Böcker av Kevin J. Wetmore

In this Devil's Advocates, horror scholar Kevin Wetmore examines what elements in the film are truly terrifying, how the filmmakers' claims of being based on a true story hold up against the actual history of the haunting and the Warrens, and the relationship between The Conjuring and the many films in its universe.

This volume explores the different ways in which Greek tragedy has been used by playwrights, directors and others to represent and define African American history and identity. Two models are offered for an Afro-Greek connection: Black Orpheus and Black Athena.

Focuses on the Star Wars saga. The first topic of this book is how the films use the language of colonialism to emphasize the idea of imperialism. Next the author looks at how Asian influences, including religious undertones from Taoism and Buddhism and the works of Kurosawa and other Asian filmmakers, provide a subtext for much of the action.

Kevin Wetmore's study focuses on African American adaptations of classical Greek tragedy. The author concentrates on the method of transculturation that the playwrights use and explains why African Americans have embraced the ancient Greek material.

Although the reimagined TV series Battlestar Galactica features religion and theology among its central concerns, the series does not simply use its myriad faiths as plot devices or background material. The series' narrative arc explores the meanings of salvation, prophecy, exile, apocalypse, resurrection, and messianism, and demonstrates the working of a divine will in a material world. This study offers a systematic theology for each of Battlestar Galactica's invented religions and surveys the echoes of American Christianity and theology in the series.