TV horror : investigating the dark side of the small screen / Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott.

By:

Jowett, Lorna, 1971-

Contributor(s):

Abbott, Stacey [aut]

Material type:

TextSeries: Investigating cult TVPublication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.Description: xv, 270 p. : ill. b&w ; 23 cmISBN:

9781848856189

Other title:

Television horror

Subject(s):

Horror television programs -- History and criticism

DDC classification:

791.45

Contents:

Introduction: Horror begins at home -- 1. The TV in TV horror: production and broadcast contexts -- 2. Mainstreaming horror -- 3. Shaping horror: from single play to serial drama -- 4. Adaptation: translating horror tales -- 5. The horror auteur -- 6. Revising the gothic -- 7. The excess of TV horror -- 8. Horror, art, and disruption -- 9. TV as horror -- 10. The monster in our living room: from Barnabas Collins to Dexter Morgan -- Conclusion: The road so far.

Summary: 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. It 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, demonstrating 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	791.45 JOW tv (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	10670

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes TV and filmography.

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

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. It 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, demonstrating 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.

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