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Coined by film director Piers Haggard, the term ‘folk horror’ has become ubiquitous in contemporary British culture, ending up to denote not only the aesthetics of films such as Haggard’s Blood on Satan’s Claw or Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man, but a veritable tonality underlying Britain’s relationship with its own past, repeatedly resurfacing in visual culture, literature, and music. At the same time, folk horror has also become a peculiarly trans-national phenomenon, finding specific resonances in Italian culture: the music scene labelled Italian Occult Psychedelia, for example, has many points in common with folk horror, and the narrative/cinematographic horror sub-genre known as ‘gotico padano’ shows several elements of proximity with its British counterpart. By moving from his most recent book, Italia lunare, Fabio Camilletti will explore the still uncharted region of ‘Italian folk horror’ through cinema, literature, music, and ethnology.
Fabio Camilletti is Reader at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick. His research interests include European Gothic literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Anglo-Italian relations in the Victorian age, and literature and psychoanalysis. Among his books, Leopardi’s Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny (Legenda 2013), Italia lunare: gli anni Sessanta e l’occulto (Peter Lang 2018), and The Portrait of Beatrice: Dante, D.G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady (Notre Dame UP 2019), as well as the co-edited volume The Archaeology of the Unconscious. Italian Perspectives (Routledge 2019).
Introduction by Enrica Maria Ferrara (UCD).
Free admission.