Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in Us Television

by Julia M. Wright

Men with stakes builds on recent discussions of television Gothic by examining the ways in which the Gothic mode is deployed specifically to call into question televisual realism and, with it, conventional depictions of masculinity. Released from the mandate of realism to describe the world as it is supposed to be, television Gothic calls attention to the constructedness of gender - and therefore to the possibility of re-imagining men's agency, authority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097703
• ISBN13: 9780719097706
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"