Nigel Kneale and Horror

Medium, Time, Culture and Genre

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2025
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83624-351-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Derek Johnston lectures in media at Queen’s University Belfast and is the author of Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween.

Introduction: Nigel Kneale and Horror

Derek Johnston

MEDIUM

“People don’t believe nothing nowadays unless they’ve seen it on the telly”: Nigel Kneale’s Televisual Gothic

Brontë Schiltz

Sonic Haunting in Nigel Kneale’s Ghost Stories

Derek Johnston

Televising the Future: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), Nigel Kneale and Dystopian Horror

Robin Bunce

CULTURE

“Stop it! turn it off!”: Kneale, Mass Culture and the Horror of Youth

Rehan Hyder

Affirmation/Negation: Multicultural Integration in Nigel Kneale’s The Abominable Snowman and ‘Murrain’

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

TIME

The Palimpsest of Time: Quatermass and the Pit, ‘The Road’ and The Stone Tape

J.S. Mackley

Round the Ring Stones: Nigel Kneale and Megaliths

Marcus Harmes and Mark Fryers

GENRE

Look Back in Unease: Nigel Kneale and Social Realist Horror

David Cottis

Beasts: ‘Baby’ – Folklore, Folk Horror and Eeriness Onscreen

Diane A. Rodgers

Afterword: Conclusions and Continuations

Derek Johnston

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Hidden Horror Histories
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83624-351-0 / 1836243510
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-351-9 / 9781836243519
Zustand	Neuware