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Post by ropardoe on May 27, 2021 8:37:40 GMT
Yes, I read it before, but it didn't strike me as too interesting. That's what I expected, for the reasons given. Yes, it’s a very straightforward article - quite short and with no particular insights.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 28, 2021 10:59:18 GMT
That's what I expected, for the reasons given. Yes, it’s a very straightforward article - quite short and with no particular insights. I'd still like to read it.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on May 28, 2021 11:06:54 GMT
Yes, it’s a very straightforward article - quite short and with no particular insights. I'd still like to read it. Could you contact The M. R. James Appreciation Society and ask them to scan it for you?
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Post by ropardoe on May 28, 2021 12:13:51 GMT
I'd still like to read it. Could you contact The M. R. James Appreciation Society and ask them to scan it for you? No such entity! There is a Facebook group of that name, and there might be someone there would could help (I can’t).
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 28, 2021 12:17:40 GMT
Could you contact The M. R. James Appreciation Society and ask them to scan it for you? No such entity! There is a Facebook group of that name, and there might be someone there would could help (I can’t). I'll pray for it then.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 27, 2021 11:10:34 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 27, 2021 12:22:18 GMT
What exactly is "folk horror"?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 27, 2021 12:23:06 GMT
What exactly is "folk horror"? I'm folked if I know.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 27, 2021 12:51:01 GMT
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Post by johnnymains on Sept 27, 2021 12:52:48 GMT
What exactly is "folk horror"? Jumping on working class stories and traditions and exploiting them. A reaction against and for the rise in British nationalism. Past protectionism. Subjugation.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 27, 2021 13:44:08 GMT
My memory is that the phrase was coined by director Piers Haggard in 2010 whilst being interviewed by Mark Gatiss for a documentary on horror films which included a longish section on Haggard's classic title The Blood on Satan's Claw. However, Wikipaedia (which we know is infallible, lol) claims that Gatiss himself made up the term. For some reason, Blood together with 1973's The Wicker Man and 1969's Witchfinder General became canonised as the archetypal "trinity of folk horror." Around 2015-2016, in the wake of the publication of a book on the Folk Horror sub-genre edited by artist Andy Paciorek (whose work is really quite beautiful and cool), this quickly became a marketing niche growth industry and at this point, just about anything that you find vaguely creepy and British (or American, or French, or wherever) can be described as "folk horror." And bob's your uncle. The Folk Horror Revival website folkhorrorrevival.com, which also gives credit to Adam Scovell for getting all this started, includes this statement: Folk Horror Revival is affiliated to #FolkloreAgainstFascism ⨘ H.
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Post by johnnymains on Sept 27, 2021 14:14:18 GMT
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Post by johnnymains on Sept 27, 2021 14:24:48 GMT
My memory is that the phrase was coined by director Piers Haggard in 2010 whilst being interviewed by Mark Gatiss for a documentary on horror films which included a longish section on Haggard's classic title The Blood on Satan's Claw. However, Wikipaedia (which we know is infallible, lol) claims that Gatiss himself made up the term. For some reason, Blood together with 1973's The Wicker Man and 1969's Witchfinder General became canonised as the archetypal "trinity of folk horror." Around 2015-2016, in the wake of the publication of a book on the Folk Horror sub-genre edited by artist Andy Paciorek (whose work is really quite beautiful and cool), this quickly became a marketing niche growth industry and at this point, just about anything that you find vaguely creepy and British (or American, or French, or wherever) can be described as "folk horror." And bob's your uncle. The Folk Horror Revival website folkhorrorrevival.com, which also gives credit to Adam Scovell for getting all this started, includes this statement: Folk Horror Revival is affiliated to #FolkloreAgainstFascism ⨘ H. Piers Haggard came up with the term in 2004 for a Fangoria interview. In 2017 Jonathan Rigby claimed to have come up with the phrase "folk horror" but quickly bactracked when evidence to the contrary was put to him.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 27, 2021 14:25:10 GMT
I've read that Blood on Satan's Claw was first described as "a study in folk horror" in 1970 by Rod Cooper in the British film industry trade paper Kine Weekly. But as a more general term it goes back even further - there's an example from 1936 in The English Journal where it is used to describe some traditional ballads.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 27, 2021 14:40:49 GMT
Thanks Johnny and Dr Strange. Fascinating that there's a reference from 1936. So clearly it was "in the air" at some point, especially if a review in 1970 made use of the term.
Paciorek and his collaborators initially spoke of a "Folk Horror Revival." There seem to be several streams that have fed into this river, including things called hauntology and psychogeography which started out sort of like the underground art movements of the mid 20th century.
H.
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