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Tag Archives: Gothic
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) and OGOM 2020
Next year will be the tenth anniversary of the OGOM Project. Sam and I are working on something very special and magical for our celebrations and 2020 conference. All will be revealed soon but some of our background research involved … Continue reading
Posted in Film Clips, OGOM Research
Tagged art, Faerie, fairies, Gothic, Max Reinhardt, Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck, Shakespeare, Victorian
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CFPs: Gothic times, Gothic nature, Gothic realities
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
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Demon Lovers, Crime, and the Gothic at Bath Spa
I had a great time yesterday at Bath Spa University giving a presentation on the evolution of the Demon Lover in Gothic Romance and paranormal romance. I was invited by my doppelgänger Prof. Bill Hughes and heard a variety of … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research, OGOM: Polidori Symposium
Tagged crime, demon lovers, Gothic, Gothic romance, John Polidori, Paranormal romance, Vampires
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CFPs and Events: Frankenstein, Buffy, horror, hauntology, 1980s, death and the sacred
Quite a few calls for papers and articles here. We’ve also added two new useful links – Gothic Feminism and the journal Thinking Horror. 1. Call for articles: Deadline Extended till 15 April 2019 – Irish Journal of Gothic and … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged 1980s, Feminism, Frankenstein, Gothic, hauntology, horror, religion
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Polidori Vampyre 200 Booking
Booking for the symposium for the bicentenary of John Polidori’s The Vampyre is now open–click here. It’s going to be a fabulous event: have a look here for full details and here for the programme of brilliant speakers.
Posted in Conferences, Events, OGOM News, OGOM: Polidori Symposium
Tagged Booking, Gothic, John Polidori, Romanticism, Vampires
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CFPs: IGA 2019, Mapping the Mythosphere
Calls for papers for two exciting conferences. First, following the fabulous IGA 2018 in Manchester, the IGA 2019 conference, Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror is being held on 30 July to 2 August 2019, at Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois, United States. Deadline: … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences)
Tagged American Gothic, Fantasy, Genre, Gothic, horror, myth, terror, the fantastic
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CFPs: 19C vampires, radical YA lit, revisiting the Gothic
An edited collection and two conferences seeking contributions: 1. Call for articles for A Feast of Blood: the Vampire in the Nineteenth Century. Deadline: 31 January 2019. We invite essay proposals on the vampire figure in the long nineteenth century. Our edited collection … Continue reading
Marionettes: The Monsters We Need?
It is no secret that I am obsessed with marionettes. This dates back to a magical Czech production of ‘Peter and the Wolf’ I saw aged about 8. I can still visualise all the puppets and it helped shape my … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research
Tagged Gothic, Gothic puppets, marionette theatre, Marionettes, Pelham Puppets, Pinocchio
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CFPs: Popular Culture reviews, articles on urban Otherness, creative Gothic
Some invitations to contribute: 1. The Popular Culture Studies Journal is looking for Book Reviewers here. 2. The peer-reviewed e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for a special issue, forthcoming Spring 2019 – ‘Otherness and the Urban’; … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged aesthetics, book reviews, competition, Gothic, otherness, popular culture, urban
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Fairy Tales: art, essays, and resources
Some more interesting links on fairy tales: Margaret Carrigan, in ‘What Can Fairy Tales Tell Us About Today? Two Video Artists Offer Modern Takes‘, reviews the video art of Ericka Beckman and Marianna Simnett, showing at London’s Zabludowicz Collection through … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, exhibitions, Resources
Tagged adaptation, art, fairy tale, Feminism, Genre, Gothic, Grimm brothers, Mary de Morgan, Pre-Raphaelit, Rana Dasgupta, suffragette, video
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