GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY HORROR IN COMICS, GAMES AND TRANSMEDIA
EMERALD STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE AND GENDER
Series Editor: Samantha Holland, Leeds Beckett University, UK
As we re-imagine and re-boot at an ever faster pace, this series explores the different strands of contemporary culture and gender. Looking across cinema, television, graphic novels, fashion studies and reality TV, the series asks: what has changed for gender? And, perhaps more seriously, what has not? Have representations of genders changed? How much does the concept of gender in popular culture define and limit us?
We not only consume cultural texts, but share them more than ever before; meanings and messages reach more people and perpetuate more understandings (and misunderstandings) than at any time in history. This new series interrogates whether feminism has challenged or change misogynist attitudes in popular culture.
Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender provides a focus for writers and researchers interested in sociological and cultural research that expands our understanding of the ontological status of gender, popular culture and related discourses, objects and practices.
Titles in this series
Samantha Holland, Robert Shail and Steven Gerrard (eds), Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Steven Gerrard, Samantha Holland and Robert Shail (eds), Gender and Contemporary Horror in Television
Robert Shail, Steven Gerrard and Samantha Holland (eds), Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia
Samantha Holland, Screen Heroines, Superheroines, Feminism and Popular Culture
GENDER AND CONTEMPORARY HORROR IN COMICS, GAMES AND TRANSMEDIA
EDITED BY
ROBERT SHAIL
Leeds Beckett University, UK
STEVEN GERRARD
Leeds Beckett University, UK
SAMANTHA HOLLAND
Leeds Beckett University, UK
Emerald Publishing Limited
Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK
First edition 2019
Editorial matter and selection the volume editors; individual chapters their respective authors, 2019.
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Contents
Robert Shail
Matt Curtis Linton
Robert Shail
Rebecca Jones
Merlin Seller
Tiago Jos Lemos Monteiro
Michael Fuchs and Klaus Rieser
Steven Gerrard
L. M. K. Sheppard and Richard Sheppard
Kathryn Hemmann
Kelly Doyle
Janelle Vermaak
Rosana Vivar
Charlotte Baker
Alison Bainbridge
Richard J. Hand
Robert Shail
List of Contributors
Charlotte Baker is a PhD student, author and Associate Lecturer in Film and TV, Media and Creative Writing at the University of Derby. Charlotte has written articles for EYE as well as a published novella and a series of short stories. She is also currently awaiting the publication of her first novel, Themis. Her research interests include horror and crime television and fiction, identification and fandom.
Alison Bainbridge is a Postgraduate Researcher in English Literature at Northumbria University, and her thesis is on representations of American neoliberalist politics in the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. Her other research interests include audio and digital horror, gothic geographies and online fan practices. Her chapter on desert gothic will be published in the forthcoming Gothic Handbook (Palgrave MacMillan). She is also an author, and her short horror fiction is available in Revenant journal and the Daughters of Darkness anthology (Independent).
Kelly Doyle teaches in the English department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia and is an Advisory Board Member, reviewer, and copyeditor for Mise-en-Scne: The Journal of Film and Visual Narration. Her research and teaching specialisations include film studies, critical theory, and contemporary horror/gothic Studies. She continues to teach and write about the capacity of horror films to critique sexism, racism and speciesism, especially zombie films.
Michael Fuchs is a fixed-term Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Graz in Austria. He has co-edited six essay collections and has authored and co-authored more than fifty published and forthcoming journal articles and book chapters. Among others, Michael is currently working on three monograph projects one on American cities in horror cinema, one on the aesthetics of television horror, and one on animal monsters in American culture. For additional information about his past and ongoing research, see www.michael-fuchs.info.
Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film at the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University. A firm fan of all things low culture, Steven has written two monographs entitled The Carry On Films (Palgrave MacMillan) and The Modern British Horror Film (Rutgers University Press). He is co-editor of the forthcoming Crank it up! Jason Statham Star to be published by Manchester University Press.
Kathryn Hemmann is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. Her writing on films, comic, and video games has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures, the U.S.-Japan Womens Journal, and Asiascape: Digital Asia, as well as on websites such as Kill Screen and Geek Feminism. Kathryn also runs the blog Contemporary Japanese Literature (japaneselit.net), which features reviews of fiction in translation and essays on gender, society and popular culture.
Richard J. Hand is Professor of Media Practice at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of numerous studies of popular horror culture including two books on horror radio drama and is the co-author of three books on Grand-Guignol horror theatre. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and his interests include adaptation, translation and interdisciplinarity in performance media (with a particular interest in historical forms of popular culture, especially horror) using critical and practical research methodologies.
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