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An edition of TV horror (2013)

TV horror

investigating the dark side of the small screen

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Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. This book shows how this most adaptable of genres has continued to be a part of the broadcast landscape, unsettling audiences and pushing the boundaries of acceptability. The authors demonstrate how TV Horror continues to provoke and terrify audiences by bringing the monstrous and the supernatural into the home, whether through adaptations of Stephen King and classic horror novels, or by reworking the gothic and surrealism in Twin Peaks and Carnivale. They uncover horror in mainstream television from procedural dramas to children's television and, through close analysis of landmark TV auteurs including Rod Serling, Nigel Kneale, Dan Curtis and Stephen Moffat, together with case studies of such shows as Dark Shadows, Dexter, Pushing Daisies, Torchwood, and Supernatural, they explore its evolution on television.

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I.B. Tauris
Language
English
Pages
270

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Table of Contents

Introduction : Horror begins at home
The TV in TV horror : production and broadcast contexts
Mainstreaming horror
Shaping horror : from single play to serial drama
Adaptation : translating horror tales
The horror auteur
Revising the gothic
The excess of TV horror
Horror, art and disruption
TV as horror
The monster in our living room : from Barnabas Collins to Dexter Morgan
Conclusion : The road so far.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) and index.

Includes TV and filmography: (p. 253-259).

Published in
London, New York
Series
Investigating cult TV, Investigating cult TV
Other Titles
Television horror

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.456164
Library of Congress
PN1992.8.H67 J69 2013, PN1992.8.H67

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 270 p.
Number of pages
270

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31052060M
Internet Archive
tvhorrorinvestig0000jowe
ISBN 10
1848856172, 1848856180
ISBN 13
9781848856172, 9781848856189
LCCN
2012533815
OCLC/WorldCat
827785553

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