GOTHICISM & INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN RECENT HOLLYWOOD FILMS- Monsters & Maniacs Vampires & Vamps

Gothic as a dark genre has a natural affinity with cinema. Some of the earliestmovies were based on Gothic fiction already. Over the century Gothicelements have crept into all filmic genres including anything dealing with thesupernatural or nightmares. Gothic films create a threatening fantasy worldwhich mirrors ours in a distorted manner and subversively reacts tocontemporary concerns. War sexuality science government economicsracism - all these topics find their expression through the monstrous imagesof Gothic films giving us a snapshot of some of our worlds dilemmas. Threefilms are being investigated in this book which contain all different kinds ofinterpersonal relationships may they be intellectual sexual or even bloodylove relationships between monsters or human beings. What do theprotagonists of The Silence of the Lambs The Ninth Gate and Interviewwith the Vampire have in common and in what way is their characteraltered by the Gothic elements of the story? A short overview over the historyof Gothic film completes this book and its accessible style will ensure that itappeals to enthusiasts as much as it does to a more academic audience.