Festival du Film Fantastique

 The European Fantastic Film Festival is on in Strasbourg for the next 2 weeks in Strasbourg... and they are showing Dracula !

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Key Issue Eight: Melodrama and Realism in Gothic Writing (Milla and Madeleine)

Melodrama and realism in Gothic writing Melodrama and Realism are two main concepts that Gothic authors used and explored to bring the readers into the atmosphere they created.  Melodrama The Melodrama movement was born in France, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as part of the Romantic literary period. The romantics wanted to express their emotions through art, inspired by imagination, individuality, and nature.  The word Melodrama is made from two different Greek words: Melos meaning music and drama meaning action.  A melodrama is the foundation of every American movie of our time, as it contains a story with conflict coupled with music .  This dramatic form also shows a battle between Good and Evil in three major plot elements:  1. provocation, whatever provokes the villain to act devilishly to the hero;  2.pangs, the pains that the hero suffers through because of the villain’s evil;  3. and the penalty, the denouement, the last part of the...
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Key Issue Four: the monster and the monstrous in Gothic Writing (Achille / Sorcadh / Augustin)

Monster and monstrous The word ‘ monster ’ means ugliness, irrationality and unnatural events. It is the opposite of neo-classical values of harmony and unified composition.  During the eighteen th century, the world became better known through scientific studies and experimentations, thus monsters disappeared from studies of nature and medicine step by step. Monster and monstrous in Gothic literature However, at the same time, they were becoming popular in the Gothic genre, which was starting at that time. This genre portrayed monsters and monstrous characters, and focussed on their deformity and irregularity. It involved works that crossed the boundaries of reason and morality , presenting excessive and viciously improper scenes and characters. Gothic literature needed negative and socially unacceptable features: the use of monsters and the use of the notion of monstrosity permitted Gothic authors to darken the atmosphere of their novels, while bringing fantasy. T...
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Key Issue Seven: Power and menace in Gothic writing (Alexis / Liam / Malo)

Key Issue Seven: Power and menace in Gothic writing (Alexis / Liam / Malo) Closely linked together, power and menace are both fundamental for Gothic Literature . Even though they are not the first criteria someone would think about after watching a Gothic movie or reading Gothic literature, power and menace are nearly always presented in Gothic art. I. Power Looking at power portrayed through Gothic writing, we can already declare that power can come in different forms: fear, torture (violence), psycological aspects (mental), etc.  Power is dependent on a constraint, someone or something that needs to feel or be submissive to this powerful character. In Gothic writing, we can see this through vulnerable characters being driven by fear, for example Lucy Westerna in Dracula.  In Gothic literature, villains (humans or creatures) usually always hold the power, and they use this power over the other characters through violence and fear, for example, Dracula, or Frankenstein....
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