Television, Religion, and Supernatural examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that offers viewers myriad religious-based antagonists through the portrayals of monsters, which its two main characters hunt and destroy, as well as storylines based on the Bible. Even as the series producers claim a nonreligious perspective, the authors contend that story arcs and outcomes of episodes actually forward a hegemonic portrayal of Christianity that portrays a good-versus-evil motif regarding the superiority of Catholicism. The depiction...

This book offers a series of analyses of contemporary media texts that illustrate how Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony can inform approaches to media literacy.