Mikel Koven - Worcester Research and Publications

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Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2023) Folk Horror: a discursive approach, with application to Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man and Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves. In: Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 978-1-5261-6492-6
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2023) The Canadian Giallo, or how the Italian Thriller Influenced the Canadian Slasher Film. In: Bloodstained narratives : the giallo film in Italy and abroad. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MI. ISBN 9781496844460,
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2022) Werewolves, Folklore and Cinema. Second Sight.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2022) Schrodinger’s Harlem: How Across 110th Street both is, and is not, a Blaxploitation Film. Imprint Video, Australia.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2022) Walpurgisnacht: Folklore & Popular Culture. In: Perspectives on Contemporary Legend, 11-15 July, 2022, Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau PQ. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2022) Folk Horror & the Undead. In: The Undead in the 21st Century. Peter Lang, Bern, pp. 19-26. ISBN 9781789977295
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2021) La influencia del Giallo italiano en las películas slasher producidas en Canadá a inicios de la década de 1980: Phobia y Visiting Hours. In: Crimen y Fantástico. Cinestesia, Alicante, pp. 127-139. ISBN 978-84-120496-8-8
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2021) Walpurgisnacht: Folklore & Popular Culture. In: Miskatonic University of Horror Studies (Los Angeles), 29 April 2021, Los Angeles. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2020) The Canadian Giallo, or how the Italian thriller influenced the Canadian slasher film. In: Fantaelx: Congreso internacional de genero fantástico, audiovisuales y nuevas tecnologías., 12 November 2020, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Elche, Spain.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2020) Narratives of Resistance in Folk Horror. Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal PQ. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2020) The Italian Gothic. In: Gothic Film : An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 155-169. ISBN 978 1 4744 4744 4804 8
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2020) Golems, Dybbuks and other Movie Monsters: The Search for a Jewish Horror Film. In: Golems, Dybbuks and other Movie Monsters: The Search for a Jewish Horror Film, 12 March, 2020, Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies (London). (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2020) Mythic Cinema and the Contemporary Biblical Epic. In: The Bible Onscreen in the New Millenium: New Heart and New Spirit. Manchester University Press . Manchester Univeresity Press, Manchester, pp. 87-101. ISBN 978-1-5261-3657-2
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2019) The Canadian Giallo, or how Italian horror movies influenced the Canadian slasher film. In: Fractured Vision Film Festival, 25-27 October 2019, Chapters Arts Centre, Cardiff. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2019) Return of the Living Slave: Jordan Peele’s Get Out as Zombie Film. In: Folklore On Screen, 13-14 September 2019, Centre for Contemporary Legend, Sheffield Hallam University. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2019) Las variaciones Gastaldi: el juego del productor y el giallo isterico. The Variations Gastaldi: The Game of the Producer and the Isthic Giallo. In: Giallo: crimen, sexualidad y estilo en el cine de género italiano. Editorial Rutemberg, Buenos Aires, pp. 75-88.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2019) The Rhetoric of Veracity: Found Footage Films and the Rhetoric of Truth. In: The Rhetoric of Veracity. McFarland & Co, Jefferson, NC. (Submitted)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2019) Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema. [Video]
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) “The Emperor’s New Lore, or Who Believes in the Big Bad Slender Man?”. In: Slender Man is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, CO, pp. 113-127. ISBN 978-1607327806
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) Häxan, and the birth of Folk Horror. In: Perspectives in Contemporary Legend, 5-9 June, 2018, Institut des Hautes Études de Communications Sociales (IHECS), Brussels, Belgium. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) Italian Horror Cinema (Book Review). Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 6 (1). 137-152 (16). ISSN Print: 2047-7368 Online:2047-7376
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) Nightmares: Anatomy of an Urban Legend Film. 101 Films.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) Television Drama (Fairy Tales and American TV Drama). In: The Routledge Companion to Fairy-Tale Cultures and Media. Routledge media and cultural studies companions . Routledge, London, pp. 625-633. ISBN 9780367580735
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) Jet Set Giallo. Arrow Video.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) The Last Supper: The Final Days of the Italian Cannibal Film. [Video]
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2018) Brain Food: Analysing Late Day Fulci. [Video]
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2017) Paul Wegener’s Das Golem (1920) as Folk Horror. In: Lecture Series, 28-30 November 2017, Charles University, Prague. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2017) Mythic Cinema and the Contemporary Biblical Epic. In: Lecture Series, 28-30 November 2017, Charles University, Prague. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2017) The Rhetoric of Veracity: Found Footage Films and the Rhetoric of Truth. In: Lecture Series, 28-30 November 2017, Charles University, Prague. (Unpublished)
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2017) The Poetry of the Gross-Out: Argento's Phenomena. Arrow Video.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2016) Sergio Martino: Master of the Filone. In: International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear. Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 131-147. ISBN Paperback 978-1783206537
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2016) Deep Red: The Quintessential Giallo. Arrow Films, Shenley.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2016) Corbucci Unchained: Miike, Tarantino and the Postmodern Discursivity of Exploitation Cinema. In: Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation. University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, pp. 125-144. ISBN Hardback 9780748695454
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2016) Audio Commentary on 'The Hills Have Eyes'. Arrow Films.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2015) 9 Lives of the Black Cat. Arrow Films, Shenley.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2015) Tradition and the International Zombie Film: The Movies. In: Putting the Supernatural in its Place: Folklore, the Hypermodern and the Ethereal. Utah State University Press, Salt Lake City, pp. 90-125. ISBN 978-1-60781-449-8 eBook 978-1-60781-450-4
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2015) Blaxploitation! A Video Essay. [Video]
Waddell, C. and Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2014) All About the Girl: Remembering the Girl Who Knew Too Much. Arrow Films, Shenley.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2014) The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film. In: The Italian Cinema Book. British Film Institute, London, pp. 203-210. ISBN Paperback 978-1844574049
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2013) Cinema e Identità Culturale. In: I Film Studies. Advanced Studies . Carocci, Rome, pp. 199-206. ISBN Paperback 9788843069026
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2013) Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis (Abertoir Horror Festival, Aberystwyth, UK: 8 November 2009). One+One: Filmmakers' Journal, 12 (1). pp. 13-20.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2012) ‘I’m a Fairy? How Fucking Lame!’: True Blood as Fairytale. In: True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic. Investigating Cult TV Series . I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, London, pp. 59-73. ISBN Paperback 978-1848859401
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 and Thorgeirsdottir, G. (2011) Televisual Folklore: Rescuing Supernatural from the Fakelore Realm. In: TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural. ECW Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 187-200. ISBN Paperback 978-1770410206
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2010) Blaxploitation Films. Kamera Books, Harpenden.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2010) The Jewish Giallo, or What's a Nice Jewish Motif Like You Doing in a Movie Like This? In: Cultural Representations of Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century. EUI Working Papers, Florence, pp. 135-146.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2010) The X-Files. In: The Essential Cult TV Reader. Essential readers in contemporary media . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky, pp. 337-344. ISBN 9780813125688
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2008) Film, Folklore and Urban Legends. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2008) Coding with Jewish Cultural Studies and Jewish-American Cinema. Jewish Cultural Studies, 1. pp. 291-310. ISSN 978-1-904113-45-4
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2008) The Folklore of the Zombie Film. In: Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, pp. 19-34. ISBN 0810860430
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2007) Most Haunted and the Convergence of Traditional Belief and Popular Television. Folklore, 118 (2). pp. 183-202. ISSN 0015-587X
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 and Shermon, Sharon (2007) Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment. Utah State University Press, Logan, UT. ISBN 978-0-87421-673-8
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2007) Cool Jewz: Contemporary Jewish Identity in Popular Culture. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 25 (4). ISSN Print:0882-8539 Online: 1534-5165
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2007) The Folklore Fallacy: A Folkloristic/Filmic Perspective on The Wicker Man. Fabula, 48 (3-4). pp. 270-280. ISSN Print: 0014-6242 Online: 1613-0464
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2007) Adapting Legends: Urban Legends and their Adaptation in Horror Cinema. In: Monstrous Adaptations: Generic and Thematic Mutations in Horror Film. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 157-171. ISBN 9780719076039
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2007) The Folklore Files: In(corp)orating Legends in The X-Files. In: The X-Files and Literature: Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to Find the Truth. Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 91-104. ISBN 1-84718-239-9
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2007) Buttgereit's Poetics: Schramm as Cinema of Poetry. In: Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, pp. 185-197. ISBN 0810858789
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2006) La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD. ISBN 0-8108-5870-3
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 and Sherman, S. (2005) Folklore & Film. Western Folklore, 64 (3-4).
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2004) Superstition & Pseudoscience: The Ambivalence of Belief in the Giallo Film. Midwestern Folklore, 30 (2). pp. 21-29. ISSN 0894-4059.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2004) Twee Koffers Vol/Left Luggage. In: The Cinema of the Low Countries. Wallflower Press, London, pp. 230-237. ISBN 1904764002
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2004) 'The Film you are about to see is Based on Documented Fact': Italian Nazi Sexploitation Cinema. In: Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema from 1945. Wallflower Press, London, pp. 19-31. ISBN 903364930
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2003) La Dolce Morta: Space, Modernity and the Giallo. Kinoeye, 3 (12). ISSN Online 1475-2441
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2003) The Terror Tale: Urban Legends and the Slasher Film. Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2003) Folklore Studies and Popular Film & Television: A Necessary Critical Survey. Journal of American Folklore, 116 (460). pp. 176-195. ISSN 00218715
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2002) Filming Legends: A Revised Typology. Contemporary Legend, New Se. pp. 114-135. ISSN 0963-8334
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2001) ‘"Buzz Off!": The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.’. Contemporary Legend, New Se. pp. 1-19. ISSN 0963-8334
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (2000) Have I Got a Monster for You!: Some Thoughts on the Golem, The X-Files and the Jewish Horror Movie. Folklore, 111 (2). pp. 217-230. ISSN 0015-587X
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (1999) Feminist Folkloristics and Women's Cinema: Towards a Methodology. Literature Film Quarterly, 27 (4). pp. 292-300.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (1999) Candyman Can: Film & Ostentation. Contemporary Legend New Series, 2. pp. 155-173. ISSN 0963-8334
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (1999) "You Don't Have to be Filmish": The Toronto Jewish Film Festival. Ethnologies, 21 (1). pp. 115-132. ISSN Print 1481-5974 Online 1708-0401
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 (1997) Voices from the Periphery: Videodrome and the (pre)Postmodern Vision of Marshall McLuhan. Postscript : A Journal of Graduate School Criticism and Theory, 4 (4). pp. 25-37.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 In Defense of Watch Me When I Kill. 88Films, Lutterworth.
Koven, Mikel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 All Eyes on Lenzi: The Life and Times of the Italian Exploitation Titan. [Video]