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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jowett, Lorna, 1971-

Contributor:

Abbott, Stacey.

Series:

Investigating cult TV.

Investigating cult TV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror television programs--History and criticism.

Horror television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Other Title:

Television horror

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Horror is one of the most pervasive of contemporary TV genres with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. Yet not too long ago critics and horror writers claimed that television and horror were incompatible bedfellows. TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen explores the often contradictory relationship between horror and television and shows how this most adaptable genre has continued to be a part of the broadcast landscape, unsettling audiences and pushing the boundaries of acceptability. Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott 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 the omnipresence of 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 Steven Moffat, as well as case studies of Dark Shadows, Dexter, The League of Gentlemen, Pushing Daisies, Torchwood, and Supernatural. They expand debates about the nature of horror by exploring its evolution on television. The historical breadth of the discussion, alongside detailed analysis of an exciting and diverse selection of television series, makes this book a must-have for those studying TV genre, as well as for anyone with a taste for the gruesome and the macabre."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

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

Notes

Work Cited TV and Filmography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857724489

0857724487

9780755698431

0755698436

9780857736475

0857736477

OCLC:

1019662986