| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
| Series |
Anthem Series on Television Studies |
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Anthem series on television studies
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| Contents |
Introduction / Richard J. Hand and Mark O'Thomas -- 1. "I'm really not trying to be cheesy in this moustache twisty way, but it gets really bad. Things that you can't even really imagine..." / Richard J. Hand -- 2. The American Horror Story Repertory Company / Mark O'Thomas -- 3. "Who's the baddest witch in town?": Adaptation, female agency and monstrous representation in American Horror Story: "Coven" / Adam Herron and Ben Nicholson -- 4. "I know your body": Trauma and the Frankenstein myth in "Coven" / Catherine Pugh -- 5. Science, madness, and the gothic in American Horror Story's "Asylum" / Richard M. Sheppard and LMK Sheppard -- 6. "We're more than just pins and dolls and seeing the future in chicken parts": Channelling and challenging Voodoo stereotypes in "Coven" and "Apocalypse" / Mikaël Toulza -- 7. Desiring horror and desirable retro slashers: "1984" and the transformation of sociocultural intelligibility / Alvaro Lopez -- 8. (Un)dead together: Hospitality, hauntology and the "happily ever after" in American Horror Story / Bethan Michael-Fox -- 9. A feminist and queer approach to American Horror Story's homonormative and US nationalist values in the "Asylum" and "Cult" seasons / Daniel Berjano -- 10. Scaring with otherness: American Horror Story and the other identity / Özgür Çahşkan -- 11. "Bitchcraft": Adolescent femininity and fourth-wave feminism in television horror / Miranda Corcoran -- 12. "Cut me and I bleed Dior": The dark side of glamour in American Horror Story / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar -- 13. Into the womb: "Murder House" and the erotics of oppression: An American horror story / Michele Trépanier |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice and Head of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, UK. Mark O'Thomas is Principal and CEO of the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) and Visiting Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Greenwich, UK |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
American horror story (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017020118
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American horror story (Television program) fast |
| Subject |
Horror television programs.
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Cult television programs.
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Horror television programs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hand, Richard J., editor.
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O'Thomas, Mark, editor.
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| ISBN |
1785279351 |
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9781785279348 |
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1785279343 |
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9781785279355 |
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