Men with stakes : masculinity and the gothic in US television /

Wright, Julia M.,

Men with stakes : masculinity and the gothic in US television / Julia M. Wright. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - Manchester Gothic .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Men with stakes; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; 1 Bedeviling paternal discipline: fathers from American Gothic to Point Pleasant; 2 Looking for daddy: Carnivàle, Supernatural, and Millennium; 3 Latchkey hero: the horrors of class in Eric Kripke's Supernatural; 4 Gothic foundations:"The Pest House," "Hell House," and "The Murder House"; Conclusion: gothic conspiracy and the eyes of Lara Means; Episodes discussed in detail; Bibliography; Index.

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.



9781784996901 9781526104113 9781784996284

GBB6G6162 bnb GBB7A0433 bnb

018073427 Uk 018371147 Uk


Horror television programs--History and criticism.--United States


Electronic Books.

PN1992 / .M469 2016