 | Horror Television in the Age of Consumption: Binging on Fear Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Cultural Studies; Media & Film Studies; Literature; Popular Culture; Media & Communications; Gothic Literature; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Film 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. Linda Belau is Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies and Director of Film Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, USA. She is the editor of Topologies of Trauma (2002), Psychoanalysis and La Femme (2010) and the author of several articles on literary, cultural, and cinema studies. Kimberly Jackson is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the author of Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-First Century Horror (2013) and Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First Century Horror (2016). |
