Witches, fairies, demons, and spirits have not always been mythical creatures that modern societies often depict. Based on theological and intellectual ideas that the brightest minds of the time supported, the supernatural was intrinsically connected to the very reality in which early modern people lived.
Editorials
The Year of Fearless Cultural Education and Other Horrors
On the occasion of the one decade of existence of this multicultural and subcultural media celebrated on October 1st, 2020, we had already set ourselves three years ago the stage with a certain level of “maturity”. As for 2021 and onwards, we will attempt to go with “unpredictable sustained maturity”.
Settling Australian and New Zealand Horror Movies on the Map
This Australasian horror editorial is an important step forward in putting Australian and New Zealand horror movies on the map of film and cinema studies as a subject worthy of intellectual debate.
The Study of Art Historiography as an Academic Discipline
May 1st, 2019, marks the first time that we as an Open Access medium, devote time to publish articles on the study of art historiography. Our central purpose is to understand why the history of art gets written in a way that it does and how has it taken shape as an academic discipline.
Cultural Fashions and History: Artist’s Unsuspected Mythologies
The question that I should like to discuss in this editorial is the following: what does a historian of religions have to say about his contemporary milieu? In what sense can he contribute to the understanding of its literary or philosophical movements, its recent and significant artistic orientations? Or even more, what he has to say, as a historian of religions, in regard to such manifestations of the Zeitgeist as its philosophical and literary vogues, its so-called cultural fashions?
Understanding Gothic Studies, Genre, and Academic Subculture
What are Gothic Studies? Appropriately for a genre that so often revels in ambiguity, even the word has always held an approximate, mutable, contested meaning.
The Will to Understand Witchcraft and Magic in This Era
Many people are vaguely familiar with the history of witchcraft and magic. The topic attracts regular media interest. Yet it is also a subject around which swirls much misunderstanding, misinformed opinion, and dubious facts.
