, present noshortages of juicy metaphysical morsels to sink your teethinto.
Now True Blood and Philosophy calls on the minds of someof history's great thinkers to perform some philosophicalbloodletting on such topics as Sookie and the metaphysics ofmindreading; Maryann and sacrificial religion; werewolves,shapeshifters and personal identity; vampire politics, evil,desire, and much more.
* The first book to explore the philosophical issues and themesbehind the True Blood novels and television series
* Adds a new dimension to your understanding of True Bloodcharacters and themes
* The perfect companion to the start of the third season on HBOand the release of the second season on DVD
Smart and entertaining, True Blood and Philosophyprovides food--or blood--for thought, and a fun, new wayto look at the series.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irwin, William

Dunn, George A.

Housel, Rebecca

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: For the "Supes" We Just Can't Live Without.
Introduction: "If a Tree Falls in the Woods, It's Still aTree--Ain't It?"
PART ONE: "I USED TO HATE VAMPIRES, UNTIL I GOT TO KNOW ONE":VAMPIRE-HUMAN ETHICS.
1 To Turn or Not to Turn: The Ethics of Making Vampires(Christopher Robichaud).
2 Dressing Up and Playing Human: Vampire Assimilation in theHuman Playground (Jennifer Culver).
3 Pets, Cattle, and Higher Life Forms on True Blood(Ariadne Blayde and George A. Dunn).
PART TWO: "LIFE-CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS": THE POLITICS OFBEING DEAD.
4 Signed in Blood: Rights and the Vampire-Human Social Contract(Joseph J. Foy).
5 "Honey, If We Can't Kill People, What's the Point of Being aVampire?": Can Vampires Be Good Citizens? (William M.Curtis).
6 Un-True Blood: The Politics of Artificiality (Bruce A.McClelland).
PART THREE: "THEIR VERY BLOOD IS SEDUCTIVE": EROS, SEXUALITY,AND GENDER.
7 Coming Out of the Coffin and Coming Out of the Closet(Patricia Brace and Robert Arp).
8 "I Am Sookie, Hear Me Roar!": Sookie Stackhouse and FeministAmbivalence (Lillian E. Craton and Kathryn E. Jonell).
9 Sookie, Sigmund, and the Edible Complex (RonHirschbein).
PART FOUR: "I AM ACTUALLY OLDER THAN YOUR JESUS": NATURAL,SUPERNATURAL, AND DIVINE.
10 Let the Bon Temps Roll: Sacrifice, Scapegoats, and Good Times(Kevin J. Corn and George A. Dunn).
11 Are Vampires Unnatural? (Andrew Terjesen and JennyTerjesen).
12 Does God Hate Fangs? (Adam Barkman).
PART FIVE: "OUR EXISTENCE IS INSANITY": THE METAPHYSICS OFSUPERNATURAL BEINGS.
13 A Vampire's Heart Has Its Reasons That Scientifi c NaturalismCan't Understand (Susan Peppers-Bates and JoshuaRust).
14 Keeping Secrets from Sookie (Fred Curry).
15 Vampires, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters: The More TheyChange, the More They Stay the Same (Sarah Grubb).
CONTRIBUTORS: "I Don't Know Who You Think You Are, butBefore the Night Is Through . . .."
INDEX: Sookie's Words of the Day.

Über Autor(innen)

GEORGE A. DUNN is a lecturer at the University of Indianapolis and Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China. He contributed to Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, X-Men and Philosophy, Terminator and Philosophy, Twilight and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, Iron Man and Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.
REBECCA HOUSEL, a former professor of writing and popular culture, is now an author and editor serving on editorial advisory boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture. She coedited Twilight and Philosophy and X-Men and Philosophy.
WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King's College in Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy.