A new academic study of Kneale's work has been published by Liverpool University Press. The book is edited by Derek Johnston, lecturer in media at Queen’s University Belfast, and is the author of Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween.
This collection focuses on Kneale’s horror writing, particularly in film and television. Taking a number of different academic perspectives, the chapters approach questions of medium, adaptation, genre, and style, emphasising the role that time plays in Kneale’s horror, and how he connected to wider cultural concerns. The work covered includes more famous productions, such as the Quatermass serials, The Woman in Black and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as well as some that have received less attention, including the social horror of Kneale’s film adaptations of Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer, ‘lost’ productions such as ‘The Chopper’ and Bam! Pow! Zap!, and unproduced work such as The Big, Big Giggle. Drawing on archival sources, including Kneale’s own archives, alongside the productions themselves, the collection portrays Kneale as a writer deeply concerned with society and social change, with the potential and responsibility of the media, and not as a horror writer, but a writer deeply concerned with the horrific.
At the moment the book is only available in a budget bursting hardback edition, but will hopefully come out in paperback at some point.
For more details and a look at the contents head over to https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243519
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