Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the Amazon Prime series, Good Omens, quickly gained a cult following after debuting in May of 2019. Contained in this story of looming Armageddon are explorations of grief, friendship, good and evil, the Bible, Milton, God and what it means to be human. This book provides thirteen essays that center on various aspects of the show, including theology, fan culture, female gaze, textual elements and more. Also examining Gaiman's sense of obligation to Pratchett, as well as the relationship between Good Omens and the hit series Supernatural,…mehr
Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the Amazon Prime series, Good Omens, quickly gained a cult following after debuting in May of 2019. Contained in this story of looming Armageddon are explorations of grief, friendship, good and evil, the Bible, Milton, God and what it means to be human. This book provides thirteen essays that center on various aspects of the show, including theology, fan culture, female gaze, textual elements and more. Also examining Gaiman's sense of obligation to Pratchett, as well as the relationship between Good Omens and the hit series Supernatural, these essays provide a critical analysis of the show and its prominent themes.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erin Giannini served as an editor and contributor at PopMatters, and has written numerous articles about topics from corporate culture in genre television to production-level shifts and their effects on television texts. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Amanda Taylor works at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research interests include Supernatural, Futurama, science fiction, and posthuman theory. She lives in Southern California.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments In the Beginning: Nice and Accurate Analyses of Good Omens Erin Giannini and Amanda Taylor Good Omens and Adaptation Avoiding a Contemporary Apocalypse: Examining the Effects of Shifting Good Omens from Its Cold War Context Rhian Waller God Is a Woman: Good Omens, Voice-Over, and the Female Gaze Julia Vanessa Pauss Ways of Mourning: Reading Grief as Friendship in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (1990) Pavan Mano Good Omens and Fan Culture "Okay, Crowley, Junior": Subversions and Transformations of Good Omens in Supernatural and Its Fandom Cait Coker Fan Desire and Normative Masculinities in Good Omens Gift Exchanges Mary Ingram-Waters The Theology of Good Omens "In the beginning, it was a nice day": Aziraphale and the Subversive Miltonian Angelology of Good Omens Melissa D. Aaron Eschatological Ambiguity in Good Omens: How Concerns for Survival Blur the Lines Between Good and Evil Morgan Shipley Sola Fide: Ineffability, Good Omens, and the Reformation Philip Goldfarb Styrt "This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my particular friend": Romantic Satanism and Loving Opposition in Good Omens (2019) Alex Tankard Naming, Artifacts, and Texts in Good Omens Adam's Task: Naming and Sub-creation in Good Omens Janet Brennan Croft The Book as Character: Tracing Textual Elements of Good Omens Across the Novel and Miniseries Tara Prescott-Johnson "Welcome to the end times": A Conclusion Amanda Taylor and Erin Giannini About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments In the Beginning: Nice and Accurate Analyses of Good Omens Erin Giannini and Amanda Taylor Good Omens and Adaptation Avoiding a Contemporary Apocalypse: Examining the Effects of Shifting Good Omens from Its Cold War Context Rhian Waller God Is a Woman: Good Omens, Voice-Over, and the Female Gaze Julia Vanessa Pauss Ways of Mourning: Reading Grief as Friendship in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens (1990) Pavan Mano Good Omens and Fan Culture "Okay, Crowley, Junior": Subversions and Transformations of Good Omens in Supernatural and Its Fandom Cait Coker Fan Desire and Normative Masculinities in Good Omens Gift Exchanges Mary Ingram-Waters The Theology of Good Omens "In the beginning, it was a nice day": Aziraphale and the Subversive Miltonian Angelology of Good Omens Melissa D. Aaron Eschatological Ambiguity in Good Omens: How Concerns for Survival Blur the Lines Between Good and Evil Morgan Shipley Sola Fide: Ineffability, Good Omens, and the Reformation Philip Goldfarb Styrt "This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my particular friend": Romantic Satanism and Loving Opposition in Good Omens (2019) Alex Tankard Naming, Artifacts, and Texts in Good Omens Adam's Task: Naming and Sub-creation in Good Omens Janet Brennan Croft The Book as Character: Tracing Textual Elements of Good Omens Across the Novel and Miniseries Tara Prescott-Johnson "Welcome to the end times": A Conclusion Amanda Taylor and Erin Giannini About the Contributors Index
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