Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>Beyond This Point Are Monsters</em> is a creative work which establishes a fluid, unstable space between the mediated image and the written word. It addresses issues of repetition and difference in the TV melodrama and the inscribed surface of the house in the Gothic novel, performing the romantic and sensational tropes of the Gothic formula in order to subvert them. The project investigates and inhabits the soap opera <em>Dark Shadows</em> which aired daily on ABC from 1966 to 1971, and examines the manner in which the show defies its own genre conventions. I chose <em>Dark Shadows</em> as the foundational source for my text because it is a program which incessantly crosses its own boundaries. Conventionally, soap opera is a form of fictional realism, but the digressive concerns of <em>Dark Shadows</em> stray far from the everyday, while its necessarily fast production pace lacerates the program with constant failure and mistakes. <em>Dark Shadows</em> is flawed, but in a way which troubles the rules of genre and the viewer's relationship to the screen. My investigation is manifested in the form of fictional writings and photographs which borrow the conceptual metaphors and visual gestures of the show. Each "episode" of <em>Beyond This Point Are Monsters</em> mirrors a plot that is anterior to the show's own official plot, leaking language and images that are withheld and effaced in the original.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Year dc:date.available
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Carter, Roxanne M.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Selah Saterstrom
- Brian Kiteley
- Bin Ramke
Subjects
dc:subject × 7Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- <p>Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.</p>
- Language dc:language
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/113
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-1112