{"product_id":"future-folk-horror-contemporary-anxieties-and-possible-futures-9781666921236","title":"Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuture Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as 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 (2007–21), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuture Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures is an engaging, ambitious and wide-ranging volume with an impressive line-up of contributors. It should be of interest to anyone interested in contemporary folk horror or in the possibilities contained within its myriad future manifestations.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Bernice M. Murphy, Trinity College Dublin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection One:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFraming the Past to Make the Present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: “Buried”: Folk Horror as Retrieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracy Fahey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: The Folklore of British Folk Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Secret Powers of Attraction: Folk Horror in its Cultural Context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward David Ingham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. A Battlefield in England: Folk Horror and War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJimmy Packham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Live Horror Theatre, Nostalgia and Folklore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Norris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Frayed Strands Entwined: Considering 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e Century Folk Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Rose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: America, Settlers, And Belonging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Palimpsests and Other Texts: Christianity and Pre-Modern Religions in Folk Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandon R. Grafius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. “There’s some weird shit going on in the woods”: Landscape, Cults, and Folklore in the Films of Chad Crawford Kinkle and Andy Mitton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul A. J. Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Fae Fight Back: Monstrous Mycelium and post-Colonial Gothic in The Hallow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKit Hawkins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Two:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFacing Backward Whilst Looking Forward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Cultural Positionings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Early American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror: Wrong Turn, a 21st Century Interpretation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnor McAleese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Wendigo Tales: Climate Gothic and Indigenous Resistance in Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauryn E. Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. A Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema: The Transnational, Transcultural and Transtextual Narratives in The Witches of Blackwood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhil Fitzsimmons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. A Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon R. Meyers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Who Makes the Hood?: The City, Community, and Contemporary Folk Horror in Nia DaCosta’s Candyman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKingsley Marshall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Identity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. Non-normativity in Female Centered Folk Horror Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephanie Ellis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. (In)Visible Women: Folk Horror in the Spanish Anthology of Fairy Tales Ni Aqui ni en Ningún Otro Lugar (2021) by Patricia Esteban Erlés\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Garcia Gutiérrez \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Speculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanielle Garcia-Karr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. “I wish, please, to live”: Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber’s Ecohorror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVicky Brewster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Intersections and Futures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18. “Nigh is the time of Madness and Disdain” Folk Horror in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19. A Horror Film for Our Times: Annihilation as Weird Folk Eco-Horror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. Keith Booker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20. Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam’s “The Zero Theorem”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarrett Castleberry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21. Folk Horror in Inside No. 9: “Mr King” and Contending Eco-narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReece Goodall\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042019410263,"sku":"9781666921236","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666921236.jpg?v=1750952653","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/future-folk-horror-contemporary-anxieties-and-possible-futures-9781666921236","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}