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Telling an American Horror Story collects essays from new and established critics looking at the many ways the horror anthology series intersects with and comments on contemporary American social, political and popular culture. Divided into three sections, the chapters apply a cultural criticism framework to examine how the first eight seasons of AHS engage with American history, our contemporary ideologies and social policies.
Part I explores the historical context and the uniquely-American folklore that AHS evokes, from the Southern Gothic themes of Coven to connections between Apocalypseand anxieties of modern American youth. Part II contains interpretations of place and setting that mark the various seasons of the anthology. Finally, Part III examines how the series confronts notions of individual and social identity, like the portrayals of destructive leadership in Cult and lesbian representation in Asylum and Hotel.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cameron Williams Crawford and Leverett Butts
Part I. History and Folklore
Asylum: Taboos and Transgressions in U.S. History
Erin Guydish Buchholz
Where Myth Meets History: Discursive Haunting and the Resurrection of Marie Laveau in Coven
Rita Mookerjee
Coven's LaLaurie and Laveau: Contemporary Narratives of Southern Gothicism, Folklore and Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Tammie Jenkins
Apocalypse and the Devil We
Leverett Butts
Part II. Space and Place
Derridean Hauntology as Cultural Praxis: The Strange Case of Murder House
Jonathan Greenaway
The Psychiatric Clinic in Horror Cinema and TV: Asylum
Antonio Sanna
The Swampy Boundaries of "Otherness" in Freak Show and Roanoke
Cameron Williams Crawford
The Meta-Carnival: Monsters and Mothers in Freak Show
Jennifer K. Cox
Part III. Identity Politics
The Mother-Witch and Witch as Mother in Coven
Sarah Foust Vinson
Wear Something Black: Fashion and Fierce Femininity in the Witch Drag of Coven
Michelle L. Pribbernow
Destructive Leadership in Coven, Freak Show and Cult
Corrine E. Hinton
The Lesbian Gothic in Asylum and Hotel
Tosha R. Taylor
Appendix I. List of Episodes
Appendix II. List of Major Characters
About the Contributors
Index
