Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178769108X ISBN 13 : 9781787691087

Editeur : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019

Synopsis

Contemporary popular media has been marked by its startling ability to morph into a wide variety of formats, fed by the ongoing revolution in digital technology. Despite these significant changes, the horror genre has retained its attraction for audiences, and the representation of gender has been crucial to that appeal.

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comic, Games and Transmedia examines the impact of media convergence on the horror genre, focusing on comic books and graphic novels, video games, audio broadcasts, and transmedia adaptations, as well as considering the increasingly proactive role of audiences in making media themselves. A wide range of scholars consider the effect of this new hybridity on established debates regarding the role of gender in the horror genre, offering vital new interpretations of identity and representation.

This book is an illuminating, exciting read for academics and students interested in the effect of changing media, and an evolving cultural landscape, on the established debates surrounding gender in the horror genre. The responses of the authors reflect both the possible limitations and the groundbreaking possibilities of this new era in horror.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is widely published on postwar British cinema, masculinity, and stardom. Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research interests are broadly gender, leisure, subcultures and popular culture, utilising feminist, ethnographic qualitative methods, and including fashion history, vintage and second-hand, home and daily routines, and embodiment and body practices. Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film at the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK. A firm fan of all things low culture, Steven has written two monographs entitled The Carry On Films and The Modern British Horror Film.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178769108X
• ISBN 13: 9781787691087
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 213
• Éditeur: Shail Robert, Gerrard Steven, Holland Samantha
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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