ext english related texts gothic. (1 Viewer)

[muzz.]

does anyone have any valid texts; preferably movies, tv shoes or books (not short stories) that are suitable for the prelim ext english gothic genre ???

 

[bored of sc]

Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN

 

[perfectstudent1]

Harry Potter is probably the most gothic text I have ever read
if your after something a little bit more simple Christabel is perfect; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christabel_(poem)

hope this helps
if your struggling too much with the concpet of gothicism perhaps you should drop down to standard english
xx

 

[foram]

Try "the were-wolf" by clemence housman. Its a very good gothic text. Its a nineteenth century classic and one of the earliest tales to feature a were-wolf.

 

[lisarh]

Novels

• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
• Lady Audley's Secret
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Ann Radcliff - The Italian etc.
• The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• Dr Jekyll and Mr hyde
• The Woman in Black - Susan Hill

Poems

• The Raven
• Christabel - Samuel Coleridge
• The Eve of St Agnes - John Keats
• La Belle Dame sans Merci - John Keats

Movies / Tv Shows

• Van Helsing (2002)
• The Adams Family
• The Innocents (1961) - based on The Turn of the Screw
• Tim Burton's work - eg. Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005) , Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

 

[iCpurplehippos]

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

 

[sarah889]

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

the movie is probably a better option...

 

[iCpurplehippos]

the movie is probably a better option...

Eww, no. If you're talking about the 1992 one, it was heaps confusing. I'm sure I wouldn't have understood it if I hadn't read the book.

 

[sarah889]

Eww, no. If you're talking about the 1992 one, it was heaps confusing. I'm sure I wouldn't have understood it if I hadn't read the book.

but we are not talking about what you find confusing, rather what is MORE gothic
the movie is definately the way to go
harry potter is also worth considering, it has dark elements

 

[agua.fuego]

We're doing Gothic in Ext. 1 as well, studying Frankenstein (Mary Shelley). Also "Invitation to A Beheading" is meant to be Gothic, my teacher mentioned it more than once though I can't remember author. Harry Potter as well, as everyone mentioned. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. There is, according to wikipedia, Gothic Satire (Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen as the example, among others). Just any text that you can find that has the Gothic elements - those being some or all of these:

• a castle (ruined or not)
• ruined buildings
• dungeons, underground passages, etc. Modernised, basements and attics
• labyrinths, winding stairs, dark corridors
• shadows, beam of moonlight, flickering candle, only source of light failing
• extreme landscapes and weather
• omens and ancestral curses
• magic and the supernatural
• "a passion-driven, wilful villain-hero or villain"
• heroine who needs to be a dainty typical thing - my sheet says she faints a lot and needs to be rescued heaps
• a hero whose true identity is revealed by the end of the novel
• horrific events or the threat of such occurring.

There's also the wikipedia site: heaps of examples of Gothic texts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Hope it helps!

 

[farhan8]

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Yeah, we're doing Dracula too. We'll be starting it soon, so i don't know if it's any good.

 

[Amused]

I am Legend, the new movie that just came out is really good, we studied it in ext last term.

 

[foram]

Try the Hellsing OVA's. They're in jap, but that should be good enough if theres subtitles.

 

[beachee99]

i dunno if someone has said it. But i did Buffy the Vampire Slayer tv show as a supplementary. It was good to show the adaptations of the gothic from its original conventions and connotations. E.g. Female not being victimised but being the heroin.