Folk horror : hours dreadful and things strange /
"What exactly is Folk Horrow? 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 Adviso...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leighton Buzzard, UK :
Auteur Publishing,
[2017].
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| Summary: | "What exactly is Folk Horrow? 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 Cirlce reminding us to 'Mind how you go!' or perhaps a contemporary storu of the 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 of 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." |
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| Physical Description: | 215 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781911325222 1911325221 9781911325239 191132523X |