Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique to American literature. Like its parent genre, it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. Unlike its predecessor, it uses these tools not for the sake of...
36 246 Southern Gothic Night Orchid USA 1997 Produktion: Way Down East Produzenten: Mark Atkins, Ralph Clemente, Leo Procopio Regie und Buch: Mark Atkins Kamera: Paul Atkins Musik: C. C. Adcock Schnitt: Mark Atkins, Leo...
In James Lee Burke's hands, even a summer outing, a romantic encounter remembered through the warm haze of nostalgia, can ring with menace. When the Robicheaux brothers first swim out to a Galveston Island sandbar, in the opening scene of "Crusader's Cross," it's...
At a festival that features several films with sexual content, including full male nudity and a documentary about bestiality, a southern Gothic tale that includes the rape of a young girl is causing the biggest stir."Hounddog" is the story of Lewellen, a girl played by...
Studios almost never admit to being wrong. So Warner Bros.’ decision to release John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye in its original tinted version is not only a major act of restoration, but a major act of humility. (The film is available as part...
In the following essay, Appel distinguishes between grotesque and gothic elements in American fiction, using the works of Eudora Welty as examples of an author who successfully uses the grotesque to expound on themes of social and individual displacement while instilling a sense of compassion and hope in the reader.
In the following essay, Burns contends that Southern Gothic is a literary technique that both represents and hides the dehumanization of the South into perceived stereotypes. The critic analyzes works by Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner as examples of this technique.
In the following essay, Donaldson compares the portraits of women created by Faulkner and Welty, noting that while Faulkner's narratives reverberate with the effort to impose cultural ideas of femininity on his Southern characters, Welty's narratives present women that break out of the narrow confines of their worlds, “a carnival of gothic and grotesque heroines” who resist placement in traditional roles and themes.
