Ellen Cheshire
Mary Shelley and the Birth of Gothic
Earlier this year I was asked to write the lead essay for the BFI's release of Ken Russell's Gothic. Written by Stephen Volk it's a wild...
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Ellen Cheshire
Jan 19, 202110 min read
'Complicated machines for saying Boo!': the tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's name is synonymous with horror and detective fiction. He is considered to be the father of both the detective story,...
Ellen Cheshire
Aug 27, 20195 min read
Alice in Wonderland: Adventures into the Uncanny - part 4
This is the final post on film versions of Alice in Wonderland with a particular emphasis on the Gothic and the Uncanny, which I...
Ellen Cheshire
Aug 7, 20193 min read
Alice in Wonderland: Adventures into the Uncanny - part 3
This is the third of four posts on film versions of Alice in Wonderland with a particular emphasis on the Gothic and the Uncanny, which I...
Ellen Cheshire
Jul 16, 20196 min read
Alice in Wonderland: Adventures into the Uncanny - part 1
I have long been interested in film versions of Alice in Wonderland, well with the surname Cheshire how could I not be! Over the years I...
Ellen Cheshire
Jan 18, 20191 min read
Gothic Study Day
On 9 February 2019 I led a Study Day on Gothic Cinema at Saffron Screen. In the morning I gave an overview of Film Form and Gothic...
Ellen Cheshire
Apr 6, 20173 min read
Behind the Gothic Candelabra
Last month I graduated with a MA in Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture from St Mary's University Twickenham. The University is...
Ellen Cheshire
Aug 10, 20163 min read
Face 2 Face: Films featuring plastic surgery (a Gothic reading)
Next month I will be giving a conference paper on films featuring plastic surgery which is part of my research for my MA in Gothic...
Ellen Cheshire
Nov 10, 20155 min read
Gothic inspirations
In many of the reviews for Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak critics made reference to Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto as...
Ellen Cheshire
May 7, 20153 min read
Beauty and the Beast
With the UK release of Christophe Gans new version of the Beauty and the Beast myth still a few months away, thought I'd revisit...
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