By Harry M. Benshoff
ISBN-10: 0814334393
ISBN-13: 9780814334393
While supernatural occasions became relatively usual on daylight hours tv in fresh a long time, darkish Shadows, which aired on ABC among 1966 and 1971, pioneered this layout while it mixed the vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional Collinsport, Maine, with usual cleaning soap opera fare like alcoholism, jealousy, and tangled love. during this quantity, writer Harry M. Benshoff examines darkish Shadows, either in the course of its preliminary run and as a permanent cult phenomenon, to turn out that the exhibit used to be an enormous precursor-or even progenitor-of cutting-edge phenomenally well known gothic and myth media franchises like Twilight, Harry Potter, and actual Blood.
Benshoff demonstrates that audience of every age spoke back to the haunted international of darkish Shadows, making not likely stars out of the show's iconic characters-reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins, playboy werewolf Quentin Collins, vengeful witch Angelique DuVal, and vampire hunter Dr. Julia Hoffman. Benshoff explores the cultural and business contexts of the mid-1960s that gave upward push to darkish Shadows and the way the exhibit tailored nineteenth-century gothic novels and twentieth-century horror movies right into a televised serial structure. Benshoff additionally examines the original points of the show's casting and function modes, its attract as a camp cult textual content, and the functionality of the show's many secondary and tertiary texts-including novels, documents, video games, comedian books, and the 2 characteristic movies, condominium of darkish Shadows (1970) and evening of darkish Shadows (1971).
within the years when you consider that its cancellation, darkish Shadows' enduring reputation has resulted in a prime-time NBC remake within the early Nineteen Nineties, contemporary speak of a Tim Burton and Johnny Depp function movie, and a favored ongoing fan conference. Benshoff's well timed learn of darkish Shadows will entice lovers of the express and all movie and tv background students who're attracted to the roots of 1 of cutting-edge most well-liked genres.
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And if gothic literature is always about a troubled home/family life in some way (recall Freud’s formulation of the uncanny as something slightly askew within the “homely” or quotidian), then, Wheatley notes, gothic television is doubly uncanny. , 7). ). Certainly this describes the very structure and style of Dark Shadows as it wedded the conventional daytime televisual form of the 1960s to elaborate dream sequences and special effects– laden supernatural sequences. In her analysis of Dark Shadows itself, Wheatley notes the same domestic/gothic pairing within the diegetic space of Collinwood: the Great House is inhabited by the “normal” family, while the decaying Old House is inhabited by the vampire Barnabas.
This is an ongoing structural effect impossible to achieve in single closed texts such as the gothic novel or the horror film. The usual ideological effects of the horror film, perhaps most succinctly defined by Robin Wood as “normality . . threatened by the Monster” (Hollywood, 78), are also suspended or altered by Dark Shadows’ structure as a soap opera. In the classical Hollywood horror film (as opposed to more modern horror films) “normality” eventually overcomes and defeats the monster, suggesting the desirability of the status quo.
In 1795 she played Naomi Collins, head of the household and mother to Barnabas. In the 1897 sequence, Bennett was Judith Collins, again running the estate while falling afoul of several nefarious plots. Sometimes neurotic, alcoholic, or flighty, Bennett’s characters also frequently displayed strength and determination as she struggled to keep her family together. Especially during the first year of the show, Bennett’s Elizabeth Collins Stoddard might be understood as a rather generic soap opera mother, a sturdy trunk 55 Chapter 5 56 around whom various family intrigues entwine.
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