Reading American Horror Story

Author : Rebecca Janicker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476663524

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Reading American Horror Story by Rebecca Janicker Pdf

Looming onto the television landscape in 2011, American Horror Story gave viewers a weekly dose of psychological unease and gruesome violence. Embracing the familiar horror conventions of spooky settings, unnerving manifestations and terrifying monsters, series co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk combine shocking visual effects with an engaging anthology format to provide a modern take on the horror genre. This collection of new essays examines the series' contribution to television horror, focusing on how the show speaks to social concerns, its use of classic horror tropes and its reinvention of the tale of terror for the 21st century.

Author : Harriet E.H. Earle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476636825

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Gender, Sexuality and Queerness in American Horror Story by Harriet E.H. Earle Pdf

The horror anthology TV show American Horror Story first aired on FX Horror in 2011 and has thus far spanned eight seasons. Addressing many areas of cultural concern, the show has tapped in to conversations about celebrity culture, family dynamics, and more. This volume with nine new essays and one reprinted one considers how this series engages with representations of gender, sexuality, queer identities and other LGBTQ issues. The contributors address myriad elements of American Horror Story, from the relationship between gender and nature to contemporary masculinities, offering a sustained analysis of a show that has proven to be central to contemporary genre television.

Author : Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781316513002

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The Cambridge Companion to American Horror by Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey Pdf

Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.

Author : Amy Bonnaffons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316516143

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The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons Pdf

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's "dazzling," wildly inventive "miracle of a love story" about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR) For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her Brooklyn bus stop, staring off with a melancholy air. When, one day, she finally musters the courage to introduce herself, the chemistry between them is undeniable: Thomas is wise, witty, handsome, mysterious, clearly a kindred spirit. There's just one tiny problem: He's dead. Stuck in a surreal limbo governed by bureaucracy, Thomas is unable to "cross over" to the afterlife until he completes a 90-day stint on earth, during which time he is forbidden to get involved with a member of the living -- lest he incur "regrets." When Thomas and Rachel break this rule, they unleash a cascade of bizarre, troubling consequences. Set in the hallucinatory borderland between life and death, The Regrets is a gloriously strange and breathtakingly sexy exploration of love, the cataclysmic power of fantasies, and the painful, exhilarating work of waking up to reality, told with uncommon grace and humor by a visionary artist at the height of her imaginative power.

Author : Richard Hand,Mark O’Thomas
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785279355

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American Horror Story and Cult Television by Richard Hand,Mark O’Thomas Pdf

Over ten seasons since 2011, the television series American Horror Story (AHS), created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, has continued to push the boundaries of the televisual form in new and exciting ways. Emerging in a context which has seen a boom in popularity for horror series on television, AHS has distinguished itself from its ‘rivals’ such as The Walking Dead, Bates Motel or Penny Dreadful through its diverse strategies and storylines which have seen it explore archetypal narratives of horror culture as well as engaging with real historical events. Utilising a repertory company model for its casting, the show has challenged issues around contemporary politics, heteronormativity, violence on the screen, and disability to name but a few. This new collection of essays approaches the AHS anthology series through a variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.

Author : M. Verano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481430708

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Diary of a Haunting by M. Verano Pdf

In the tradition of Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project, an American teen recounts the strange events that occur after she moves into a new—and very haunted—home with her family in this chilling diary that features photos and images of what she experienced. Letters, photographs, and a journal…all left behind in the harrowing aftermath. Following her parents’ high-profile divorce, Paige and her brother are forced to move to Idaho with their mother, and Paige doesn’t have very high hopes for her new life. The small town they’ve moved to is nothing compared to the life she left behind in LA. And the situation is made even worse by the drafty old mansion they’ve rented that’s filled with spiders and plenty of other pests that Paige can’t even bear to imagine. Pretty soon, strange things start to happen around the house—one can of ravioli becomes a dozen, unreadable words start appearing on the walls, and Paige’s little brother begins roaming the house late at night. And there’s something not right about the downstairs neighbor who seems to know a lot more than he’s letting on. Things only get creepier when she learns about the cult that conducted experimental rituals in the house almost one hundred years earlier. The more Paige investigates, the clearer it all becomes: there’s something in the house, and whatever it is…and it won’t be backing down without a fight.

Author : Jack Goldstein,Frankie Taylor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781785386138

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American Horror Story - The Ultimate Quiz Book by Jack Goldstein,Frankie Taylor Pdf

Are you a fan of American Horror Story? How much do you know about the first six seasons of the show? There’s only one way to find out! Whether you’re the ultimate superfan, or a casual viewer who enjoys a bit of trivia, this is the perfect book for you. With sections on characters, places, episodes and names plus much more, you’ll enjoy this book whether you buy it to test your own knowledge or to play with friends. With over 600 questions (and answers) there’s plenty here to keep you occupied even when you’ve reached the end of the latest box set!

Author : Robin R. Means Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136942945

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Horror Noire by Robin R. Means Coleman Pdf

From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present, Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable characterizations of blackness in horror cinema, and examines key levels of black participation on screen and behind the camera. She argues that horror offers a representational space for black people to challenge the more negative, or racist, images seen in other media outlets, and to portray greater diversity within the concept of blackness itself. Horror Noire presents a unique social history of blacks in America through changing images in horror films. Throughout the text, the reader is encouraged to unpack the genre’s racialized imagery, as well as the narratives that make up popular culture’s commentary on race. Offering a comprehensive chronological survey of the genre, this book addresses a full range of black horror films, including mainstream Hollywood fare, as well as art-house films, Blaxploitation films, direct-to-DVD films, and the emerging U.S./hip-hop culture-inspired Nigerian "Nollywood" Black horror films. Horror Noire is, thus, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest, and often challenged, on the silver screen.

Author : Grady Hendrix
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593201251

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The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix Pdf

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

Author : Janet Mock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501145797

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Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock Pdf

The writer, TV host, and advocate examines her life and career, including the challenges of being trans, a woman, and a person of color.

Author : Karen McNally
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814349373

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American Television during a Television Presidency by Karen McNally Pdf

Explores the ways television documents, satirizes, and critiques the political era of the Trump presidency.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXRQK

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Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin Pdf

Author : Aaron K.H. Ho
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476642888

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The New Witches by Aaron K.H. Ho Pdf

After Charmed ended in 2006, witches were relegated to sidekicks of televisual vampires or children's programs. But during the mid-2010s they began to resurface as leading characters in shows like the immensely popular The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Charmed reboot, Salem, American Horror Story: Coven, and the British program, A Discovery of Witches. No longer sweet, feminine, domestic, and white, these witches are powerful, diverse, and transgressive, representing an intersectional third-wave feminist vision of the witch. Featuring original essays from noted scholars, this is the first critical collection to examine witches on television from the late 2010s. Situated in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, essays examine the reemergence and shifting identities of TV witches through the perspectives of intersectional gender studies, hauntology, politics, morality, monstrosity, violence, queerness, disabilities, rape, ecofeminism, linguistics, family, and digital humanities.

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180946513

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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

She has just given birth to their child. He labels her postpartum depression as »hysteria.« He rents the attic in an old country house. Here, she is to rest alone – forbidden to leave her room. Instead of improving, she starts hallucinating, imagining herself crawling with other women behind the room's yellow wallpaper. And secretly, she records her experiences. The Yellow Wall-Paper [1892] is the short but intense, Gothic horror story, written as a diary, about a woman in an attic – imprisoned in her gender; by the story. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist novella was long overlooked in American literary history. Nowadays, it is counted among the classics. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935), born in Hartford, Connecticut, was an American feminist theorist, sociologist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and playwright. Her writings are precursors to many later feminist theories. With her radical life attitude, Perkins Gilman has been an inspiration for many generations of feminists in the USA. Her most famous work is the short story The Yellow Wall-Paper [1892], written when she suffered from postpartum psychosis.

Author : April Genevieve Tucholke
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698171015

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Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke Pdf

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best thriller and horror writers in YA A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Each author draws from a mix of literature, film, television, and music to create something new and fresh and unsettling. Clever readers will love teasing out the references and can satisfy their curiosity at the end of each tale, where the inspiration is revealed. There are no superficial scares here; these are stories that will make you think even as they keep you on the edge of your seat. From blood horror, to the supernatural, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, this collection has something for anyone looking for an absolute thrill. Stefan Bachmann Leigh Bardugo Kendare Blake A. G. Howard Jay Kristoff Marie Lu Jonathan Maberry Danielle Paige Carrie Ryan Megan Shepherd Nova Ren Suma McCormick Templeman April Genevieve Tucholke Cat Winters