Ghost Channels: Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America

by Amy Lawrence

Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been periodic outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, over six dozen documentary-style series dealing with paranormal subject matter premiered on television in the United States. Combining the stylistic traits of horror with earnest accounts of what are claimed to be actual events, "paranormal reality" incorporates subject matter formerly characterized as occult...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496838106
• ISBN13: 9781496838100
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"