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Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age.

Spanish literature --- Baroque literature --- Horror in literature. --- Fear --- Fright --- Emotions --- Anxiety --- Horror --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Political aspects. --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Spain

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We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars, combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis, relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work is crucial to understanding reality in the information age. - Provided by publisher.

Authenticity (Philosophy) in mass media. --- Reality in mass media. --- Mass media --- Perception (Philosophy) --- Social aspects. --- Technological innovations. --- Philosophy --- #SBIB:309H022 --- #SBIB:309H520 --- Massacommunicatie --- Audiovisuele communicatie: algemene werken --- media --- massamedia --- filosofie --- cultuurfilosofie --- nieuwe media --- 130.2 --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in mass media --- Reality in mass media --- Social aspects --- Technological innovations

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The attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 was a tragic illustration of the existential threat that the viral spread of disinformation poses in the age of social media and twenty-four-hour news. From climate change denialism to the frenzied conspiracy theories and racist mythologies that fuel antidemocratic white nationalist movements in the United States and abroad, What Would Cervantes Do? is a lucid meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. David Castillo and William Egginton travel back to the early modern period, the first age of inflationary media, in search of historically tested strategies to overcome disinformation and shed light on our post-truth market. Through a series of critical conversations between cultural icons of the twenty-first century and those of the Spanish Golden Age, What Would Cervantes Do? provides a tour-de-force commentary on current politics and popular culture. Offering a diverse range of Cervantist comparative readings of contemporary cultural texts - movies, television shows, and infotainment - alongside ideas and issues from literary and cultural texts of early modern Spain, Castillo and Egginton present a new way of unpacking the logic of contemporary media. What Would Cervantes Do? is an urgent and timely self-help manual for literary scholars and humanists of all stripes, and a powerful toolkit for reality literacy.

Spanish literature --- Information literacy --- Mass media --- Fake news --- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- History and criticism --- Objectivity --- De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of cultural products from different periods and geographical locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend (1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies (2009), among others.

Culture --- United States --- Communication. --- Film genres. --- Democracy. --- Sociology. --- Mass media. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Media and Communication. --- Genre. --- American Culture. --- Cultural Theory. --- Media Research. --- Study and teaching. --- Zombies in motion pictures. --- Zombies in literature. --- Zombies in popular culture. --- Zombies. --- Popular culture. --- Globalization --- Social aspects. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Zombis --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Dead --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Plots, themes, etc. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Social theory --- Social sciences