Verlag:
Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Section I: Petrifying Politics -- Chapter 1: The American Nightmare: Graveyard Voters, Demon Sheep, Devil Women, and Lizard People -- It's Alive! Again --...
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Section I: Petrifying Politics -- Chapter 1: The American Nightmare: Graveyard Voters, Demon Sheep, Devil Women, and Lizard People -- It's Alive! Again -- They're Coming to Get You, Citizens -- The Power of the Party Compels You -- You're Going to Need a Bigger Vote -- Chapter 2: Horror, Crisis, and Control: Tales of Facing Evils -- Horrors -- Children -- Images -- Faces -- Archetypes -- Inventions -- Evils -- Crises? -- Chapter 3: We're Witches and We're Hunting You: Matriarchy and Misogyny in Conjure Wife -- Conjure Wife -- Weird Woman -- Burn, Witch, Burn! -- Conclusion -- Section II: Apocalypse and After -- Chapter 4: The Democratic Impulse in Post-Apocalyptic Films -- The Apocalypse and Egalitarianism -- Stewardship and Consumerism -- Democratic Leadership -- The End -- Chapter 5: Through a Glass Darkly: The Dimensionality and Inadequacy of Political Fear in Stephen King's The Stand -- Political Fear in The Stand: Las Vegas -- Political Fear in The Stand: The Free Zone -- Religion and The Stand -- Conclusion -- Section III: Ghoulish Games -- Chapter 6: The Monsters Among Us: Realism and Constructivism in Vampire: The Masquerade -- Introduction -- Roleplaying Games and Liminality -- Realism and Power, Constructivism and Norms -- Vampire: The Masquerade -- Denver by Night -- For the Good of the City24: Lancaster, Prince of Denver -- Front Range Sabbat -- I Drove All the Way to California to Get Eaten30: Denis Abrate, Storyteller -- GhengisCon 42 -- I Like Playing Zealots Because Zealots Create Conflict33: Adam Lake, Player -- Discussion -- Chapter 7: Anxiety in Suburbia: The Politics of Gaming in Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom -- Dead Inside: Zombies as Parent Avatars -- The Horror Within: The Façade of the Suburbs -- Digital Culture on Stage.
