On Wednesday 18th April we’ll be meeting to discuss the adaptation of Sarah Waters’ neo-Victorian melodrama, Fingersmith (2002). Ahead of the session Hannah Moss thinks about the ways in which the novel is itself an adaptation…Take two orphaned heroines of uncertain origins, place one amongst gang of thieves and the other in a Gothic country … Continue reading Gothic Adaptations: Fingersmith
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Gothic Adaptations: Wuthering Heights
As 2018 marks the bicentenary of Emily Brontë’s birth it seems like the perfect time to re-read Wuthering Heights (1847). Ahead of the next GRG, Hannah Moss (a self-professed Wuthering Heights super-fan) takes us through some of the best (and worst) adaptations of Brontë’s novel… No question about it Wuthering Heights has to be one of … Continue reading Gothic Adaptations: Wuthering Heights
Dopplegangers 02 – Carmilla
Hey goth fans, it’s adaptation time! In the spotlight this month is a Victorian vamp-tastic classic, Carmilla! Carmilla, the original novella, is one of the earlier literary incarnations of everyone’s favourite bloodsucking fiend (beating Dracula to the punch by a whole 25 years) and, as such, has been adapted many times for many different medium; … Continue reading Dopplegangers 02 – Carmilla
Doppelgangers – Volume 01: The Shining
Hello Gothic People!It is a new term of the gleefully grotesque and the magnificently macabre, Gothic Reading Group and the theme this year is ‘Adaptation’. To celebrate, I intend to start a new series where I talk a little bit about the background to the original, the adaptation and discuss some of the differences between … Continue reading Doppelgangers – Volume 01: The Shining
But is it Gothic? – Macbeth (2015) dir. Justin Kurzel
On Wednesday, Sheffield Gothic Reading Group gathered to watch and discuss Justin Kurzel’s 2015 film adaptation of Macbeth. Brace yourself for gratuitous FassbenderyThis brutal, stripped-back take on the Scottish play is emotionally demanding from start to finish; the film opens with the harrowing image of the Macbeths grieving at their infant’s funeral –something that is only … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – Macbeth (2015) dir. Justin Kurzel
We need Eyre! Sheffield Gothic watches Cary Fukunaga’s ‘Jane Eyre’ (2011)
On Wednesday, Sheffield Gothic assembled to watch Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre (2011): an elegant, superbly cast adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. Of course, I’m incredibly biased. I adore the Brontës and believe that Jane Eyre is one of the most (if not the most) radical female characters of the Nineteenth Century, so of … Continue reading We need Eyre! Sheffield Gothic watches Cary Fukunaga’s ‘Jane Eyre’ (2011)
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