New publication [January 2025]

Back in May 2022, I was invited to a lovely workshop organised by Cüneyt Çakırlar at Nottingham Trent University. It was my first time in the ancient, much spruced-up city of Nottingham, the northern English spring gently warmed my cheeks. The workshop would eventually produce a new edited volume, Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics (2025, University of Liverpool Press), featuring the work of many scholarly stars of world cinema (well, excluding me). I presented a paper at said workshop that would become a chapter in this amazing, path-breaking book, writing of which was for the most part hard-going and painful, but became thoroughly satisfying because of Cüneyt’s patience and support. My chapter on the global mediations of Indonesian horror is titled, ‘Folk Culture and its Global Circuits: The Transnational Weird of Indonesian horror and the Crisis of Intelligibility.’ Not a bad start to the new year eh?