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Reappraising Cult Horror Films
From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho
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- English
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About this book
Identifies key ā and in some cases previously overlooked ā cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways.
New productions in the horror genre occupy a prominent space within the cinematic landscape of the 21st century, but the genre's back catalogue of older films refuses to be consigned to the motion picture graveyard just yet. Interest in older horror films remains high, and an ever-increasing number of these films have enjoyed an afterlife as cult movies thanks to regular film festival screenings, television broadcasts and home video releases. Similarly, academic interest in the horror genre has remained high.
The frameworks applied by contributors to the collection include genre studies, narrative theory, socio-political readings, aspects of cultural studies, gendered readings, archival research, fan culture work, interviews with filmmakers, aspects of film historiography, spatial theory and cult film theory. Covering a corpus of films that ranges from recognised cult horror classics such as The Wicker Man, The Shining and Candyman to more obscure films like Daughters of Darkness, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shivers, Howling III: The Marsupials and Inside, Broughton has curated an international selection of case studies that show the diverse nature of the cult horror subgenre. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, this book offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult horror films.
New productions in the horror genre occupy a prominent space within the cinematic landscape of the 21st century, but the genre's back catalogue of older films refuses to be consigned to the motion picture graveyard just yet. Interest in older horror films remains high, and an ever-increasing number of these films have enjoyed an afterlife as cult movies thanks to regular film festival screenings, television broadcasts and home video releases. Similarly, academic interest in the horror genre has remained high.
The frameworks applied by contributors to the collection include genre studies, narrative theory, socio-political readings, aspects of cultural studies, gendered readings, archival research, fan culture work, interviews with filmmakers, aspects of film historiography, spatial theory and cult film theory. Covering a corpus of films that ranges from recognised cult horror classics such as The Wicker Man, The Shining and Candyman to more obscure films like Daughters of Darkness, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shivers, Howling III: The Marsupials and Inside, Broughton has curated an international selection of case studies that show the diverse nature of the cult horror subgenre. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, this book offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult horror films.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- About the editor and contributors
- Introduction: Cult horror films and cult movies
- Part IāLone features
- 1 Carnival of Souls as seen by its creators
- 2 A ātotally emancipated femaleā: Julie Ege, Britainās crises of masculinity and Roy Ward Bakerās The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
- 3 Wandering the labyrinth of space-time and eternity in Stanley Kubrickās The Shining
- 4 The candy-coloured uncanny: Childish pleasures in Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- 5 Death is the price: Racial segregation, urban gentrification and the horrors of Candyman
- 6 Decide for yourself: Cult, controversy and anti-capitalism in The Hunt
- Part IIāCult horror directors
- 7 āWe are going to do something nastyā: The cult horror films of Harry KuĢmel
- 8 (Re)positioning Ken Russell as a cult horror auteur
- Part IIIāCycles and clusters
- 9 Deliverance derivations: Counter constructions of white trash in 1970s horror cinema
- 10 Hybrid horror from Australia
- 11 āI canāt believe so many horror fans arenāt watching Insideā: The cult status of twenty-first-century French horror cinema
- 12 Vertical violence: Horror cinemaās terrible towers
- 13 The Investigative Outsider and the use of Nemein as a narrative state change driver in cult horror cinema
- Index
- Copyright