Horror Television in the Age of Consumption: Binging on Fear (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)

"Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection, therefore, explores both the cultural landscape of this recent phenomenon and the reasons for these television series' wide appeal, focusing on televisual aesthetics, technological novelties, the role of adaptation and seriality, questions of gender, identity and subjectivity, and the ways in which the shows' themes comment on the culture that consumes them. Featuring new work by many of the field's leading scholars, this collection offers innovative readings and rigorous theoretical analyses of some of our most significant contemporary texts in the genre of Horror Television. "--Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction: Binging on Horror 1 Pigeons from Hell: Anthology Horror on American Television in the 1950s and 1960s 2 “Where It Belongs”: Television Horror, Domesticity, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents 3 The Thing “Chants Out Between Two Worlds”: Surreal Latency in the Twin Peaks Universe 4 “If I Could Have Feelings at All, I’d Have Them for Deb”: Love, Law, and Loss in Showtime’s Dexter 5 White Trash in Wife-Beaters? U.S. Television Werewolves, Gender, and Class 6 “The World Is Changing Again”: Bodies, Interpretation, and the Monotony of the Drive in The Walking Dead 7 Family Ties and Maternal Things: Bates Motel as Family Romance for the Post-Oedipal Era 8 Masters of Mise-En-Scène: The Stylistic Excess of Hannibal 9 Sleepy Hollow and the Horrors of History Post-9/11 10 It’s a Monster Mash! Penny Dreadful and the Return to (and of) Contemporary Horror’s Victorian Roots 11 Slashing through the Bonds of Blood: Queer Family and Scream: The TV Series 12 Resurrection: Ash vs Evil Dead, Network Television, and the Cult Horror Film Revival 13 “Welcome to the Upside Down”: Nostalgia and Cultural Fears in Stranger Things List of Contributors Index "Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection, therefore, explores both the cultural landscape of this recent phenomenon and the reasons for these television series' wide appeal, focusing on televisual aesthetics, technological novelties, the role of adaptation and seriality, questions of gender, identity and subjectivity, and the ways in which the shows' themes comment on the culture that consumes them. Featuring new work by many of the field's leading scholars, this collection offers innovative readings and rigorous theoretical analyses of some of our most significant contemporary texts in the genre of Horror Television."--Résumé de l'éditeur Characterised as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection, therefore, explores both the cultural landscape of this recent phenomenon and the reasons for these television series' wide appeal, focusing on televisual aesthetics, technological novelties, the role of adaptation and seriality, questions of gender, identity and subjectivity, and the ways in which the shows' themes comment on the culture that consumes them