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Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange


Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

Paperback by Scovell, Adam

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

£20.89

ISBN:
9781911325222
Publication Date:
7 Mar 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Imprint:
Auteur Publishing
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 14 - 16 May 2024
Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

Description

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 n 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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