[Commlist] new book: Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed

New volume on folk horror, now available for pre-order:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526164926/folk-horror-on-film/

We are confident that, like a zombie dog, you will find it unputdownable.

Louis


  Folk horror on film


    Return of the British repressed


      Edited byKevin J. DonnellyandLouis Bayman


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.


        CONTENTS

Foreword by John Das
Introduction: what makes the folk horrific? - Louis Bayman and K.J. 
Donnelly*
Part I: Debating/The Wicker Man/(1973)*
1 The context of/The Wicker Man/- Ronald Hutton
2 A deeply religious people:/The Wicker Man/, contemporary paganism, and 
Dracula reversed- Laurel Zwissler
3 Folk horror: a discursive approach, with application to Robin 
Hardy's/The Wicker Man/(1973) and Neil Jordan's/The Company of 
Wolves/(1984) - Mikel J. Koven
*Part II: Return of the British repressed*
4 The folk of folk horror - Derek Johnston
5/Doomwatch/: sacrifice zones and folk horror - Dawn Keetley
6 My ancestors died here:/Requiem for a Village/and the rural English 
horror of modernity and socio-cultural change - Paul Newland
7 Outsider history, or outside of history - K. J. Donnelly
8 Anglo creep and Celtic resistance in/Apostle/- Beth Carroll
9 Women's folk horror in Britain: history, industry, style - Amy Harris
*Part III: Folk horror's cultural landscapes*
10 Ritualistic rhythms: exploring the sensory effect of drums in British 
folk horror cinema - Lyndsay Townsend
11 'Nature came before man': human as subject and object within the folk 
horror anti-landscape - David Evans-Powell
12 Hieroglyphics: Arthur Machen on screen - Mark Goodall
13 Albion unearthed: social, political and cultural influences on 
British folk horror, urban wyrd and backwoods cinema - Andy Paciorek
14 'Isn't folk horror/all/horror?': a wyrd genre - Diane A. Rodgers
Index

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