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Ghosts --- Haunted places --- Haunted localities --- Localities, Haunted --- Places, Haunted --- Occultism --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- Ghost tours

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"Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ghosts. --- Haunted places. --- Haunted localities --- Localities, Haunted --- Places, Haunted --- Occultism --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- Ghost tours --- Fantômes. --- Geesten. --- Populaire cultuur.

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"On any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museum and private companies have facilitated these hunts, offering year-round ghost tours. Critics have called these excursions a cash grab, but in truth, ghosts and hauntings have long been at the center of the Colonial Williamsburg project. The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg examines how the long-dead past comes alive at this living-history museum. In the early twentieth century, local stories about the ghosts of former residents-among them Revolutionary War soldiers and nurses, tavern owners and prominent attorneys, and enslaved African Americans-helped to turn Williamsburg into a desirable site for historical restoration. But, for much of the twentieth century, the museum tried diligently to avoid any discussion of ghosts, considering them frivolous and lowbrow. Alena Pirok explores why historic sites have begun to embrace their spectral residents in recent decades, arguing that through them, patrons experience an emotional connection to place and a palpable understanding of the past through its people"--

Heritage tourism --- Public history --- Folklore and history --- Ghost stories, American --- Ghost tours --- Historic sites --- Social aspects --- Methodology. --- Interpretive programs --- Virginia --- Williamsburg (Va.) --- Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.) --- Historiography. --- History.

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Haunted places --- Supernatural --- Ghosts --- Ghost stories, American --- Haunted localities --- Localities, Haunted --- Places, Haunted --- Occultism --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- American ghost stories --- American fiction --- Occult fiction --- Occult stories --- Paranormal stories --- Parapsychology --- Witchcraft --- Fiction --- Ghost tours --- Paranormal fiction.

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Richardson argues that tales of haunting in the Hudson Valley are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. 'Possessions' illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the USA as a whole.

Ghosts --- Haunted places --- Ghosts in literature. --- Haunted localities --- Localities, Haunted --- Places, Haunted --- Occultism --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) --- Hudson Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) --- Social life and customs. --- Ghosts in literature --- Ghost tours