Tag: ghosts

• Ghost Whisperer’s Ghost in the Machine

  

  This essay was originally posted as part of my work for the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University. This essay reflects my interest in how pop culture represents new media technologies, such as virtual worlds, as part of the process whereby a society / culture comes to determine what will be the acceptable and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 10, 2015

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Digital Games, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

  arcades, Blade Runner, cyberpunk, cyberstalking, games, Ghost Whisperer, ghosts, identity theft, Jennifer Love Hewitt, MMO, MUVE, new media, normalization, online predators, Pop culture, Second Life, supernatural, The Matrix, Virtual worlds

• 5 Things People Believe About Demons, Exorcisms and The Spirit World

  As All Hallow’s Eve approaches, and the dark veil between the land of the living and the land of the dead lists, we in the Western world turn to concerns of all things supernatural. But it is not just Halloween that propels people to be worried about how the spiritual plan can impede in this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 30, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  asuras, Buddhism, Catholicism, demons, dibbuk, evil, exorcism, exorcist, ghosts, Hinduism, Islamism, jinn, Judaism, Pentacostals, possession, rakshas, Satan, shaydim, spirits, The Exorcist, The Rite

• 30th Anniversary of Ghostbusters

  

  This blog post was inspired by a request to comment on the 30th anniversary for an article on the momentous event.  You can find the entire article that utilized my quotes here.  What is reflected below is an expansion of those thoughts. I was a young girl when the movie came out — only 6 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 7, 2014

  Fandom, Film Studies

  1980s, Akyroyd, Egon, Frozen, Ghostbusters, ghosts, Harry Potter, horror comedy, Indiana Jones, Labyrinth, Morainis, Murray, Ramis, Real Ghostbusters, Star Wars, The Goonies, Venkman