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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Queering American Horror (Harriet E.H. Earle); The Abject Versus the "Normate"; Drill-Do Horror: Abjection, Queer Bodies and Sexual Violence in Murder House, Freak Show and Hotel (Tosha R. Taylor); Policing Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and the Violence of Normalcy in Asylum and Freak Show (Jarred Wiehe); Representing Mononormativity (Karen J. Renner); Queer Women and Fluid Femininities; My Freaks, My Monsters: Queer Representation, Elsa Mars and Camp (Daniel Clarke); Blood Baths Social Transgression and the Inverted Womb (Lauren Coker) |
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Reading Roanoke Through Ecomedia (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar)Up Close and Personal: Single-Season Case Studies; Gender, Race and Rage in Trump's America and Cult (Jessica Sellin-Blanc and Paul Doro); Murder in the Hell House: Negotiating the Christian Right's "Family Values" Agenda and Murder House (Stefanie Esser); America's Deadliest Hotel: The Gender Politics of Checking In and Never Leaving (Rhona Gordon); "A Convenient Place for Inconvenient People" Madness and Sex in Asylum (Harriet E.H. Earle); About the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The horror anthology TV show American Horror Story first aired on FX Horror in 2011 and has thus far spanned eight seasons. Addressing many areas of cultural concern, the show has tapped in to conversations about celebrity culture, family dynamics, and more. This volume with nine new essays and one reprinted one considers how this series engages with representations of gender, sexuality, queer identities and other LGBTQ issues. The contributors address myriad elements of American Horror Story, from the relationship between gender and nature to contemporary masculinities, offering a sustained analysis of a show that has proven to be central to contemporary genre television. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American horror story (Television program)
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American horror story (Television program) |
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Sex role on television.
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Gender identity on television.
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Queer theory.
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Performing Arts / Television / Genres / Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. |
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Gender identity on television |
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Queer theory |
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Sex role on television |
| Added Author |
Earle, Harriet E. H., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781476678849 1476678847 (DLC) 2019024889 (OCoLC)1104915236 |
| ISBN |
9781476636825 (electronic bk.) |
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1476636826 (electronic bk.) |
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9781476678849 |
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1476678847 |
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