[ecrea] New book on Halloween: Treat or Trick? Halloween in a Globalising World

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 Hal=
loween celebrations in all educational institutions under its control. In 2=
008 a group of Catalan intellectuals launched an internet petition against =
the Halloween celebrations organised by the Port Aventura theme park, argui=
ng that they were detrimental to long-standing Catalan traditions associate=
d with 31 October. In the meantime children and young people all over Europ=
e-and increasingly adults-are energetically adopting and adapting the Ameri=
can version of Halloween as a source of fun, community building and general=
 revelry. So are we all being tricked by rampant cultural imperialism, or r=
esponding creatively to the arrival of Halloween as a welcome onset-of-wint=
er treat?

This book brings together a series of studies examining the phenomenon of H=
alloween 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 spe=
ctacular arrival in both Eastern and Western Europe over the last two decad=
es; its links with tourism; and its multifaceted presence in the media. Wha=
t emerges is a phenomenon of astonishing complexity, characterised by multi=
ple 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 o=
f 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 explo=
ration of the Manx "Halloween"
Doug Sandle

Part III: Experiencing Halloween (2) Continental Europe

Halloween: Tradition as Snobbery
Salvador Card=FAs

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 Castell=F3

"Stay Tuned for Tricks, Treats and Terror": Halloween and Horror Radio in t=
he 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 a=
nti-Americanism?
Dejan Jontes

'Trick or treat?': Competing constructions of Halloween festivities in publ=
ic 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-Wor=
ld1-4438-0153-4.htm

Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC02=
1474

Times Higher Education award winner 2008: outstanding international student=
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