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Spirits and other supernatural phenomena are greatly symbolized throughout modern culture. They can be found in a variety of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular multimedia or commodified representations of ghosts could be very not the same as the beliefs people hold about them, predicated on tradition or immediate experience. Personal opinion and cultural traditions on the main one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continuously feed one another. They frequently show space in how people take into account the supernatural.In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by evaluating it from a variety of angles in a variety of modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts really, as they sketch on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both basis of opinion in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the effectiveness of ghost stories. They look carefully at the narrative role of such lore in concerns such as socialization and gender. Plus they unravel the intricate mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
