Telling an American Horror Story: Essays on History, Place and Identity in the Series

ISBN-13: 9781476680613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 230 str.

Cameron Williams Crawford; Leverett Butts

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Acknowledgments v
Introduction
Cameron Williams Crawford and Leverett Butts 1
Part I. History and Folklore
Asylum: Taboos and Transgressions in U.S. History
Erin Guydish Buchholz 8
Where Myth Meets History: Discursive Haunting and the Resurrection of Marie Laveau in Coven
Rita Mookerjee 26
Coven's LaLaurie and Laveau: Contemporary Narratives of Southern Gothicism, Folklore and Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Tammie Jenkins 39
Apocalypse and the Devil We Are
Leverett Butts 54
Part II. Space and Place
Derridean Hauntology as Cultural Praxis: The Strange Case of Murder House
Jonathan Greenaway 66
The Psychiatric Clinic in Horror Cinema and TV: Asylum
Antonio Sanna 81
The Swampy Boundaries of "Otherness" in Freak Show and Roanoke
Cameron Williams Crawford 100
The ­Meta-Carnival: Monsters and Mothers in Freak Show
Jennifer K. Cox 112
Part III. Identity Politics
The ­Mother-Witch and Witch as Mother in Coven
Sarah Foust Vinson 134
Wear Something Black: Fashion and Fierce Femininity in the Witch Drag of Coven
Michelle L. Pribbernow 148
Destructive Leadership in Coven, Freak Show and Cult
Corrine E. Hinton 164
The Lesbian Gothic in Asylum and Hotel
Tosha R. Taylor 189
Appendix I. List of Episodes 207
Appendix II. List of Major Characters 212
About the Contributors 217
Index 219