American Gothic, czyli horror amerykańskiego domostwa. Analiza "udomowionej”, amerykańskiej wersji gotyku na przykładzie seriali American Gothic i American Horror Story

• Authors: Witkowska Aldona

Title variants

EN

American Gothic, or, the horror of American domesticity. An analysis of the “domesticated”, an American version of Gothic based on the example of the American Gothic and American Horror Story series

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the subject of Gothic television based on the example of American Gothic and American Horror Story series. By referring to the domestic dimension of American Gothic, it analyses the motif of home invasion and a traumatized family, while pointing to its contribution to the debate about the negative impact of television. The main objective of this work is to demonstrate that by the subject of families terrorized by unrealistic forces, Gothic series take up very real issues. The article is concluded by the observation that the omnipresent Gothic fiction in these series explores the much more terrifying horror of the commonplace.

Keywords

EN

American Gothic; television; domestic space; traumatized family; horror of American domesticity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Media – Kultura – Komunikacja Społeczna
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 154-162

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Witkowska Aldona

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski

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