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Book SynopsisThe Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television as explored in this provocative new collection looking at series from across the globe, and considering how Horror manifests in different cultural and broadcast/streaming contexts. Bringing together established scholars and new voices in the field, Global TV Horror examines historical and contemporary TV Horror from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Iran, Japan, Spain, New Zealand, USA and the UK. It expands the discussion of TV Horror by offering fresh perspectives, examining new shows, and excavating new cultural histories, to render what has become so familiar – Horror on television – unfamiliar yet again.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett - Taking Over the Whole World: Global TV Horror, Then and Now NATIONAL CONTEXTS Simon Bacon - ‘Real’ Iranian Vampires: Television versus the Big Screen Mark Fryers - ‘It’s not ghosts, it’s history’: The Sonic Tradition of British Horror Television Rebecca Janicker - Terror Australis: The Wilderness Myth in TV’s Wolf Creek Fernando Pagnoni Berns - Stories to Make You Think: The Horror of Daily Life under Francisco Franco’s Regime in Historias para No Dormir Laura Cánepa, Leandro Caraça and Lúcio Reis-Filho - Sleep, little baby. Cuca is coming for you. Mom went to the field, and Dad is working too: the witch Cuca in the Brazilian folklore and television FORMS AND AESTHETICS Jonas Green - Beyond the Masochistic Pleasure Principle: The Subtle Gore of Les revenants. Cat Lester - Giving Kids Goosebumps: Uncanny Aesthetics, Cyclic Structures and Anti-didacticism in Children's Horror Anthologies Series Lorna Piatti-Farnell - As Raw as Flesh: Consuming Humans in TV Horror INDUSTRY Stella Gaynor - Driving Industrial Innovation: Fox International Channels and the Global Appeal of The Walking Dead Andreas Halskov - Staking Claims or Sucking Up: Heartless, Nordic Twilight and the Cross-Pollination of Danish and American TV Drama Charlotte Stevens - Video Game to Streaming Series: The Case of Castlevania on Netflix James Rendell - Tracing Terror-Bytes: Ring: Saishusho as Japanese TV Horror, Online Transcultural J-Horror Fan Object, and Digital Only-Click Television Conclusion - Transnationalism and TV Horror Fandom: A Conversation with Iain Robert Smith and Miranda Ruth Larsen About the Contributors
