The Journey: Vanessa Ives and Edgework as Self-Work

Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

~ Rikke Schubart Abstract: This paper analyzes the witch Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in ensemble horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–16). Witches have been television material since Bewitched (1964–72), usually in comedy or light drama, and often for teen audiences. Penny...

“There Is Some Thing Within Us All”: Queer Desire and Monstrous Bodies in Penny Dreadful

Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

~ Jordan Phillips Abstract: It has been said that we live in a time of monsters. Within the horror genre, these monsters commonly take the form of the creatures you would find in ancient mythologies or Gothic literatures; however, they have also been allegorically...

Cowboys and Wolf-Men: Ethan Chandler, Transgressive Masculinity, and Depictions of The Monstrous in Penny Dreadful

Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28

~ Tobias Locke Abstract: Penny Dreadful’s commercial and critical success stems from its transformative adaptation of the Gothic literary canon that precipitated it, and its willingness to use that adaptation as a vehicle for contemporary discourse. While previous and...

The Contaminant Cobweb: Complex Characters and Monstrous Mashups

Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28

~ Anita Nell Bech Albertsen Abstract: This article maps out character complexity in Penny Dreadful by focusing on the intertextuality of monstrous female characters. The aim of this study is twofold. First, it seeks to examine show how mashup characters gain...

Volume 28, 2017

Jun 12, 2017 | Browse Past Volumes, fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

Themed Issue: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful Edited by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart & Anita Nell Bech Albertsen   Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful  ~ Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart...

Mapping the Demimonde: space, place, and the narrational role of the flâneur, explorer, spiritualist medium and alienist in Penny Dreadful

Jun 12, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

~  Amanda Howell and Lucy Baker  Abstract: This paper uses the perspectives and formative obsessions of familiar figures from nineteenth century pop culture and literature—the flâneur, the explorer, the alienist and the spiritualist medium—as lenses through which to...