Fairytale and Gothic Horror

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).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fairytale Roots and Transformations.- 3. Gothic Transgression, Horror, Film.- 4. Rebecca Returns: Death and Renewal Beyond the Door.- 5. Encountering the Werewolf – Confronting the Self: On and Off the Path to The Company of Wolves.- 6. The Horror in Pan’s Labyrinth: Beneath the Rhetoric of Hope and Fear.- 7. Afterword: Uncanny Transformations in Film.

“Fairytale and Gothic Horror is useful to readers who want to discuss horror as a manifestation of psychology, time, place, and circumstances, as well as those interested in horror-film trends. It would make an excellent outline for a course in gothic cinema and a good supplemental read for a course in cinematic adaptations of fairy tales.” (Cory Thomas Hutcheson, Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol. 33 (1), 2019)