Kev Bickerdike
@kevbickerdike.bsky.social
Space, place and horror film.
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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).
My blog can be found here - lots of extracts from my thesis, as well as some pieces looking at social realism(Alan Clarke, especially).
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Possibly the final blog piece drawn from my thesis chapters.
Some ideas for newer pieces of writing are gestating.
Possibly the final blog piece drawn from my thesis chapters.
Some ideas for newer pieces of writing are gestating.
‘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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June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Possibly the final blog piece drawn from my thesis chapters.
Some ideas for newer pieces of writing are gestating.
Possibly the final blog piece drawn from my thesis chapters.
Some ideas for newer pieces of writing are gestating.
spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/a...
Keeping the momentum going via even more bloggage:
Keeping the momentum going via even more bloggage:
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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June 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Keeping the momentum going via even more bloggage:
Keeping the momentum going via even more bloggage:
spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/e...
New blog post - old material.
Newer stuff coming.
New blog post - old material.
Newer stuff coming.
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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June 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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New blog post - old material.
Newer stuff coming.
New blog post - old material.
Newer stuff coming.
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.
Do read Pig Iron, though, as it's even better.
I'm told that The Offing is part of Audible's Big Summer Sale for £2.99 from June 6th 2025.
I mean...ordinarily £2.99 gets you nowt these days, does it?
It's read by the inimitable Ralph Ineson (The Office, Chernobyl, The Gallows Pole etc).
I mean...ordinarily £2.99 gets you nowt these days, does it?
It's read by the inimitable Ralph Ineson (The Office, Chernobyl, The Gallows Pole etc).
June 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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.
Do read Pig Iron, though, as it's even better.
spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com
My blog can be found here - lots of extracts from my thesis, as well as some pieces looking at social realism(Alan Clarke, especially).
My blog can be found here - lots of extracts from my thesis, as well as some pieces looking at social realism(Alan Clarke, especially).
British Horror Cinema's Spaces and Places
British horror films and spatial theory
spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
spaceandbritishhorrorcinema.wordpress.com
My blog can be found here - lots of extracts from my thesis, as well as some pieces looking at social realism(Alan Clarke, especially).
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.
Inspired to research and write outside of my thesis constraints.
June 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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.
Inspired to research and write outside of my thesis constraints.