Beautiful Creature: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
This review contains spoilers The gothic event of the season, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein bears the unmistakable imprint of a filmmaker with a spectacular imagination. A film of lavish beauty, with the sets and costumes so polished that they look deliberately artificial, it reveals as much about its creator as the Creature reveals about Baron […]
Polish Gothic? Uncanny!
Queer Gothic. Feminist Gothic. Southern Gothic. Victorian Gothic. Gothic Horror, Gothic Romance. Comic Gothic. European Gothic, Irish Gothic, English Gothic. Polish… Romanticism? Polish Gothic: queer? feminist? comic? Uncanny. The last three days of April I spent in Wrocław, to all intends and purposes taking part in a conference at the local university on Miron Białoszewski, […]