2010 November

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The Modern Sublime

Posted by whughes on November 23, 2010 in Guest Blog tagged with , , , , ,

This one arises out of a conversation which I've just had with a colleague regarding contemporary theories of the Sublime

Bloody Women: From Gothic to Horror Thumbnail

Bloody Women: From Gothic to Horror

Posted by Glennis Byron on November 22, 2010 in News tagged with , ,

BFI Southbank, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Birds Eye View: celebrating women filmmakers Dates for the seventh annual Birds Eye View Film Festival have been announced: 8-17 March 2011. While little information has as yet been released about the programme, BEV have revealed that the 2011 Festival...

CFP: Gothic and Genre, Swansea University, 11 December 2010 Thumbnail

CFP: Gothic and Genre, Swansea University, 11 December 2010

Posted by Glennis Byron on November 21, 2010 in News tagged with ,

This day conference, hosted by WAWR [Wales and the West Romanticism Seminar], will investigate some of the subversive variety and generic instability of Gothic. Poster Gothic and Genre poster CFP  Gothic and Genre cfp

Andrew Smith, The Ghost Story, 1840-1920: A Cultural History Thumbnail

Andrew Smith, The Ghost Story, 1840-1920: A Cultural History

Posted by Matt Foley on November 20, 2010 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , , , , , , , , ,

Andrew Smith’s new monograph on haunting, which focuses on a turbulent time period he classifies as a long 19th Century (1840-1920), is certainly wide in its scope...

New and Forthcoming Books Thumbnail

New and Forthcoming Books

Posted by Glennis Byron on November 19, 2010 in News tagged with

Information about new and forthcoming books of Gothic interest

Neil Lerner, ed. Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear Thumbnail

Neil Lerner, ed. Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear

Posted by Aspasia Stephanou on November 18, 2010 in Blog, Reviews tagged with , ,

This collection of twelve essays from scholars of music and film studies is concerned with music in the horror film and its ability to create or intensify fear. ...

Plenty of Christmas Fear in Nottingham Thumbnail

Plenty of Christmas Fear in Nottingham

Posted by Dale Townshend on November 18, 2010 in News tagged with , ,

Details about an interesting Gothic-related Christmas event in Nottingham, UK, can be found here: 

Red Riding Hood update: trailer now out Thumbnail

Red Riding Hood update: trailer now out

Posted by Glennis Byron on November 17, 2010 in News tagged with ,

'The wolf is someone in this village'. Here's the trailer for Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. Spot the Twilight connections; you won't be stretched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfwUkXQrHE

Count Eric Stenbock, Lunatic Lover Thumbnail

Count Eric Stenbock, Lunatic Lover

Posted by Glennis Byron on November 16, 2010 in Blog, News tagged with , ,

I've been looking without much luck for an etext of Stenbock's 'Lunatic Lover', a poem in which a vampire arrives in a dream...

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Gothic Fairy Tales

Posted by Glennis Byron on November 16, 2010 in News tagged with , ,

Catherine (Twilight) Hardwicke's dark new version of Red Riding Hood will be released on March 11, 2011 in the US and Canada.