Global TV Horror (eBook)

The main market of this study is academic—from undergraduate to researcher levels in a broad range of areas and disciplines, such as Media Production; Screen Studies; Fan Studies; Sociology; Gender, Cultural and Communication Studies, as well as Literature and Games Studies. The collection is written in a clear and user-friendly style, making it accessible to this wide audience.

Acknowledgments
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