Overview

It can have escaped no-one’s attention that the horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama, with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural, and Stranger Things. Horror has, of course, always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television, as explored in this provocative new collection that looks at series from across the globe and considers how horror manifests in different cultural and broadcast/streaming contexts. Gathering expertise from established scholars and new voices, Global TV Horror examines historical and contemporary TV horror from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Iran, Japan, Spain, New Zealand, USA, and the UK. This collection deepens the discussion of television horror by offering fresh perspectives, examining new shows, and excavating new cultural histories, rendering what has become so familiar—horror on television—unfamiliar yet again.

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Author:   Stacey Abbott ,  Lorna Jowett
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786836946

ISBN 10:   1786836947
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett - Taking Over the Whole World: Global TV Horror, Then and Now NATIONAL CONTEXTS Simon Bacon - ‘Real’ Iranian Vampires: Television versus the Big Screen Mark Fryers - ‘It’s not ghosts, it’s history’: The Sonic Tradition of British Horror Television Rebecca Janicker - Terror Australis: The Wilderness Myth in TV’s Wolf Creek Fernando Pagnoni Berns - Stories to Make You Think: The Horror of Daily Life under Francisco Franco’s Regime in Historias para No Dormir Laura Cánepa, Leandro Caraça and Lúcio Reis-Filho - Sleep, little baby. Cuca is coming for you. Mom went to the field, and Dad is working too: the witch Cuca in the Brazilian folklore and television FORMS AND AESTHETICS Jonas Green - Beyond the Masochistic Pleasure Principle: The Subtle Gore of Les revenants. Cat Lester - Giving Kids Goosebumps: Uncanny Aesthetics, Cyclic Structures and Anti-didacticism in Children's Horror Anthologies Series Lorna Piatti-Farnell - As Raw as Flesh: Consuming Humans in TV Horror INDUSTRY Stella Gaynor - Driving Industrial Innovation: Fox International Channels and the Global Appeal of The Walking Dead Andreas Halskov - Staking Claims or Sucking Up: Heartless, Nordic Twilight and the Cross-Pollination of Danish and American TV Drama Charlotte Stevens - Video Game to Streaming Series: The Case of Castlevania on Netflix James Rendell - Tracing Terror-Bytes: Ring: Saishusho as Japanese TV Horror, Online Transcultural J-Horror Fan Object, and Digital Only-Click Television Conclusion - Transnationalism and TV Horror Fandom: A Conversation with Iain Robert Smith and Miranda Ruth Larsen About the Contributors

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Lorna Jowett, Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, is author of Dancing With the Doctor, Sex and the Slayer and co-author of TV Horror. Stacey Abbott, Reader in Film and Television Studies at the University of Roehampton, is a leading expert on horror in film and television. She is the author of Undead Apocalypse, Celluloid Vampires and co-author of TV Horror.

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