Folk Horror

New Global Pathways

AvDawn Keetley,Ruth Heholt

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Beskrivning

While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the assumptions that have guided critical writing on the genre in the face of such expansions, with chapters exploring a range of subjects from the fiction of E. F. Benson to Scooby-Doo, video games, and community engagement with the Lancashire witches. In looking beyond Britain, the essays collected here extend folk horror’s geographic terrain to map new conceptualisations of the genre now seen emerging from Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Mexico and the Appalachian region of the US.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-15
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786839800
Förlag:University of Wales Press
Serie:Horror Studies

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Ruth Heholt is Associate Professor of Dark Economies and Gothic Literature at Falmouth University. Dawn Keetley is Professor of English and Film at Lehigh University

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From Lancashire to Appalachia, from Thailand to Ukraine, from typography to Scooby-Doo, via human sacrifice. In Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, Keetley and Heholt curate a vital addition to the field of folk horror studies, which takes the form beyond its British roots and examines its global manifestations and thematic interconnections. This is essential reading.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Dawn Keetley and Ruth HeholtPart One: Folk Horror’s FolkloreChapter One: The Frightening Folk: An Introduction to the Folkloresque in HorrorJeffrey A. TolbertChapter Two: Whose Folk? Community, Folklore, Landscape and the Case of the Lancashire WitchesCatherine SpoonerChapter Three: Folkloric Origins of the Ukrainian GothicSvitlana (Lana) KrysChapter Four: ‘Wow, this place is spooky at night!’ Suburban Ennui, Legend Quests and What Folk Horror Shares with Scooby-DooIan BrodiePart Two: Re-Visioning Canonical Folk HorrorChapter Five: The Curse of the Cursive: The Horror of the Hand in Folk Horror Film TypographyDavid DevannyChapter Six: The Devil His Due: Folk Horror, Occulture and the Black Magic StoryTimothy JonesChapter Seven: Black Boxes: Tradition and Human Sacrifice in American Folk HorrorBernice M. MurphyPart Three: Folk Horror in New PlacesChapter Eight: Sunny Landscapes, Dark Visions: E. F. Benson’s Weird Domestic Folk HorrorRuth HeholtChapter Nine: Monsters in the Making: Phi Pop and Thai Folk HorrorKatarzyna AncutaChaper Ten: Curses, Rites and Questionable Offerings: Ludic Folk Horror in Video GamesTanya KrzywinskaPart Four: Folk Horror’s PoliticsChapter Eleven: Catholicism, Unification and Liminal Landscape in Italian Folk Horror CinemaMarco MalvestioChapter Twelve: ‘Me quitarán de quererte, Llorona, pero de olividarte nunca’: La Llorona, Colonial Trauma and MexicannessValeria Villegas LindvallChapter Thirteen: Sacrifice Zones in Appalachian Folk HorrorDawn Keetley