Reappraising Cult Horror Films

From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8758-6 (ISBN)

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Identifies key – and in some cases previously overlooked – cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways.

New productions in the horror genre occupy a prominent space within the cinematic landscape of the 21st century, but the genre’s back catalogue of older films refuses to be consigned to the motion picture graveyard just yet. Interest in older horror films remains high, and an ever-increasing number of these films have enjoyed an afterlife as cult movies thanks to regular film festival screenings, television broadcasts and home video releases. Similarly, academic interest in the horror genre has remained high.

The frameworks applied by contributors to the collection include genre studies, narrative theory, socio-political readings, aspects of cultural studies, gendered readings, archival research, fan culture work, interviews with filmmakers, aspects of film historiography, spatial theory and cult film theory. Covering a corpus of films that ranges from recognised cult horror classics such as The Wicker Man, The Shining and Candyman to more obscure films like Daughters of Darkness, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shivers, Howling III: The Marsupials and Inside, Broughton has curated an international selection of case studies that show the diverse nature of the cult horror subgenre. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, this book offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult horror films.

Lee Broughtonis a Lecturer in Film and Media in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He also teaches on the Arts and Humanities programme that is offered by the University’s Lifelong Learning Centre. Lee is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the ‘Other’ in Film (Bloomsbury, 2016) and the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (2016) and Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight (Bloomsbury, 2020).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cult Horror Films and Cult Movies
Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK)

Part I: Lone Features
1. Carnival of Souls as Seen by its Creators
Bill Shaffer (Producer/Director, USA)
2. A ‘Totally Emancipated Female’: Julie Ege, Britain’s Crises of Masculinity and Roy Ward Baker’s The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Wandering the Labyrinth of Space-time and Eternity in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
Kamil Koscielski (Independent Scholar, Poland)
4. The Candy-Coloured Uncanny: Childish Pleasures in Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA) and Tom Shaker (Independent Scholar, USA)
5. Death is the Price: Racial Segregation, Urban Gentrification and the Horrors of Candyman
Phevos Kallitsis (University of Portsmouth, UK)
6. Decide for Yourself: Cult, Controversy and Anti-Capitalism in The Hunt
Craig Ian Mann (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Part II: Cult Horror Directors
7. ‘We Are Going to Do Something Nasty’: The Cult Films of Harry Ku¨mel
Mark Goodall (University of Bradford, UK)
8. (Re)positioning Ken Russell as a Cult Horror Auteur
Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)

Part III: Cycles and Clusters
9. Deliverance Derivations: Counter Constructions of White Trash in 1970s Horror
Xavier Mendik (Birmingham City University, UK)
10. Hybrid Horror from Australia
Pete Falconer (University of Bristol, UK)
11. ‘I Can’t Believe So Many Horror Fans Aren’t Watching Inside’: The Cult Status of 21st-century French Horror Cinema
Alice Haylett Bryan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
12. Vertical Violence: Horror Cinema’s Terrible Towers
Kev Bickerdike (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
13. The Investigative Outsider and the Use of Nemein as a Narrative State Change Driver in Cult Horror Cinema
James Shelton (Independent Scholar, UK)

About the Editor and Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	13 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-8758-8 / 1501387588
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8758-6 / 9781501387586
Zustand	Neuware