ISBN:
9781666921243
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Lexington Books Horror Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398
Keywords:
Fiction-History and criticism
;
Folklore in literature
;
Folklore in motion pictures
;
Horror films
;
Horror in literature
Abstract:
Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes recent novels and films, to show that folk horror as a genre uniquely captures the anxieties of the twenty-first century and imagines visions of possible futures.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Framing the Past to Make the Present -- "Buried" -- The Folklore of British Folk Horror -- Secret Powers of Attraction -- A Battlefield in England -- Live Horror Theater, Nostalgia, and Folklore -- Frayed Strands Entwined -- America, Settlers, and Belonging -- Palimpsests and Other Texts -- "There's Some Weird Shit Going on in the Woods" -- Fae Fight Back -- Facing Backward While Looking Forward -- Cultural Positionings -- Early American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror -- Wendigo Tales -- A Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema -- A Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth -- Who Makes the Hood? -- Identity -- Non-normativity in Female-Centered Folk Horror Literature -- (In)Visible Women -- Speculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman -- Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber's Ecohorror -- Intersections and Futures -- "Nigh Is the Time of Madness and Disdain" -- A Horror Film for Our Times -- Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem -- Folk Horror in Inside No. 9 -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
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