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ISBN10: 0814334393, ISBN13: 9780814334393, [publisher: Wayne State University Press 2011-03-30, Detroit, Mich. :|London] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]
ISBN10: 0814334393, ISBN13: 9780814334393, [publisher: Wayne State University Press 2011-03-30, Detroit, Mich. :|London] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]
ISBN10: 0814334393, ISBN13: 9780814334393, [publisher: Wayne State University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Explores the cultural, industrial, formal, and generic contexts of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as a precursor to today's popular gothic media franchises. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]
Paperback / softback. New. Explores the cultural, industrial, formal, and generic contexts of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as a precursor to today's popular gothic media franchises. ISBN 0814334393 9780814334393 [GB]
ISBN10: 0814334393, ISBN13: 9780814334393, [publisher: Wayne State University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional Collinsport, Maine, with standard soap opera fare like alcoholism, jealousy, and tangled love. In this volume, author Harry M. Benshoff examines Dark Shadows, both during its initial run and as an enduring cult phenomenon, to prove that the show was an important precursor-or even progenitor-of today's phenomenally popular gothic and fantasy media franchises like Twilight, Harry Potter, and True Blood.Benshoff demonstrates that viewers of all ages responded to the haunted world of Dark Shadows, making unlikely stars out of the show's iconic characters-reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins, playboy werewolf Quentin Collins, vengeful witch Angelique DuVal, and vampire hunter Dr. Julia Hoffman. Benshoff explores the cultural and industrial contexts of the mid-1960s that gave rise to Dark Shadows and how the show adapted nineteenth-century gothic novels and twentieth-century horror films into a televised serial format. Benshoff also examines the unique aspects of the show's casting and performance modes, its allure as a camp cult text, and the function of ...
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0814334393 9780814334393 [US]
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