Author: Esther Peeren File Type: pdf 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.**

Author: Peter Allison File Type: epub ReviewPraise for Whatever You Do, Dont RunAllisons infectious enthusiasm for both the African bush and his job showing its wonders to tourists is readily apparent. --BooklistHis misadventures make Whatever You Do, Dont Run an absorbing read. . . . The material is rich, and Allison is a gifted storyteller. And the only thing stranger than African fiction is African truth. --National Geographic AdventureAfter reading this entrancing memoir, an African safari may move to No. 1 on your travel wish list. The only catch is youll want the author as your guide. --Chicago Sun-Timesem Praise for Dont Look Behind YouThe best compliment you can pay a travel writer is toread his work and feel like youre right there with him. Formore than two hundred pages, I felt like I was in Africa, up to my neck in danger. I dont even know this guy, but more than once I lay awake at night, worrying for his safety. Enoughadventure, action, life lessons, and laughs to fill amovie and four sequels. The fact that Allison survived to write any of this down is a miracle in itself. --Cash Peters, author of Naked in Dangerous Places and Gullibles TravelsFrom the Back CoverThe best compliment you can pay a travel writer is to read his work and feel like youre right there with him. For more than two hundred pages, I felt like I was in Africa, up to my neck in danger. I dont even know this guy, but more than once I lay awake at night, worrying for his safety. Enough adventure, action, life lessons, and laughs to fill a movie and four sequels. The fact that Allison survived to write any of this down is a miracle in itself.br Cash Peters, author of Naked in Dangerous Places and Gullibles TravelsRomantic notions aside, being a safari guide isnt always particularly glamorous. Quite often it is beset with challenges, like having to spend a night in a thorn tree with marauding hyenas below. But safari guide Peter Allison lives for such moments. Here, the author of the widely praised Whatever You Do, Dont Run details his time spent in safari camps not only in Botswana but also in South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibiaplaces he loves, despite how much it feels like they just might be trying to kill him.In Dont Look Behind You, Allison recounts adventures few would live to tell. Like the time he and a group of bored guides launched a makeshift raft into a foaming river teeming with hippos and crocodiles. Or the afternoon he heard monkeys telling him that a leopard was walking around the camp, and then realized the leopard was in his tent, with him in it.Join Peter Allison for another riveting, rollicking, behind-the-scenes dose of everyones dream experiencegoing on safariand come through amazed but, thankfully, without a scratch.br Peter Allison is the