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Men with stakes: Masculinity and the gothic in US television
Julia Wright
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Description for Men with stakes: Masculinity and the gothic in US television
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719097706
SKU
V9780719097706
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About Julia Wright
Julia M. Wright is Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University -- .
Reviews for Men with stakes: Masculinity and the gothic in US television
'For fans and scholars of the series like Supernatural. the book is a delightful exploration into one aspect of what makes these series so resonant.' Bridget Kies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, January 2018 'Men with Stakes is not always about masculinity per se. Chapter four deals with American Gothic television's ... Read more