On The Radar #1: Generation Hexed – Spooky Tv, Folklore, Folk Horror And 1970s Wyrd

Today’s spooky TV content continues to be haunted by the spectre of the1970s, a time when TV was bursting at the seams with weirdness, eeriness, supernatural folklore and contemporary legend.  This presentation considers why supernatural folklore was so prevalent in 1970s media and how it has been represented on screen.  Using Children of the Stones (”the scariest programme ever made for children”) as an example, this talk examines the impact such programming continues to have upon generations of audiences far beyond the reach of television itself.

This session will be led by Diane A Rodgers (Media, Arts & Communications).  Diane is a senior lecturer on the media team in MAC, co-lead of the Cultural Heritage research Group in CCMS and co-founder of the Centre for Contemporary Legend Research Group, and is currently in the final stages of completing her PhD ‘Wyrd TV: Folklore, Folk Horror and Hauntology in British Television’.

Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.

For more information, or to add your name as a future presenter for this new series of informal research seminars, please contact Diane Rodgers