Literary Criticism Gothic & Romance
Men With Stakes
Masculinity and the gothic in US Television
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2016
- Category
- Gothic & Romance
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780719097706
- Publish Date
- Feb 2016
- List Price
- $121.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Julia M. Wright is a Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University.
