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With Halloween fast approaching, some colleagues might be interested in the following book which came out earlier this year: Treat or Trick: Halloween in a Globalising World Edited by Malcolm Foley and Hugh O'Donnell In 1999 the French bishops condemned the celebration of Halloween in France. In 2003 the Moscow Department of Education recommended the banning of Halloween celebrations in all educational institutions under its control. In 2008 a group of Catalan intellectuals launched an internet petition against the Halloween celebrations organised by the Port Aventura theme park, arguing that they were detrimental to long-standing Catalan traditions associated with 31 October. In the meantime children and young people all over Europe-and increasingly adults-are energetically adopting and adapting the American version of Halloween as a source of fun, community building and general revelry. So are we all being tricked by rampant cultural imperialism, or responding creatively to the arrival of Halloween as a welcome onset-of-winter treat? This book brings together a series of studies examining the phenomenon of Halloween from a wide range of perspectives: its origins; the ways in which it is now and has been in the past celebrated in the British Isles; its spectacular arrival in both Eastern and Western Europe over the last two decades; its links with tourism; and its multifaceted presence in the media. What emerges is a phenomenon of astonishing complexity, characterised by multiple meanings and intense battles over ownership. Contents Introduction Malcolm Foley and Hugh O'Donnell Flexible Halloween: Longevity, Appropriation, and Contestation Jack Santino Part I: (Re)inventing Halloween The Halloween Feast Stephen Sayers All Hallows Eve: Changing Conceptions of a Christian Festival Robert A. Davis Hallowe'en and the Church: Great Pumpkins! or How to Take All the Fun out of Life Fran Ota Part II: Experiencing Halloween (1) the British Isles "The Apple at the Glass": Halloween in Eighteenth Century Scottish Poetry Valentina Bold Neo-Pagan Celebrations of the Festival of Samhain Jenny Butler Jinny the Witch, Micky Mouse and Hop Tu Naa - a personal and cultural exploration of the Manx "Halloween" Doug Sandle Part III: Experiencing Halloween (2) Continental Europe Halloween: Tradition as Snobbery Salvador Cardús How the Pumpkins Conquered Germany. Halloween and the Commercialization of German Folklore Lothar Mikos Halloween in Sweden: Tradition without history Jonas Frykman Halloween in Russia: What Makes an Unwelcome Guest Stay? Larisa Prokhorova The Fun of Fear: Performing Halloween in the Netherlands John Helsloot Part IV: (Re)interpreting Halloween Cultural Propriety at Hallowe'en and the Avoidance of Mass Tourism Andrew Crummy and Gordon Prestoungrange Halloween and Tourism in Salem Alison D'Amario Halloween in Transylvania: tourism, fantasy and play in a liminal space Duncan Light Part V: (Re)presenting Halloween Halloween in Catalonia: Between Postmodernism and Tradition Enric Castelló "Stay Tuned for Tricks, Treats and Terror": Halloween and Horror Radio in the Golden Age of American Live Broadcasting Richard J. Hand Dracula Was A Woman: Science Fiction, "Walpurgis Night" and Lexx Catriona Miller Celtic Twilight and the American Other on TF1 Malcolm Foley and Hugh O'Donnell Media representations of Halloween in a post-socialist country: A case of anti-Americanism? Dejan Jontes 'Trick or treat?': Competing constructions of Halloween festivities in public discourse Anthea Irwin Reviewing Halloween Conclusion: Halloweening Malcolm Foley and Hugh O'Donnell Cambridge Scholars Publishing Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0153-9 Isbn: 1-4438-0153-4 Price Uk Gbp: 39.99 Price Us Usd: 59.99 http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Treat-or-Trick---Halloween-in-a-Globalising-World1-4438-0153-4.htm Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Times Higher Education award winner 2008: outstanding international student support http://www.gcal.ac.uk/news/pressoffice/releases/241008.html