Gender and Contemporary Horror in Games, Transmedia and Comics
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 61
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781787691087
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This volume forms part of a connected series of three collections all of which are co-edited by Robert Shail, Samantha Holland and Steven Gerrard - the other two focus on gender and horror in films and in television. They were published by Emerald as part of their ‘Studies in Popular Culture and Gender’ series for which Samantha Holland is the Series Editor.
Whilst the three editors collaborated on the overall conception and design for the three-volume series, taking this through the peer review process at Emerald, each individual volume had a lead editor; which in the case of this output was Professor Shail. Shail was responsible for planning and setting the ethos for this volume which examines the relationship between horror and gender in a variety of contemporary media forms covering comics and graphic novels, video games, audio broadcasts, audience-generated texts, and transmedia adaptations. The volume contributes to current debates regarding the convergence of new media forms, as outlined in the Introduction.
Each peer-reviewed essay included in the volume was either commissioned or selected by Shail (following a call for abstracts) for the final manuscript. He also peer reviewed these essays and supported authors in rewrites which ensured a consistency of approach as well as supporting individual voices.
Shail was the sole author of the Introduction and the Conclusion which, as described above, offer an original approach to new media theory, gender and genre. He also authored a chapter – ‘Anxiety and Mutation in Charles Burns’ Black Hole and Junji Ito’s Uzumaki’ – which is an original contribution to knowledge examining issues of transnational media and identity in the comic book form.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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