Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed (Hardback)
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Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed (Hardback)

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Hardback 264 Pages
Published: 10/10/2023
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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.

Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781526164926
Number of pages: 264
Weight: 548 g
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 16 mm


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'Folk Horror on Film... helps to fuel fiery if inconclusive arguments about the nature of folk horror amidst scholarly (stone?) circles.'Journal of British Cinema and Television'This is an interesting assortment of essays that push forward scholarly understandings of folk horror, offer newframeworks for conceptualizing this subgenre, and further highlight the value of cinema for the study of new and alternative religiosity.'Nova Religio - .

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