Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear
Author: Kyle Brett
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781611463415

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Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear presents nine essays that explore why youth horror television both scared children and invited them to reshape social boundaries of the adult world. This volume argues that televised youth horror left an indelible mark on the minds and memories of current horror creators and critics, and the enduring popularity of the youth horror genre.

Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear
Author: Kyle Brett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2024-11-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1611463424

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Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear. Led by intrepid teenage investigators and storytellers, series such as Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Are You Afraid of the Dark? show how young people can effectively confront the terrifying, alienating, and disruptive aspects of human existence. The contributors analyze how televised youth horror is uniquely positioned to encourage young viewers to interrogate—and often reimagine—constructs of normativity. Approaching the home as a particularly dynamic viewing space for young audiences, this book attests to the power of televised horror as a domain that enables children to explore larger questions about justice, human identity, and the preconceptions of the adult world.

Fear in Front of the Screen

Fear in Front of the Screen
Author: Maya Götz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538121247

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Experiencing fear in front of the screen is a common phenomenon in childhood, and a focus of public concern. In this innovative book, this universal experience is investigated in depth via two complementary studies: a retrospective study of experiences and a study of current nightmares by watching television of 510 children in five countries.

Horror Television in the Age of Consumption

Horror Television in the Age of Consumption
Author: Kimberly Jackson
Publisher: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017
Genre: Horror television programs
ISBN: 9781138895652

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Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural, psycho-social formations, the gothic, and issues of identity and subjectivity, horror has long functioned as an allegorical device for interrogations into the seamier side of cultural foundations. This collection, therefore, explores both the cultural landscape of this recent phenomenon and the reasons for these television series¿ wide appeal, focusing on televisual aesthetics, technological novelties, the role of adaptation and seriality, questions of gender, identity and subjectivity, and the ways in which the shows¿ themes comment on the culture that consumes them. Featuring new work by many of the field¿s leading scholars, this collection offers innovative readings and rigorous theoretical analyses of some of our most significant contemporary texts in the genre of Horror Television.

Weird Mysticism

Weird Mysticism
Author: Brad Baumgartner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1683932889

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Weird Mysticism identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. Exploring the work of Thomas Ligotti, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, Baumgartner argues that these “weird mystics” employ an innovative mode of negative writing that seeks to merge new conceptions of reality. While exploring perennial questions about “the absolute,” the Outside, and other philosophical concepts, these authors push the limits of representation, experimenting with literary form, genre-bending, and aphoristic discourse. As their works reveal, the category of weird mysticism both conjoins and obscures the link between traditional mysticism and philosophical horror fiction, with weirdness itself being the central magnet that draws the seemingly disparate realms of horror fiction, philosophy, and mysticism together. Highlighting the theoretical stakes of the horror genre, Baumgartner’s study reveals how the mystical potentially recuperates the limits of philosophical thinking, enabling reflection on—and possibly challenging—the limits of human understanding.

Seeing the Apocalypse

Seeing the Apocalypse
Author: Brandon R. Grafius
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1611462991

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Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman’s best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural touchstone, emerging as a staple in the genre of contemporary horror. The essays in this collection offer an interdisciplinary approach to Bird Box, one that draws on the fields of gender studies, cultural studies, and disability studies. The contributors examine how Bird Box provokes questions about a range of issues including the human body and its existence in the world, the ethical obligations that shape community, and the anxieties arising from technological development. Taken together, the essays of this volume show how a critical examination of Bird Box offers readers a guide for thinking through human experience in our own troubled, apocalyptic times.

The Zombie Autopsies

The Zombie Autopsies
Author: Steven C. Schlozman
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2011-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446574171

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As the walking dead rise up throughout the world, a few brave doctors attempt to find a cure by applying forensic techniques to captured zombies. On a remote island a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the epidemic. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, The Zombie Autopsies documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms. Detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures. Zombie brains, hearts, lungs, skin, and digestive system are shown, while Dr. Blum's notes reveal shocking insights into how they function--even as Blum and his colleagues themselves begin to succumb to the plague. No one knows the ultimate fate of Dr. Blum or his researchers. But now that his notebook, The Zombie Autopsies, has been made available to the UN, the World Health Organization, and the general public, his scientific discoveries may be the last hope for humans on earth. "Humanity has a new weapon against the living dead and that weapon is Steven Schlozman!" -- New York Times bestselling author Max Brooks "I've written and made films about zombies for over forty years. In all that time, I've never been able to convince my audience that zombies actually exist. On page one of The Zombie Autopsies, Steven Schlozman takes away any doubt. This fast-moving, entertaining work will have you chuckling...and worrying." -- George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead "Gruesome and gripping! Steven Schlozman reveals the science behind zombies from the inside out." -- Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter "With The Zombie Autopsies, Steven Schlozman redefines 'weird science' for the 21st Century. Brilliant, bizarre and wonderfully disturbing." -- Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin and Patient Zero "Dr. Steve's Zombie Autopsy will charm and excite a new generation into loving science." --Chuck Palahniuk, New York Times bestselling author of Fight Club

Television and Juvenile Delinquency

Television and Juvenile Delinquency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1965
Genre: Juvenile delinquency
ISBN:

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Television and Juvenile Delinquency

Television and Juvenile Delinquency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1964
Genre: Juvenile delinquency
ISBN:

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