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Men with stakes: Masculinity and the gothic in US television
Julia Wright
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Description for Men with stakes: Masculinity and the gothic in US television
Hardcover. Moves beyond a focus on gothic machinery and adaptations of literary gothic to consider television gothic in light of recent scholarship on the mode itself. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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, Carnivale, Point Pleasant, Supernatural and American Horror Story. -- .
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719097706
SKU
V9780719097706
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About Julia Wright
Julia M. Wright is Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University -- .
Reviews for Men with stakes: Masculinity and the gothic in US television
'For fans and scholars of the series like Supernatural. the book is a delightful exploration into one aspect of what makes these series so resonant.' Bridget Kies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, January 2018 'Men with Stakes is not always about masculinity per se. Chapter four deals with American Gothic television's subversion of Enlightenment concepts such as science and progress and its postmodern blurring of the line between the 'world of signs'-including the televisual medium-and the 'world of the real ' (p. 124). However, as Wright indicates, many of these dynamics can be understood in gendered terms; she makes an especially fascinating contention that the first season of American Horror Story (2011- present) represents the film and television industry 'as a conventional [patriarchal] gothic villain' (p. 150). Hence, even when Men with Stakes apparently strays from its theme, Wright is in fact adding weight to her central argument that Gothic TV's 'interrogation of masculinity is intertwined with larger examinations of social institutions, cultural assumptions, and established forms of knowledge' (p. 5).' Eve Bennett, Universite' Sorbonne Nouvelle, France, Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies
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