Future Folk Horror
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Future Folk Horror

Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures

  1. 347 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Future Folk Horror

Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures

About this book

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first century, caused by an ongoing pandemic and the divisive populist politics that have arisen around it. Further, this book shows how, through its increasing intersections with other genres such as science fiction, the weird, and eco-criticism as seen in films and texts like The Zero Theorum (2013), The Witcher (2007–2021), and Annihilation (2018) as well as through its engagement with topics around climate change, racism, and identity politics, folk horror can point to other ways of being in the world and visions of possible futures.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781978791916
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Framing the Past to Make the Present
  8. “Buried”
  9. The Folklore of British Folk Horror
  10. Secret Powers of Attraction
  11. A Battlefield in England
  12. Live Horror Theater, Nostalgia, and Folklore
  13. Frayed Strands Entwined
  14. America, Settlers, and Belonging
  15. Palimpsests and Other Texts
  16. “There’s Some Weird Shit Going on in the Woods”
  17. Fae Fight Back
  18. Facing Backward While Looking Forward
  19. Cultural Positionings
  20. Early American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror
  21. Wendigo Tales
  22. A Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema
  23. A Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth
  24. Who Makes the Hood?
  25. Identity
  26. Non-normativity in Female-Centered Folk Horror Literature
  27. (In)Visible Women
  28. Speculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman
  29. ‌‌Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber’s Ecohorror
  30. Intersections and Futures
  31. “Nigh Is the Time of Madness and Disdain”
  32. A Horror Film for Our Times
  33. Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem
  34. Folk Horror in Inside No. 9
  35. Index
  36. About the Editor and Contributors