Samantha Holland

Steven Gerrard

Robert Shail

Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these eras. As a result, it also identifies the tensions involved in these identities connected to a past that offered little gain for women and narrow gender roles for both women and men. Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives is based on original empirical international data about a group of people who wear vintage clothing all of the time and whose homes are styled entirely, or almost entirely, vintage. It aims to understand the meanings of vintage for them through their daily practices and accrued knowledge. Through interviews and direct observations of vintage events it also explores questions about the acquisition, display and curation of vintage clothes, homes and objects, about glamour and wardrobes, about the history of second-hand markets, and emotional durability and ideas about ghosts, hauntings and spectral remains. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of gender and women’s studies, fashion and design, fashion history, cultural studies, the body and embodiment.

Ghosts & Glamour

Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives

This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

Karl Spracklen

This edited collection provides sociological and cultural research that expands our understanding of the alternative, liminal or transgressive; theorizing the status of the alternative in contemporary culture and society.

Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization

Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces

Unpacking the myth of model womanhood, this book portrays a group of women who subvert the popular images of femininity. In the choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modifications, they are able to construct a personal look that is intimately tied to self-identity.

Body, Age and Identity

Alternative Femininities

Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist, iZombie, and Bates Motel.

Samantha Holland

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