Gothic Research List

For BLOG :Research and find something interesting about the following which illustrates ‘The Gothic’ as a genre.

·       Pugin- the Houses of Parliament

·       Walpole – Horace Walpoles’s house (virtual tour? NT)

·       The Raven : E A Poe and the new film (trailer?)/Alan Parsons project music video

·       Vlad the Impaler

·       Fuselli – paintings

·       Damien Hurst –exhibition Tate Modern

·       Punk fashion

·       Signifiers (Derrida)

·       Eastern European beliefs : the undead/evil eye. Transylvania

·       Alice Cooper/Black Sabbath music videos

·       Nosferatu (You Tube film)

·       Gothic fashion vogue (I net sites. Don’t be tempted to buy!!!)

·       Animals/birds connected to Gothic. Why?

·       Symbolism – colours etc/The sublime

·       Repression/domination

·       Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice) Film You Tube with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Any current vampire film or TV show.

·       Notre Dame cathedral

·       Mary Shelley : Frankenstein (film versions You Tube)

·       Freud/The ego/super ego and id/