Local Haunts - Couverture souple

Scovell, Adam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914391462 ISBN 13 : 9781914391460

Editeur : Influx Press, 2025

Synopsis

For more than a decade, writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell has been preoccupied by the strange connections between place and culture: curious about the graves of writers, determined to find the locations of iconic films, intrigued by the landscapes that inspired novels. From classic films to obscure British television, the poems of playwrights to the psychogeography of Weird Fiction, Local Haunts brings together a collection of essays, photographs, travelogues, and journalism that explores the connections between art and the landscapes that inspire it. With particular focus on several key figures that emphasised place in their work - including W.G. Sebald, Alan Garner, Agnes Varda, M.R. James, and Marguerite Duras - Scovell explores culture that is haunted by locales, rural and urban. Taken from a range of print and digital publications, including work published by Sight & Sound, Literary Hub, Caught By The River, and Little White Lies, as well as Scovell's Celluloid Wicker Man site that brought many ideas surrounding Folk Horror and the Urban Wyrd to prominence in the early 2010s, Local Haunts brings together a decade of work treading the ghostways and the corpse roads of film, literature, and art.

‘In this wonderfully eclectic collection of essays Adam Scovell makes a beguiling guide, leading us along numerous haunted byways of British and European literature, television and cinema.’ – Edward Parnell, author of Ghostland

‘A splendidly compendious celebration of landscape in film and prose, with a special focus on the uncanny. This treasury of Adam Scovell casts his insightful eye on an enviable range of topics and achieves that best of critical functions – to make us look again at things we may have taken for granted.’ – Ramsey Campbell

‘Scovell's incisive essays, distributed across space-time, come together in this volume to form a cohesive travelogue through the hinterlands of our cultural landscape and the imaginal topographies of great artists, writers and filmmakers. It's an enriching journey that takes regular pitstops in those enchanted zones where a place and its stories are one and the same.’ – Gareth E. Rees, author of Sunken Lands

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker from Merseyside, now living in London. He completed his PhD in Music at Goldsmiths University in 2018, and now writes regularly for the BBC, the BFI and many other outlets. He is the author of Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange (2017, Auteur), alongside three novels all published by Influx Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Influx Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914391462
• ISBN 13: 9781914391460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 426
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible