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 interrogateand often reimagineconstructs 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.
Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear presents nine essays that explore why youth horror television both scared children and invited them to reshape social boundaries of the adult world. This volume argues that televised youth horror left an indelible mark on the minds and memories of current horror creators and critics.
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Reader, beware! The kids who grew up sitting too close to the television or peeking through their fingers to watch Goosebumps and Watership Down have grown up, and they are here to mine their childhood nightmares to frighteningly satisfying ends. Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear unites the most exciting new and established voices in the field to give long overdue attention to this fascinating area of study. -- Catherine Lester, University of Birmingham Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear elevates the unmediated yet communal experience of watching TV to a source of both joyful reminiscence and satisfying critical intervention. It recognizes how televised youth horror spawns horror-loving adults, exposing them to the haunting powers of narrative from a young age. This is a neglected area of contemporary horrors origin story. -- Laura R. Kremmel, Niagara University
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Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear presents nine essays that explore why youth horror television both scared children and invited them to reshape social boundaries of the adult world. This volume argues that televised youth horror left an indelible mark on the minds and memories of current horror creators and critics.
Section One: Youth Horror and What Matters to Adults
Chapter One: And Whenever They Catch You, They Will Kill You: Martin
Rosens Watership Down (1978) as Horror
Brandon R. Grafius
Chapter Two: The Sooner Were 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 Monstersan 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 Nickelodeons 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 Childrens Horror Television
Merinda Staubli
Chapter Eight: Weve Been Teenagers Forever: Reference and Self-Reflexivity
in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Stacey Anh Baran
Chapter Nine: Dont Let Your Parents Watch It Alone!: Cautionary Tales and
Family Horror in R. L. Stines The Haunting Hour
Filipa Antunes
Kyle Brett is adjunct professor at Lafayette College.
Ethan Roblesis an independent scholar.
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