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Mikel Koven
Biography
Folklore & Film, Horror Cinema, Exploitation Cinema, Italian exploitation cinema, Jewish film, Legend & film, Asian Cinema
Senior Lecturer & Course Leader, Film Studies
My Latest As Author
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013
(2022)
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: Return of the British Repressed.
Manchester University Press, Manchester.
(In Press)
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013
(2016)
Deep Red: The Quintessential Giallo.
Arrow Films, Shenley.
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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
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013
(2015)
9 Lives of the Black Cat.
Arrow Films, Shenley.
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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
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013
(2015)
Blaxploitation! A Video Essay.
[Video]
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013
(2010)
Blaxploitation Films.
Kamera Books, Harpenden.
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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.
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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
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013
(2008)
Film, Folklore and Urban Legends.
Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Koven, Mikel
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-3013 and Sherman, S.
(2005)
Folklore & Film.
Western Folklore, 64 (3-4).
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
My Most Viewed As Author
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1. | Blaxploitation Films | 771 | | 2. | Voices from the Periphery: Videodrome and the (pre)Postmodern Vision of Marshall McLuhan. | 687 | 1681 | 3. | The Folklore Fallacy: A Folkloristic/Filmic Perspective on The Wicker Man | 530 | | 4. | ‘"Buzz Off!": The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.’ | 505 | 608 | 5. | La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film | 427 | | 6. | Film, Folklore and Urban Legends | 396 | | 7. | The Folklore of the Zombie Film | 366 | | 8. | The Terror Tale: Urban Legends and the Slasher Film | 347 | | 9. | Most Haunted and the Convergence of Traditional Belief and Popular Television. | 328 | 1 | 10. | 'The Film you are about to see is Based on Documented Fact': Italian Nazi Sexploitation Cinema | 309 | 820 | 11. | Feminist Folkloristics and Women's Cinema: Towards a Methodology. | 278 | | 12. | The Folklore Files: In(corp)orating Legends in The X-Files | 246 | | 13. | The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film | 216 | 2 | 14. | Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular Entertainment | 207 | | 15. | Superstition & Pseudoscience: The Ambivalence of Belief in the Giallo Film | 204 | | 16. | Have I Got a Monster for You!: Some Thoughts on the Golem, The X-Files and the Jewish Horror Movie | 192 | | 17. | Coding with Jewish Cultural Studies and Jewish-American Cinema | 186 | | 18. | ‘I’m a Fairy? How Fucking Lame!’: True Blood as Fairytale | 182 | 4 | 19. | Candyman Can: Film & Ostentation | 176 | 489 | 20. | Cool Jewz: Contemporary Jewish Identity in Popular Culture | 174 | | 21. | Adapting Legends: Urban Legends and their Adaptation in Horror Cinema | 172 | | 22. | Folklore & Film | 168 | | 23. | Filming Legends: A Revised Typology | 166 | | 24. | The Jewish Giallo, or What's a Nice Jewish Motif Like You Doing in a Movie Like This? | 158 | 11 | 25. | Deep Red: The Quintessential Giallo | 157 | | 26. | Televisual Folklore: Rescuing Supernatural from the Fakelore Realm | 149 | | 27. | Folklore Studies and Popular Film & Television: A Necessary Critical Survey | 147 | | 28. | Corbucci Unchained: Miike, Tarantino and the Postmodern Discursivity of Exploitation Cinema | 144 | 3 | 29. | The X-Files | 143 | | 30. | Twee Koffers Vol/Left Luggage | 141 | | 31. | "You Don't Have to be Filmish": The Toronto Jewish Film Festival | 140 | 5 | 32. | Sergio Martino: Master of the Filone | 137 | 10 | 33. | 9 Lives of the Black Cat | 136 | | 34. | La Dolce Morta: Space, Modernity and the Giallo | 118 | | 35. | All About the Girl: Remembering the Girl Who Knew Too Much | 116 | | 36. | Buttgereit's Poetics: Schramm as Cinema of Poetry | 115 | | 37. | Interview with Herschell Gordon Lewis (Abertoir Horror Festival, Aberystwyth, UK: 8 November 2009) | 106 | 3 | 38. | Blaxploitation! A Video Essay | 104 | | 39. | Tradition and the International Zombie Film: The Movies | 102 | 4 | 40. | Cinema e Identità Culturale | 85 | 2 | 41. | “The Emperor’s New Lore, or Who Believes in the Big Bad Slender Man?” | 48 | 4 | 42. | Las variaciones Gastaldi: el juego del productor y el giallo isterico.
The Variations Gastaldi: The Game of the Producer and the Isthic Giallo | 48 | 3 | 43. | Italian Horror Cinema (Book Review) | 45 | | 44. | Mythic Cinema and the Contemporary Biblical Epic | 24 | 16 | 45. | The Italian Gothic | 24 | 2 | 46. | Folk Horror: a discursive approach, with application to Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man and Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves | | | 47. | The Canadian Giallo, or how the Italian thriller influenced the Canadian slasher film | | |
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