03206oam 22006014a 450 991048091850332120170919213310.01-5261-0411-31-78499-690-4(CKB)3710000000612262(EBL)4545561(MiAaPQ)EBC4545561(StDuBDS)EDZ0001535554(OCoLC)981602167(MdBmJHUP)muse59556(EXLCZ)99371000000061226220160405d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMen with stakesMasculinity and the gothic in US television /Julia M. WrightManchester :Manchester University Press,2016.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2016.1 online resource (195 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-9770-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-181) and index.Bedeviling paternal discipline: fathers from American Gothic to Point Pleasant -- Looking for daddy: Carnivàle, Supernatural, and Millennium -- Latchkey hero: the horrors of class in Eric Kripke's Supernatural -- Gothic foundations: "The Pest House," "Hell House," and "The Murder House" -- Conclusion: gothic conspiracy and the eyes of Lara Means."Men with stakes builds on recent discussions of television Gothic by examining the ways in which the Gothic mode is deployed specifically to call into question televisual realism and, with it, conventional depictions of masculinity. Released from the mandate of realism to describe the world as it is supposed to be, television Gothic calls attention to the constructedness of gender - and therefore to the possibility of re-imagining men's agency, authority and the legitimated forms of knowledge with which men are traditionally associated (science in particular). In this context, after an overview of Gothic television's larger history, this study discusses in some depth seven series from the last two decades: American Gothic, Millennium, Angel, Carnivàle, Point Pleasant, Supernatural and American Horror Story"--Publisher's website.Horror television programsfast(OCoLC)fst00960449Horror television programsSocial aspectsUnited StatesHorror television programsUnited StatesHistory and criticismMasculinity in popular cultureUnited StatesMasculinity on televisionUnited StatesfastCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Horror television programs.Horror television programsSocial aspectsHorror television programsHistory and criticism.Masculinity in popular cultureMasculinity on television.791.4/56164Wright Julia M.873378MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480918503321Men with stakes2260076UNINA