Gender and contemporary horror in television / edited by Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland, Robert Shail.
| Other author | Gerrard, Steven, 1970- |
| Other author | Holland, Samantha. |
| Other author | Shail, Robert. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Emerald studies in popular culture and gender |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019299457 |
| ISBN | 9781787691049 (Print) |
| ISBN | 1787691047 (Print) |
| ISBN | (Online) |
| ISBN | (EPub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |