Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Critical Conversations in Horror Studies

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-24
Mått:157 x 236 x 19 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Conversations in Horror Studies
Antal sidor:170
Förlag:Associated University Presses
ISBN:9781611463415

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Radio / podcasts inom Kultur
Television inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Kyle Brett is adjunct professor at Lafayette College.Ethan Robles is an independent scholar.

Recensioner i media

Reader, beware! The kids who grew up sitting too close to the television or peeking through their fingers to watch Goosebumps and Watership Down have grown up, and they are here to mine their childhood nightmares to frighteningly satisfying ends. Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear unites the most exciting new and established voices in the field to give long overdue attention to this fascinating area of study.

Innehållsförteckning

Section One: Youth Horror and What Matters to AdultsChapter One: “And Whenever They Catch You, They Will Kill You”: Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) as HorrorBrandon R. GrafiusChapter Two: “The Sooner We’re All One Big Happy Family, the Better”: Children of the Stones as a Cautionary Tale Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsChapter Three:Abject Horror in Courage the Cowardly DogKatherine Ridolfi-LizzaSection Two: Youth Horror and Imagining DifferencesChapter Four: Green Men, Literate Worms, and Swamp Monsters—an Ecocritical Reading of Select Goosebumps EpisodesBarbara Katharina ReschenhoferChapter Five:Everywhere and Nowhere:Pastiche and the Uncanny in Courage the Cowardly DogKimberly Plaksin Chapter Six: Developing in the Dark: Confronting Fears through Supportive Storytelling in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?Michael JacobSection Three: Youth Horror Reaches Its AdulthoodChapter Seven: “I Call This Story the Tale of . . .”: The Hosts and Narrators of Children’s Horror TelevisionMerinda StaubliChapter Eight: “We’ve Been Teenagers Forever”: Reference and Self-Reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery IncorporatedStacey Anh BaranChapter Nine: “Don’t Let Your Parents Watch It Alone!”: Cautionary Tales and Family Horror in R. L. Stine’s The Haunting HourFilipa Antunes

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