Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect series) I, too, dislike it — Marianne Moore Friends, I’ve embarked on a reading journey through an area mostly unfamiliar to me, and Polonius-like, can come up with only the clumsiest of labels: the mystery, detective, suspense, gothic, spy thriller, crime, murder novel. Most of the time even […]
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Breaking Bad: 2:11-13: American gothic
Posted in film studies, mini-series, political novels/films, soap opera, TV, tagged Breaking Bad, classic movies, TV mini-series on May 26, 2014| 5 Comments »
Skylar (Anna Gunn) to Walt (Bryan Cranston): get the fuck out Dear friends and readers, I know I said I was done with Breaking Bad, but when 3 episodes of season 2 unexpected arrived (I had called for something else which was “delayed” and had forgotten to erase these), and watched, I found myself right […]
Contemporary gothic Shakespeare’s Richard III
Posted in gothic, literary scholarly work, political novels/films, Theater, tagged European Renaissance, Renaissance, shakespeare on February 15, 2014| 2 Comments »
The evocative set Richard and Stanley right behind him Dear friends and readers, This is to add to a chorus of praise for the production of Richard III playing this month through early March of Shakespeare’s Richard III at the Folger. Izzy and I saw it tonight and by the time we were into the […]
Some thoughts on “costume gothics”: aka film adaptation
Posted in Costume drama, Film adaptations, film studies, historical fiction, Trollope, women's art, womens' films, tagged marital rape, ralph fiennes on January 28, 2011| 3 Comments »
Long shot: The Duchess walking away from the Grey family after giving her newborn to that family. By contrast, Duke kept mistress as the duchess’s companion, & his illegitimate children he has too, a daughter from a liaison Georgiana mothered. At the same time how beautiful the scene … Keira Knightley in Gainsborough style hat: […]
ASECS, Albuquerque: epistolary, gothic, violent, and landscape novels (from Riccoboni & LaClos to Scott & Stael’s Corinne)
Posted in 18th century novels, conference report, Conferences, feminism, gothic, novels of sensibility, women's memoirs, women's novels, tagged clarissa, germaine de stael, Walter Scott on May 22, 2010| 4 Comments »
Olivia Williams as Jane Austen in quiet creative reverie (Gwyneth Hughes and Anne Pivcevic, Miss Austen Regrets 2008) Dear Friends and readers, You see above my new avatar for my “Reveries under the Sign of Austen” blog. I’ve put a copy on the wall of my room too. It pictures a mood I wish I […]
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