Transnational Horror

Cüneyt Çakırlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University. He co-authored Taner Ceylan: The Lost Paintings Series (2013) and Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (2023).

• Introduction: Curating Folk Horror by Cüneyt ÇakırlarPART I: PROPERTYLiving in Bondage: Vampires, Zombies, and the Occult Powers of Money in Nigerian Film and VideoDavid McNally(Un)settling the Land: Colonial and Environmental Violence in Nordic Horror CinemaBenjamin BigelowThe Arctic Horror: Sakha (Yakutia) Cinema and Global Cultural Re-orientationsVlad StrukovFrom a Dark Place: Indigenous Australian HorrorLindsay Anne HallamPART II: IDENTITYFeminism with swords and hooves: Aïcha Kandisha, Transnational Cinema, and Postcolonial HorrorRosalind GaltQueering the Filipinx Zombie Movie: Remington and the Curse of the ZombadingsBliss Cua LimChicana Absenteeism as Abject Maternity in Anglophone Filmic Versions of La LloronaGustavo SuberoPART III: MOBILITYThe Persistence of That Which Clings: The Cultural Politics of the Dybbuk in Transnational Postmillennial CinemasJacob EngelbergDjinns as Transformative Otherness: Forms of Toxic Kinship in Postmillennial Turkish Horror FilmCüneyt ÇakırlarGlobal/Local Folk Horror: Tumbbad(2018) and the Transnational Dynamics of Indian “Indie” Horror CinemaIain Robert SmithGenre and Sound in Contemporary Korean Occult Movies: An Analysis of The Priests (2015) and The Wailing (2016)Nikki J.Y. LeePART IV: BEYOND THE CINEMATIC APPARATUSHaving Fun Playing Dead: Games of Possession and the Power of Suggestion in the Mr. Vampire FilmsDavid Scott DiffrientFolk Culture and its Global Circuits: The Transnational Weird of Indonesian horror and the Crisis of IntelligibilityAlicia IzharuddinHours Dreadful and Things Nasty: British Folk Horror at the Dawn of the Video AgeJohnny WalkerFrom the Kaaba with Shahmaran to Boğaziçi University: The Sacred and OccupationNur Kıpçak

'Two pressing questions facing horror studies today are "What is folk horror?" and "How do we globalize horror studies?" Cakirlar and his contributors find original, innovative ways to address both of these questions simultaneously in this impressive and important book. Cakirlar is a dynamic new voice in contemporary horror studies.' Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness