Gothic television

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Analysing key programmes - from 'Mystery and Imagination' and 'Dark Shadows' to 'The Woman in White' and 'Twin Peaks' - this text looks at the appearance of the gothic on television, uncovering an aspect of TV drama history which has remained critically unexplored.

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Title Statements

Full title :Gothic television / Helen Wheatley.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Manchester, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 244 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0719071488, 9780719071485, 0719071496, 9780719071492
oclc:ocm70882458
LC Classification:PN1992.8.F35
Dewey Decimal:791.456164

Introduction: Gothic television, texts and contexts -- Showing less, suggesting more: the ghost story on British television -- Blood, guts and special effects: the heritage of horror on British television -- The female Gothic: women, domesticity and the Gothic adaptation -- Keeping it in the family: American Gothic television in the 1960s -- Televisuality and the new American Gothic.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Émissions d'horreur télévisées -- Histo… Émissions d'horreur télévisées -- Histo… Great Britain Horror television programs Horror television programs -- History a… Horror television programs -- History a… United States