Kev Bickerdike

The Cinematic Landscape This blog is largely concerned with examinations of space and place within horror cinema (as the name would suggest), but I had, until the very latest stages of writing my thesis, neglected to exam…

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Bloggage.

‘There’s Nothing for You Here’ – Spatial Insideness and Outsideness Within An American Werewolf in London. Within any given environment, the individual experiences a certain level of connectedness that is best understood in terms put forward by Edward Relph, when he posited the concepts of insideness an…

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Possibly the final blog piece drawn from my thesis chapters.
Some ideas for newer pieces of writing are gestating.

Spatial Authenticity in 28 Weeks Later Dahlia Schweitzer suggests that ‘In zombie narratives, there is inevitably a hyperbolization of physical structures: building walls, fortifying existing walls, and barricading windows’ (42). This h…

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Topical blog post:

Calibre – (In)Appropriate Spatial Behaviour Much of the tension found within Matt Palmer’s Calibre (2018) is spatial, inasmuch as it is elicited via the positioning of the film’s rural Scottish community as insular and parochial, with a robu…

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Blog update:

Alistair 1918. Found Footage (or faux documentary - the footage isn't 'found') that does different things to many within the genre, not least because it's not horror.

An American Werewolf in London – The Urban vs the Rural Doreen Massey has spoken about the problems associated with viewing spaces in temporal terms. She has argued that placing spaces, as static moments, onto a timeline allows a prioritisation of parti…

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Keeping the momentum going via even more bloggage:

Eden Lake – Narrative Tension and the Rejection of Authority Malevolent children have long been used within horror cinema to express fears concerning adolescents and young adults becoming autonomous and threatening figures. From the insular group identity of…

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New blog post - old material.
Newer stuff coming.

I had an Audible notification the other day that there was a new book by you, which I thought was quick work after Rare Singles, but it turns out you share your name with a theology academic.
Incidentally, loved The Offing and Ralph's narration of it (and Pig Iron) was superb.

I have found myself having read (or listened to) 6 of Benjamin Myers' books over the last couple of years, and can't recommend this one enough. Beautiful prose throughout and Ineson is a bloody good rep...erm, narrator.

Do read Pig Iron, though, as it's even better.

British Horror Cinema's Spaces and Places British horror films and spatial theory

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My blog can be found here - lots of extracts from my thesis, as well as some pieces looking at social realism(Alan Clarke, especially).

First conference for a good while at @horrorstudies.bsky.social last week, and really enjoyed the quality of the papers, and I have to say, as a very fussy vegetarian it was the best conference food I’ve encountered.
Inspired to research and write outside of my thesis constraints.