Gothic television - Hardcover

Wheatley, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719071488 ISBN 13: 9780719071485

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television. An historical account, the book combines detailed archival research with analyses of key programmes, from Mystery and Imagination and Dark Shadows, to The Woman in White and Twin Peaks, and uncovers an aspect of television drama history which has, until now, remained critically unexplored. While some have seen television as too literal or homely a medium to successfully present Gothic fictions, Gothic television argues that the genre, in its many guises, is, and has always been, well-suited to television as a domestic medium, given the genre’s obsessions with haunted houses and troubled families.

This book will be of interest to lecturers and students across a number of disciplines including television studies, Gothic studies, and adaptation studies, as well as to the general reader with an interest in the Gothic, and in the history of television drama.

About this title

About the Author:

Helen Wheatley is Lecturer in Television and Film Studies at the University of Warwick

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0719071488
• ISBN 13: 9780719071485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256