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Enter blog entry here As I have already stated in an earlier posting, the central figure of Edo Gothic is the ronin, or masterless samurai, whose lack of status is the key motivational factor in the narrative of violence and vengeance that defines the genre. The archetypical ronin of Edo Gothic has to be Iyemon in ‘The Ghost Story of Yotsuya’, whose desire to regain his lost status leads to the murder of his beautiful but sickly wife, Oiwa, in order to marry Oume, the daughter of a rich Samurai, and by doing so to regain his position in the [Feudal] social order. As such, the loca

Although dubbed an Australian Western by its creators, it seems to me that the 2006 film The Proposition (2006) written by Nick Cave and directed by long-term Cave collaborator John Hillcoat draws heavily on the tropes of the Australian (literary) Gothic – deracination, isolation, entrapment, dislocation and the uncanny – in a really haunting way to forge its unrelentingly violent and poignantly ethereal vision of the lawless Australian outback of the 1880s. To recap, the film pits an English police captain, Morris Stanley (Ray Winstone gives a strikingly restrained performance her

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Sondeep Kandola, Leeds University, posts on Nick Cave

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