Transnational Horror

Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-04
Mått:163 x 239 x 26 mm
Vikt:624 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781802075878

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Mer om författaren

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).

Recensioner i media

'Two pressing questions facing horror studies today are "What is folk horror?" and "How do we globalize horror studies?" Cakirlar and his contributors find original, innovative ways to address both of these questions simultaneously in this impressive and important book. Cakirlar is a dynamic new voice in contemporary horror studies.' Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Curating Folk Horror by Cüneyt ÇakırlarPART I: PROPERTYLiving in Bondage: Vampires, Zombies, and the Occult Powers of Money in Nigerian Film and VideoDavid McNally(Un)settling the Land: Colonial and Environmental Violence in Nordic Horror CinemaBenjamin BigelowThe Arctic Horror: Sakha (Yakutia) Cinema and Global Cultural Re-orientationsVlad StrukovFrom a Dark Place: Indigenous Australian HorrorLindsay Anne HallamPART II: IDENTITYFeminism with swords and hooves: Aïcha Kandisha, Transnational Cinema, and Postcolonial HorrorRosalind GaltQueering the Filipinx Zombie Movie: Remington and the Curse of the ZombadingsBliss Cua LimChicana Absenteeism as Abject Maternity in Anglophone Filmic Versions of La LloronaGustavo SuberoPART III: MOBILITYThe Persistence of That Which Clings: The Cultural Politics of the Dybbuk in Transnational Postmillennial CinemasJacob EngelbergDjinns as Transformative Otherness: Forms of Toxic Kinship in Postmillennial Turkish Horror FilmCüneyt ÇakırlarGlobal/Local Folk Horror: Tumbbad(2018) and the Transnational Dynamics of Indian “Indie” Horror CinemaIain Robert SmithGenre and Sound in Contemporary Korean Occult Movies: An Analysis of The Priests (2015) and The Wailing (2016)Nikki J.Y. LeePART IV: BEYOND THE CINEMATIC APPARATUSHaving Fun Playing Dead: Games of Possession and the Power of Suggestion in the Mr. Vampire FilmsDavid Scott DiffrientFolk Culture and its Global Circuits: The Transnational Weird of Indonesian horror and the Crisis of IntelligibilityAlicia IzharuddinHours Dreadful and Things Nasty: British Folk Horror at the Dawn of the Video AgeJohnny WalkerFrom the Kaaba with Shahmaran to Boğaziçi University: The Sacred and OccupationNur Kıpçak