«All monsters are human»: the cultural imaginary and the creation of contemporary bestiaries in American Horror Story
<p>On November 7, 2011, FX aired <em>American Horror Story</em> (2011 to present). Instead each one of the seasons develop some independent plots by breaking the seriality of current television fiction, the show can be considered as a unitary whole so as a aesthetically hybrid cult...
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doaj-6f08929953c04fbc8ea78ea7e0f8f57c2021-02-09T17:29:13ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico2014-79102015-12-0132698810.5565/rev/brumal.21092«All monsters are human»: the cultural imaginary and the creation of contemporary bestiaries in American Horror StoryPatricia Trapero Llobera0Universitat de les Illes Balears<p>On November 7, 2011, FX aired <em>American Horror Story</em> (2011 to present). Instead each one of the seasons develop some independent plots by breaking the seriality of current television fiction, the show can be considered as a unitary whole so as a aesthetically hybrid cultural product. This paper analyses the concept of Monstrosity in<em> American Horror Story</em> whose underlying idea is extremely related to the contemporary new horror as well as to the postmodern horror. Thus, the show will recur to the cultural and collective imaginary of terror and fantasy in order to build a constellation of characters dealing with the depiction of a contemporary bestiary.</p><p> </p>https://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/210otherness, cultural pastiche, gothic, horror, contemporary mythologies, monstrosity, ryan murphy, television. |
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«All monsters are human»: the cultural imaginary and the creation of contemporary bestiaries in American Horror Story |
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«All monsters are human»: the cultural imaginary and the creation of contemporary bestiaries in American Horror Story |
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«All monsters are human»: the cultural imaginary and the creation of contemporary bestiaries in American Horror Story |
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«all monsters are human»: the cultural imaginary and the creation of contemporary bestiaries in american horror story |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico |
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2014-7910 |
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<p>On November 7, 2011, FX aired <em>American Horror Story</em> (2011 to present). Instead each one of the seasons develop some independent plots by breaking the seriality of current television fiction, the show can be considered as a unitary whole so as a aesthetically hybrid cultural product. This paper analyses the concept of Monstrosity in<em> American Horror Story</em> whose underlying idea is extremely related to the contemporary new horror as well as to the postmodern horror. Thus, the show will recur to the cultural and collective imaginary of terror and fantasy in order to build a constellation of characters dealing with the depiction of a contemporary bestiary.</p><p> </p> |
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otherness, cultural pastiche, gothic, horror, contemporary mythologies, monstrosity, ryan murphy, television. |
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