{"product_id":"telling-an-american-horror-story-9781476680613","title":"Telling an American Horror Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   \u003ci\u003eTelling an\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cu\u003eAmerican Horror Story\u003c\/u\u003e collects essays from new and established critics looking at the many ways the horror anthology series intersects with and comments on contemporary American social, political and popular culture. Divided into three sections, the chapters apply a cultural criticism framework to examine how the first eight seasons of \u003ci\u003eAHS\u003c\/i\u003e engage with American history, our contemporary ideologies and social policies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Part I explores the historical context and the uniquely-American folklore that \u003ci\u003eAHS\u003c\/i\u003e evokes, from the Southern Gothic themes of \u003ci\u003eCoven\u003c\/i\u003e to connections between \u003ci\u003eApocalypse\u003c\/i\u003eand anxieties of modern American youth. Part II contains interpretations of place and setting that mark the various seasons of the anthology. Finally, Part III examines how the series confronts notions of individual and social identity, like the portrayals of destructive leadership in \u003ci\u003eCult\u003c\/i\u003e and lesbian representation in \u003ci\u003eAsylum\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tv\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\t\u003cbr\u003eCameron Williams Crawford and Leverett Butts\t1\u003cbr\u003ePart I. History and Folklore\u003cbr\u003eAsylum: Taboos and Transgressions in U.S. History\u003cbr\u003eErin Guydish Buchholz\t8\u003cbr\u003eWhere Myth Meets History: Discursive Haunting and the Resurrection of Marie Laveau in Coven\u003cbr\u003eRita Mookerjee\t26\u003cbr\u003eCoven's LaLaurie and Laveau: Contemporary Narratives of Southern Gothicism, Folklore and Nineteenth-Century New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eTammie Jenkins\t39\u003cbr\u003eApocalypse and the Devil We Are\u003cbr\u003eLeverett Butts\t54\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Space and Place\u003cbr\u003eDerridean Hauntology as Cultural Praxis: The Strange Case of Murder House\t\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Greenaway\t66\u003cbr\u003eThe Psychiatric Clinic in Horror Cinema and TV: Asylum \t\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Sanna\t81\u003cbr\u003eThe Swampy Boundaries of \"Otherness\" in Freak Show and Roanoke\t\u003cbr\u003eCameron Williams Crawford\t100\u003cbr\u003eThe ­Meta-Carnival: Monsters and Mothers in Freak Show\t\u003cbr\u003eJennifer K. Cox\t112\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Identity Politics\u003cbr\u003eThe ­Mother-Witch and Witch as Mother in Coven\t\u003cbr\u003eSarah Foust Vinson\t134\u003cbr\u003eWear Something Black: Fashion and Fierce Femininity in the Witch Drag of Coven\t\u003cbr\u003eMichelle L. Pribbernow\t148\u003cbr\u003eDestructive Leadership in Coven, Freak Show and Cult\t\u003cbr\u003eCorrine E. Hinton\t164\u003cbr\u003eThe Lesbian Gothic in Asylum and Hotel\t\u003cbr\u003eTosha R. Taylor\t189\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I. List of Episodes\t207\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II. List of Major Characters\t212\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t217\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t219\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040472858967,"sku":"9781476680613","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476680613.jpg?v=1750946865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/telling-an-american-horror-story-9781476680613","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}