Lancaster EPrints

Gothic—Film—Parody

Elliott, Kamilla (2008) Gothic—Film—Parody. Adaptation, 1 (1). pp. 24-43. ISSN 1755-0637

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Gothic, film, and parody are all erstwhile devalued aesthetic forms recuperated by various late twentieth-century humanities theories, serving in return as proof-texts for these theories in their battles against formalism, high-art humanism, and right-wing politics. Gothic film parodies parody these theories as well as Gothic fiction and films. As they redouble Gothic doubles, refake Gothic fakeries, and critique Gothic criticism, they go beyond simple mockery to reveal inconsistencies, incongruities, and problems in Gothic criticism: boundaries that it has been unwilling or unable to blur, binary oppositions it has refused to deconstruct, like those between left- and right-wing politics, and points at which a radical, innovative, subversive discourse manifests as its own hegemonic, dogmatic, and clichéd double, as in critical manipulations of Gothic (dis)belief. The discussion engages Gothic film parodies spanning a range of decades (from the 1930s to the 2000s) and genres (from feature films to cartoons to pornographic parodies)

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Adaptation
Uncontrolled Keywords: Gothic ; film ; parody ; literary film adaptation ; criticism ; theory ; psychoanalysis ; identity politics ; belief
Subjects: UNSPECIFIED
Departments: Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > English & Creative Writing
ID Code: 53071
Deposited By: ep_importer_pure
Deposited On: 09 Mar 2012 02:43
Refereed?: Yes
Published?: Published
Last Modified: 26 Jul 2012 19:30
Identification Number:
URI: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/53071

Actions (login required)

View Item