Tag Archives: Film

Resources: Fairies, fairy tales, YA and children’s literature, preternature

Posted on 8th July 2020 by William the Bloody

We’ve added some useful links to various resources from the website. These appear in the Related Links and Journals sections on the right-hand side of the Blog and Resources pages. The International Fairy-Tale Filmography is a fantastic database of film … Continue reading →

Posted in Resources | Tagged Aarne-Thompson-Uther, adaptation, Children's literature, fairies, Fairy tales, Film, journals, YA literature | Leave a comment

CFP ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic Encounters with Enchantment and the Fairy Realm in Literature and Culture, 8-10 April, 2021

Posted on 2nd May 2020 by Sam George

University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 The Open Graves, Open Minds (OGOM) Project was launched in 2010 with the Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture conference.We have subsequently hosted symposia on Bram Stoker and John William Polidori, unearthing depictions … Continue reading →

Posted in CFP (Conferences), OGOM News, OGOM: Ill met by moonlight | Tagged art, Dark Fairies, Fantasy, Film, Folklore, Gothic, Gothic fairies, music, Paranormal romance, renaissance, Romanticism, Victorian literature | Leave a comment

Book Received: Xavier Aldana Reyes, Gothic Cinema

Posted on 15th January 2020 by William the Bloody

Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications | Tagged aesthetics, cinema, Film, Genre, Gothic, horror | Leave a comment

CFPs: Folk horror, folklore and fantasy, enchanted environments, literature and science

Posted on 15th September 2019 by William the Bloody

* Hurry! Some of these deadlines are very soon! 1. Contemporary Folk Horror in Film and Media, Leeds Beckett University, 30-31 July 2020. Deadline: 30 December 2019. The 1960’s and 70s folk horror canon brought the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on … Continue reading →

Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences) | Tagged anthropocene, archaeology, creative writing, ecocriticism, fairy tale, Fantasy, Film, Folk Horror, Folklore, Gothic, landscaoe, magic, science, speculative fiction, transhumanism | Leave a comment

CFPs: Vampires, Philip Pullman, climate change, horror film, Good Omens

Posted on 20th August 2019 by William the Bloody

1. CFP for PCA/ACA Vampire Studies on the legacy of Bram Stoker: Annual National Popular Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, 15-18 April 2020. Deadline: 1 November 2019. The co-chairs of the PCA/ACA Vampire Studies area are soliciting papers, presentations, panels and … Continue reading →

Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences) | Tagged anthropocene, climate change, ecocriticism, family, Film, Good Omens, horror, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, philosophy, popular culture, ritual, Terry Pratchett, Vampires | Leave a comment

CFPs: Utopia & Dystopia, Gothic mashup, Screening loss, SyFy films, Gothic games, performing fairy

Posted on 15th July 2019 by William the Bloody

1. First, a conference CFP: Utopia & Dystopia: Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment, University of Southern Denmark, 28-29 May 2020. Deadline: 10 December 2019. This conference invites new research in the fantastic. Why is the fantastic more popular … Continue reading →

Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences) | Tagged creative writing, dystopia, fairy, Film, Gothic, grief, horror, Hybridity, loss, mash-ups, performance, syfy, utopia | Leave a comment

Conference Report: Queer Fears Symposium (University of Hertfordshire), Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, 28 June 2019

Posted on 9th July 2019 by Daisy Butcher

Conference report by Daisy Butcher, PhD candidate, University of Hertfordshire On Friday the 28th of June I attended the Queer Fears Symposium run by my wonderful secondary PhD supervisor Dr Darren Elliott-Smith at the Odyssey Cinema in St Albans. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences | Tagged body horror, Film, gay, horror, lesbian, queer, serial killers, TV, Vampires, Zombies | 1 Comment

CFPs: Gothic times, Gothic nature, Gothic realities

Posted on 8th June 2019 by William the Bloody

Some exciting conferences coming up! 1. Gothic Manchester Festival Conference 2019 ‘Gothic Times’, Manchester Metropolitan University, 26 October 2019. Deadline: 30 July 2019. In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, with Trump in the White House and Brexit on … Continue reading →

Posted in CFP (Conferences) | Tagged Animals, ecoGothic, ecohorror, environment, Film, games, Gothic, graphic novels, History, literature, nature, reality, temporality, TV | Leave a comment

RIP Michel Legrand

Posted on 28th January 2019 by William the Bloody

It was sad to hear of the death of Michel Legrand (1932-2019) on Saturday. Legrand wrote the music to countless films, many from French New Wave cinema. His music fits perfectly the stylish and witty reinterpretation of Perrault’s fairy tale … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Clips, News | Tagged Charles Perrault, fairy tale, Film, Jacques Demy, New Wave cinema, obituary | 2 Comments

CFPs: Myth and dream, horror, Dracula and vampires, youth horror

Posted on 26th January 2019 by William the Bloody

A few CFPs for conferences and calls for articles: 1. Myth and Dream / The Dreaming of Myth, 23-24 May 2019, University of Bologna. Deadline: 28 February 2019. The conference invites proposals addressing diverse approaches to the combination of myth … Continue reading →

Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences) | Tagged Bram Stoker, Children's literature, Dracula, dream, Film, Folklore, global Gothic, horror, myth, TV, Vampires, YA Fiction, YA Gothic | Leave a comment

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