Description: Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist, iZombie, and Bates Motel.
Review Quotes: Contributed by film and media studies and other scholars from Europe, Australia, and the US, the 17 essays in this volume examine gender roles in horror television through the idea of the monstrous. They consider how female characters have been presented in various ways, such as the gendering and sexualization of female "monsters," how older actresses are represented through their characters, and how women are seen as heroine, victim, and "monster," in The Hunger, American Horror Story, Z Nation, Doctor Who, Masters of Horror, Penny Dreadful, and slasher television series; masculinity and the traditional hero in Hannibal, Dead Set, The Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural; and monsters as Other, with discussion of how American Horror Story was received by female audiences in Greece, the role of the house and the home in Supernatural and iZombie, gender and the narrative arcs of characters in The Walking Dead, and gender in Bates Motel.--Annotation (c)2019 "(protoview.com)"