Men with stakes : Masculinity and the gothic in US television / / Julia M. Wright

• Autore: Wright Julia M.
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4/56164
• Soggetto topico: Horror television programs; Horror television programs - Social aspects - United States; Horror television programs - United States - History and criticism; Masculinity in popular culture - United States; Masculinity on television
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-181) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Men with stakes
• ISBN: 1-5261-0411-3; 1-78499-690-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480918503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II