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Future folk horror : contemporary anxieties and possible futures / edited by Simon Bacon ; foreword by Dawn Keetley

Published
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]
Physical Description
xv, 329 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Bacon, Simon, 1965- and Keetley, Dawn, 1965-

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Contents
"Buried" : Folk Horror as Retrieval / Tracy Fahey -- Secret Powers of Attraction : Folk Horror in its Cultural Context / Howard David Ingham -- A Battlefield in England : Folk Horror and War / Jimmy Packham -- Live Horror Theatre, Nostalgia, and Folklore / David Norris -- Frayed Strands Entwined : Considering Twenty-First-Century Folk Horror / James Rose -- Palimpsests and Other Texts : Christianity and Premodern Religions in Folk Horror / Brandon R. Grafius -- "There's some weird shit going on in the woods" : Landscape, Cults, and Folklore in the Films of Chad Crawford Kinkle and Andy Mitton / Paul A.J. Lewis -- Fae Fight Back : Monstrous Mycelium and Postcolonial Gothic in The Hallow / Kit Hawkins -- Early American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror : Wrong Turn, a Twenty-First-Century Interpretation / Connor McAleese -- Wendigo Tales : Climate Gothic and Indigenous Resistance in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow / Lauryn E. Collins -- A Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema : The Transnational, Transcultural, and Transtextual Narratives in The Witches of Blackwood / Phil Fitzsimmons -- A Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth / Jon R. Meyers -- Who Makes the Hood? : The City, Community, and Contemporary Folk Horror in Nia DaCosta's Candyman / Kingsley Marshall -- Non-normativity in Female-Centered Folk Horror Literature / Stephanie Ellis -- (In)Visible Women : Folk Horror in the Spanish Anthology of Fairy Tales Ni Aqui ni en Ningún Otro Lugar (2021) by Patricia Esteban Erlés / Sandra Garcia Gutiérrez -- Speculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman / Danielle Garcia-Karr -- Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber's Ecohorror "I wish, please, to live" / Vicky Brewster -- "Nigh is the time of Madness and Disdain" : Folk Horror in The Witcher 3 : The Wild Hunt / Stephen Butler -- A Horror Film for Our Times : Annihilation as Weird Folk Eco-Horror / M. Keith Booker -- Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam's "The Zero Theorem" / Garrett Castleberry -- Folk Horror in Inside No. 9 : "Mr King" and Contending Eco-narratives / Reece Goodall.
Summary
"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"--
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ISBN
9781666921236 hardcover
1666921238 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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