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Folk horror : hours dreadful and things strange / Adam Scovell

Author
Scovell, Adam
Additional Titles
Hours dreadful and things strange
Published
Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Publishing, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
215 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
'Hours dreadful and things strange' -- Trilogy -- Topographies -- Rurality -- Occultism, hauntology and the urban 'wyrd' -- 'Sumer-is-icumen-in' : modern folk horror.
Summary
"What exactly is Folk Horror? Is it the writing of M.R. James and Alan Garner? Is it the television scripts of Nigel Kneale, John Bowen and David Rudkin, the films of David Gladwell and The Blood on Satan's Claw? Or could it be the Paranoid Public information films of the 1970s; The Advisory Circle reminding us to 'Mind how you go!'; or perhaps a contemporary story of two hit-men caught unknowingly in a class-saturated ritual of violence? Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century." -- Publisher's description
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ISBN
9781911325222 (paperback)
1911325221 (paperback)
9781911325239 (cloth)
191132523X (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194), filmography (pages 195-208) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2017
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Paterno Libraries Endowment
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