Folk Horror on Film - Return of the British Repressed

This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk.

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• Authors: Kevin J. Bayman Donnelly
• Assisted by: Louis Bayman (Editor), Bayman Louis (Editor), Kevin J. Donnelly (Editor), Donnelly Kevin J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781526164926
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6492-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Horror; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Film: styles & genres, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism