Supernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: The Highway to Hell and Back....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Deconstructing the Apocalypse? Supernatural’s Postmodern Appropriation of Angelic Hierarchies....Pages 13-26
The Greatest of These: The Theological Virtues and the Problem of an Absent God in Supernatural....Pages 27-40
Suffering Nuclear Reactors: Depictions of the Soul from Plato to Supernatural....Pages 41-52
“We’re Justchrw… Food and Perverse Entertainment”: Supernatural’s New God and the Narrative Objectification of Sam and Dean....Pages 53-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
All Dogs Come from Hell: Supernatural’s Canine Connection....Pages 69-82
“This Isn’t Wall Street, This Is Hell!”: Corporate America as the Biggest Supernatural Bad of All....Pages 83-96
The Hunter Hunted: The Portrayal of the Fan as Predator in Supernatural....Pages 97-110
“A Shot on the Devil”: Female Hunters and the Identification of Evil in Supernatural....Pages 111-123
All That Glitters: The Winchester Boys and Fairy Tales....Pages 125-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
A Man and His 1967 Impala: Supernatural, U.S. Car Culture, and the Masculinity of Dean Winchester....Pages 141-154
“How Is That Not Rape-y?”: Dean as Anti-Bella and Feminism without Women in Supernatural....Pages 155-167
God, the Devil, and John Winchester: Failures of Patriarchy in Supernatural....Pages 169-182
Who’s Your Daddy?: Father Trumps Fate in Supernatural....Pages 183-195
Metal and Rust: Postindustrial White Masculinity and Supernatural’s Classic Rock Canon....Pages 197-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-223