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The ghost is just a metaphor: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, nineteenth-century female gothic, and the slasher

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dc.creatorKindinger, Evangelia
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:24:17Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:24:17Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes a feminist reading of Guillermo del Toro’s horror-ghost film CRIMSON PEAK (2015) that is based on the film’s allusions to nineteenth-century female gothic writing and the slasher’s final girl trope. Del Toro utilises the ghost as a metaphor that mirrors the precarious position of women in patriarchal societies (in general) and in horror narratives (in particular). The film simultaneously sketches the development of the genre as such, from literary fiction to film. CRIMSON PEAK is thus a highly self-referential film that borrows from its predecessors and sheds light on the ghostliness of horror as such.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3400
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-ghost-is-just-a-metaphor-guillermo-del-toros-crimson-peak-nineteenth-century-female-gothic-and-the-slasher/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4169
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectFilmästhetikde
dc.subjectFilmanalysede
dc.subjectGenrede
dc.subjectHorrorfilmde
dc.subjectfinal girlen
dc.subjecthorror-ghost filmen
dc.subjectnineteenth-century gothicen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personGuillermo del Toro
dc.subject.workCRIMSON PEAK
dc.titleThe ghost is just a metaphor: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, nineteenth-century female gothic, and the slasheren
dc.typearticle
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationKindinger, Evangelia (2017): The ghost is just a metaphor: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, nineteenth-century female gothic, and the slasher. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 6 (2), 55–71. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3400.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:19
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-ghost-is-just-a-metaphor-guillermo-del-toros-crimson-peak-nineteenth-century-female-gothic-and-the-slasher/
local.source.epage71
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage55
local.source.volume6
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/132955466
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219124
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15729025

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