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Future Folk Horror : Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures / edited by Simon Bacon [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lexington Books horror studies.
- Lexington books horror studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore in literature.
- Folklore in motion pictures.
- Horror in literature.
- Horror films.
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Motion pictures--History--21st century.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66699-105-8
- 1-66692-124-6
- OCLC:
- 1372498770
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