Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television

Editors:

• Steven Gerrard
• Samantha Holland
• Robert Shail

Chapters:

• Prelims
• Introduction

Part I The Monstrous Feminine

• Chapter 1 ‘She’s That Kind of a Woman’: Tracing the Gender and Sexual Politics of the Female Vampire via The Hunger and American Horror Story: Hotel
• Chapter 2 ‘Is This a Chick Thing Now?’ The Feminism of Z Nation between Quality and Trash TV
• Chapter 3 Weeping Angels: Doctor Who’s (De)Monstrous Feminine
• Chapter 4 The Representation of Older Women in Twenty-first Century Horror: An Analysis of Characters Played by Jessica Lange in American Horror Story
• Chapter 5 ‘She Was Not Like I Thought’: The Woman as a Strange Being in Masters of Horror
• Chapter 6 The Monster Within: Lily in Penny Dreadful
• Chapter 7 Final Girls and Female Serial Killers: A Review of the Slasher Television Series from a Gender Perspective

Part II The Monstrous Masculine

• Chapter 8 ‘Is Hannibal in Love with Me?’ Gender Changes in the Television Series Hannibal
• Chapter 9 ‘I’m Pissed Off, and I’m Angry, and We Need Your Permission to Kill Someone’: Frustrated Masculinities in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set
• Chapter 10 The Problematic Relationship with Sympathetic Vampires in the TV series The Vampire Diaries
• Chapter 11 So Many Chick Flick Moments: Dean Winchester’s Centrifugal Evolution

Part III The Monstrous Other

• Chapter 12 Depictions of Gender, Homes and Families in the TV Version of The Exorcist
• Chapter 13 How iZombie Rethinks the Zombie Paradigm
• Chapter 14 Damaged Survivors in The Walking Dead. Gender and the Narrative Arcs of Carol and Daryl as Protectors and Nurturers
• Chapter 15 ‘Some Normal, Apple-pie Life’: Gendering Home in Supernatural
• Chapter 16 Female Audiences’ Reception of American Horror Story in Greece
• Chapter 17 ‘Mother, I’ve Really Had Enough of This! You Can’t Just Leave Me Alone in This Abyss Where I Can’t Find You!’ Norman/Norma and Bates Motel
• Conclusion
• Select Bibliography
• Select Filmography
• Index