Intensities Four

December 2007

Mysterious Bodies

Guest Editors: Rayna Denison and Mark Jancovich

Introduction—Rayna Denison and Mark Jancovich

An Unidentified Species: Horror, The Body and Early Television—Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia)

Painted Men and Salt Monsters: The Alien Body in 50s and 60s American Science Fiction Television—Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth)

Television, Vampires, and the Body: Somatic Pathos—Milly Williamson (Brunel University)

‘Gothic’ Body Parts in a ‘Postmodern’ Body of Work? The Hinchcliffe/Holmes Era of Doctor Who (1975-77)—Matt Hills (University of Wales, Cardiff)

The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence: Investigating the Complexity of the Television Body—Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia)

Investigating Angel: The Hair, the Car, and the Wardrobe—Rebecca Feasey (Bath Spa University College)

Welcome to Royston Vassey: Grotesque bodies and the Horror of Comedy in League of Gentlemen—Peter Hutchings (Northumbria University)

The Victim’s Suffering Translated: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the Crime Genre—Elke Weissmann (University of Reading)

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Supplemental Essays

The Lost Cult of Wake in Fright—Julian Savage (Brunel University)