Nigel Kneale and Horror

Medium, Time, Culture and Genre

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Nigel Kneale’s writing career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, arguably contributing to the shape of British television drama, as well as having lingering influence in science fiction and horror. This collection focuses on Kneale’s horror writing, particularly in film and television. Taking a number of different academic perspectives, the chapters approach questions of medium, adaptation, genre, and style, emphasising the role that time plays in Kneale’s horror, and how he connected to wider cultural concerns. The work covered includes more famous productions, such as the Quatermass serials, The Woman in Black and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as some that have received less attention, including the social horror of Kneale’s film adaptations of Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer, ‘lost’ productions such as ‘The Chopper’ and Bam! Pow! Zap!, and unproduced work such as The Big, Big Giggle. Drawing on archival sources, including Kneale’s own archives, alongside the productions themselves, the collection portrays Kneale as a writer deeply concerned with society and social change, with the potential and responsibility of the media, and not as a horror writer, but a writer deeply concerned with the horrific.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-04-01
Mått163 x 239 x 19 mm
Vikt474 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHidden Horror Histories
Antal sidor230
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781836243519

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Introduction: Nigel Kneale and HorrorDerek JohnstonMEDIUM“People don’t believe nothing nowadays unless they’ve seen it on the telly”: Nigel Kneale’s Televisual GothicBrontë SchiltzSonic Haunting in Nigel Kneale’s Ghost StoriesDerek JohnstonTelevising the Future: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), Nigel Kneale and Dystopian HorrorRobin BunceCULTURE“Stop it! turn it off!”: Kneale, Mass Culture and the Horror of YouthRehan HyderAffirmation/Negation: Multicultural Integration in Nigel Kneale’s The Abominable Snowman and ‘Murrain’Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsTIMEThe Palimpsest of Time: Quatermass and the Pit, ‘The Road’ and The Stone TapeJ.S. MackleyRound the Ring Stones: Nigel Kneale and MegalithsMarcus Harmes and Mark FryersGENRELook Back in Unease: Nigel Kneale and Social Realist HorrorDavid CottisBeasts: ‘Baby’ – Folklore, Folk Horror and Eeriness OnscreenDiane A. RodgersAfterword: Conclusions and ContinuationsDerek Johnston

‘This outstanding collection spans the wide career of this unique figure in British popular culture. Taking Kneale as a palimpsestic writer, we find an admirably suitable approach in a volume which uncovers, extracts, and reveals... Like one of Kneale’s protagonists, the reader is taken on a compelling journey into the vision and creativity of a complex genius'Professor Richard J. Hand, University of East Anglia