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
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