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Author Archives: William the Bloody
Jane Eyre’s Fantastic Origins
More on Jane Eyre (it is, after all, the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth) and its complex intertextual relationships with other texts and genres (following my post below). Here, Emma Butcher traces the novel’s origins in Brontë’s (and her … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged digital humanities, Fantasy, Genre, Intertextuality, Jane Eyre, Paranormal romance, realism, Zombies
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Jane Eyre–a YA novel?
A provocative article by the YA author Lena Coakley, claiming Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel of autonomy, education, and desire as a YA novel. This challenges ideas of the canon and of genre, of course, and does have a certain validity, … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Genre, Intertextuality, Jane Eyre, paramormal romance, The Brontës, Wuthering Heights, YA Fiction
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CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality
We at OGOM, who have consorted frequently with vampires and other darkly seductive creatures, know how the equally mysterious powers of sex and magic are intimately related. Mackenzie Cooley, of Stanford University, is seeking short articles on magic and sexuality … Continue reading
Women Writing SF and Fantasy
Some of the most interesting and innovative writing in speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy have been women, despite these genre’s domination by men and, possibly, the prevalence of masculine values (especially true of SF). This is a list of … Continue reading
Juliet Landau: Vampire Documentary
Dread Central here with an interview with the fabulous Juliet Landau, who has worked with Tim Burton and played the delightfully creepy Drusilla in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and is now producing a documentary on vampires, A Place Among the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Film, Joss Whedon, Tim Burton, Vampires
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Burn the Witch
I’ve just been alerted to this by a friend. The music alone is wonderful; the subject and the brilliant video make it a must for OGOM. We were chatting below about disco and Gothic; Sam commented there about folk Gothic … Continue reading
Disco and Dystopia
With regard to Sam’s remarks on my previous post of a disco Walpurgisnacht, where we saw disco music as antithetical to Gothic, I was just reminded of this. It’s a dystopian Dr Moreau-like fantasy of science going wrong and mutating … Continue reading
Disco Magic
But what I’m dancing to tonight, when I’m not swirling in the air on my besom, is this great generic mutation of Mussorgsky–very apt for the hedonism of the 1970s New York club scene.
Disney’s Walpurgisnacht
Witches and magical transformations are themes that OGOM will be pursuing over the next year or so. Disney’s wonderful adaptation of Walpurgisnacht in Fantasia (1941) makes full use of the potential of cinematic technology to depict the transformative powers of … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Film Clips
Tagged animality, Disney, Film, Walpurgisnacht, witches
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Walpurgisnacht: Musical and textual variations
Sam has posted some fab items on witches below to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, so I’d better follow suit before dawn arrives and the wild partying has to end. The Walpurgisnacht motif has inspired artists in all sorts of media. It’s a … Continue reading