Introduction: Beasts of the Forest; Part 1: FEROCIOUS FORESTS; Chapter 1 'You're already in Hell': Representations of the Forest in Wolf People's video Night Witch (2016); Chapter 2 EcoGothic Secrets: Venturing Beneath the Deep Dark Forest; Chapter 3 Holy monstrosity of arborescence in Brian Catling's The Vorrh; Part 2: DENIZENS OF THE WOODS; Chapter 4 Long in the Tooth? Werewolves of a Certain Age; Chapter 5 Cruising the Queer Forest with Alain Guiraudie: Woods, Plastics, Plasticities; Chapter 6 The 'Good' and 'Bad' Forests of Modern Fantasy Cinema: A Kleinian Topology; Part 3: TOLKIEN'S FORESTS; Chapter 7 Trees and Tolkien: Reflections between medieval and modern reverence; Chapter 8 Shadow Shrouds and Moonlight Veils The Forest as an Existential Scene in Tolkien's Legendarium; Chapter 9 The Fiendish Forests of Middle-earth: Tolkien's Trees as Villainous Adversaries
Summary
This collection ranges widely to analyse how forests figure in contemporary culture, as well as the wider contexts in which such representations are inserted