American Horror Story and Cult Television: Narratives, Histories and Discourses

American Horror Story and Cult Television

Narratives, Histories and Discourses

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Edited by Richard J. Hand, University of East Anglia, Mark O'Thomas, University of Greenwich

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: March 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781785279348

Subjects:: Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, Media, Mass Communication

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Over the course of ten seasons since 2011, the television series American Horror Story (AHS), created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, has continued to push the boundaries of the televisual form in new and exciting ways. Emerging in a context which has seen a boom in popularity for horror series on television, AHS has distinguished itself from its 'rivals' such as The Walking Dead, Bates Motel or Penny Dreadful through its diverse strategies and storylines, which have seen it explore archetypal narratives of horror culture as well as engage with real historical events. Utilising a repertory company model for its casting, the show has challenged issues around contemporary politics, heteronormativity, violence on the screen and disability, to name but a few. This new collection of essays approaches the AHS anthology series from a variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.

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American Horror Story and Cult Television

Narratives, Histories and Discourses

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preliminary Matter and Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction
pp 1-10

Section 1 - Industries/Contexts/Consumption
pp 11-12

Chapter 1 - ‘I’m really not trying to be cheesy in this moustache twisty way, but it gets really bad. Things that you can't even really imagine…’ (Sarah Paulson): American Horror Story and the Horror Ensemble Paradigm
pp 13-30

Chapter 2 - The American Horror Story Repertory Company
pp 31-46

Section 2 - Intertexts and Referents: Gothic, Voodoo, Witches
pp 47-48

Chapter 3 - ‘Who's the Baddest Witch in Town?’: Adaptation, Female Agency and Monstrous Representation in American Horror Story: ‘Coven’
pp 49-60

Chapter 4 - ‘I Know Your Body’: Trauma and the Frankenstein Myth in ‘Coven’
pp 61-78

Chapter 5 - Science, Madness, and the Gothic in American Horror Story's ‘Asylum’
pp 79-94

Chapter 6 - ‘We’re more than just pins and dolls and seeing the future in chicken parts’: Channelling and Challenging Voodoo Stereotypes In ‘Coven’ And ‘Apocalypse’
pp 95-108

Section 3 - Society, Politics, Space
pp 109-110

Chapter 7 - Desiring Horror and Desirable Retro Slashers: ‘1984’ and the Transformation of Sociocultural Intelligibility
pp 111-128

Chapter 8 - (Un)Dead Together: Hospitality, Hauntology and the ‘Happily Ever After’ in American Horror Story
pp 129-142

Section 4 - Gender/Otherness
pp 143-144

Chapter 9 - A Feminist and Queer Approach to American Horror Story's Homonormative and US Nationalist Values in the ‘Asylum’ and ‘Cult’ Seasons
pp 145-166

Chapter 10 - Scaring with Otherness: American Horror Story and the Other Identity
pp 167-188

Chapter 11 - ‘Bitchcraft’: Adolescent Femininity and Fourth-Wave Feminism in Television Horror
pp 189-206

Chapter 12 - ‘Cut me and I Bleed Dior’: The Dark Side of Glamour in American Horror Story
pp 207-218

Chapter 13 - Into The Womb: ‘Murder House’ and the Erotics of Oppression – An American Horror Story
pp 219-238

Index
pp 239-243

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