The final stop on the American Independent Gothic tour is Ozarks, Missouri. You must be back on the bus in two hours. The driver will not come to find you. I repeat…the driver will not come to find you. The Ozarks Mountains is a vast highland region of the central United States that not only covers the Southern half of Missouri, but also extends into north-central Arkansas, north-eastern Oklahoma and south-eastern Kansas. Most available guides to the region make note of the fact that Ozarks is actually a plateau rather than a mountain range, but it has become known as Ozarks Mountains due

The American Independent Gothic tour now arrives in Los Angeles, California.

The next stop on this tour of American Independent Gothic is New York City. An urban metropolis that has been notable for its Gothic features since the Gothic Revival of 1830-1860, New York is the ideal location for American independent filmmakers who wish to position the moral lapses of their protagonists...

Greetings to all readers of The Gothic Imagination, I will be your Guest Blogger for January 2011. As much of my previous research has focussed on American independent cinema, these blog entries will provide a travelogue of what I will term American Independent Gothic, thereby examining the manner in which filmmakers operating outside of the Hollywood studio system have filtered elements of the Gothic through their respective regional visions of the United States. This means that each post will focus on a different film that is located in a certain geographical – or even psychological – re