TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen
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Main Author: Jowett, Lorna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London I.B.Tauris 2013
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Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Horror Begins at Home; 1. The TV in TV Horror: Production and Broadcast Contexts; 2. Mainstreaming Horror; 3. Shaping Horror: From Single Play to Serial Drama; 4. Adaptation: Translating Horror Tales; 5. The Horror Auteur; 6. Revising the Gothic; 7. The Excess of TV Horror; 8. Horror, Art and Disruption; 9. TV as Horror; 10. The Monster in Our Living Room: From Barnabas Collins to Dexter Morgan; Conclusion: The Road So Far; Notes; Work Cited; TV and Filmography
Horror is one of the most pervasive of contemporary TV genres with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. Yet not too long ago critics and horror writers claimed that television and horror were incompatible bedfellows. TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen explores the often contradictory relationship between horror and television and shows how this most adaptable genre has continued to be a part of the broadcast landscape, unsettling audiences and pushing the boundaries of accept
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (369 p.)
ISBN:0857736477
9780857736475

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