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Author Rendell, James, author

Title Transmedia terrors in post-TV horror : digital distribution, abject spectrums and participatory cultures / James Rendell
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages)
Series Transmedia
Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction -- TV Horror: What a Time to Be Alive... and Undead Part 1 -- Post-TV Horror Ecologies Chapter 1 -- Jekyll and Hyde: TV Horror's Incorporation of Other Genres and Audiences Chapter 2 -- Streaming Screaming: Post-Television Horror Texts and Platforms Chapter 3 -- Digital Crypt Keepers: Informal Digital Dissemination and Consumption of Post-TV Horror Part 2 -- Post-TV Horror Audiences Chapter 4 -- Not Just Horrifying: TV Horror Audiences' Abject Spectrums Chapter 5 -- Spreadable Splatter: TV Horror's Online Fans' Image Textuality Chapter 6 -- Sick Senses: Fan Food and Soundtracks as Materialities of Transmedia TV Horror Conclusion
Summary In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal. Located within a transmedia matrix, Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror triangulates this boom across screen content, industry practices, and online participatory cultures. Understanding the genre within a post-TV paradigm, the book readdresses what is horror television, analysing not only broadcast TV and streaming platforms but also portals such as YouTube, Twitch.TV, and apps. The book also investigates complex digital media ecologies, blurring distinctions between niche and general audience viewing practices, and fostering new circulation pathways for horror television from around the world. Undertaking netnography, the book further offers an innovative model - abject spectrums - to empirically explore myriad audience responses to TV horror, manifesting in various participatory practices including writing, imagery, and crafts. As such, the book greatly expands what is considered horror television, its formatting and circulation, and the transmedia materiality of audience engagement
Analysis Film, Media, and Communication
FMC
Cultural Studies
CULTURAL
Film Studies
FILM
Media Studies
MEDIA
Television, Digital, Fandom, Affect, Horror
Notes "Amsterdam University Press"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 17, 2023)
Subject Horror television programs -- Social aspects
Digital media -- Social aspects
Film: styles and genres.
Media studies.
ART / Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Digital media -- Social aspects
Television: styles and genres.
Horror and supernatural fiction.
Media studies: TV and society.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9048550637
9789048550630