Folk horror on film (eBook)

Return of the British repressed

Louis Bayman, Kevin J. Donnelly (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
264 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6491-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the genre's development.The book presents political and aesthetic analyses of folk horror's uncanny landscapes and frightful folk. It places canonical films like Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973) in a new light and expands the canon to include films like the sci-fi horror Doomwatch (1970-72) and the horror documentary Requiem for a Village (1975) alongside filmmakers Ken Russell and Ben Wheatley.A series of engrossing chapters by established scholars and new writers argue for the uniqueness of folk horror from perspectives that include the fragmented national history of pagan heresies and Celtic cultures, of peasant lifestyles, folkloric rediscoveries and postcolonial decline.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 25 black & white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: anti-landscape • Arthur Machen • Ben Wheatley • British Cinema • cult cinema • Doomwatch • folk horror • Folklore • Genre studies • Horror • Ken Russell • Paganism • Requiem for a Village • The Blood on Satan's Claw • The Company of Wolves • the wicker man • The Wyrd • unholy trinity • Witchfinder general
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-6491-4 / 1526164914
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-6491-9 / 9781526164919