Transnational Horror

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2025
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-587-8 (ISBN)

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Adopting a multi-method critical approach to the global revival of folklore-themed horror media, Transnational Horror contests Anglophone film scholarship’s widespread adherence to its own film-historical canons. Navigating alternative meanings of 'folk horror' and locating these meanings within a transnational framework, the volume proposes a curatorial paradigm of critical transnationalism in the study of global film cultures and genre formations. The book proposes an alternative genealogy of horror media: a genealogy that decolonises, in provincialising, the dominant film-historical canons associated with the horror genre, and contributes to the formation of a transnational field of horror criticism that troubles the normative geopolitics of canonisation in film and genre studies. Through diverse accounts of scale and regionality as categorical markers of screen media, the contributors to the volume develop critical tools to address the mobility of 'folk horror' as mode and as genre, which operates within and beyond the normative registers of national belonging.

Cüneyt Çakırlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University. He co-authored Taner Ceylan: The Lost Paintings Series (2013) and Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (2023).

Introduction: Curating Folk Horror by Cüneyt Çakırlar

PART I: PROPERTY

Living in Bondage: Vampires, Zombies, and the Occult Powers of Money in Nigerian Film and Video

David McNally

(Un)settling the Land: Colonial and Environmental Violence in Nordic Horror Cinema

Benjamin Bigelow

The Arctic Horror: Sakha (Yakutia) Cinema and Global Cultural Re-orientations

Vlad Strukov

From a Dark Place: Indigenous Australian Horror

Lindsay Anne Hallam

PART II: IDENTITY

Feminism with swords and hooves: Aïcha Kandisha, Transnational Cinema, and Postcolonial Horror

Rosalind Galt

Queering the Filipinx Zombie Movie: Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings

Bliss Cua Lim

Chicana Absenteeism as Abject Maternity in Anglophone Filmic Versions of La Llorona

Gustavo Subero

PART III: MOBILITY

The Persistence of That Which Clings: The Cultural Politics of the Dybbuk in Transnational Postmillennial Cinemas

Jacob Engelberg

Djinns as Transformative Otherness: Forms of Toxic Kinship in Postmillennial Turkish Horror Film

Cüneyt Çakırlar

Global/Local Folk Horror: Tumbbad(2018) and the Transnational Dynamics of Indian “Indie” Horror Cinema

Iain Robert Smith

Genre and Sound in Contemporary Korean Occult Movies: An Analysis of The Priests (2015) and The Wailing (2016)

Nikki J.Y. Lee

PART IV: BEYOND THE CINEMATIC APPARATUS

Having Fun Playing Dead: Games of Possession and the Power of Suggestion in the Mr. Vampire Films

David Scott Diffrient

Folk Culture and its Global Circuits: The Transnational Weird of Indonesian horror and the Crisis of Intelligibility

Alicia Izharuddin

Hours Dreadful and Things Nasty: British Folk Horror at the Dawn of the Video Age

Johnny Walker

From the Kaaba with Shahmaran to Boğaziçi University: The Sacred and Occupation

Nur Kıpçak

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2025
Zusatzinfo	31 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80207-587-9 / 1802075879
ISBN-13	978-1-80207-587-8 / 9781802075878
Zustand	Neuware