Future Folk Horror

Simon Bacon

doi:10.5771/9781666921243

Summary

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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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2123-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2124-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 330
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1. 1. Secret Powers of Attraction No access
  2. A Battlefield in England No access
  3. Live Horror Theater, Nostalgia, and Folklore No access
  4. Frayed Strands Entwined No access
2. 1. Palimpsests and Other Texts No access
  2. “There’s Some Weird Shit Going on in the Woods” No access
  3. Fae Fight Back No access
1. 1. Early American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror No access
  2. Wendigo Tales No access
  3. A Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema No access
  4. A Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth No access
  5. Who Makes the Hood? No access
2. 1. Non-normativity in Female-Centered Folk Horror Literature No access
  2. (In)Visible Women No access
  3. Speculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman No access
  4. ‌‌Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber’s Ecohorror No access
3. 1. “Nigh Is the Time of Madness and Disdain” No access
  2. A Horror Film for Our Times No access
  3. Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem No access
  4. Folk Horror in Inside No. 9 No access
Index No access Pages 317 - 324
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 325 - 330