Baroque aesthetics in contemporary American horror

Baroque aesthetics in contemporary American horror / Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez.

This book traces a trend that has emerged in recent years within the modern panorama of American horror film and television, the concurrentand often overwhelminguse of multiple stock characters, themes and tropes taken from classics of the genre. American Horror Story, Insidious and The Conjuring ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eljaiek Rodríguez, Gabriel Andrés (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
Horror television programs > United States > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, Baroque in motion pictures.
Horror television programs
Horror films
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction. Tracing Monstrous Multiplicity
  • 2. Baroque Aesthetics and Horrors
  • 3. US Baroque Horror Series: American Horror Story, Penny Dreadful, Hemlock Grove.-4. Saturating the Big Screen: Insidious Franchise and The Conjuring Universe
  • 5. Baroque Horror Politics. Get Out and American Horror Story: Cult
  • 6. Conclusion: "My name is Legion for we are many."

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