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Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear
Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear. Led by intrepid teenage investigators and storytellers, series such as The Adventures of Scooby-Doo and Are You Afraid of the Dark show how young people can effectively confront the terrifying, alienating, and disruptive aspects of human existence. The contributors analyze how televised youth horror is uniquely positioned to encourage young viewers to interrogate—and often reimagine—constructs of normativity. Approaching the home as a particularly dynamic viewing space for young audiences, this book attests to the power of televised horror as a domain that enables children to explore larger questions about justice, human identity, and the preconceptions of the adult world.

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Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear
Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear. Led by intrepid teenage investigators and storytellers, series such as The Adventures of Scooby-Doo and Are You Afraid of the Dark show how young people can effectively confront the terrifying, alienating, and disruptive aspects of human existence. The contributors analyze how televised youth horror is uniquely positioned to encourage young viewers to interrogate—and often reimagine—constructs of normativity. Approaching the home as a particularly dynamic viewing space for young audiences, this book attests to the power of televised horror as a domain that enables children to explore larger questions about justice, human identity, and the preconceptions of the adult world.

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Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Overview

Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear. Led by intrepid teenage investigators and storytellers, series such as The Adventures of Scooby-Doo and Are You Afraid of the Dark show how young people can effectively confront the terrifying, alienating, and disruptive aspects of human existence. The contributors analyze how televised youth horror is uniquely positioned to encourage young viewers to interrogate—and often reimagine—constructs of normativity. Approaching the home as a particularly dynamic viewing space for young audiences, this book attests to the power of televised horror as a domain that enables children to explore larger questions about justice, human identity, and the preconceptions of the adult world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611463415
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date: 09/15/2024
Series: Critical Conversations in Horror Studies Series
Pages: 174
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kyle Brett is adjunct professor at Lafayette College.

Ethan Robles is an independent scholar.

Table of Contents

Section One: Youth Horror and What Matters to Adults

Chapter One: “And Whenever They Catch You, They Will Kill You”: Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) as Horror

Brandon R. Grafius

Chapter Two: “The Sooner We’re All One Big Happy Family, the Better”: Children of the Stones as a Cautionary Tale

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Chapter Three:Abject Horror in Courage the Cowardly Dog

Katherine Ridolfi-Lizza

Section Two: Youth Horror and Imagining Differences

Chapter Four: Green Men, Literate Worms, and Swamp Monsters—an Ecocritical Reading of Select Goosebumps Episodes

Barbara Katharina Reschenhofer

Chapter Five:Everywhere and Nowhere:Pastiche and the Uncanny in Courage the Cowardly Dog

Kimberly Plaksin

Chapter Six: Developing in the Dark: Confronting Fears through Supportive Storytelling in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Michael Jacob

Section Three: Youth Horror Reaches Its Adulthood

Chapter Seven: “I Call This Story the Tale of. . .”: The Hosts and Narrators of Children’s Horror Television

Merinda Staubli

Chapter Eight: “We’ve Been Teenagers Forever”: Reference and Self-Reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Stacey Anh Baran

Chapter Nine: “Don’t Let Your Parents Watch It Alone!”: Cautionary Tales and Family Horror in R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour

Filipa Antunes

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