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1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Emerald studies in popular culture and gender
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Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: the monstrous feminine 'She's that kind of a woman': tracing the gender and sexual politics of the female vampire via The Hunger and American Horror Story: Hotel / Chloe Benson -- 'Is this a chick thing now?' The feminism of Z Nation between quality and trash TV / Nadine Dannenberg -- Weeping angels: Doctor Who's (de)monstrous feminine / Khara Lukancik -- Representation of older women in twenty-first century horror: an analysis of characters played by Jessica Lange in American Horror Story / Natasha Parcei -- 'She was not like I thought': the woman as a strange being in Masters of Horror / Erika Tiburcio Moreno -- Monster within: Lily in Penny Dreadful / Kylie Boon -- Final girls and female serial killers: a review of the Slasher television series from a gender perspective / Victor Hernández-Santaolalla -- Part II: the monstrous masculine -- 'Is Hannibal in love with me?' Gender changes in the television series Hannibal / Clare Smith -- 'I'm pissed off, and I'm angry, and we need your permission to kill someone': frustrated masculinities in Charlie Brooker's Dead Set / Lauren Stephenson -- Problematic relationship with sympathetic vampires in the TV series The Vampire Diaries / Fernando Canet -- So many chick flick moments: Dean Winchester's centrifugal evolution / Susan Cosby Ronnenberg -- Part III: the monstrous other -- Depictions of gender, homes, and families in the TV version of The Exorcist / Samantha Holland -- How iZombie rethinks the zombie paradigm -- Dahlia Schweitzer -- Damaged survivors in The Walking Dead. Gender and the narrative arcs of Carol and Daryl as protectors and nurturers / Maria F. Suarez -- 'Some normal, apple-pie life': gendering home in Supernatural / Jessica George -- Female audiences' reception of American Horror Story in Greece / Jessica George -- 'Mother, I've really had enough of this! You can't just leave me alone in this abyss where I can't find you!' Norman/Norma and Bates Motel / Steven Gerrard. |
| Summary |
Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, includingHannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist, iZombie, and Bates Motel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Horror television programs -- History and criticism.
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Horror television programs. |
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Sex role on television.
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Sex role on television. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Gerrard, Steven, 1970- editor.
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Holland, Samantha, editor.
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Shail, Robert, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gender and contemporary horror in television. United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2019 1787691047 9781787691049 (OCoLC)1052877203 |
| ISBN |
9781787691032 (electronic book) |
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1787691039 (electronic book) |
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9781787691056 (electronic book) |
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1787691055 (electronic book) |
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9781787691049 |
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1787691047 |
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