Research Catalog

Title

Gender and contemporary horror in television / edited by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail.

Publication

• Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gerrard, Steven, 1970-
• Holland, Samantha
• Shail, Robert

Description

xiii, 241 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Emerald studies in popular culture and gender

Subject

• Horror television programs > History and criticism
• Sex role on television
• Horror television programs

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230), filmography (pages [231]-233) 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The 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.

Call Number

MWGR 19-2836

ISBN

• 1787691047
• 9781787691049
• 9781787691032 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781787691056 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1052877203

Title

Gender and contemporary horror in television / edited by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail.

Publisher

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Emerald studies in popular culture and gender

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-230), filmography (pages [231]-233) and index.

Added Author

Gerrard, Steven, 1970- editor.

Holland, Samantha, editor.

Shail, Robert, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGR 19-2836