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Studies in Ecocriticism
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Research Article

Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning

M. Keith Bookera Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Isra Daraisehb Department of English, Arab Open University, Al-Farwaniya, KuwaitORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2301-9268View further author information
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Pages 191-205 | Received 03 Nov 2022, Accepted 05 Sep 2023, Published online: 23 Oct 2023

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