Carnivàle and the American grotesque : critical essays on the HBO series /
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by Peg Aloi and Hannah E. Johnston
- The Sensuous Cinematics of Carnivàle / Tammy A. Kinsey
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil: Historical and Cultural Context in Carnivàle's Opening Credit Sequence / Peg Aloi
- The Visual Rhetoric and Multimodal Style of Carnivàle / Moe Folk
- Magic and Loss: Style, Progression and the "Ending" of Carnivàle / Sergio Dias Branco
- Magic and Supernatural Themes in Carnivàle / Jenny Butler
- Songs of Innocence and Experience: Sexual Expression and Character in Carnivàle / Lindsay Coleman
- Female Truth-Tellers in the Occult World of Carnivàle / Hannah E. Johnston
- "I don't appreciate getting shanghaied by a pack of freaks": Teratological Humanity in Carnivàle / Robert G. Weiner
- Carnivàle: An American Freak Show, an American Grotesque / Cynthia Burkhead
- Carnivàle: The Equilibrium Between Order, Chaos, the Dreaming and the Romantic Soul / Jose Hernandez-Riwes Cruz and Ernesto Acosta Sandoval
- "The cards are unclear": Tarot as Character Catalyst in Carnivàle / Peg Aloi.