‘Un(th)inkable tales: unimaginable folklore horror in Emily Carroll’sThrough the Woods’

‘Once upon a Midsommar…’: Nature, nationalism and the Swedish folkloresque

“…Indeed, some of the most defining characteristics of the fairy tale narrative are particularly discernible in Midsommar, where they naturally gesture to the film's structural ties to folklore. While some scholars like Laura Hubner (2018; see also Dokou 2017) have pointed out the fairy tale's amenability to employing horror tropes in cinematic adaptations, few have surveyed the inverse, instances when the horror film itself proves rather accommodating to fairy tale convention. Author Mikita Brottman explores this unique correlation C o p y r i g h t I n t e l l e c t L t d in a chapter that reads The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) through a fairy tale framework, arguing that 'the horror film […] relies for its innate symbolic resonance on the structure of the fairy tale', which is 'controlled by a mythic order and a ritual narrative script ' (2005: 107-11).…”

influencia del folclore en los cuentos de la ilustradora Emily Carroll

“…Un paso más, en este sentido, es el que propone Dokou (2017) en su análisis del cuento de Carroll, ya que identifica al misterioso personaje con sombrero (y al lobo de la conclusión) con una conocida figura del folclore norteamericano, como es la del wendigo. 10 El personaje de Caperucita Roja aparece de nuevo en la conclusión (o resumen) del libro («In Conclusion» [En resumen]).…”