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Dark Shadows (TV Milestones Series)
Harry M. Benshoff
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Description for Dark Shadows (TV Milestones Series)
Paperback. Explores the cultural, industrial, formal, and generic contexts of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as a precursor to today's popular gothic media franchises. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 159.
While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional Collinsport, Maine, with standard soap opera fare like alcoholism, jealousy, and tangled love. In this volume, author Harry M. Benshoff examines Dark Shadows, both during its initial run and as an enduring cult phenomenon, to prove that the show was an important precursor-or even progenitor-of today's phenomenally popular gothic and fantasy media franchises like Twilight, Harry Potter, and True Blood. ... Read more
While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional Collinsport, Maine, with standard soap opera fare like alcoholism, jealousy, and tangled love. In this volume, author Harry M. Benshoff examines Dark Shadows, both during its initial run and as an enduring cult phenomenon, to prove that the show was an important precursor-or even progenitor-of today's phenomenally popular gothic and fantasy media franchises like Twilight, Harry Potter, and True Blood. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
159g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814334393
SKU
V9780814334393
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About Harry M. Benshoff
Harry M. Benshoff is an associate professor in the department of Radio, TV, and Film at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Monsters in the Closet and co-author with Sean Griffin of Queer Images and America on Film.
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