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Folk horror : hours dreadful and things strange

Title
  1. Folk horror : hours dreadful and things strange / Adam Scovell.
Published by
  1. Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Publishing, 2017.
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Scovell, Adam

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Description
  1. 215 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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
Alternative title
  1. Hours dreadful and things strange
Subject
  1. Horror films > Great Britain > History and criticism
  2. Horror television programs > Great Britain > History and criticism
Contents
  1. 'Hours dreadful and things strange' -- Trilogy -- Topographies -- Rurality -- Occultism, hauntology and the urban 'wyrd' -- 'Sumer-is-icumen-in' : modern folk horror.
Call number
  1. MFL 17-3419
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194), filmography (pages 195-208) and index.
Author
  1. Scovell, Adam, author.
Title
  1. Folk horror : hours dreadful and things strange / Adam Scovell.
Publisher
  1. Leighton Buzzard : Auteur Publishing, 2017.
Copyright date
  1. ©2017
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194), filmography (pages 195-208) and index.
ISBN
  1. 9781911325222 (paperback)
  2. 1911325221 (paperback)
  3. 9781911325239 (cloth)
  4. 191132523X (cloth)
Research call number
  1. MFL 17-3419
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