Category Archives: pop culture

PCA/ACA Call for Participants: A Roundtable on Contemporary American Horror Cinema

November 17th, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, conference, pop culture

Call for Participants: “‘Oh Yes, There Will Be Blood’: A Roundtable on Contemporary American Horror Cinema” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference Chicago, IL USA April 16-19, 2014 This roundtable discussion is centered upon recent scholarship, research and criticism concerning contemporary American horror cinema. Participants will read the volumes American Horror Film: The […]

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Popular Culture Association: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture

September 16th, 2011 | Posted in call for papers, comics, graphic novels, pop culture

                Call for Papers: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture-SWTXPCA 2012 Please make plans to attend our 33rd Annual Conference February 8-11, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hyatt Regency Albuquerque 330 Tijeras NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87102 Tel: +1 […]

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Christopher Knowles: Gods and Geeks in American Pop Culture

August 29th, 2010 | Posted in comics, fan cultures, geek cultures, myths, Paganism, pop culture, superheroes

Patheos is a website that presents information on a variety of religious traditions. Over the course of the summer months the site has been looking at what the future holds for these religions, and in a recent focus on Paganism an essay was included that dovetails with the focus of TheoFantastique. Christopher Knowles wrote a […]

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Call for Papers on “Vampire Love”

May 22nd, 2010 | Posted in call for papers, horror, pop culture, vampire

The Popular Culture and American Culture Associations are issuing their last call for papers on the topic of “Vampire Love:” 2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television, November 11-14, 2010, Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory Third Round Deadline: June 1, 2010, AREA: Vampire Love. The history of film is regularly punctuated […]

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The Church of Jediism and Religious Conflict in the Workplace

March 21st, 2010 | Posted in Adam Possamai, hyper-real spiritualities (or fiction-based), Jediism, pop culture, science fiction

While catching up on various blogs and websites dealing with the fantastic in the blogosphere I came across a news item at SF Gospel. It touched on a conflict between a religious group and an employer on appropriate attire in the workplace. What sets this conflict apart from others that have taken place in the […]

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Themes of the Films of James Cameron: Call for Papers

January 15th, 2010 | Posted in call for papers, James Cameron, pop culture

The Popular Culture and American Culture Associations recently circulated a call for papers on the themes of the films of James Cameron: With Avatar Canadian-born filmmaker James Cameron now has the top two all-time money making films in history, yet little in the way of critical attention has been paid to his work. His movies […]

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Whitt and Perlich: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Millennial Mythmaking

January 10th, 2010 | Posted in Joseph Campbell, myths, pop culture, science fiction

In the past I had an opportunity to interview David Whitt and John Perlich with the first book they co-edited, Sith, Slayers, Stargates and Cyborgs: Modern Mythology and the New Millennium (Peter Lang Publishers, 2007). Dr. David Whitt is Associate Professor of Communication at Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Dr. John Perlich is Associate Professor of […]

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2012 and Mayan Calendar of the End

November 19th, 2009 | Posted in 2012 Mayan prophecy, apocalypticism, millenarianism, pop culture

Several weeks ago I first saw the trailers for 2012 in movie theaters and on television. The trailer depicted a man and his family making a last second escape from apparently worldwide destruction as homes, buildings, freeways, and entire landscapes crumbled around them in a catastrophic upheaval. A small private airplane with the family on […]

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The Old West Meets the Undead: PCA/ACA Call for Papers

October 12th, 2009 | Posted in call for papers, pop culture, vampire, zombie

The combination of certain genres don’t work for me. In this case the Old West connecting with horror, specifically in the form of cowboys combined with zombies, vampires, and other horror icons, but apparently they work for some people and have become the focus of academic consideration. Following is a call for papers from the […]

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Horror, Pop Culture, and Current Events

August 12th, 2009 | Posted in horror, pop culture

In the past I’ve connected aspects of the fantastic to popular culture and current events. With this post I do so again, first in serious fashion, and second with tongue in cheek. In a recent post I asked readers to consider America’s continuing struggles with the legacy of racism through reflection on Conquest of the […]

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