Overview
- Explores the links and divergences between fairytale and gothic horror as they are conveyed in film
- Examines fairytale horror, motifs and themes – positioned within a cinematic context
- Locates a distinctively cinematic gothic horror, a concept that both draws on and is distinct from literary and other artistic forms
- Analyses the cultural and political functions of fairytale and gothic horror, and the levels of subversion or social conformity at the heart of the films
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Laura Hubner is Reader in Film and Media at the University of Winchester, UK. She is author of The Films of Ingmar Bergman (2007), editor of Valuing Films (2011) and coeditor of Framing Film (2012) and The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture (2014). She recently contributed chapters to Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney (2015) and The Written Dead (2017).
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Book Title: Fairytale and Gothic Horror
Book Subtitle: Uncanny Transformations in Film
Authors: Laura Hubner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39347-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39346-3Published: 19 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39347-0Published: 06 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Genre, Literature, general, Film Theory