The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend , Bewitched , Halloween and Desperate Housewives .

The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture

Humor & Entertainment

Murphy, B.

Movies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and the

The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The World Wired Up

Science & Math

Technology

Marion Boyars

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness

The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American landscape is by its very accessibility rendered terrifyingly hostile, and encounters with other travellers almost always have sinister outcomes.

The Highway Horror Film (Palgrave Pivot)

Palgrave Pivot

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