Transnational horror: folklore, genre, and cultural politics

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Cakirlar, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-8635, 2025. Transnational horror: folklore, genre, and cultural politics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781802075878 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

Adopting a multi-method critical approach to the global revival of folklore-themed horror media, Transnational Horror contests Anglophone film scholarship’s widespread adherence to its own film-historical canons. Navigating alternative meanings of 'folk horror' and locating these meanings within a transnational framework, the volume proposes a curatorial paradigm of critical transnationalism in the study of global film cultures and genre formations. The book proposes an alternative genealogy of horror media: a genealogy that decolonises, in provincialising, the dominant film-historical canons associated with the horror genre, and contributes to the formation of a transnational field of horror criticism that troubles the normative geopolitics of canonisation in film and genre studies. Through diverse accounts of scale and regionality as categorical markers of screen media, the contributors to the volume develop critical tools to address the mobility of 'folk horror' as mode and as genre, which operates within and beyond the normative registers of national belonging.

Item Type:	Edited book
Creators:	Cakirlar, C.
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication:	Liverpool
Date:	28 February 2025
ISBN:	9781802075878
Identifiers:	Number Type 2306770 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	02 Dec 2024 11:03
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2024 11:03
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URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52684