Early Universal Pictures horror movies

The New Canon of Gothic Sets

Authors

  • Javier Hernández Profesor USJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2020344361

Keywords:

escenography, gothic, horror movies

Abstract

Films as Frankenstein as Dracula realaded by Universal Pictures in 1931 are the beginning of a new Gothic horror bounded with some movies of the Weimar production and of the Ggothic predecents, The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1926) for instance. A film Gothic was born inspired in Gothic novels' imaginary and in the romantic paintings with some relation too with de Baroque iconograpy (vanitas). The esthetic is ralated with the rupture with leads Romanticism widing the concept of beaty toward  unheimlich and sinister. This article is trying to demostrate how performs this new neo-romantic estetic in the different sets in a wide meaning.

 

 

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Published

2020-07-17

How to Cite

Hernández, J. (2020). Early Universal Pictures horror movies: The New Canon of Gothic Sets. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (34), 182–195. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2020344361

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Received 2020-04-16
Accepted 2020-07-08
Published 2020-07-17