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  • Television Finales

    From Howdy Doody to Girls

    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and ... Read more

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  • Global TV Horror

    Edited by Stacey Abbott, Lorna Jowett ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    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 always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television as explored in this provocative new collection looking at series from across the globe, and considering how Horror manifests ... Read more

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  • Angel

    by Stacey Abbott ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Examines the innovative approach to genre, aesthetics, narrative, and the representation of masculinity in the television series Angel.Following the phenomenal success of the first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the WB Network, writers and producers Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt moved their character Angel to his own spin-off series in 1999. While Angel, which followed its namesake ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Near Dark

    by Stacey Abbott ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story of Caleb, a half-vampire trying to decide whether to embrace his vampire nature or return to his human family. The film, an early work of the now-established director Kathryn Bigelow, skilfully mixes genre conventions, combining gothic tropes with those of the Western, road movie and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Investigating Alias

    Secrets and Spies

    Series series Investigating Cult TV
    First aired in 2001, "Alias" is a spy drama with a central action heroine, a complex narrative of moral twists, turns, lies and double-crosses, and an imaginative array of gadgets, gizmos and glamorous costumes. It has become a leading cult television series with a loyal fan following. In the wake of 9/11, "Alias'" themes of doubles and duplicity have been perfectly placed to comment on global ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Celluloid Vampires

    Life After Death in the Modern World

    by Stacey Abbott ...
    In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected ... Read more

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  • TV Horror

    Investigating the Darker Side of the Small Screen

    Series series Investigating Cult TV
    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. This complete, utterly accessible, sometimes scary new book is the definitive work on TV horror. It shows how this most adaptable of genres has continued to be a part of the broadcast landscape, unsettling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Gothic Afterlives

    Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media

    Series series Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
    Gothic Afterlives examines the intersecting dimensions of contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship, bringing together innovative perspectives from different areas of study. The research compiled in this collection covers a wide range of examples, including not only literature but also film, television, video games, and digital media remakes. Gothic Afterlives signals the cultural and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    by Brigid Cherry ...
    Series series Routledge Film Guidebooks
    Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • True Blood

    Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic

    Edited by Dr Brigid Cherry ...
    Series series Investigating Cult TV
    As seen in HBO's "True Blood", vampires have never been more edgy, gory or sexy. Since its arrival on screen in 2008, Alan Ball's adaptation of "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" by Charlaine Harris has exploited the creative freedoms of the HBO brand and captured a cult audience with its passionate, blood-drenched visuals and stories. From viral webisodes depicting vampires announcing themselves on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Found Footage Horror Films

    Fear and the Appearance of Reality

    As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films ... Read more

    $16.99 USD